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Couple of calls in Southampton today…
Despite the extremely wet and windy conditions we got the head gasket and cambelt replaced on Jan’s lovely TF135.
Took some draining off of the 12 litres of oil and coolant mix. Absolutely, everything was full of thick gunge. All cleaned up and cleared out (well as best as you can with one this bad) all back up and running up to temperature and good to go. Lovely to meet you Jan at distance!
We then went over to Mark’s lovely TF in Copperleaf that we’ve been looking after for some years now. Annual service carried out and investigation of a strange whirring noise, we went armed with an Idler pulley, thinking this would be the culprit, but it was just the air conditioning compressor had been left on and was causing a very subtle noise. Thank you to Joanne for an amazing brew, lovely to meet you!
Managed to get a pitch on the same site tonight with electric hook up as so many people had left, what a difference! Well needed after a long and soggy, but good day. posted on Rough Luck Racing https://ift.tt/363HZbI
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The ‘maiden voyage’ in the camper today…
We went to Higham Ferrers, Northants and great to to see Lee who had rescued a fab looking TF about 4 years ago and has done a load of stuff to get ‘Selina’ looking lovely again. So he could feel confident going on the long runs he asked us to do a preemptive head gasket and also carry out the cambelt service. Really good morning, everything mostly behaved, lots of great conversation and cuppas.
Got the stickers ordered Lee, will het them in the post to you. Hope the leg doesn’t give you too much grief!
We then carried on further south to a campsite near Winchester.
A new venture for us, no last minute hotel bookings, thinking could do the same with a campsite, no chance! Found one, but no electric hookup so bought a generator which is grumbling away outside. Absolutely chucking it down and the side door is leaking. Got the telly though! posted on Rough Luck Racing https://ift.tt/363HZbI
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STEPSPEED Drive Plate Replacement …
We brought this fab looking steppy back with us from Norfolk for fitting of a new drive plate, as John had got a bit tired of the rattles!
Got it done over the last couple of days. One of the bolts on the plate rounded off and proved to be a bit of an awkward begger to undo, so we bought some more bolt removers, as ours were a bit old and worn and hey presto!
Once the plate was removed 4 out of the 8 springs had disintegrated. This plate as opposed to the Ford one, that we fitted last time, was a Brown & Gammons one, and a lot trickier to fit, due to not having very much tapering on the splines.
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An early start at the workshop this morning.
We gave Elton’s Stepspeed it’s final tweaks. Over the past few months Elton has given us and our neighbours a few things to do, the car has had:
• 135 cams fitted
• stainless exhaust back box and flexi fitted
• reprogrammed ECU
• 4 pot calipers, new discs all round, new front pads
• Piper Cross induction kit
• window mechanism repaired
• lambda sensor
• New wheels powder coated complete with new tyres, courtesy of Jason at ‘MG & Alpha Spares’
• Bodywork all done and full respray in U-pol raptor by ‘Black Sheep Customs’. Elton is looking forward to showing it off next year when the shows get back up and running again.
Car looks amazing and very pleased to hear from Elton that he had a great run back home. Great to finally meet you!
Got loads done with the steppy we have in for drive plate replacement. Update on that later…
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Same model, same colour, a couple of years apart and a few miles apart on two MGF mpi’s…
Another short trip along the road this morning, to Mundesley, and great to see Alan again for a few things on his R reg; engine bay coolant pipes replaced with stainless, underfloor coolant pipes replaced with stainless, radiator swapped for a twin fan one (little bit of nifty wiring done), hydragas fill up, coolant alarm fit, slave cylinder replaced, Lambda sensor replaced, both rear calipers cleaned up and a few other niggles sorted following the MOT.
We then headed back to our lovely
Lodge. As we had an earlier finish than expected, we got the work done on David and Liz’s V reg.
Having been a recent acquisition they wanted us to give the car a check over and a minor service. What a fab car! Only a couple of small issues to be sorted to give it a new lease of life and bring it back to to spec.
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