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Transit breakdown - any ideas?

Sorry chaps.
I had a mobile mechanic out from the breakdown people and he tried to manually crank it.
Wouldn't budge so pretty sure it's buggered. My mate is back from Belgium tomorrow and if anyone can work any magic, he can. But I'm not holding out much hope just based on my gut and what it felt like when I had to get it somewhere I could pull over!
 
Oil was pretty foul on the dipstick.
My bad but had a lot of shoite going on this year with health so not been on it as I should have been.

Seems we have so many things to keep track of these days that something always gets missed - this time it was something major FFS.
 
Scally-Ho said:
Aww, I'm so sorry to read this sad news. We are all here rooting for you and if any of us can advise further, we will always try to help a brother in need where we can.
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Thank you for that.
Makes me feel a little less like a complete tw@t! x
 
ReganAndCarter said:
Almost reminds me of a friend many years ago who was given his grandad's Morris Marina as his first car. He used to think the oil light on the dash was how you knew it was low and time to top up. That poor car!
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Not long after we passed our tests, we (like most teenage lads) set about getting our various first "bangers". One lad got an old, base model Marina. Some weeks later, he seized his engine. These were the days before there were internationally agreed symbols and colours on warning lights...

On being quizzed by this mates, he did admit that there had been a light on, somewhere on the dash - a green one, he thought, ever since he bought the car, but he hadn't thought it was important, as it still ran.

One of the lads in the group said. "FFS Baz, it's a base model Marina! It's only got a couple of warning lights - probably wasn't going to be an "ashtray full" warning light, was it"?!

I still chuckle about that one to this day...

Not that any of this helps the poor OP, of course. Commiserations mate. It's bad enough when, like my old school mate, you haven't a clue what's going on, but it's so much worse when you know what you're doing and you just overlook it because you've got too much else on your plate! :cry:
 
Avocet said:
Not long after we passed our tests, we (like most teenage lads) set about getting our various first "bangers". One lad got an old, base model Marina. Some weeks later, he seized his engine. These were the days before there were internationally agreed symbols and colours on warning lights...

On being quizzed by this mates, he did admit that there had been a light on, somewhere on the dash - a green one, he thought, ever since he bought the car, but he hadn't thought it was important, as it still ran.

One of the lads in the group said. "FFS Baz, it's a base model Marina! It's only got a couple of warning lights - probably wasn't going to be an "ashtray full" warning light, was it"?!

I still chuckle about that one to this day...

Not that any of this helps the poor OP, of course. Commiserations mate. It's bad enough when, like my old school mate, you haven't a clue what's going on, but it's so much worse when you know what you're doing and you just overlook it because you've got too much else on your plate! :cry:
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Sounds very similar to my friend's situation. All down to inexperience I suppose. A year after he was given the car, my friend pulled out in front of someone who hit the car broadside in both driver's side doors. He got a friend to inexpertly weld in a salvaged B pillar and attached two badly aligned and mismatched doors (car was harvest old, very popular colour for Marinas, the salvaged doors were green) - from the scrap yard. Every time his grandfather visited, they had to make sure that the car that was once his pride and joy wasn't anywhere around.

Base model Marina - as opposed to the deluxe. That will be the one with a passenger door mirror and poss mudflaps. :cool:

Think the 'super' had a cigarette lighter. :cool::cool:
 
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I'd have jumped at the opportunity of a basic Marina. My 1st runaround was an early 6 volt Ford Popular side valve job That was SO basic, it didn't even boast an air filter; just a cap over the air intake to stop bricks etc.
 
Scally-Ho said:
I'd have jumped at the opportunity of a basic Marina. My 1st runaround was an early 6 volt Ford Popular side valve job That was SO basic, it didn't even boast an air filter; just a cap over the air intake to stop bricks etc.
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Was that the one with vacuum wipers, or the later model? Probably a heater would have been an extra on these? My father's first car was a Morris 8 series E, which he hand painted and rigged up an improvised heater with some trunking as it didn't have one. Guessing the air filter may have been the old oil bath type. I had one on my Rover 100 P4.
 
Yes it was an early model with vacuum wipers and minus a heater, but the inefficient lowish compression engine was so hot running, a heater was not strictly necessary if you catch my drift. It served its purpose and in reality, it was a step up from my grandmother's Austin 7 which I learned the basics on, but only one step;):D(y)
 
ReganAndCarter said:
Probably a heater would have been an extra on these? My father's first car was a Morris 8 series E, which he hand painted and rigged up an improvised heater with some trunking as it didn't have one.
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My mums first car when she was learning to drive was a bull nosed Reliant regal 3 wheeler. Mainly because you could drive a 3 wheeler unaccompanied on a provisional license as long as you blocked off the reverse gear (nobody ever did though). That had no heater but it had a sliding flap on the gearbox tunnel that you could open to get heat (as well as oil fumes and smoke) directly from the engine!

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My first "proper" job was at Shoppers' Paradise (the cheap offshoot of Fine Fare) in 1985 and I lived in a village where the assistant manager also lived. He rang me (on the landline in those days) one morning and said he had a warning light on the dash. It was a 1983 Capri.

I walked round and before looking at the dash I asked him how long the light had been on. Oh, a few weeks, he said.

Turned out it was the low oil light!
 
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