Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Maintenance & Servicing New Morgan +4 owner

Hi, I bought a 2010 Morgan +4 6 weeks ago. Does anyone have any tips for:

Greasing the nipples
Adjusting the rear catches on the easy up hood
An easy way to get the spare wheel out without taking the luggage rack off

Thanks

Hello David

Welcome.

Kingpin lubrication: I was told once a month or every 1000 miles when I bought my first Morgan and I have always stuck to that. Use a molybdenum based grease (the really black stuff) not a general purpose grease as it is best for sliding applications. Then just grease both top and bottom nipples until you see some emerge around the steering bearing somewhere. Lastly if you stick to this and plan a one off trip of 2-3000 miles it's OK to leave the grease gun at home .

Spare wheel: You should be able to undo the central T-bar from the spare wheel and just pivot the luggage rack around its fixings to make enough room to lift the wheel over the top of it.

Enjoy.

Dave

David, congratulations

Your best next purchase would be Dave W's recent and much acclaimed book

Hello David and welcome to the wonderful, if sometimes strange, world of Talk Mog.
You will not go far wrong if you stick to DaveV greasing policy.
As for adjusting the hood rear catches, may I suggest that before you try anything drastic like adjusting the catches, you just stick a bit of grease around them as well to see if this helps.
That are just basic bonnet catches like we are all used to so you can lengthen or shorten the spring by just adjusting the central screw and, of course Dave W's book on "All you need to know about Morgans and were afraid to ask" is possibly better than a Haynes workshop manual.
Best of luck with your car, I hope you get many smiles per mile from it.

If the problem with the hood catches is the amount of pressure required on the lever to release them, then a downward pressure on the hood frame makes a huge difference.

If you do need to adjust the catches, the pins in the middle are often bent - making it necessary to adjust in complete turns rather than in fractions of a turn.

Paul you beat me to that comment.

David there is lots on greasing here
http://www.gomog.com/allmorgan9.html#Dynamics

David, Welcome to TM from sunny Australia.

Having had difficulty with the latching of my hood catches, I found that the female on one side was loose as the bolt had fallen out. All the others needed tightening too. Remove spare wheel, and you can put your hand up to feel if they are tight or not.

Thanks guys for the comments.

Welcome to the fold David.
Advice from an "Old Timer": Don't trust the service history or any garage assurances on your Morgan - even if it's a very low mileage model.
Change ALL fluids including back axle and brake fluids.
Get a Wanner grease gun (obtainable second hand on Ebay) and if it has a rigid nozle replace that with a flexi hose attachment - it helps enormously within a restricted space.
On longer trips abroad I take the grease gun, paper wipes, ground sheet, Jack, basic tool kit, spare relays, and tarp to cover against overnight rain. If your original fit radiator begins to leak don't delay replacing it with an all aluminium one.
Also get the toe=in checked - I find that this is best set at 1.5mm measured at the wheel rims. Tyre pressure I prefer is 22psi front 25psi rear.
I also recommend magnetic drain plugs for the gearbox and sump.