A couple of days since my last blog, hope everyone had a great weekend where ever you may have been…
Friday morning found us over in Goulceby for work on Francene’s MGF, she’d noticed the clutch pedal wasn’t returning, so we said we’d pop over when we had a gap in the diary, we squeezed her in as thought it was probably due to the slave-cylinder, sure enough, the seals had blown and grotty old black fluid was in there, slave-cylinder replaced and system bled through, resulting in a nice pedal once more, so we were soon on our way. Didn’t see Francene, this time, as she was at work.
Back over to the workshop, where we had also squeezed in Rich, for head gasket replacement on his TF 135. He’d noticed a few tell-tale signs, and having a trip booked in it to attend the Remembrance Day at Flanders, next month, didn’t want to take the risk of driving it there like that, quite rightly so. All sorted for him, while he waited, and he was soon on his way, once we’d sorted a niggle with the manifold air-intake temperature sensor that is.
It was good to see Will and his lovely partner Jayne, the day before, when they ventured over from Stockport, to pick up a load of bits, that he was in need of, to go for galvanizing. Plus, they very kindly dropped off all of our spheres to get refurbed, on their way back. Thanks Will, saves us a trip!
Monday morning found us back up near Durham again, and a lot less soggy than last Monday! This time we were in Quebec, where it was lovely to see Frank and Linda again and their gorgeous woofers, Cher and Cocoa, Cocoa was only a small pup on our last visit and has grown into a very handsome chap. Their TF 135 had a couple of advisories noted on the last MOT, so we replaced both front wishbones and all of the brake flexi-hoses with new. Thanks to them for a cracking brew and offers of lunch.
This morning we were supposed to be back in Durham, but we weren’t needed, so we pulled the second call forward a bit. This found us in a lovely village called Aislaby, just outside of Whitby, this morning, fortunately they had a barn for us to work in as it was once more inclement.
Great to meet Dave, who’d noticed a slight coolant loss in his 2001 MGF 1.8 mpi (paint code CMU). On our inspection found one of the clips on the underfloor coolant pipes was leaking. Hopefully this will be all it was. On code reading, however, we pulled up error code P0655 – hot lamp output, P1316 – causing increased emissions and P0170 – fuel trim bank 1. So we set about swapping out the Lambda sensor. Yep it put up a bit of a struggle, but Jon persisted with heat, grinder and patience. New Lambda fitted and error codes didn’t return.
We also noticed where a mouse had been in and decided to have a chew, one of which was one of the breather hoses, that’s a new one on us, new piece of hose duly fitted and other bits taped up. Thanks to Dave for a cracking brew, and good to have a chat with his neighbours who had spotted the van on their way past while walking their beautiful woofer.
Having a little bit of an earlier finish, we called in to Matthewsons on our way back home. We passed through Thornton-Le-Dale on the way up, but it was tipping it down. We also went along to the auction site a couple of miles along from there, which was pretty impressive, plus they do have a good collection of Fs and TFs coming up for auction. It was good to have a chat with a couple of the lovely chaps there.
A load of nostalgia for us both and decided we had better not attend the actual auction, at the weekend, or we could find ourselves in a sticky situation! – https://ift.tt/hqIm6tU
