⭐️ Happy New Year 2025 ⭐️
Here we are and already a week into 2025 and it seems ages since my last blog. Hope everyone has had a joyful festive season. We’ve not exactly been resting on our laurels, in between fitting a kitchen we did manage to have a couple of days off seeing family, which is always lovely to have the time to spend together.
We collected Rachael’s ‘04 TF 160 (paint code CBT) ‘Katy’ the day before Christmas Eve from Felling, in the north east, to bring back to the workshop for investigation of an idling issue.
Following an extensive investigation; it was found to be a combination of a badly adjusted throttle body, a sticky idle-air control valve and after sorting those two, it also required an air-pressure sensor. Bit of a head scratcher, as obviously several components contributed to the final problem. MOT carried out and ready to return tomorrow, we look forward to seeing Rachael for a cuppa.
Richard had left his ‘03 TF 160 with us, so we could look at the issue with his gears during the week too. It turned out that the gear cable itself didn’t need replacing, as we thought, as there was found to be a lot of play in the rear linkage. This was repaired and a gearbox oil change carried out, resulting in nice smooth gears once again, and pleased to hear from Richard that his drive back home to Sheffield felt a lot more positive.
Pat had brought his ‘82 MGF Steptronic (paint code GUF) over to us from Wakefield. The work carried out included; replacing the head gasket, cambelt service, thermostat replacement, alternator belt and hydragas pump up. We look forward to seeing him again when he comes to collect.
Plans are also in place to work on some of our many doer uppers/projects and will hopefully get a few of them completed finally in between other work. Bit of a challenge in the ice today moving some of them off the hard-core, in readiness for concrete to be put down, creating more parking space, which is great. Nice that they all fired up. – https://ift.tt/sSaz1XA
