Day 1 & 2 of tour – South West & South Wales…
Nimlet and Biddestone, near Bath this morning, Sunday…
Our first call today was for a head gasket replacement and cambelt service on Steve’s ‘03 TF 135 (paint code LQW).
He’s owned the car for many years, and the head gasket had gone a few months back, the cambelt service had never been done to his knowledge. All sorted now for him, there was quite an amount of sludge to drain off and clean up. New HT leads, new spark plugs, new air filter and clean out of the box as there had been a resident mouse in it for a while.
Lovely to meet Steve and Claire and their grandson Bea who was keen to see what the engine looked like. Small world his daughter has just moved to the village I grew up in in Welton. Thanks to Claire for the delicious homemade biscuits.
On to the next call in Biddestone where it was great to meet Matt for head gasket replacement and cambelt service on his ‘01 MGF 1.8.
All sorted for Matt, on firing it up it was quite tappity on the hydraulic lifters, so a can of Wynn’s was added, which helped a little. The car needs to have a good run and get things moving again, if not the next the next step would be to replace the hydraulic lifters.
What an interesting day meeting Steve and Matt. A bit of a soggy one, but gazebo deployed and Matt had a car port, so all good!
We travelled down yesterday morning, and called in to Warmley, near Bristol, to see what was happening with Lee’s TF 135, that he’d been experiencing problems with rough running. Despite ours and other peoples help on his Facebook post he’d not managed to bottom it out, so asked if we could take a look, so as chance would have it we were able to.
Code reading pointed us to Lambda sensor, which we swapped out, a dodgy coil pack, despite it being recently replaced by Lee and incorrect ignition leads fitted, so we swapped these out too. Happily for Lee car now back running nice and smooth again.
Staying in a beautiful spot, in Box, home of Brunel’s famous tunnel.
The village we were working in this afternoon is where the TV series Agatha Raisin was used as the location.
Heading off a bit further south first thing in the morning. – https://ift.tt/NrgufRO
