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Sheffield this morning and good to see Aiden again who had asked when were we in the area next to check out a coolant loss on his TF135.

All the usual checks done and was found to be the water pump, weirdly this was the same problem with his last car that we went to. Good news for Aiden that his bill was slightly less than expected! He’s got a cracker of a car. Alternator belt replaced and he’s now all good to go for his trip south.

We then headed over to Chesterfield to see Stephen’s TF160 for the annual service and to go through his ‘niggle’ list.

Bit of an unexpected day, we were supposed to be going on the North Yorkshire groups run today and tomorrow. But, unfortunately, Steve and Georgia weren’t well enough to go so a decision was made to postpone to the spring. Wishing them both a speedy recovery and sending our very best wishes. Plus this means Adrian will be able to attend too and it’s something to look forward to next year.

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Popped back over to Leeds this morning as had finally received the rest of the CVT fluid for Georgia’s steppy that had been on back order from our supplier, it’s so important to use the correct one in these cars, alternatives can have a detrimental effect on the gear boxes. Glad to get her a bit more on the road to having her steppy back to rights! Hope the MOT goes ok.

Back to the workshop, from there, to get a few things done. Plus we had a visitor.

Really great to see Les and his new acquisition, finally, and what a stunner he has got. Saw lots of pics of her prior, but even better in the flesh. An MGF, originally a 120, but now with 135 cams and a remap, in Copperleaf. He went away with a nice new under bonnet shiny pack and bonnet stay.

Great to see you Les and have a good old catch-up over a cuppa!

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On our way back home now after a day spent in Bedford.

Great to see Daniel again for some work on his MGF mpi. Full cambelt service carried out, fuel pump sender unit was damaged so this was replaced with another. When it came to bleeding the system there was no return to the expansion tank, so jiggle valves removed. When removing the one in the plastic inlet manifold the brass fitting was loose and had come out of the mounting. So we replaced this with a complete aluminum one. Out of the 7 bolts holding the plastic manifold in, there were only the top 3 that were in place, all 4 of the lower studs were missing altogether. Cam cover gasket replaced as had substantial oil leak. Quite a few missing and incorrect bolts and parts all replaced, with some other niggles sorted. One of those everything out the van days, it’s great getting things back to rights. Oh and squirrel evicted too!

Lovely to meet Kathryn finally (after working on her MGBGT earlier in the year), she had bought herself a TF just recently and wanted us to give it a check over. Couple of things noted to be sorted, but all in all she’s got herself a cracking deal!

Really good day in lovely company and fab weather. On our way back home now up the A1.

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Well that was a soggy day!

Arrived at Steven’s this morning in Bradford for hydragas ‘full fill’ on his ‘project MGF’, bit of a strange one to do, you will see by the pic! We had to,
at least, put it to a level where it would be off the bump stops, but as the subframe has only just gone in and there is more work to do, it just had to be left at an estimate on pressure.

From there we went to see Alivia again, in Barnsley, as her TF’s clutch was still stiff, freed off again, the next step if it continues will have to be a new release arm.

Then we went over to New Rossington, near Doncaster, as Rob had been having trouble with extremely high emissions on his MGF mpi. Historically the car seems to have had a new cat each year to get it through the mot. Unfortunately, we cannot trace the main fault as can’t connect to the ECU. We will be investigating further to get it sorted.

Nice to get home in good time to get a load of parts packed up for people who have been waiting and have a brew and dry out!

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A fairly local one for us today, in Northallerton for work on Stephen’s MGF ‘98 mpi.

Head gasket had gone, Mk 2 elastomer gasket was previously fitted and had gone on piston number 1. Cambelt service carried out with a few other tidy up things done. Coolant loss located to the underfloor pipes so we replaced these with stainless ones.

Baking hot day in the sun, thanks Stephen to your lovely daughter for looking after us in your absence. Enjoy Scotland!

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