MGF 75th Anniversary in Mulberry – recommission…
Gary had his car delivered to us last weekend from Tollerton, near York, as he was wanting to get it back on the road to be enjoyed again, having been out of action for the last 3 years and unused prior to that for 8 years. He’d taken it to a local garage to have the clutch plus other things assessed and their opinion was a bit of a sorry one, advising that these cars are ‘just scrappers nowadays’.
So we got cracking on Wednesday morning, the garage had said the subframe needed welding up or replacing, not the case at all, it was actually in very good condition. The cambelt service was obviously well overdue so this was the first thing we carried out, including all other service parts.
When it came to firing it up found it was a non-starter. Investigations commenced, and the problem narrowed down to a duff rotar-arm, distributor cap and crank sensor, so these we replaced with new and car eventually fired up.
Full clutch replacement wasn’t necessary, as the problem with the clutch was due to the seals on the slave-cylinder having blown, plus the car is only on 37k, so this was replaced and new fluid flushed through, resulting in a nice smooth pedal once more.
All discs and pads replaced, hydragas pump up, the radio wasn’t working, which was found to be a fuse, new wiper blades and new battery supplied and fitted. Various other little niggles sorted.
Full underfloor treatment carried out, with everything else that that entails. That all took us to Friday afternoon. We then returned this morning to refit everything.
We gave it a blast off with the power-washer when it arrived and today cleaned up the interior, so is looking a little bit better, it was the taken around to our local MOT station.
Originally, Gary thought that just a new rear window was required, it was slightly worse than that when we removed the hard-top and found that a new roof was needed! Fortunately, we knew a man who had one. So lovely to see our friends today who, very kindly, brought it over from Blackburn for us, a great opportunity to have a long overdue catch-up with Maggy, Phil and the beautiful Peppa dog!
So that completes everything on the car and we’re pleased to say is now ready for Gary to come over and collect this coming weekend. The only thing left to be done is the bodywork, which Gary will be taking care of. We look forward to meeting him on Saturday morning.
One that definitely didn’t need to be scrapped, thanks for sending it to us Gary, so great to have saved another. – https://ift.tt/mYS1bQk
