A very busy and a very cold week, and a bit of a change to what was planned.
A localish call on Monday to meet Ruben (beyond the garden wall!) who had taken on an MGF that had been stood for 12 years, as a project during the first lockdown, his mum bought for him the ‘MGF Manual’ and he set about putting the car back to rights, having never worked on a car before. Absolute credit to him for what he’s done to give this car a new lease of life, not least in first removing the 7 dead rats in it! So we went over to carry out the cambelt service for him. Found the fault that he and others had been struggling to find, which on code reading was found to be the cam position sensor, so Ruben will be on with sorting that next. We look forward to seeing it once it’s been for it’s full respray. The interior is lovely.
The LE that we had in before Christmas was returned to Alan on Tuesday as he wasn’t able to get his train that he’d booked before new year. Great to finally give him his car back!
Our donor car finally got taken away, there wasn’t a great deal left! Many other cars have benefited from this one though that wasn’t viable enough to do up. So, this freed up the space for another one to save that we brought back with us.
Wednesday and Thursday spent at the workshop welding up sills on another TF. Plus sorting out the none running issue on the new ‘doer upper’ and cleaning up the carpets and seats to go back in.
Friday found us in Broseley to fit internal coolant pipes to Grant’s MGF mpi 120. Always a long fiddly job, but well worth doing as his had certainly seen better days. An interesting hose configuration found in the engine bay, which would have been causing an air lock. Correct hose duly fitted.
More work on the TF at the workshop today while we waited for a steppy to be delivered from Scotland for drive plate replacement.
Bit tight for space at the moment, but have to do what we can in these turbulent times.
Posted today to the
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