Day: 25 June 2023

Day 5 & 6 – Longrock & Cranborne

A short commune along the road from our digs to Longrock for our visit to Charles’ TF 160, in paint code JFV. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to see him this year, as he was working away, so had left his keys with his neighbour.

This time was for the annual service, and to replace the air temperature sensor, as Charles had reported that the engine-bay fan was on constantly.

We took along with us some pre-tensioners, as he had also reported that the SRS light was coming on, intermittently. On code reading it was found that both pre-tensioners had dodgy connections, so these were cleaned up.

While we were in there we noticed that the coolant was fairly low in the expansion tank, so pressure tested everything and ran all our usual checks. The only obvious thing that we noticed was staining on the hose for the main outlet from the block, so we replaced both of the clips on this.

Made the most of the fab weather and location so we headed over to Mousehole for a cuppa. I walked and Jon drove, with a stop off for a hearty lunch for Jon on the way. What a beautiful little place, that I last visited 30 years ago. Not forgetting, of course, the dreadful Penlee lifeboat disaster that occurred off the coast there in 1981.

This morning found us not too far along the road to Cranborne, where it was really great to see Alan for work on his TF 135, in paint code JFV. He had recently had a couple of advisories on his last MOT, so asked if we could come over when next in the area to sort these for him.

Both rear subframe mounts replaced, we did take the welder with us as a contingency, knowing what an absolute pain those bolts can be! Fortunately, all but one, of them came out no problem, and the awkward one was duly drilled out and tapped.

Both front wishbones replaced too, as they had done their time.

Big thanks to Alan, for a constant stream of tea, and good to have a chat with him. Plus he went off to the local motor factors for us to the pick up a gas cylinder for the blow torch, an essential item when doing this job, as it decided to run out half way through.

Alan had also been experiencing an intermittent starting problem, with the car, which was due to the spade connector on the starter motor being a bit corroded, so this was cleaned up as it was quite green and crusty.

The weather wasn’t as bad as forecast, we only got one dousing, and soon dried off again when the sun came back out again.

Pleased to have him all set for his run up to the north east coast later in the year. – https://ift.tt/0vpUub3