Bromsgrove & Kingstanding…
Up and on early yesterday morning to head down to Bromsgrove, only to get held up multiple times in traffic so it was mid morning before we arrived at Keith’s house.
First job of the day was to fit a soft-ride kit to his friends and neighbours, Wayne and Claire’s ‘02 TF 135. They took it out for a test drive and came back to report how great it was and a big difference to the comfort. The front nearside shocker bush had totally gone so they will notice a difference with the handling. Great to meet them both.
Next up was to program a new key fob for Keith’s MGF 1.8 mpi, (in Volcano) he had wanted a remap on it, but as it’s a MEMS 1.9 they can’t be done by k-maps.
Remap carried out on his ‘04 TF 135, and plus programming of a new key fob on that one too.
As always an enjoyable day in Keith’s company, with lots of warming cuppas and good chats. Thanks to him and Karen for the huge box of chocs, that was Jon happy for the evening!
A stay overnight just along the road from Keith’s and not far from our call this morning, in Kingstanding, where it was good to meet Gary for work on his ‘02 TF 135.
We set about replacing the head gasket, and found a few odd things whilst in there. What should have been a 135 head had at some point had 120 cams put in it. One of the cams actually had a smaller thread size for the pulley. It had been converted to have an aluminum manifold on but instead of exchanging all the studs for bolts it had just been left with all the studs which makes it very awkward tighten everything up properly. Everything where possible put back to rights. Unfortunately when it came to filling back up with coolant discovered that one of the hoses was split, so this was swapped out. Couple of other bits sorted and Gary was very pleased to have his car all back up and running nicely again.
Thanks to Gary for many welcome cuppas on a bit of a chilly day, fortunately though we didn’t get the snow that was forecast.
Heading home now, bit of a slow one on the M1 at the moment. Back in to the workshop in the morning to get cracking on the cars that have been delivered to us while we’ve been away. – https://ift.tt/JIkRCvt
