Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Maintenance & Servicing Various questions about jobs on my 1996 +4 4 seate

Any help from experienced members would be gratefully received!

I have my Mog up on my lift and am doing some winter jobs, prompted by the need to change the frayed handbrake cable. While the seats are out and the gearbox cover is off, I am doing a few other jobs.

In no special order:

* should i run some oil, spray grease, silicone spray or other product through the handbrake cable before fitting. I bought the cable off off someone who had bought it and not fitted it before selling their car, so it is "new old stock" although dry stored and as new.

* I have changed the gearbox remote mounting bushes (8). It turned out that some of them had been doubled up, and needed to be in order to fill the tubular spacers on which they are fitted.. I have just used the best of the old bushes as the extras. Anyone come across this?

* I'm trying to decide what type of sealant to use when refitting the gearbox cover and prop shaft cover. Options might include window frame sealant, Tiger Seal and something I found online called Hodgson Seamseal Cv Non Drying Bedding Sealent. Any suggestions


Thanks to anyone who can share useful experience

David Stuart

If the handbrake cable is nylon lined then probably no lubricant otherwise some spray grease would not go amiss. A non drying sealant would seem the best for any joints that "work" - pretty much all of a Morgan I would say.

Hello Richard

Thank you for your reply.

I don't know what the cable is lined with. It is a standard MMC handbrake cable for the post 1993 rear brakes. If anyone knows, I would be interested to find out.

The sealant between the gearbox/propshaft covers and the floor/chassis frame, which I scraped off, gave the appearance of being window frame sealant. This is readily available, retains some flexibility and is cheap. The Hodgson non-drying bedding sealant sounds appropriate, from the description online: https://mystatic.co.uk/seamseal-cv-white-sealant . The Tiger seal is more expensive and might be "too" sticky, making future disassembly difficult? I'm probably just overthinking this!!!

David Stuart