Dinnington was our destination for our first call of the day where it was lovely to see Noel and Melanie again for work on their LE 500 (paint code 106 and number 11/500).
We carried out the underfloor treatment on the car a couple of years ago and it had also been to our neighbours at Black Sheep Customs for some bodywork.
Noel was going to bring the car back over to us for the cambelt service and a date was booked in, but unfortunately the car had developed an intermittent non-starting issue and also when driving the car it would just cut out and then randomly start again. So, not surprisingly they didn’t want to drive it anywhere.
We carried out all diagnostics and checks. One of those where it was difficult to pinpoint it to one exact culprit. Several issues were found; the fuel pump relay in the boot, that later models have, had been replaced, but that seemed to have temporarily fixed it, however the problem had returned. We took off all the relay connections, cleaned them all up, also the collision impact relay connections were cleaned up, the AA had mentioned that the throttle body may be at fault, so we took a new one along just in case, and Noel wanted us to fit it anyway just in case. P-scan showed all other engine sensors were working perfectly and no misfires were detected. After re-setting everything it was all found to be running smoothly. The only other unknown is that the air filter box was full of wheat grain, possibly from a mouse, let’s just hope that said mouse has not eaten any of the wiring and that the car was all of a sudden behaving by coincidence and that there are no wiring issues. Their cat, Biscuit, has been given a verbal warning for not keeping up good enough mouse control!
Thanks to Noel and Mel for their hospitality. Brilliant to hear from them this evening that a test run was successful and so far no further problems.
From there we went over to Conisbrough where it was lovely to meet Neil for minor service on his TF 135 (paint code LQW). He’d owned the car for a couple of years, which in its previous life had been owned by a chap who worked for Rimmer Bros. Good to have a chat before we headed home.
Fab weather today, and home in good time, but both still feeling absolutely rubbish. Tons of admin to do, which explains my late blog and is getting beyond my bedtime! At least we’re only in the workshop tomorrow. – https://ift.tt/0W9v8Vu
