Coalville, Swanbourne, Chalfont-St-Peter & Chesham…
Tuesday morning saw us heading off early for our visit to Mandy for work on her 2001 MGF 120 mpi, in GUF. A short cambelt service carried out for her this time. Great to see her again and of course Ollie Dog, after a chat with Mandy and a scratch behind gorgeous Ollie Dogs ears we were on our way.
A night spent over in Winslow, with only a short commute to Sue’s in Swanbourne on Wednesday morning. Great to see Sue again and her 2003 TF 135, in HFN. Short cambelt service carried out, plus adjustment of the bonnet, as it wasn’t aligning up very well. Fred her lovely cat came for a sniff round to see what we were up to, then after a chat and a cuppa we headed on to our next call in Chalfont-St-Peter.
Great to see Bob again, whom we’ve not seen for a couple of years. He’s still using his own TF as a daily driver now, and has also come into the ownership of this 2003 TF 135, previously owned by his Dad, and which has been stood for a while, so Bob wants to get it back on the road and through the MOT. Prior to his Dad owning it, it belonged to our good friend Steve Cotton.
But first of all the clutch release-arm was very stiff, which had subsequently blown the seals on the slave-cylinder, so this we sorted out for him and the car will now move once again, so Bob can continue with bringing it back up to spec and enjoy in his Dads memory.
A stay over in Chalfont-St-Giles and then we headed over to Chesham this morning.
Nick had bought this TF 135, (in paint code JFM), that was first registered in 2004, a couple of years ago. It had never sold in 2004 and so was reregistered in 2007. So it’s possibly one of the latest original factory cars that was registered. Nick had always fancied owning one so was really pleased to find himself this one, with only 30k on the clock.
Today we carried out a full cambelt service, and replaced the underfloor coolant pipes with stainless. We noticed there was quite a bit of seepage from the four way split, one of the hoses and the outlet to the cylinder head. Four way split replaced, new clips to the hoses, gasket replaced on the outlet and she’s good to go.
Really great to meet Nick and have good chats while we worked, and not forgetting his beautiful pusses Aurora and oops forgot the other one’s name. Thanks to Nick for many many cuppas, bacon sarnie and fondant fancies!
A productive 3 days away, let’s hope when we get home we’re not met with any dramas. I will make a start on my task of writing to everyone following on from Jon’s post on Tuesday evening. – https://ift.tt/XSJs7Wj
