Marina Axle U Bolts

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Re: Marina Axle U Bolts

Post by MarinaCoupe » Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:14 pm

The ones that came with the lowering kit, genuine Grayston kit for Marina. The U bolts were long enough to fit over the 4 leaf spring and the 1.5" lowering block, and I still had to cut some of the threads off.




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Re: Marina Axle U Bolts

Post by locost_bryan » Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:19 pm

beniboyz wrote:The Minor ones are the same diameter as Marina ones, the radius is also the same. I last used a set on a Mk3 with 2" lowering blocks. There was plenty of thread left over so I trimmed them to suit.
Probably not too much of a surprise, given BL intended to use the Minor axle in the Marina (if it's true that BL had originally intended to simply "stretch" and rebody the Minor, until they visited the factory and found out what state of the Minor tooling).
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Re: Marina Axle U Bolts

Post by jiversteve » Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:19 pm

To add to the confusion, I have just heard from Grayston that they have discontinued GE26 Marina +35mm U-bolts though they are still listed on their website.
How this affects their Marina Lowering kits is debatable.
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Marina Axle U Bolts

Post by ClaytonSpeed » Thu Mar 17, 2016 9:05 am

Photos of U bolts and bump stops from ESM:

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Re: Marina Axle U Bolts

Post by jiversteve » Thu Mar 17, 2016 10:07 am

beniboyz wrote:Photos of U bolts and bump stops from ESM:

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Can you please confirm the part number.
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Re: Marina Axle U Bolts

Post by ClaytonSpeed » Thu Mar 17, 2016 10:18 am

SUS756 - U Bolt (Listed as "Extra long")

SUS710 - Bump Stop
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