A busy couple of days away…
Our first call on Thursday morning took us to Bugbrooke for work on a stepspeed that we used to look after with the previous owner in Spilsby, so it was nice to see this well cared for ‘02 Steppy in xpower grey again.
A full cambelt service carried out plus replacement of the window mechanism as the one on it had become a bit reluctant.
Great to meet Eric, who is going to be selling the car on as his driveway is a tad full! Thankfully he had made room for us to work in his garage as it absolutely tipped it down. It was a bit of a grim run down the M1 and somewhat slow going.
From Eric’s we headed over to Sandy for work on Daniel’s latest acquisition, another car that we had worked on once, about 8 years ago though. A 2004 TF 160 in JFM, that had been fairly heavily modified by the previous owner, Clive. Daniel had bought the car for his Dad to enjoy.
The cambelt service was initially booked in, but a couple of issues had just recently made themselves known. One of which, was that the car wouldn’t turnover and the other was that the drivers door had deadlocked and refused to open either by key or by fob.
The turnover issue was narrowed down to be a completely dead starter-motor. A new one sourced, which Daniel went off to collect, this was duly fitted, and got that problem sorted.
For the deadlock issue the door card was removed, in tact, the mechanism released from inside the door and then the central locking mechanism replaced with one we had with us, we’d gone armed with several contingencies, so that was that one happily sorted for him.
Next, on to the cambelt service, once the engine mount bolts were finally removed, after some amount of persuasion, when it came to refitting the forward bolt it sheared the threads inside the mount. So the mount itself was removed and a replacement one fitted, thankfully we keep these on board. All very time consuming and more awkward than is usual, but we were pleased to have everything sorted, though a bit of a late finish yesterday evening making it a very long, cold and damp day.
We eventually checked into our fab digs in Huntingdon for big mugs of tea and crisp sandwiches!
This morning found us over in Cottingham, the one near Market Harborough, for hydragas pump-up on a Metro Midas kit car owned by Sue and lovingly restored by her son Mark. Sue had owned one in the past when she worked for Riley’s, and fancied another to take along to shows and generally run about in. Mark is a mechanic and has his own garage and has done a fantastic job on rebuilding the engine. Really good to meet them both this morning and put this cracking little car to the correct ride height, after a bit of a chat between us all as to what is the correct ride height, there are a few theories out there involving fingers etcetera!
From there we headed about 3 miles along the road into Corby for work on Rob’s fairly new acquisition of a ‘2001 MGF 143 in LQW.
Full cambelt service carried out along with replacing one of the ball joints and investigation of an oil leak. Oil leak found to be coming from the cam oil seals, so these were replaced.
Lovely to meet Rob and have a chat, big thanks to him for lots of tea and for my goody bag!
Not too far from home now after a stop start journey back up the A1, an interesting couple of days. Plus the wet stuff stayed away today and the sun made an appearance, which was a welcome sight. – https://ift.tt/qTB890U
