On our way home following a long, but very productive and enjoyable day in the north east of the country…
Blyth was our first call, as it was minor service time for Steve’s TF 135, and trace of quite a bad oil leak. This was found to be coming from 3 out of the 4 cam seals. These were all replaced and all residue oil cleaned up.
We had a further chat about the intermittent heater issue, the only thing left to replace is the heater matrix itself, so a date to be arranged to swap this out.
Lovely to see Steve and Anne again, who made the most of the fab weather and went out for a run out after we’d gone.
Our next call was to see Roger just outside of Durham, as it was minor service time on his 1995 MGF 1.8 mpi, alternator belt adjusted as it was having the odd squeal first thing in the morning, hydragas topped up. They’ve been enjoying some good runs out in the car, since we replaced the head gasket a year ago.
We then headed to Darlington to see Terry and Craig and ‘The Chairman’. Terry had got in touch a couple of weeks as he had been experiencing a misfire, then on cleaning the car, ahead of our visit, yesterday found that the car wouldn’t turn over. A quick nip into the workshop on the way this morning to pick up a few relevant bits, one of which was a coil pack, of which the one on the car was found to be the culprit and had evidently done it’s time. The misfire was down to one of the HT leads being loose. Have a lovely weekend you two in Wooler and thanks for the muffins. 🧁
For our last visit of day we went over to Billingham, as Gary’s TF 135 had decided to spring a leak when they were out in her last. Culprit traced and duly sorted. Good to have a quick catch-up with Gary and his family. Let’s hope ‘Madam’ behaves herself, she’s certainly looking very good.
Really great people, absolutely fab cars, and sunny weather too made for a long, but good day.
Now on the A1 on our way home, hopefully without the hold ups of last night and not getting in until 10:30 pm. 🥱
Amazing sunset tonight. Have a great weekend everyone, looks like the weather will be good again to enjoy getting out and about. ☀️ – https://ift.tt/86CphAU
