Day: 30 May 2024

A busy week thus far, and I’m that exhausted I’ve not had chance to write the blog!

Saturday morning at the workshop to get everything sorted on Susan’s TF 160, which is all back up and running lovely again. We had our other visitors from the north east, Rachael and Tony in their TF 160, that was requiring a new lambda sensor. Great to see them both as always and the sun made an appearance for them too for a top down run in both directions.

Sunday morning Jon was up bright and early to deliver Susan’s TF back to her. Absolutely no point in me going, I had a ton of work to do at home anyway.

Monday, the bank holiday when we probably should have been doing something fun was spent mostly in a state of exhaustion and staring gormlessly at the tv in the corner.

So, up and at it on Tuesday morning to head over to Horncastle, where it was lovely as always, to see Gary and Trevor. We should have been with them on the Highlander, but there’s another story, it was good to hear of all their stories about it though.

Minor service carried out on their TF 160, then after a cuppa and a biscuit we were on our way to Goulceby.

Francene had asked if we could call over and check out the window on her S reg MGF, we took a window mech with us, but was found to be down to it coming off the forward window-stop. Duly repaired and then on our way to Scotter.

Colin had fitted a soft-ride kit to his TF, having done an extensive amount of work on the car himself. On taking the car out found it to be far from a soft-ride! On our inspection we found that he’d been supplied with rear springs on the fronts, which would account for the harshness. Colin will source some front springs and swap them over. We look forward to hearing the outcome.

Good to see him again and have a chat before heading home.

Wednesday morning found us in Wilberfoss for our annual visit to Derek and Margaret and their TF 80th anniversary. Minor service carried out this time and always lovely to see them. We had ordered a new binnacle as the one on the car was split, unfortunately it arrived on the day, but not to worry will get back over to fit along with the gearbox oil change, yep in my diligence of restocking the van for the week I took that out due to lack of space. 🙄

From there we pootled on up to Beeford through some torrential rain.

Arrived at Bobs to find his TF sitting outside looking somewhat forlorn, normally garaged it was definitely sitting on the naughty step! It had decided some weeks ago to completely give up the ghost. Fortunately, they weren’t far from home and managed to get it back.

We’d gone to carry out the minor service, but not much point in doing that until we at least tried to get it running. So fault finding ensued, and long-story short, found to be a problem with the ignition switch. Car up and running by not the most conventional means! But it’s running much to Bobs delight. Service done and Bob left with instructions on replacing said part, of which he had subsequently managed to source and more than happy and capable of fitting. Good to see him and Lis as always.

We took a detour to Hornsea beach on the way back as I needed to stare at the sea for a while, plus an ice cream was in order for Jon.

So that brings us to today, Thursday, with a visit to Rainworth, near Mansfield, and lovely to see Phil again and his TF 135 for replacement of the CAT. The one on the car wasn’t up to the job and was coming up with codes P0420, showing catalyst below efficiency. Fortunately, it didn’t require a new lambda sensor, which was a bonus for Phil. Special thanks to Phil’s wife for baking us a lemon drizzle cake, so kind.

From Phil’s we headed to Rossington as the alternator belt we had fitted to Jane and Tony’s MGF was squealing like a banshee! New belt fitted. Good to see them both and have a quick chat a cuppa before heading over to Barnsley.

Lilian’s TF that we’d seen a couple of weeks ago was also reported as having a squealing alternator belt, but it was fine when we got there. Adjusted it all the same and made a couple of checks. It’s strange we’ve had a few of these lately, there may be a difference in the compound of the belts, so will try a new brand.

We’re heading back to the coast in the morning to Mablethorpe for our first call of the day… – https://ift.tt/Q2xvoDm