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Adventures of a Traveller

Moose the Morris Minor Traveller
Making (slow) Progress

8-23 May 1999
On our latest visit up north to see how our patient is getting along, Jonathon opened the garage doors and there was our Traveller up on the hoist with the new engine proudly sitting in it's final resting place. I've got to say that I didn't believe it was going to happen until that very moment when I saw it for myself. The engineering shop that was making up the engine and gearbox mounts and fitting the Ford Escort axle had been making a meal out of it. The job that they did should have only taken about 2 weeks at the most. They had it for a month. But the car is safely back in JLH's hands now, so we should see some further progress being made.

But as always, there's still a lot of work to be done. Before Jonathon can start on the real re-construction, the car is being sent off to a stereo and security specialist who will fit the alarm/immobiliser and who will build the new rear seat-base speaker enclosures and mount the CD-changer and amplifier. They will also make up a wooden faceplate to fit the stereo into inside the passenger glovebox.

We went to see Moose at the place where it is being fitted up with the stereo &

They're also doing a number of fiddly bits and pieces such as finishing off the wiring loom, fitting the stereo and alarm, fitting the new aluminium radiator and other pipe work. They're is also modifying/fitting new anti-tramp bars to the rear axle which should provide even better axle location than the planned parallel items. Add a panhard rod and we should be sitting pretty. We had planned on fitting a Watts linkage, which is basically a Z-shape, attached to the diff head at the middle of the Z with the ends of the bars attached to the chassis, but there wasn't really enough room. And a panhard rod (basically half of a Watts linkage) is cheaper to fit and more than capable enough for road use.



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