Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by Morris McKinnon » Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:40 pm

Perseverance has paid off :thumbup: looking nice and driving right too. Well done.

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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by MARINAMADBAZ » Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:18 pm

Looking nice mick she's a beaut

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Post by Pont.skins » Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:24 pm

balmy wrote: Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:22 pm Love Tara green Image
Jade Green is a nice colour as well!
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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by mickthefitter » Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:28 pm

Thanks guys. Its been a journey! Do you know why I like Jade Green? The Mark 2 Marina Special in the 1976 brochures!

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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by balmy » Sun Jul 16, 2017 10:33 pm

Pont.skins wrote:
balmy wrote: Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:22 pm Love Tara green Image
Jade Green is a nice colour as well!

I was just saying I liked Tara green ImageImageImageImageImage
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Post by MARINAMADBAZ » Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:09 pm

I like tara green aswell
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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by marinabuoy » Mon Jul 17, 2017 12:53 am

Looking good there out on the open road at last - Hurrah!


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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by mickthefitter » Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:44 am

:thumbup: :-D

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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by PHUQ » Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:58 am

Fantastic!
Glad you've actually got to enjoy driving it at last Mick! Will remember to check the exhaust should I encounter a poor running car in the future...
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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by mickthefitter » Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:27 am

PHUQ wrote: Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:58 am Will remember to check the exhaust should I encounter a poor running car in the future...
Yes, I know....of course the other major frustration with this car, which was impossible for me to know about, was the fact that, according to my garage man, someone had put the wrong springs in the original distributor. Which is why the timing always seemed wrong after I'd set it. It now has a Lucas 45D of the correct type salvaged from some barn in Lutterworth, and it is fine.

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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by JoshWard » Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:59 pm

Well done! Looks great!
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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by mickthefitter » Mon Jul 17, 2017 7:05 pm

Thank you Josh :)

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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by lock1506 » Wed Jul 19, 2017 5:52 pm

I didn't know you had DBV Barry, that is the one that Matt and then Stu had isn't it?

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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by Gee tc » Wed Jul 19, 2017 7:56 pm

Nice to finally see it out and about.
Lumpy tick over built in at factory!

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Re: Mk2 1.8 HL Automatic update

Post by mickthefitter » Wed Jul 19, 2017 8:12 pm

Gee tc wrote: Wed Jul 19, 2017 7:56 pm Nice to finally see it out and about.
Lumpy tick over built in at factory!
Hmm...I do wonder if it comes with extra lumps because it is an auto. A long time ago when I had my Mark 1, someone told me the tinny starter screech is down to a thinner flywheel than on a manual car. If it's true, it follows that there's less flywheel mass to even out the lumps. Also the engine tends to stop very abruptly when switched off, which is consistent with a light flywheel not being able to carry the engine round. It's just so long since I owned that Mark 1, I can't remember if it was the same.

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