We left our digs in Worcester yesterday morning, and headed to Kingstone, near Hereford to see what was happening with Keith’s MGF 120 mpi (in JRJ).
The car had suffered from a blown cap and after replacing with a new one the car then overheated, so Keith erred on the side of caution and left it until could take a look.
After all our checks the cap that he replaced it with was good, but when he’d filled the coolant back up hadn’t bled the system fully, which had caused an airlock and restricted the flow of coolant. System subsequently bled and ran up to temperature, and all good. Shame not to see Keith on this visit.
We then ventured further south west to our next digs just outside of Cardiff.
A short commute to our work this morning, where it was great to finally meet Geoffrey, and his MGF 120 mpi (in JRJ). He’d only owned the car for 5 months before experiencing issues with overheating and had to be recovered home. Following a recommendation from his friend he had got in touch to see when we could get over to see him.
So this morning we replaced the head gasket, the water pump and fitted a 52mm throttle body. Unfortunately, the car had at some point had the dreaded k-seal added, so this was cleared out as best as we could.
Bit of a challenge given the conditions, rain, sleet, thunder and lightning! We got the main bit done before it really chucked it down! After sheltering in the van a few times we finally got everything done.
Geoffrey had wanted a remap carrying out too, but wants to wait until he gets used to the car once more, now that the head gasket etc has been sorted. It’s a cracking car and he will now carry on with the things on his list of things to do.
Thanks to Geoffrey for lots of tea, well needed. Good also to see Ian for a quick chat too, mid storm!
Back at our really lovely digs for a second night, and time to get everything dried off. Room service steak may well be needed tonight.
Photos aren’t the best due to the inclement conditions, but they’re virtually the same car on both days anyway! – https://ift.tt/u1TbeWw
