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Excellent Lorne,
Good info there! I think your statement about a properly set up Morgan is above all the one that all Morganeer's should take away. Whichever Model you have, this coupled with good maintenance is the route to pleasurable driving and ownership. Trusting others to service and inspect your prized, at say an annual service /MOT is not the way to go and I don't care how good their reputation, it's just not enough!
An example, Take greasing the steering. Modern tec's have a limited knowledge of greasing via nipple's and they certainly won't know how much grease can be required for hubs and pins. they'll give it 3-5 squirts and think its done! If you don't believe me check by doing the job yourself until you have grease showing from the correct areas, you might be shocked at just how much you use! But your steering will be so much better for it. I tend to re-grease mine after no more than 250 miles and 1-2 squeezes shows grease escaping and my steering stays good! Oh! And my hub's dry too! Having worked in the motor trade I have seen it all! grease dabbed on by finger to the nipple to make it look it's been done, I've even seen this done where a blanking grub screw replaces the nipple due to rotational inference! Or when I knew a nipple was blocked! Favourite is they don't have a grease gun or one that'll do the job. My 2010 car had totally incorrect nipples fitted to the prop shaft spiders, too short to allow a grease gun to seat so I can only assume that they were all like that from the factory! So who managed to grease that!
I get why people install remote greasing but they suffer with too much or too little grease in the right places. If you must have this system fit the remote nipples to the front of the car so you can see what you are greasing! The tube is cheap!
Owning a Morgan should be accessible to all who love them at a price point to suit them and learning to look after it should be part of the pleasure. Remember Mr Morgan made the cars to be worked on on the owners drive with rudimentary tools and apart from engines/gearbox's nothing much has changed with them! So go and have some fun, learn the basic's and enjoy acheiving solutions!
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