What did you do to your Marina today?

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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by JubileeNut » Sat Mar 23, 2013 8:40 pm

Hopefully but I just don't won't snow!! Oh or rain!
We had a dry day here today and tomorrow looks like it will be dry so got the car out for a while.
Every weekend has been wet :rolls:

The axle will either be fine or still leak but I have given its good shot.
The bearing was bugged and it has only been in there since the rebuild, all the grease was sitting in the oil catcher :rolls:
Not sure the bearing like the diff oil flushing through them.

I put a full tank of fuel in today as well :thumbup: That should get me half way :lol:
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by MARINAMAN480 » Sat Mar 23, 2013 8:50 pm

Well i replaced my steering column after damaging it last weekend getting the steering wheel of to repair indicator stalks and sorted out rear brakes as they were binding

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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by Barmy » Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:13 pm

ran it out of petrol :lol: :lol:
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by balmy » Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:14 pm

Barmy wrote:ran it out of petrol :lol: :lol:
Aren't you in the wrong section? This is 'What did you do to your Marina?' Section :lol:
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by Barmy » Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:17 pm

balmy wrote:
Barmy wrote:ran it out of petrol :lol: :lol:
Aren't you in the wrong section? This is 'What did you do to your Marina?' Section :lol:

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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by MarinaCoupe » Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:27 pm

Been working on my Pickup, fiddled with the wiring. Low and behold the fan now works, can't claim any real credit though. Shame it didn't work for the petrol gauge.

The fan works on both speeds but it rattles and doesn't push out an appreciable breeze, any ideas.


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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by JubileeNut » Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:30 pm

foam in heater box blocking exits?
Fan fallen of motor?
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by MarinaCoupe » Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:41 pm

JubileeNut wrote:foam in heater box blocking exits?
Fan fallen of motor?
Is getting to the heater a dashboard out job on an Ital?




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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by locost_bryan » Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:50 am

dazza2623 wrote:Spent some time building the LSD disk brake rear end for the 6 cylinder Coupe.It is soooooo nice to play in a workshop instead of an exposed piece of concrete in the backyard.I might ask Santa for one this year.
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by ClaytonSpeed » Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:10 am

MarinaCoupe wrote:
JubileeNut wrote:foam in heater box blocking exits?
Fan fallen of motor?
Is getting to the heater a dashboard out job on an Ital?




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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by MARINAMAN480 » Mon Mar 25, 2013 6:16 pm

beniboyz wrote:
MarinaCoupe wrote:
JubileeNut wrote:foam in heater box blocking exits?
Fan fallen of motor?
Is getting to the heater a dashboard out job on an Ital?




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Afraid so :-(
Yep deff dash out job i got a spare heater if you want to rebuild one then you can do one out one in
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by Kilroy » Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:16 pm

At least while the dash is out you can fix the petrol gauge... ;)

Actually - try cleaning the connection on the sender unit first.
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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by MarinaCoupe » Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:55 pm

Thanks Kilroy, already tried that, I also put a meter across the sender and got a reasonable reading, so probably not the sender.

I think the dial is the next thing to check, so dashboard out and look at the heater and fuel gauge at the same time. I'll probably replace it with Lee's four dial dashboard, as that's a known good'un.




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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by 1972TCCOUPE » Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:43 pm

Stripped down rear brakes,cleaned them up,freed off cylinders rusted to back plate. Went for MOT rest and passed! Tester said that the footbrake efficiency had dropped since failure on the handbrake? Any ideas why that might be.

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Re: What did you do to your Marina today?

Post by Kilroy » Wed Mar 27, 2013 11:54 pm

Either air trapped in the rear cylinders, or rear brakes not adjusted up properly.?
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