Work completed on Alan’s TF 135 (in HFN) on Friday.
Alan had the car couriered down to us from Scotland. We’d previously done the head gasket on it a couple of years ago. So now we had it into the workshop for a few things…
Full cambelt service completed.
Underfloor treatment carried out.
Front subframe mounts replaced with stainless.
Welding to 5 areas including rear sills. Drivers side window motor replaced. Quite a few other things sorted to get everything to rights.
A bit of a wash and brush up and then finally the MOT carried out.
Really nice to get ‘Noel’ all sorted and now ready to be reunited with Alan.
Up early this morning to head up to Ulverston, where it was great to meet Brian who had got in touch about his LE (paint code 293) one of the post LE 500 run cars that was having issues with the head gasket and possible water pump leak.
On pressure test it was found that the leak near the water pump was actually the stainless steel engine pipes not having an over sized o-ring fitted. The MGOC head gasket was found to be leaking externally all over the place. Unfortunately, the dreaded steel-seal had been added, so this was scraped out of the cylinder head, it has blocked several of the smaller channels and the return valve from the inlet manifold.
So head gasket and all other gaskets replaced, new o-rings fitted to the coolant pipes. All up and running lovely again.
What an enjoyable day in Brian’s company. Who is the owner of a very nice fleet of MGs, including an RV8 and having owned MGBs etc in the past.
So now we’re back on the road heading. further north to our digs in Lanark. Then we will be heading over to Glengarnock for work on Glenn’s LE and one of Alan’s other cars. – https://ift.tt/A2ktD8Y
