Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Maintenance & Servicing Relays

Before you go in under the dash, just park the car on a slope facing downhill and tie a length of rope to your ankles, secured to something handy like a lamp-post. Tie a longer rope to the car, secured in the same way.

Then when you have finished work, just get a passer-by to release the handbrake. The car will roll forward until arrested by its rope. Meanwhile your rope, being shorter, will draw you smoothly out of the footwell, depositing you on the road behind the car.

Simple!

Never would have thought of that.

That is where the bl00dy things should be, or in some other easily accessible place. Having to remove the dash to get at the relays is just ridiculous!!!!!!

A typical pair of Budster photos (i.e. not very good) but should show the "poverty" fuse/relay box both open and shut.

As for Tim's suggested way of getting out having fixed the issue on newer models; I am slightly concerned about the potential risks of the high level "cyclops" brake light.

Is that a 4/4? - Does not look like mine under the bonnet.

I don't think I've ever seen 2 Morgans from different years that look the same under the bonnet, they seem to change all the time.

Cunning adjustment of the relative lengths of the two ropes should ensure that the car is moving quite fast when the second rope tightens, thus ensuring a clean 'snatch' of the occupant from the footwell, and a relatively high arc of travel should ensure no bodily contact with the rear of the car.

An astute mechanic would of course recognise the impending removal by the sensation of tightness around the ankle, and thus be prepared to ensure a safe landing. No doubt a small jury of other Morganeers could be on hand maybe to award points for cleanliness of exit, neatness of landing, and overall artistic interpretation during flight.

Poverty model 4/4 Sport 2009 nicely played in the electtrickery box under the Bonnet...... apart from a couple sneaky ones under the dash!!!!