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Denton & Failsworth, near Manchester…
The usual slow, stop-start journey that is the M62 this morning, and despite a contingency of an added hour to the ETA we were still 15 minutes late!
Anyway we got there eventually for work on Steve’s ‘02 TF 135 (in HFN) that we had last worked on 7 years ago at another garage.
Full cambelt service carried out, along with alternator belt. On firing it up the car had a rough and lumpy idle. This was located to be due to very old and corroded coil packs and HT leads, so these were swapped out for decent secondhand ones. Plus there was no return to the tank as a couple of the return hoses were well gunked up with k-seal. I’d already cleaned out the tank that was full of the stuff! Car now running nice and smooth with a healthy return to the tank.
Great to see Steve and have a chat, who made us a few welcome and cracking brews.
From Steve’s we headed a few miles along the road to Failsworth, where it was lovely to meet Darryl and her ‘02 TF 135 (in JRJ) that she’s owned since 2007, but unfortunately hasn’t had any use out of it for a couple of years.
We went over today to replace the slave-cylinder and free off the clutch release-arm, to get her moving again. We discussed everything else that needs doing to bring the car back to rights, despite her being told by another garage that it should just be scrapped, which is a shame as there’s nothing that can’t be done to save it.
Jon popped over to the workshop yesterday, as Steve came over from Hull to collect his MGF that had been in with us for the subframe swap. Plus Pete came over from Barton with his TF 160 for a check over of a couple of things ahead of his track day at Silverstone today.
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