North East – Day 2 – Wednesday 8th May
Cramlington was our destination this morning for work on Susan’s fab TF 160 known affectionately as Racey Tracey!
Well it’s not the day we had planned, we left our digs this morning leaving a trail of power steering fluid on the way out of the car park, so thought no bother we’ll buy some fluid en route and get it sorted when we get to the job that morning, we arrived ahead of schedule and I got cracking unloading the van ready for the cambelt service on Susan’s car, while Jon set about seeing what the problem was with the power steering. Not to mention that we got the wrong row of garages too! Unfortunately, the power steering issue proved way worse than what we thought only for the pipe to blow off when we tested it after topping it up. Not good. After several attempts by Jon on the repair the decision was made to call the RAC to at least get back to the workshop where we knew there was another pipe on the donor van and then return for the rest of our jobs over the next couple of days. Nope not the case, long story short, they couldn’t get to us until ‘possibly’ 8 o’clock tonight.
So a contingency plan has been put in place and we will stay here and get recovered home on Friday morning, and having okayed it with the hotel people will come over to us instead. With only a couple that we will have to come back to another day. Thanks everyone for your understanding, it means a lot.
More importantly though, whilst we were over at Susan’s she told us about the terribly sad news she had just seen on a Facebook post from Terry Watson, that his lovely boy Craig had tragically passed away this morning. We’re so very saddened to hear of this and send our deepest condolences to Terry and the family. Craig was a beautiful sole and fabulous character, he was well known and loved throughout the MG community, who will be sorely missed by many, our visits to them will never be the same. Rest in peace Craig. They’ll know who you are. – https://ift.tt/BnLhmaP
