Workshop days…
Sunday morning found us getting cracking on work on Ben’s ‘04 MG TF 160 80th Anniversary, in paint code HQM, having driven over from Easingwold to leave it with us on Friday.
Nearside rear control arm replaced, nearside front track-rod-end replaced, offside front top ball-joint replaced, both top arms packed with grease. Fortunately, for Ben it wasn’t a wheel bearing that was also required, having sorted the other culprits first.
Lovely to see Ben and Ali again when they came over in the afternoon to collect. Fortunately, the torrential rain had eased a bit for their drive home.
Chris and Carol came over from Wirral on Sunday too so that we could replace the alternator on their TF 115 1.6, despite replacing the alternator belt, and subsequently adjusting it on another visit when Chris was working the area, it was still making a bit of a din in their neighborhood first thing of a morning. This was narrowed down to be the alternator itself, and thankfully this has resolved the issues, we did have various theories about trapped mice etc! Thanks to them both for bringing us biscuits and cakes, needless to say they’ve not lasted long.
John had driven up from Croydon on Sunday afternoon, to leave his 2010 MG TF 135 (post LE 500 run) in paint code 293 with us for underfloor treatment. Jon delivered him over to Market Weighton, where he had booked in for a couple of nights in the hotel there.
Monday morning came and we got cracking on John’s car, which was very timely as, we think, given another year it would be having some real issues in certain areas, unfortunately these cars are more prone to the perils of rust.
Work continued, with a very early start this morning, everything completed and ready on time for John to collect this afternoon so he could head back home to Croydon. What fab weather too for the drive.
It was really lovely to see Steve Gibson again this morning, and to meet his beautiful woofer Truffles, what a poppet she is, we enjoyed lots of fusses!
Cambelt service carried out on his fab Trophy that he’s owned now for 10 years and uses as his daily car. Great to have a chat with Steve and a long overdue catch-up. ‘Tigger’ is now all set for many planned runs out with his ‘MG F & TF Yorkshire group’ over the coming months ahead. You never know, we might actually make it on one of them, which would be great if we could.
One no-show, but not to worry it meant we had chance to unload the interim van, which has been a total and reliable workhorse, into the ‘trusty steed’, which is now back with us, having had a replacement engine fitted. The last one was on 516,000 miles! Shouldn’t take us too long to clock this one up.
So, we’re all stocked up for some fairly local calls ahead, over the next few days. Hope this fab weather stays with us all for a while longer. – https://ift.tt/Z3f8Cql
