A very foggy run up to Butterknowle in County Durham today, where it was good to see Ken again, who had got in touch as he’d found an issue when servicing his TF 160, unfortunately, one of the spark plugs had stripped the threads in the cylinder head. So we removed the head and will take it back to the workshop to heli-coil it. We’d replaced the head gasket on this some years ago and it was interesting to see that the heat-activated saver-shim had adhered evenly to the head, thereby doing its job perfectly. Date booked in to return and refit next month.
A productive day yesterday on ‘Princess’ (MGF – see previous blogs) and pleased to say she’s almost there, couple of other tweaks and she can go for her MOT.
We also had chance to sort the two cylinders heads we have in that required skimming. One from Roger’s MGF in Haytor and the other from Rob’s TF 160 in Hartlepool. They were ready this afternoon, so Jon will set about replacing the valves and new stem-seals. Dates arranged to refit both of these. As mentioned in a previous blog, we’re bringing Rob’s 160 back to the workshop as we suspect there may be other problems, hopefully not, but makes sense to get it all done in one go.
There’s another week that’s flown by!
Hope a good weekend is had by all, wherever you may be, near and far.
Talking of far, it’s been interesting following the latest travels of Adrian Clifford and his lovely wife, Dawn, this time to Australia to visit their son, (obviously not in the also well travelled ‘Pearl’ this time) and setting a challenge for the furthest, highest and longest that a Rough Luck Racing baseball cap has gone! – https://ift.tt/jRkBceI
