[BOUNCE morgans@Autox.Team.Net: Non-member submission from [Steve Moore
<steve.moore@cnetns.tcp.csiro.au>]]
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 11:39:47 +1000
From: Steve Moore <steve.moore@cnetns.tcp.csiro.au>
Subject: RE: different issues
Arlo,
1987 was when the factory was just becoming proactive about build quality.
You can always tell if an older car has been rebuilt, the finish is usually
so much better than the factory's. In the 60's and 70's they used to
construct the cars and then spray paint them, the result being that the
bits of the wings etc which were not exposed did not get painted!
As for the bonnet rubbing, its funny but thay all do that. If you can find
a solution I'm sure the factory would be interested. In the meantime you
can purchase these little triangular rubber thingies that fit over the
corners of the bonnet and so minimise the loss of paint. Check also the
brass fittings at either end of the chrome central bonnet hinge. These wear
at the point where the bonnet rubs against them (impossible to see unless
you take them off). This allows a forward and aft movement in the bonnet
which can contribute to the problem. These parts are readily available
(they have not changed the design since 1936) and inexpensive from the
factory. They accept credit cards if you fax the order and will post the
parts to you, takes about 6 days to Australia which is quicker than I can
get parts for my locally built tin top.
Cheers
Steve Moore
>I am the one who asked the question about speed. I appreciate the
>various responses I got on that and the one suggestion as to what it
>could actually be. I now agree that it is probably caused by the wood
>at the rear of the car and not the vinyl top.
>
>While I have driven quite a few different cars in my lifetime, I have
>never before driven one constructed quite like this one. So, the sound
>was disturbing to me and I think now the cause may well be as suggested
>and that is more reassuring.
>
>I have also enjoyed reading about the trip to the Morgan Motor Car
>Factory in Malvern Link. Great story!
>
>I do also have another question: my car has those cheap plastic center
>wheel hubs and I have now spun two (2) of them off. It has been
>suggested by the dealer that I glue the new replacement ones in place.
>Is this what everyone else does and is this the best solution?
>
>I also had some of the extremely high-quality gasoline we have available
>to us today spill out of the fuel cell and onto the rear taillite plinth
>located just below the fill cap - and it completely crinkled up the
>chrome finish on the plastic plinth. It now looks like a relief map of
>the U.S. I now have a stainless steel replacement plinth that I need to
>get installed in place of the crinkled-up one.
>
>I guess I am a little bit surprised that both of the above problems can
>even occur with a Morgan, given the quality of the build in most areas
>and the cost of the automobile. Seems to me to be rather strange places
>to cut corners!
>
>I also noted with interest the comments made on the bonnet rubbing the
>paint off if not fitted properly. My car, on the driver's side, has now
>rubbed all the paint off at the point where the front edge of the bonnet
>comes into contact with the nose. This is an original 1987 car and has
>not been altered in any way that I know of. At the time of purchase I
>bought the argument, in relationship to another imperfection, that such
>adds "character" to the car. I guess this would come under that same
>category.
>
>Later, Arlo Levisen
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