Project Moggie

Good luck with the project! 

Nice to see your project. Wish you all the best! 

She’s looking good already, congrats and keep it happening !

16 hours ago, Davy said:

Good luck with the project! 

Thank you very much @Davy for appreciation.

 

5 hours ago, varotone said:

Nice to see your project. Wish you all the best! 

Thank you very much @varotone for appreciation.

4 hours ago, tiv said:

She’s looking good already, congrats and keep it happening !

Thank you very much @tiv for appreciation.

Awesome !!!!

Good luck with your project.

Awesome!! Happy new year and best of luck with the project

Wow this is brilliant - so much old world charm. Good luck with the project @kusumsiri - the car already looks nice so after you've finished we will probably see an absolute minter ?. Back in 2007 when i had just finished my AL's my dad and i bought a Morris Traveller to restore sadly neither of us had the time to spend on it so we sold it off - that car was in horrid shape compared to this ( It even had it's own in-house eco system of insects - ants spiders etc)  it traveled more miles by being pushed than by it's own engine ?  that picture of the engine brought back some memories 

Edited April 15, 2019 by matroska

On 4/13/2019 at 9:15 PM, vitz said:

Awesome !!!!

 

On 4/14/2019 at 12:32 PM, Visa said:

Good luck with your project.

 

20 hours ago, K.o.N.o.S said:

Awesome!! Happy new year and best of luck with the project

 

4 hours ago, matroska said:

Wow this is brilliant - so much old world charm. Good luck with the project @kusumsiri - the car already looks nice so after you've finished we will probably see an absolute minter ?. Back in 2007 when i had just finished my AL's my dad and i bought a Morris Traveller to restore sadly neither of us had the time to spend on it so we sold it off - that car was in horrid shape compared to this ( It even had it's own in-house eco system of insects - ants spiders etc)  it traveled more miles by being pushed than by it's own engine ?  that picture of the engine brought back some memories 

Thank you very much for appreciation. Hoping to update this blog when time permits. Willing to restore the car in its original condition. Unfortunately it dont have original front seats and hub cups. So need to find those.

20 minutes ago, kusumsiri said:

Unfortunately it dont have original front seats and hub cups. So need to find those.

Please drop me a PM if you found a place to buy vintage hubcaps.

3 hours ago, varotone said:

Please drop me a PM if you found a place to buy vintage hubcaps.

I did not try to find hub cups yet. Because still working with other tasks. Are you really finding hub cups ? Are they hard to find ?

16 hours ago, kusumsiri said:

I did not try to find hub cups yet. Because still working with other tasks. Are you really finding hub cups ? Are they hard to find ?

Hello mate,

Interesting project! I grow up with them since i was a kid and inherited the 1957 MM convertible which is our family pride.

Good to see someone is doing a MM project.

PM me the parts you looking, i might be able to shed some light.

regards,

JC

7 hours ago, john cooper said:

Hello mate,

Interesting project! I grow up with them since i was a kid and inherited the 1957 MM convertible which is our family pride.

Good to see someone is doing a MM project.

PM me the parts you looking, i might be able to shed some light.

regards,

JC

Thanks @john cooper. It is happy to see forum members like you staying here and trying to help others. I will send you a PM regarding required parts.

Weak break :  As I mentioned in the previous blog entry, the brakes were very weak when the car bring to home. Had to press paddle 2-3 time to slow down the car. Could not exceed 30kmh. When started the disassembling work found that back oil seals leaked differential oil to the brake drums. Also one brake liner separated and was inside the brake drum.

Now complete brake system disassembled, cleaned and repainted.

What you guys think about the U bolts. Should I find new ones or threaded originals ?

Edited January 16, 2020 by kusumsiri

Cut the existing ones and re-thread?

Thank you for the idea. I will contact the lathe machine guy and discuss possibility.

Since the project is almost over, I will add cross links to each blog post here. Hope readers will be able to easily navigate.

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