Head gasket failure was diagnosed by us about a month ago when we were in the area, so we returned to New Hartley, near Whitley Bay this morning, lovely to see Steve again and his beautiful looking ‘Spark’, a TF 115 1.6. Whilst we were there we carried out cambelt service too. We had last done the cambelt when the car was with the previous owner. Great to work on it again. Terry popped over to see us, and the sun shone all morning, despite a rubbish forecast, so an enjoyable and sociable morning had.
From there we went a couple of miles up the road to meet James, who had been having a few issues with his MGF 120, over heating after only 10 miles, and losing coolant. Despite attempts at the local garage the issue wasn’t resolved. On pressure testing the system a coolant leak was spotted from two of the hoses, new clip fitted and other adjusted, no more leaks. Cap good. Fingers crossed this has resolved the issue, but only time will tell whether this was a result of something else or the cause of it. Fingers crossed for James!
We then popped over to see Terry’s Trophy, that he rang us about a couple of days ago, saying that there was a strange issue on start up. Code read and nothing significant came up. Started it and all fine, we think it may have been that it was totally filled with fuel, right up to the cap, and it may have not been able to pull the fuel through to the engine.
Really good day and managed to dodge the weather too!
