Day 1 of 5 – Tour of Lake District & a couple of other places…
Knaresborough…
Great to see Stafford again and his ‘05 TF 135 (paint code PBT) for a couple of things. We last saw this car 4 years ago for head gasket replacement. Stafford asked if we could call by and sort out his drivers side window as it stopped working, he’d tried the fuse, to no avail. After testing the switch we found that it was the window motor itself that had packed up, we’d taken replacement ones with us and so got this fitted for him. Oil and filter change carried out for him while we were there.
A nice pot of tea and a chat with Stafford before we headed off on our journey, and now find ourselves in Dalton-in-Furness, where we have some very lovely digs for the night.
Thursday morning found us over in Chesterfield, where it was lovely to see Donna again and their ‘04 TF 135, that we’d worked on earlier in the year for head gasket replacement, we’d arranged at the time to return to replace the underfloor coolant pipes as we’d noticed these were a bit of the crusty side.
They had also recently noticed a couple of rises on the temperature gauge. We did all our usual checks and found that the spring clips, although still in place, had cracked into two separate halves on the PRT, so deduced that under pressure this would cause it to leak, resulting in over heating. This was duly replaced with a new PRT and new clips. The expansion tank also had stress fractures, so a decent secondhand one was fitted. All good to go, the car will Donna’s daily drive now for a while. Big thanks to her for the thoughtful flask of tea and biscuits that she brought down to us in the car park.
From there we went over to the workshop for a restock ready for our week ahead. A day off yesterday enjoyed to recharge the batteries. – https://ift.tt/vriudzw
