Day: 27 May 2023

Warmley, Bristol & Harpole, Northampton …. Day 6 and the last day.

Another short commute this morning from our digs over to Warmley, where it was great to meet Neill for work on his 2002 TF 135 (in paint code HFF) called ‘Maggy’.

Cambelt service carried out along with the other annual service items, plus alternator belt and a new coolant cap.

Neill had noticed that the engine management light had come on last week and was bringing up a few error codes on his code reader.

On our investigation today found that one of the coil packs was faulty and the other one was the wrong one for that model, plus the HT leads were also old and tired.
When the garage had fitted his rear shockers they’d disconnected the lambda and forgotten to reconnect it, which resulted in the error codes that he was having issues with.

So we swapped out the ignition leads and coil packs for new ones, which then resolved the problem, and all error codes subsequently cleared, resulting in a nice smooth engine.

He’d asked us to carry out a health check and see if the underfloor pipes needed changing. They’ve already been done and the car is in really good shape, and obviously been well cared for with its previous owner. Neill had carried out a couple of upgrades, such as fitting Mike Satur roll hoops, swapping out the seats and the door cards, resulting in a very attractive looking interior.

With thanks to his lovely wife Annie for all the brews including a freshly baked lemon drizzle cake that has come away with us and has so far remained in its wrapper on the journey home. That won’t last long once Jon gets sat down with a brew!

From there we headed north and called in to Harpole to see what was occurring with Neil’s TF 135. On a 20 mile run the temperature gauge would suddenly rise and then drop down to normal. The fans would kick in, but take a long time to cool it down again. We found very minor leak from the outlet on the block, and a blocked return hose that we had previously cleared once already. System fully bled, and hopefully this will have resolved this issue, Neil will take the car out tomorrow for a test run. Fingers crossed that it has. Date to be booked in for the cambelt service.

Nice to see Neil again and have a chat before we departed to head back home.

Lots of hold ups on our travels today, but we should get back home in daylight, where it will be great to see the cat. A productive, enjoyable albeit tiring tour with some really great people and their fantastic MGs. Plus plenty of sunny weather thrown in too.

(On a side note we’ve had to adjust the settings on our group to try and alleviate some of the chronic and rather frustrating spamming that’s been going on. Let’s see how that goes. Sorry if this has caused any inconvenience). – https://ift.tt/lW9TqDZ