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Just on our way back home now after a couple of days in the Huntingdon area…
An early start yesterday morning and we headed over to Bythorn where it was great to meet Paul and his ‘04 TF 135 in Royal Blue (paint code JFM) that he’s owned for just over two years now and has been steadily working his way through getting the car in tip top condition. You can certainly see this with the care he has given it, and of which he is intending on being a keeper.
He was concerned that the clutch was on its way out, but on inspection and the fact it has only 44k on the clock we found it not to be the case. We freed off the clutch release-arm, which actually wasn’t too bad and bled the system through, which is all that was needed, clutch now nice and smooth and as it should feel.
The other concern was possible head gasket failure, but there wasn’t any evidence of this, Paul had recently also carried out a test, which proved to be negative. So for now all is well there too.
Thanks to Paul for a very warm welcome, along with mugs of tea and hot cross buns etc., plus it was good have a chat with him regarding everything MG. Date to be arranged for the cambelt service which is due next year.
We had a stop-over in Huntingdon last night as it was a bit daft to go all the way home again, when our call this morning was in Ramsey.
We’d replaced the head gasket on Brian’s previous MG back in 2016. So now his fairly new acquisition of a Mk II 2001 MGF VVC (in paint code MNX) was also in need of some work.
Head gasket replaced, as Brian had been noticing a few symptoms, and certainly on removing the cylinder head it was evident that it had gone into cylinder number 2. All gaskets replaced and ran up to temperature and running lovely.
The car had lost a bit of its bounce and having had many hydragas fills he thought it was time to replace the spheres. So we replaced all 4 with a set of our refurbed ones and the car now has a spring back in its step! All set for the summer months ahead. Great to see Brian, with thanks to him and his wife for the cuppas and choccie biscuits and offers of lunch.
From there we headed over to Turves to see what was happening with Matt’s 2004 TF 115 . Unfortunately, he’d come a cropper on the rather uneven roads round there and bust one of the shocker bolts, this had sheared off and taken out the CV boot too, leaving the threads stuck in the top arm.
He’d also noticed a slight issue with intermittent overheating, which needs further investigation. So a day needed to get back and sort these issues out for him and get him back on the road.
Almost home now with a steady run back up the A1. Oh and the weathers been really fab today too, with some very welcome sun. – https://ift.tt/G3DcMso
