Day: 16 July 2023

Durham, Sherwood, Seaton Delaval & Seaton Sluice…

Day 1 of 7 – Latest Tour North.

Our first visit this morning was to Durham to see what was happening with Roger’s MGF 1.8 mpi. The car had, mysteriously, after a run out, decided it didn’t want to start again. Having been to see Roger a couple of times in the past he asked us for any pointers on what to do, unfortunately to no avail, despite his best efforts. On trying to hook up our P-scan there were problems from the off, so the only thing we could do was disconnect everything and reinstall it, surprisingly this actually proved to be the winning solution! The car is now no longer blowing fuses left, right and centre and the immobiliser is now working as it should, happily for Roger. Great to see him again and have a chat and a cuppa before we headed further north.

Next stop was to Sherwood, where it was lovely to meet Lorraine, for work on her Mk II MGF 1.8 mpi, in paint code JBH, that she’s owned for the past 22 years.

Full cambelt service carried out for her, along with alternator belt and hydragas lift. Good to have a chat with Lorraine while we worked and meet her lovely pooch Lily.

We then headed a few miles along the road to Seaton Delaval, for investigation of a problem with Rikki’s Lotus Elise S1. Rikki had got in touch a year ago, when we had given him advice and pointers as to what was possibly occurring, we didn’t hear from him again until a couple of weeks ago when we spotted a facebook post, saying he still had the same problem. So, today we set about investigating the issue and found it to be due to having HT leads and coil packs for a VVC model, when this one is a 120. The plugs weren’t in tight enough either and were very sooted up. So we replaced the plugs, coil packs and leads and it went from sounding lumpy as heck with a lot of movement on the engine to running an awful lot smoother. He’s still got a bit of an issue with having a decat, resulting in it running a bit too rich.

Unfortunately, didn’t get chance to meet Rikki as he was abroad on holiday, but his lovely mum welcomed us with a cuppa. She happened to mention that the back window on his TF wasn’t in the best shape, as a garage had undone the zip and had broken it, resulting in a taped up window panel and a moldy car. We carry zip pullers anyway, so we replaced this for them while we were there, which his mum was really pleased about.

Lovely to have a chat with her before we left to head on to our last call of the day, only a few miles along the road, to Seaton Sluice.

Terry had got in touch only yesterday about a problem with one of the spheres on his Trophy. They’d just completed the NC500 with no issues, only to find after their return that one of the rear spheres was leaking. These were refurbed ones that we had fitted for him a few years ago. So another one to be replaced for him, when we see him next in a few weeks time.

A long and busy day, but pleased to have got everyone sorted on the first leg of our trip and in good time too, with a quick peak at the beautiful sea front at Seaton Sluice on our way to our first digs tonight, in Gosforth. – https://ift.tt/qzayPdu