Day 1 & 2 – Wombourne, Bromsgrove & Gloucester…
Tuesday morning and an early start to head down to Wombourne, with a lot of hold ups on the way, we eventually arrived to work on Stephen’s ‘01 MGF 1.8 mpi in paint code CMU.
The head gasket had gone a few months ago, so we set about replacing it, clearing out gunked up coolant channels etc. as we went.
When it came to firing the car up, it had issues with a misfire on one cylinder, although changing the plugs and coil packs seemed to calm this down, then it had a Lambda sensor fault, which kept coming up, causing a rough idle anyway. To top it off, the radiator fan would not cut in even when unplugging the sensor, which is meant to default by putting the fan on. The relay was tested and found to be ok, the relay was then bridged, which put the fan on, so the fan is ok, so it’s either down to a wiring fault within the car, or the ECU.
Good to meet Stephen and Bridgen and have a chat while we worked, with lovely hospitality, loads of tea and snacks, always welcome.
From there we went over to Bromsgrove to sort out the heater issue Lee had been having with his ‘00 MGF 120 mpi, in that he couldn’t turn the heater to cold and had been burning his feet on long runs.
The control arm on the valve had come off, as we suspected, because it was badly worn. We managed repair it and reshape it so that it once again moved freely. Lovely to meet Lee briefly and have a chat before we headed off down the road to our digs for the night.
This morning, Wednesday, found us back in between Cheltenham and Gloucester where it was lovely to see Jon and his Dad again for work on Jon’s ‘ 99 MGF 1.8 mpi Mk I and Jon’s son Alex’s ‘01 MGF 120 mpi Mk II.
Cambelt service carried out on Jon’s along with fitting of a Res pack as all his blowers weren’t working and cambelt service on Alex’s, he wasn’t there so didn’t get to see him again.
I knew I would forget something when packing up the van, alternator belts 🙄 Big thanks to Jon who popped over to the local motor factors to pick some up for us!
Great to have time for a chat with them both, and enjoy the fab weather, an enjoyable mornings work, plus the bonus of having doggy fusses with Treacle!
We then headed further south, with time for a visit over to the Clifton suspension bridge, as we were virtually passing. We’ve always wanted to see it, it’s really interesting and worth a trip.
So we’re now in our next digs of the trip, not too far from Burnham-on-Sea. I’ve been trying to get the admin done as we’ve been traveling so I shall endeavour to catch-up fully now. – https://ift.tt/IJMkH5n
