What should have been a simple day turned into a not so simple day, but as we all know that isn’t the case is it with these little cars…
It started out really well, nice early start at the workshop, with a welcome change in the weather, to move everything around and get ready for our first visitor of the day.
Great to see Alan and his LE500 that he had driven down from Cramlington in yesterday for a minor service and check over of the brakes. The discs were still in good condition, but the pads were sticking and corroded. An MOT was planned, but unfortunately our tester that we use had a very rare day off, they work the same silly hours that we do seemingly. Lovely to see Alan as always and have a chat.
Jim then came over from Harrogate. Having seen his TF 135 earlier in the year for a ‘health check’ he had asked if there were any things that could be done to improve the ride and had heard of the soft ride kit, so this was duly booked in for today, more of that later.
The TF 135 that we had in from Derby was collected this afternoon, by Jim the owner and his friend Steve, who had driven him up. Really great to meet them both and have a chat and a cuppa.
On fitting the soft ride kit to Jim’s TF, the first corner went as it should, but on the nearside front the shocker bolt decided to shear off! Great. Isn’t that a joy when that happens. Having fitted countless of these kits and what should be a 2-hours-tops job turned into an all day one. Grinder, welder, tapping device, help from our neighbour Steve all deployed!
Jon’s perseverance, technical knowledge and patience paid off eventually. All other corners replaced without any issue.
Offside rear control arm also replaced as this was found to be faulty on the health check. Reverse light switch replaced too.
Despite the wait and the cold Jim was great company and has a good sense of humour. Date to be booked in for some welding work to the sill.
Whilst Jon was cracking on with many hours on that annoying bolt I set about restocking the camper. We’re heading off to the north east in the morning for work and a stop over, before heading further north to Scotland. – https://ift.tt/363HZbI
