Stephen had his MGF steptronic couriered up to the workshop from Llanelli, in South Wales, and Daryl had his TF 135 couriered up to us, from just near Telford.
With doors firmly shut and space heater on full blast we got cracking on with them both on Monday morning.
Stephen’s Steppy (in MNX) was booked in for full cambelt service and check over of a couple of things, but the list had grown slightly in the intervening time of his first enquiry. On all our recent visits to South Wales we just hadn’t been able to factor in a visit to him, so in the end he sent the car to us. This is a really nice example of this model.
Full cambelt service duly done, we set about the other things on the list, one of which was an oil leak, which on inspection was actually quite substantial. We replaced the cam cover, which was leaking everywhere, the cam oil seals and the oil pump seals were also leaking oil, so these were all replaced. A good clean up of all the areas and all resolved. In the boot was a new stainless exhaust flexi section and manifold, these were replaced along with a new Lambda sensor as the existing one was a different size. The back box required a couple of repairs, the main inlet pipe Jon rewelded, and the hanger had a sheered off bolt that required another one welding on. Underfloor coolant pipes were replaced with a stainless set. The coolant cap was replaced as the one on it was one of the yellow plastic ones that are renowned to fail, ultimately causing problems.
Daryl’s TF (in MBB) had quite a few fails and advisories on his last MOT that he wanted us to tackle. The two front mounts on the front subframe we replaced with stainless ones, as these had definitely done their time, discs and pads replaced all round, parking brake sorted, boot brake light sorted, exhaust minor leak sorted.
Darryl asked if we could have the car retested for the MOT, which was done this afternoon.
A full-on busy couple of days, getting everything done, and both cars are now ready for collection by their respective couriers. – https://ift.tt/5PDGT1Y
