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North East – Day 3 of 3 – East Rainton & Redcar…
We were lucky again to have found some really fab digs last night, and left there this morning for a fairly short commute over to East Rainton, where it was great to see Andy again and his ‘03 TF 135 in paint code JFV.
He’d noticed a problem with his clutch pedal and also with the throttle. As we suspected the throttle was due to the bushes on the pedal itself having worn, so a replacement pedal fitted (thanks to Phil Bell for supplying us with it). The clutch release-arm was extremely stiff, which had in turn taken out the seals on the slave-cylinder. Clutch release-arm duly eased off, took a while, but at least it moves by hand now. New slave-cylinder fitted, system bled and she’s all good to go.
Lovely to have a catch-up with Andy and many cuppas, plus fusses with his beautiful woofer Tobermory, aka Toby (forgot to get a pic). Shame not to see Stuart who had planned on popping over to say hello. Thanks to Andy for prepping for our visit with the gazebo!
From there we headed on over to Redcar, where it was good to meet Jon and his ‘04 TF 135 80th Anniversary (number 754) in paint code MBB. Jon had reported that the EML had come on, so asked if we could call round when in the area to see what was occurring.
On code reading it had random multiple misfires and catalyst below efficiency, codes cleared and misfires were checked for, but the car was running sweet. Checked the state of the cat and that was ok, checked voltages on the Lamba sensors and they were ok. Once deleted the faults never recurred. Great to meet him and have a chat before we headed back home with a call into the workshop for parts needed for tomorrow’s visit.
We got caught out in the clean air zone in Newcastle £12.50 for 300 yards! Apart from that, another fab tour in the north east, with big thanks to everyone for their warm welcomes and some really great MGs. – https://ift.tt/ItBlQCc
