Head gasket replacement in the snow this morning, over in Rochdale on this Rover 45 1.8.
Rich had got in touch a couple of weeks ago, on the recommendation of his friend Richie, to ask if we could come over and sort it, as it is wife’s daily car. As we were ahead on Kevin’s car we were able to free up the day.
The head gasket had been replaced with the previous owner about 4 years ago, with a Mk 1 elastomer gasket, so unfortunately had gone again. Rich had been keeping it going and topping up with coolant so was a little bit full of lovely caramel sludge which took a while to drain off. All gaskets replaced and everything cleaned up. Really pleased to get it back up and running again for them,
despite the blizzards of sleet and snow. Couldn’t deploy the gazebo as it may well have taken off! 🌪
Lots of welcome cups of tea to keep us going, thank you! ☕️
Mark had also got in touch recently, saying he had been experiencing coolant loss on his TF 135, that we had carried the cambelt service out on a couple of years ago, and was reluctant to drive it back home to Selby. So we called into his work in Castleford on the way back to carry out our usual checks, which confirmed that the proverbial had occurred. Date arranged for him to get it over to the workshop in the next week or so to get sorted for him in and around other work. If the weather had been kinder we would have just done it there and then, but we were still a bit frozen, good day despite that! 🥶 – https://ift.tt/pmXH8ix
