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Cars in from both ends of the U.K. this week from Brighton to Glasgow…
Saturday morning saw us on with both the cars left with us from Scotland. Aldo’s TF 115 was originally booked in for underfloor treatment, but had encountered a non-starting issue, having been stood over the winter months. So instead of the planned drive down in convoy with Glenn he had the car transported to us a couple of weeks ago and Jon has been working on diagnosing the problem in between other jobs. Whilst Jon carried on with that I got cracking on Glenn’s 85th Anniversary, that he had left with us, having driven down from Glasgow on Friday. Full rust conversion carried out and left to do its thing.
Chris popped over to see us from Wirral whilst en route to Nottingham to have his alternator belt replaced as it was squealing a tad on start up.
Work continued on Glenn’s TF on Monday morning, which included full underseal, replacement of all 4 subframe mounts with stainless ones, gearbox oil change, replacement reverse light switch, service items and replacement of the windscreen washer bottle as it had been pittling all over the floor and that’s this one all sorted and ready for collection.
It was good to meet Gary on Tuesday morning who had driven up from Brighton, the day before, to bring in his W reg MGF for its cambelt service. He was definitely living on borrowed time with the alternator belt! At first glance it looked like the wrong belt was fitted, but when we removed it only half of it was left, how it didn’t give way we’ve no idea! Yikes that could have been nasty. It will take place on our exhibit of carnage.
The inlet manifold had a snapped breather pipe, which was causing the car to have an erratic idle. So we fitted an alternative connector, which resolved this issue. All sorted for Gary to drive back down to Brighton that afternoon.
Jon very gladly solved the non-starting issue on Aldo’s TF after chasing faulty wires over a total of two and a half days and chats with Mark Stacey (Kmaps), Chris Flanagan (Retro cars) and finally getting to the route of it with the help of Paul Brown (Technozen).
Now that this was sorted we continued on with the list of things that Aldo had asked us to do whilst we had the car.
Central locking motors fitted, new door handle, window adjustment plus a few other things we came across. Full underfloor treatment carried out and that’s this one all ready to go too.
We look forward to seeing Glenn and Aldo tomorrow as they make their way down to us to pick them up and drive them back home to Glasgow. Let’s hope the sleet and snow don’t cause too many disruptions for them. – https://ift.tt/VlFzPpK
