Day: 16 June 2023

A great end to the week, as mentioned in yesterday’s blog, we collected Lesley’s MGF 120 mpi, in paint code COF, from Grantham at the beginning of the week. Lesley having contacted us a few months back asked if we would be able to recommission her car that hadn’t turned a wheel since 2016, having suspected head gasket failure at the time they parked it up in their garage.

Lesley’s son has recently opened up his own body-shop business and as a Christmas present to her said he would get all the paintwork etc sorted for her if she wanted to get the car back up and running mechanically again.

So we got cracking, and after a few long days the following was done; head gasket replacement carried out, cambelt service, all services items, underfloor coolant pipes fitted, alternator belt, coolant flush (as it was running on the old green stuff), clutch eased off, new clevis pin and clutch fluid replaced, new distributor cap, rotar arm and plug leads fitted, coolant cap, discs and pads all round, wiper blades. Then finally the car was sent for the MOT today.

So the car is now all set to be reunited with Lesley over the weekend, when they will travel up to drive back home. Can’t wait to see them! Hope the sun stays with us for a top down run.

Because of the work her son will be carrying out we were asked not to clean the car and to leave as is, as her son wants to do a ‘before and after’ story, which is so fab! But, really frustrating for us not being able to do our usual clean up following a project like this.

With getting this one all done and finished this afternoon, we were finally able to look at a ‘96 MGF that was dropped off with us a couple of months back, from Oxfordshire, owned by father and son, Gary and Elliot. They’d had quite a lot of work carried out last year to the car, with new head and block etc. but unfortunately they feared head gasket had gone, and also that the engine had aqua-blocked, so they asked if we could take a look.

On our inspection today, fortunately for them it hadn’t aqua-locked. On removing the cylinder head it was fitted with an elastomer gasket, which had failed most due to the fact the return pipe on the inlet manifold was blocked solid, this took a bit of clearing. Everything put back together again and car back up and running, although still a bit of work to be done. But it’s a much more positive picture that we have reported back that what they had been suspecting.

We actually managed to give our ‘Goldy’ a quick scrub and head to the local car meet at the Humber Bridge (finally!!) this evening. What a brilliant turn out and great to catch up with a few people we’ve not seen for a while.

Now I really must get cracking on the admin! Have a great weekend everyone, hope you have some good runs out and the weather stays as good as it has been.
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