Best video ive seen on this channel, good fun.

Sheep? sound more like cows.

Good job. These cars are a delight work on. Everything is so simple and accessible. I love mine.

16:00 make sure both throttle forks on the linkage are lose and then balance them. Once they are balanced then set them to engage the throttle plate at the same time. I like to set them with a bit of play either way of the linkage fork. You can't use the cable while lose as they are then independent. That's the way to base line them.

I have a few classic collector cars, I've found using ethanol free fuel will keep the fuel tanks from rusting.

I like your style young man

Nice Saab there..

That looks a very solid moggy van, remember well the traditional banging on the fuel pump to get it to go that chassis looks in very nice condition hope you have many hours of fun driving it, one of the best cars ever...

Checking if you're alive.

How a vehicle should be designed. Great Video.

Awesome video, thanks for the tips. I have a 1955 series 2 and a 1958 1000 that I am restoring got last year and June 2024. Never driven a Morris minor. By the time I do get to drive these, I wont have to worry about the timing chain. Cheers...Ray

I think they weigh about 35 KGs and in race tune give out 85 hp.

Great job. Same year as mine

My clutch is nearly at the floor and has been for a long time, what a great video thank you

Dad won the pools big time (£300), so he sold the Norton Big 4 and bought one of these. Luxury. As a self conscious teenager in the 70s, I was hugely embarrassed about it, and resisted the lift to school because Dad was passing that way, however, he insisted and I had to ride with him. I made sure that Dad dropped me off well out of sight from school so that none of my friends would see me. We would go on family adventures in this beast, usually to the seaside. I'm from Harrogate, so a day trip to Brid would take around 4 hours to get there, with mum in the passenger seat, and my sister and I sat on the wheel arches in the back. Yes, really safe. There was always a little bit of Reliant camaraderie, and all Reliant drivers would offer and return the forefinger salute from the steering wheel. Later, ironically, I had a Bond Bug, what an absolute hoot that was. Similar running gear and triple the laughs.

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 !!

These vids would be better if you were both naked except for stockings and high heels, and you were giving the viewers the 'come on', using all the filthy sex words.

Why are you taking out the engine without the gearbox? You have more chances of damaging the friction plate when putting the engine back in. With MGBs the gearbox has to come out also!

Enjoy the content, but unfortunately you fall down badly trying to be funny. Your style would be much improved being serious.

Good looking show,

I did the old washer bottle dodge once. The bottle was mounted on the bulkhead with a manual squirter (to use the technical term) under the dash. I just connected the outlet from the bottle to the carb and relied on gravity feed. It seemed to work quite well. Thank goodness for petrol tank drain plugs.

The smell of imminent failure. Ah yes, I know it well.

I can't get my brake lights to switch off, any ideas?

This would have to be one of the most instructive series of films showing the ins and outs of trouble shooting the A-Series (and B-Series for that matter) and other period engines. Well done, I've found these most instructive as I've just bought back by chance a 1967 MGB GT, I owned 36 years ago (older than you my good man).

I love big luxury cars, but somehow I just want that Reliant van.

New subscriber - very well done and great entertainment and learning material - your a natural.

tq for making this great video! . but i wish this car have an aircond , radio and can comvert into automatic gearbox . its much helped than kept restless to pull the clutches everyday...

I'm in the middle of this job too, but got it a bit worse. Dried up, twisted bits of plastic fell from the timing cover, which I assume are the "rubber" shims. They're very hard and brittle for rubber... And the cam gear had chipped. I've also taken the opportunity, have the head off and weight off of the engine, to replace the manky engine mounts. What a job in situ with seized mount tower (metric) bolts. I managed with only one cut out. I've removed the radiator, but not the front end. My impact, I mean ratchet, extension fit through the starting hole and through the grille. 😅

I want the stainless steel quarter light and top of the door frame to fit on my 63 Minor, Mines painted.

Ah you need banana skins and sawdust, that'll quieten down the moaning axle.........well at least until you've sold it to the local Vicar

Awesome vid.

Enjoyed your video.

Love the vid mate! Helped push me into working on my old morry, ive got a 55' series II. What coolant are you using? or just demineralised water and rust inhibitor? Cheers

I am going to replace mine as the clutch pedal feels like a tractor, and it's just had a new clutch fitted.

Test light can also be used for setting the ignition timing if you have points and condenser ignition. Not as accurate as a timing light though. Apparently you can use a multimeter to set the dwell angle (point gap).

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.

Any ideas when we'll get another episode? Very interested to see how it's going!

I’m entranced in scene one, not just by a Morris that’s actually an Austin but also by the crippling optimism of the neighbour who installed a 6 panel solar array in England.

my dad had reliants after coming from a norton 88 and then my mum got pregnant had regals robins rialtos we drove to cornwall on hol mum dad.Me and my 2 sisters on the back seat and my little brother sitting on a toolbox with a cushion in the boot area also towing a box trailer! in a robin supervan 850 happy memories last car dad had bought with his retirement money a brand new v reg robin sunroof and a stainless steal exhaust We sold it after he passed away in 2009 for £2500

You have a close resemblance to a young Ade Edmonson,and at the end were you driving on the Petersfield to Lavant road?

Whats the difference between the Morris and the Austin. I have seen a Morris Oxford van here in NZ but not an austin. I own a 69 MM Van which is my daily drive

"I don't think that made much difference to be honest". Very scientific 😂

Took me back to my childhood. My 2 x brothers and I used to sit on the wheelarches and floor in the back. Looking forward to you're nexr episode. Thanks!

that's called pulling one in the drive

given the state of the internals esp what was under the rocker cover I do wonder if someone had "soiled" the top of the engine

Inquisitive minds needed to know this information... and now they do!

You show in your video that you stayed at a Premier Inn close to Gaydon Musum, could you advise which Premier Inn this was as we're looking to book there for the National show at Gaydon. Many thanks in advance.

Fabulous episode again guys - looking forward to seeing this one back on the road again. Hopefully the V5 is not far off.

Hands down one of the wittiest, hilarious and most well-informed reviews of anything on the internet. People pretending to hate the things they love- a cornerstone of British comedy delivered by one who also just happens to know a shitload about these vans. Brilliant.