What did you do to your Marina today?

**Topics directly related to Marinas and Itals**

Moderators: ClaytonSpeed, balmy

User avatar
MarinaCoupe
Posts: 10190
Joined: Thu May 31, 2007 5:26 pm
Location: Bedford
Contact:

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by MarinaCoupe » Wed Nov 07, 2018 8:44 am

24C09AE2-923C-48CA-87C3-D8D3334F3C7F.jpeg
Not my Marina, but James Birkin’s. He couldn’t get the brakes to bleed at all.

On inspection we found that the guy that replaced the front calipers earlier in the year, had mounted the left on the right side and vice-versa. With the bleed valves not at the bottom, they were never going to bleed properly.

We switched them over and hey presto!

mickthefitter
Posts: 1457
Joined: Thu May 26, 2016 11:00 pm

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by mickthefitter » Wed Nov 07, 2018 9:34 am

Not entirely unlike the situation I described on my Mini then in the original post, with the drum backplates wrong-handed, and someone else had suggested the calipers were upside-down. Glad you got it sorted :thumbup:

IVOR DENNEY
Posts: 66
Joined: Fri Dec 14, 2012 3:45 pm

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by IVOR DENNEY » Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:22 pm

nice looking mk1 1300 saloon

User avatar
MarinaCoupe
Posts: 10190
Joined: Thu May 31, 2007 5:26 pm
Location: Bedford
Contact:

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by MarinaCoupe » Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:30 pm

Yes auto too.

david painter
Posts: 1704
Joined: Sat Nov 24, 2012 3:52 pm

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by david painter » Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:29 pm

Glad its all sorted and was simple. But that's the reason cars should have a MOT Every year 1st the bloke who did the job wrong and 2nd the bloke who couldn't see whats wrong are both now able to declare the car safe to drive as it doesn't need inspecting for Safety.
Dave

User avatar
balmy
Posts: 3349
Joined: Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:12 am
Location: Torquay, Devon

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by balmy » Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:54 pm

david painter wrote:Glad its all sorted and was simple. But that's the reason cars should have a MOT Every year 1st the bloke who did the job wrong and 2nd the bloke who couldn't see whats wrong are both now able to declare the car safe to drive as it doesn't need inspecting for Safety.
Dave

My thoughts exactly. A simple reason for them not bleeding but should he have been doing it anyway with such an obvious lack of knowledge.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
1974 Marina Tc Coupe - 1950CC
1982 Morris Ital HL Estate - 7600 miles from new
1992 Lada Niva Cossack - brilliant
2008 Ducati 1098R TB21 LE 200bhp/99lb/ft of a monster on two wheels. All from 1198cc
1998 Laverda 750 Formula-rare
1997 Ducati 916 Senna - Awesome
!974 Honda CD175-awaiting resto - now stripped

mickthefitter
Posts: 1457
Joined: Thu May 26, 2016 11:00 pm

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by mickthefitter » Sat Nov 10, 2018 1:34 pm

Impossible to grumble at that, £2.40 for a Mann oil filter for a 1.8?
IMG_20181110_132913.jpg

User avatar
locost_bryan
Posts: 3086
Joined: Fri May 22, 2009 2:43 am
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by locost_bryan » Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:09 pm

Finally managed to successfully join the owners club.

Had to use my work laptop, as my elderly home laptop didn't seem to be compatible with the club site or payment software. Probably time to upgrade...
Bryan
Auckland NZ

1972 Morris Marina 1750 TC Coupe "Ozzy"

mickthefitter
Posts: 1457
Joined: Thu May 26, 2016 11:00 pm

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by mickthefitter » Fri Nov 16, 2018 8:01 am

locost_bryan wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:09 pm Finally managed to successfully join the owners club.

Had to use my work laptop, as my elderly home laptop didn't seem to be compatible with the club site or payment software. Probably time to upgrade...
Yeah but Windows 10 will bend your mind, looking for stuff that was obvious in XP and has either been hidden or removed completely, then there's the fussy cluttered look to the folder navigation panes that's the equivalent to putting tiny station selection buttons on a modern car audio system, and hiding the tone controls inside a menu, instead of just turning a big black knob...

User avatar
MarinaCoupe
Posts: 10190
Joined: Thu May 31, 2007 5:26 pm
Location: Bedford
Contact:

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by MarinaCoupe » Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:37 am

locost_bryan wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:09 pm Finally managed to successfully join the owners club.

Had to use my work laptop, as my elderly home laptop didn't seem to be compatible with the club site or payment software. Probably time to upgrade...
Congrats and welcome Bryan.

okeh
Posts: 24
Joined: Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:00 pm

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by okeh » Thu Nov 22, 2018 3:37 am

Today.....I started her. I haven't got her into winter storage yet and we've had a cold snap north of Toronto and its been full out winter and -13 degrees celsius tonight. So I put a magnetic oil pan heater on her and started her up after several days of increasing cold. She complained a bit but fired and settled down to a somewhat grumbly idle.

I'm quite satisfied.

mickthefitter
Posts: 1457
Joined: Thu May 26, 2016 11:00 pm

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by mickthefitter » Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:35 am

:thumbup: Mine went into winter storage in my garage at the weekend. Not everyone's cup of tea I know, but today we've got our first real frost (nothing like -13C!) which I saw on the horizon from the weather forecasts and in these conditions my garage starts to get really damp, and so does the car, and I refuse to drive it on salted roads anyway so it is now in a Permabag until Spring.

okeh
Posts: 24
Joined: Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:00 pm

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by okeh » Thu Nov 22, 2018 2:58 pm

This weekend its supposed to get much warmer, and rainy. So hopefully that happens, washes the worst of the crap off the roads and I drive her over to winter storage.

User avatar
btorvestad
Posts: 42
Joined: Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:34 am

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by btorvestad » Thu Nov 22, 2018 8:36 pm

Installed a 3-dial cluster. Now looking for the lower «wood trim» if anyone have that they want to sell.

Image


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

User avatar
enthusiastic youth
Posts: 128
Joined: Fri Dec 06, 2013 12:13 pm
Location: Norway, Gjøvik.

Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by enthusiastic youth » Sat Nov 24, 2018 3:57 am

Looking good btorvestad :thumbup:
My cars:
1975 Marina Coupe TC, ’’citron yellow’’.

1972 Dodge Charger Rallye, 440 Magnum

2002 Subaru Forester, daily driver.

Post Reply