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More fun and games today Richard



The high level brake light was almost falling off so definitely needed sorting, but I think I've now found the source of the main rattle

At first I thought the shaft had snapped, but on closer inspection it appears its unwound itstelf from the top mount, an easy fix but if its done it once it'll definitely do it again. I'll try a jam nut on the threaded shaft and nip it up against the top mount, hopefully that'll be enough to stop the shaft rotating and unwinding itself on the thread again?

TBH I've never been impressed with the way Morgan fitted the telescopic dampers, the angles seem all wrong to me, perhaps it's a function of them originally being a lever arm damper upgrade, you definitely wouldnt fit telescopic dampers this way if you started with a clean sheet of paper.

Oh well, you certainly can't accuse Morgan of failing to give their customers that authentic British sports car experience


NB: There's insufficient thread for the jam nut, so it'll get a weld, a tack of MiG weld on both damper rods to hold them to the top mounts will fix the issue for good!