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A trip over the Pennines to Altrincham on Thursday morning for work on Michelle’s ‘03 Stepspeed, in paint code PBT, that she’s owned for the last 19 years.
Full cambelt service carried out, plus she wanted us to give the car a check over and advise on anything else that she should be concerned about. Nice to meet Michelle who had cleaned the car the day before ahead of our visit, but the Sahara sand decided to ruin that for her!
From there we headed over to Rainow, for work on Richard’s ‘04 TF 135 80th Anniversary, in paint code MBB.
Cambelt service carried out. Richard had noticed a bit of a rattle coming from the cams, he’d tried a couple of applications of hydraulic lifter cleaner, to no affect, but he hadn’t used the better one, which is the one made by Wynn’s, which does usually have good results.
Richard asked if the cam-rack could be removed and resealed as it was leaking. We cleared out all the oil ways, resealed it and added one of our cans of Wynn’s Pro hydraulic-lifter cleaner. Once back up and running the car was sounding a lot quieter.
An interesting afternoon chatting to Richard, whose car has a couple of very nice stable mates, a V8 MGB GT and a Midget that he’d owned from his student days.
A late finish for us getting home, but what a a perfect evening for a run back over the peaks, such stunning scenery on days like that, particularly going through Winnats Pass. Lots of para-gliders out enjoying the thermals.
This morning we headed over to Hull for a nice local call, only to find that the owner had already had the cambelt service carried out locally and forgot to tell us. So we headed over to Goxhill a little earlier than planned for our next call.
We’d last visited Rob in Goxhill back in May, when we did the cambelt service etc on his MGF 120 mpi, he had asked if we could call back at some point and replace the distributor cap and rotor arm as they were original ones on it. So this was done for him this morning. Shame not to see Rob, but pleased we’ve got that done for him.
With time to spare we had a bit of a ring round local people to see if we could pull our visit forward, but everyone was at work. So went over to Rimmer Bros, to pick up some parts instead and had the afternoon free.
I walked back home over the Humber Bridge which was a little less gloomy than when we went over it this morning, a right pea-souper!
Have a great weekend everyone, hoping the weather holds up for runs out and top down fun! 🌞 – https://ift.tt/bFLhRU2
