Year: 2021

A few visits today just down the road in Sheffield…

Our first call was a clutch issue, which was, as we suspected down to the slave cylinder, on Mike’s good looking TF 135. A new slave cylinder was duly fitted and with only 63k on the clock the car should be good for a while longer. Great to meet Mike and have a chat, date to be arranged to return to fit a soft ride kit.

We then headed a few miles north of the city, to meet Tony and his fab looking MGF mpi 120, that he had bought to have some fun days out in along with his wife. He had a few niggles he wanted checking out and also a minor service.

Really good to meet Tony and so glad that we had time to have a chat. Thank you, to Tony for getting in the the cakes especially! They went down very well. 🍰

We then headed a bit further north, hitting all the football traffic and everyone heading to the match, good to see though.

Lastly, we went to see Jeff, who had been experiencing a misfire with his MGF 120 mpi mems 1.9 that we have worked on a couple of times over the years. Jeff had changed the distributor cap, the rotar arm and the 4 plug leads, which hadn’t resolved the issue.

On running the diagnostics it was found that there were a few sensor errors logged. We temporarily fitted a Lambda sensor and a coil pack to eliminate them. Another was found to be relating to the ambient temperature sensor and the coolant temperature sensor. As the car is an early mems 1.9 they don’t have an ambient temperature sensor.
So the ECU coolant temperature sensor was changed, which, happily for Jeff, resolved the issue. – https://ift.tt/363HZbI

What an enjoyable day, we headed over to Northwich this morning where it was really great to see Clare and her ‘Cilla’, her fab looking 1 of 3 stepspeed in Celestial Blue, again, that was due for the annual service.

Really good to have a quick catch-up. Shame we couldn’t stay longer. 🤗

We then headed over to Birkenhead where it was great to meet Tom, whose TF 135 was suffering from quite a bad oil leak.

The leak was found to be coming from the cam cover and the camshaft oil seals. Camshaft oil seals on the gear-box side were both replaced. On removing them they were found to be very brittle and old, so not surprising they were leaking. Cam cover gasket replaced and everything cleaned up. Hopefully this will save Tom a small fortune in oil top ups.

Great looking car, with a fab sounding straight-through exhaust!

Lovely sunrise this morning as we headed west and sun all day long ☀️

Good run back over the M62 and spotted some very fancy cones on the way! 😄 – https://ift.tt/363HZbI

Having had a few conversations with Paul, in recent months, he saw on our post last night that we weren’t too far away from him, in Alsager, so asked if we could pop over.

Happy to do so, we left our really fab digs, in Congleton, this morning to investigate the source of an oil leak with his very nice looking MGF Trophy 160 that he’d owned for just over a year.

There was found to be several culprits of varying degrees; such as VVC plunger seals, cam seals and then the main one which seems to be the crank seal, plus a possibility that the VVC mech gasket was also an issue.

Really good to meet Paul, and have a chat about track days and other cars he’s owned. A date booked in to come and sort all of these issues out for him.

Good run back over to the workshop, with a bit of a contrast in the weather today, and cracked on with a few things there.

The pub we stayed at in Congleton is worthy of mention, The Plough. Such fantastic rooms and at a very reasonable price. Not that we often venture out for food, it’s usually a ‘just eat’ option in our room, we made the effort to go across to the pub itself to eat and the food was so good. One on the list of places to stay at again.

Didn’t get a pic of the car unfortunately, too busy talking. – https://ift.tt/363HZbI

That was a bit of a wet and windy one! Fortunately, we had a car port for some shelter from it, while we were working in Macclesfield today.

It was cambelt service time for Tony’s TF 135 and Tony asked us to also service his brothers TF 135. It was suspected that the clutch had gone on his brothers car too. So a couple of days booked in for the work and an overnight stay.

First up was Tony’s TF, all bolts behaved, cambelt, water pump and tensioner replaced. While we were in there noticed a bit of an oil leak, which was down to the cam cover being lose, so replaced the gasket and cleaned everything up. Other service items replaced that Tony had and asked us to fit while we were there.

Next up was his brothers TF, which was a completely different story. One of engine mount bolts did not want to come undone. So plan B was implemented, which didn’t want to go well either, 4 hours spent undoing one bolt. Got there in the end though! Patience along with a few mashed bits of skin!

We also had the car booked in for clutch replacement, but on investigation found that the slave cylinder had gone and the release arm was stiff. So this was freed off and new slave cylinder fitted. System bled and clutch working as it should. Saving Tony’s brother a bit of money and it should be good for many more miles.

Great to see Tony as always, keeping us supplied with many welcome cuppas and choccie bics.

A later than thought finish, but our digs are only a few miles down the road in Congleton. Welcome big bath to thaw out in and then get the admin done. Will venture over to the adjoining pub for some tea.

Now we’ve gained a day, we’ll go back to the workshop in the morning and get more done on Adam’s and Stephen’s cars. 😃 – https://ift.tt/363HZbI

A lovely sunny morning for run over the Humber estuary as we headed to Cleethorpes, where it was great to see Keith again and his, really well cared for, TF 135 85th Anniversary. Paint code is 297 for those interested.

Cambelt, water pump, tensioner, aircon alternator belt all replaced and oil change done.

Good to catch-up with Keith again. His car, as always, a pleasure to work on too.

Made the most of a rare early finish as have a lot of things to catch up on and orders to place etc. Doesn’t help that Facebook crashed this evening, aargh! 😵‍💫 – https://ift.tt/363HZbI

The years certainly fly past so quickly, time for cambelt service on this great looking TF 135 ‘Spark’ in Sonic Blue, again, in Garstang, Lancashire.

Cambelt, water pump, tensioner, plugs and all filters replaced, without any bother at all. Great to see Jim again and have a catch-up. Thank you, so much Jim for the welcome cuppas and the bottle of fizz! 🍾🥂

Ashton-in-Makerfield for the next call, for some work on this fab looking MGF 120 mpi.

52 mm throttle body and Viper cold-air-induction system fitted. New distributor cap and rotar arm fitted. Good to see David again and have a catch-up.

We actually had a bank holiday Monday off! It was a very nice welcome break. Back to the workshop in the morning. MOT time for Rob’s Sonic Blue Spark! – https://ift.tt/363HZbI