without fail,when ever my old marina would stop, it was always the points, a couple of minutes of cleaning and resetting the gap and we were away again, but the very best thing you can do is fit electronic ignition, so simple to install and over 20 years later still starts on the button !!

When I was on the road as a breakdown mechanic , most Morris/Austin fault was the electric petrol pump. A tap with a screwdriver and off you go again.

This is why a Moggy is an ideal starter classic, very simple to work on & not much to go wrong! I ran a Moggy van for years, a failure to proceed was usually points or condenser, never had a fuel pump failure or carb issue.

MARVELOUS !! I've run into several issues during my Morris minor van adventure, ... Sometimes managed to solve it myself but sometimes I did need some help from the traffic service. The most weird one was the flying of the sparks timing caused by the wearing of the two parts of the points distribution. The traffic service bloke had to think a bit but managed to solved it temporarily by tiewrap the to parts together, ... it worked well except for the point that you couldn't throttle it quickly anymore. Very nice !! Groeten uit Holland !

This video is very helpful to anyone just starting off with a classic , loving the content and your style and the rambling is fine too , looking forward to part two 👍🙂

For what it’s worth, my Traveller has electronic ignition which runs faultlessly. After leaving it a few years I had problems starting the car caused by the fuel pump gooed up with old fuel. Tapping helped sometimes but ultimately I took the top of the pump to bits & cleaned the valve mechanism - success! The other issue was choke cable corroding & not going fully back home, car running on choke & conking out. Not difficult to fix & so satisfying !!

Impressed that the early Morris Minor had a starter button under the bonnet! Great video, looking forward to the follow up!

Very useful video to anybody wanting to buy a classic car or already has one. At one time all cars had engine bays like this…DIY friendly, I love the “no nonsense” simplicity of a Morris Minor in comparison to a modern car with its computer, sensors, wiring, pipes etc etc. Thanks again sir.👍

Did my appenticeship with a Ford Main Dealer 70 to 75, when cars were cars, and not computor controlled go karts, give me a 60s to 80s car any day,

I think the coil only gets full voltage when engaging the starter as it bypasses the ballast. The low tension wires on the coil will have + & - on them. The + comes from the ignition switch. Old coils were marked sw & cb. Switch & circuit/contact breaker (points). I once see a wiring diagram for an immobiliser that worked by earthing it out. So even if they bypassed the ignition, it still wouldn't start.

This video was such a reminder from my days at College and our tutors teaching us lol. I do love old technology, new stuff just baffles me!

Really great video and very useful, thank you!

Once again you explain things very well

10:50, well not quite one of two things, in my case ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d8-hrdGaqs-Vmqs.html ) the issue was an open circuit between the coil and the condenser. I looked at fuel first because I had cleaned and reset it the day prior, but the bugger came of the terminal at the dizzy, but hidden inside heat shrink away from view...

Loving the content sir!

The last car I had with these kind of gubbins was a Skoda 120L in the early 90s. I drove it all over Europe for work, and it was actually very reliable (other than once having a coil burst into flames). I'd love to own one as a classic car, but sadly, resources don't permit.