Another of Rob & Jane’s fab fleet to work on today, in Sutton Coldfield…
This MGF 1.8 mpi (named Penelope Sac in Aramanth KMN) was 52nd off the production line and was registered new to the MG Rover Group. ‘SAC’ registered cars were all registered to MG Rover. They rescued her from Sheffield as a none-runner and in need of some love back in 2012.
We had her booked in for head gasket replacement and cambelt service, in the meantime Rob had bought a new cylinder head. To this, we fitted a new set of hydraulic lifters, swapped over the cams and distributer cap, plus all other ancillaries.
Back up and running and sounding extremely quiet!
Great to see Rob as always and have a good old natter. Shame not to see Jane as she was at work.
Thanks, Rob for the cream cakes and fruit and a cracking brew! Hope you have a good run out and meeting on Saturday.
From there, we headed over to Bromsgrove armed with a replacement fuel pump for Chris’s MGF 75th Anniversary 143 VVC.
We had called in a couple of weeks ago to diagnose an issue that had recently occurred, which was lack of power and stalling, and gradually getting worse. Fuel pump replaced, which solved most of the issues. Although the diagnostics wouldn’t pull back any error codes, it seemed to be running 90% better, so we hunted around for other causes as to its rough running. Spark plugs replaced as they were beyond their best. There is also a weak spark from the coil pack on 1 and 3. It was noticed that there is a voltage coming back from the lambda sensor, which also controls the fueling . Unfortunately, we’ve not been able to pull back any codes from the ECU to determine if the Lambda sensor could be causing the fault or if it could just be down to the coil pack. Chris will give it a test run tomorrow and see how it goes.
Great to see Chris again and have chat and a cuppa whilst we were there.
Now on our way back home, currently on the M1, time for me to reply to the messages from today. A lovely day with great company, fab cars and lots of sunshine thrown in too! ☀️ – https://ift.tt/86CphAU
