Year: 2023

We left our digs in Worcester yesterday morning, and headed to Kingstone, near Hereford to see what was happening with Keith’s MGF 120 mpi (in JRJ).

The car had suffered from a blown cap and after replacing with a new one the car then overheated, so Keith erred on the side of caution and left it until could take a look.

After all our checks the cap that he replaced it with was good, but when he’d filled the coolant back up hadn’t bled the system fully, which had caused an airlock and restricted the flow of coolant. System subsequently bled and ran up to temperature, and all good. Shame not to see Keith on this visit.

We then ventured further south west to our next digs just outside of Cardiff.

A short commute to our work this morning, where it was great to finally meet Geoffrey, and his MGF 120 mpi (in JRJ). He’d only owned the car for 5 months before experiencing issues with overheating and had to be recovered home. Following a recommendation from his friend he had got in touch to see when we could get over to see him.

So this morning we replaced the head gasket, the water pump and fitted a 52mm throttle body. Unfortunately, the car had at some point had the dreaded k-seal added, so this was cleared out as best as we could.

Bit of a challenge given the conditions, rain, sleet, thunder and lightning! We got the main bit done before it really chucked it down! After sheltering in the van a few times we finally got everything done.

Geoffrey had wanted a remap carrying out too, but wants to wait until he gets used to the car once more, now that the head gasket etc has been sorted. It’s a cracking car and he will now carry on with the things on his list of things to do.

Thanks to Geoffrey for lots of tea, well needed. Good also to see Ian for a quick chat too, mid storm!

Back at our really lovely digs for a second night, and time to get everything dried off. Room service steak may well be needed tonight.

Photos aren’t the best due to the inclement conditions, but they’re virtually the same car on both days anyway! – https://ift.tt/u1TbeWw

Back to it and on with 2023 and back on the road at very early o’clock this morning…

Our first call of the day, with a late start due to an absolute load of holdups, simply due to traffic volume, despite putting in a contingency of an earlier departure time, was in Kingswinford where it was great to meet Richard for work on his fab looking TF 135, (in JFV) that he’s owned since June of last year. The car developed an issue where it would turn over briefly but then cut out, on our investigation we found that both fobs needed reprogramming to the alarm unit, once this done it fired up straight away and stayed on running. Great result for Richard. Minor service was carried out too and a date to be arranged for cambelt service and a couple of other things.

We then headed down to Redditch where it was great to meet Richard! His fab looking MGF 120 mpi (in GUF) was in need of a head gasket replacement. He’d bought the car last year, but then found that it was over-heating so tried replacing the cap and the coolant expansion tank. All up and running lovely again this afternoon. Date to be arranged to replace the radiator that was looking a bit suspect. So pleased that Richard and his wife can get out and about again and enjoy some top-down runs, having both been bikers in past.

Apart from replacing the head gasket on Paul’s car, in Hull last Tuesday, we enjoyed a week off to recharge our batteries. A really nice break it was too, well apart from servicing the van for Jon and doing some maintenance on it, a load of cleaning and sorting for me in the house, and what is now finally ours, we’re so pleased to say, we found out just before Christmas, (after a fair amount of faffing), yippee and phew equally.

All went smoothly on Paul’s TF (in MNX), so he’s pleased to have that sorted and is now looking forward to having some fun over the summer months, then coming over to the workshop at the end of the year for underfloor treatment and a remap. Thanks Paul for the endless supply of tea you supplied, very appreciated on a pretty cold day!

Now tucked up in our first digs of the week, in Worcester. A fab airbnb complete with microwave for Jon’s tea! – https://ift.tt/xAWm8YU