I know we shouldn’t complain as it’s our decision to work outside, but today really was exceptional, think we experienced a wind chill factor of -15! Anyway, whinge over it was a really good day apart from that…
We eventually got back to see Pauline this morning in Birmingham who was needing a heater control valve, found on our last visit to be faulty. We managed to get hold of a couple of these seemingly rare parts (no longer available from new) from the lovely Mr Bell.
Once fitted we filled up the coolant only to find it leaking from the thermostat housing. We pressure tested the system and found the heater inlet/outlet hose to be leaking too. Unfortunately, Pauline had been topping the car up with water rather than anti-freeze and it had frozen the front hoses solid, including the radiator.
New thermostat housing and new hose fitted. Then with a couple of electric fans we set about defrosting everything. Eventually after a couple of hours we managed to get flow in the system. Using neat coolant to replace.
Some photos below show an icicle from the heater control valve! Car up and running nicely again and Pauline is so happy to have heat in her heaters again. Couple of other things done.
Then on to Holbrook. Really lovely to see Ruth again and see what was occurring with Destiny, her fab TF 135.
Door lock mechanism replaced as the current one was on its way out. We went armed with a ignition barrel as she had been experiencing a problem with it not turning, but on inspection the problem seemed to have rectified itself, Jon’s magic touch!
Posted today to the
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