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We left our digs in Lickey Hills this morning and went a few miles along the road to see Chris again and his MGF Anniversary (number 598 of 2000) that had been having a few issues with rough running…
We had previously been over with a replacement fuel pump, which was faulty and we all thought this had cured the problem, but on driving to the MOT station a couple of days later it started playing up again.
So this morning we went armed with a new coil pack, HT leads, various sensors. A bit of a head scratcher; coil pack, crank sensor, HT leads and coolant temperature sensor all found to be ok. Compression test showed that there was good compression on all 4 cylinders. Changed the spark plugs again, that we swapped out last time, and these were were quite sooted up. Valve timing was all correct, but one thing of concern was the bottom pulley bolt, which was quite loose, a timely find, thus avoiding an ultimate potential catastrophe.
We then checked out all the connections on the ECU and the fuel pump shut-off relay it seemed to spring into life abs behave itself.
A definite strange one as not one specific thing was at fault, it was a combination of things. At over 146k miles and 23 years old the car hasn’t done too badly!
So pleased for Chris that he can finally get the MOT done and start looking forward to getting out and about again. Thanks for the welcome warming cuppas Chris, great to see you!
Good run back home, with hardly any traffic chaos, with a quick stop off at the workshop to drop off a load of stuff and refill the oil etc ready for tomorrow.
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