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I missed my old ute, a great wee thing.

What did I do?

Sold my Marina ute.
It has gone back to Christchurch, bought by an enthusiastic young chap, I told him of this site and recommended it to him.

One day I might well buy another Marina.

And I'll visit this site regularly.

Refitted the exhaust pipe to the manifold - again! That orange hi-temp RTV stuff was still soft after two weeks and leaked. Back to CRC Maniseal, it works!. I have noticed on my 575 van and a mate's 1300 sedan that the same thing happens repeatedly. That is - the exhaust begins to chuff at the flan...

JubileeNut wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2017 5:20 pm Thats lucky as i was starting to get shakes, must have been withdrawl kicking in

Same!

Refitted the exhaust pipe to the manifold - again!

That orange hi-temp RTV stuff was still soft after two weeks and leaked.

Back to CRC Maniseal, it works!.

My ute went to 00000 just before hristmas - and I forgot to photograph it, damn! On the good news side of things - I have been given another ute FREE! But it's in pretty bad shape what with rust (Ex farm ute) and birds have been nesting and pooping all over the interior. :( But it has a good front b...

balmy wrote:

Marinanut wrote:Oh no, that's Kilroy territory....

He's fine.


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Ah, good to know!

Well gearbox back in and ute on the road again, all work done in the driveway! The rolled pin cost 90 cents - but oh boy, the hours taking the gearbox out and refitting it!!! I bought a workshop manual but it was towards the latter stages of getting things back together so wasn't really that much he...

Yep, bellhousing off and selector shaft driven back, got a new rolled pin (90 cents!) and as soon as I have time I will reverse the procedure. I have NEVER had a gearbox where the bellhousing has the throw-out bearing sleeve and input-shaft bearing retainer as part of its structure - until now! All ...

Remove bellhousing. Drive out pin at front end of selector shaft. Remove cover disc at rear of selector shaft. Remove top of gearbox. Carefully move selector shaft rearwards until it protrudes far enough to make your repair. Reverse proceedings. Ah! Great stuff, thanks a bunch Kilroy, I figured is ...

Got the gearbox out of my ute and onto the the bench singlehand, a lot of sweat was lost and heaps of grunting was involved.

Now to figure out how to get the selector shaft back far enough to replace the rolled pin and the fitting it holds in place.

OK, got the gearbox out (Jacked up the front of the motor) and in the workshop with the top off - but now unsure how to get the selector shaft back far enough to get to the remains of the rolled pin and to re-fit the fitting and new pin. AND I don't have a workshop manual (Doh!) so haven't a clue ho...

Mate. Sometimes the nylon socket at the lower end of the gearlever disintegrates - where it plugs into the end of the selector shaft - and sometimes the roll pin that attaches the outer socket to the selector shaft does the same. You need to describe carefully which pin has broken for us to give th...

From what I think that you are describing, it's the later gearbox tailshaft where the pin/roll pin is fitted through the side of the housing, so that the bit that sticks out is the pin that the cup cover clips onto and the bit that points inwards runs in a slot on the side off the gearstick pivot b...

Thank Kilroy but do I have to remove the gearbox and remove the plate that covers the selectors so I can take move the selector-shaft back far enough to get access to press/hammer in the rolled-pin that holds the fitting to the selector shaft?

Or is there an 'easier' way that I cannot think of??