Macclesfield was our first call this morning and lovely to see Tony again for cambelt service on his TF135. The last time it was serviced was in the garage where he had bought it from many years ago. We found the bottom pulley bolt to be seized. Several tries with breaker bars, impact guns failed to get it moving. Even spinning the engine using the starter motor while the pulley was held by a bar didn’t shift it either. So we had to resort to locking the fly wheel, plus a 7’ bar! Starter motor bolts had also seized into the casting. So after a bit of a battle we succeeded.
Whilst there Tony asked us to look at a Mk II MGF in Sienna that someone had previously been trying to carry out a cambelt service on, Tony was concerned that there was damage to the head. After putting it back together again, Jon found that the timing was 170 degrees out on the inlet cam! He was very lucky that there weren’t any bent valves. Car turned over nicely with a big sigh of relief from Tony.
We then ventured on to Swinton and great to see David again who we had met a Pateley Bridge on our stand. He had called us asking us to come and investigate some clutch issues he was having. Slave cylinder seals replaced,
clutch back to rights again. Plus new alternator belt fitted.
Sun was out all day too!
