Friday morning up bright and early at the workshop to greet Maggy, Phil and Peppa who drove over from Clitheroe to deliver ‘Ophelia’, Maggy’s TF 160 in Spectre (IAA) for some work, and as they put it future proofing. This is Maggy’s daily car and had reached a very respectable mileage of over 100k, with trips over to Europe and throughout the UK.
A brilliant bit of teamwork over the weekend saw us remove the existing engine and subframe and replace it with a galvanized subframe from one of our stock that we had bought from Will Naylor last year and a replacement 160 engine that Phil had sourced.
On the replacement engine we fitted a new head gasket and all other associated gaskets and ancillaries, new clutch, new clutch release arm, stainless steel engine pipes, replacement PRT, new hoses, gear box oil seals, Mike Satur slick shift, gear cable ends, new brake lines all through, brake flexi hoses all round, wheel bearings, top ball joints, track control ends, bushes to the rear top arms pressed in, new compliance bushes fitted.
Everything was stripped back fully and rust treated, all parts cleaned up and etch primed and painted. Fantastic company, lots of conversations and lots of laughs. Not to mention lots of fusses with Peppa.
We bade our fond farewells to them on Monday evening, Jon and I then carried on with the rest of the work yesterday and finally completed everything this evening, with a nice little photo shoot of Ophelia looking amazing!
We are honoured to have undertaken the work on this fab and well loved car and look forward to seeing them all again in the next couple of days for the collection.
