Tuesday and Wednesday spent in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire…
After a fantastic long weekend away in the North East for a wedding, where Kevin’s Trophy had a starring role of whisking the Bridge & Groom away from the church following the ceremony, we had a very early start on Tuesday morning to head south for a couple of days…
Sandy in Bedfordshire for work on Daniel and Kathryn’s MGs.
First up was Kathryn’s ‘02 TF 135 for a full cambelt service. Then next up was Daniel’s MGF 120 mpi for a full cambelt service. Daniel’s car had recently been into another garage for some work and for some reason the gear cables had been removed to do the clutch (we couldn’t fit him in unfort), after having been refitted Daniel was having problems in selecting reverse, and stiffness in other gears, this was sorted by us reinstating the Mike Satur bell-crank and cable ends, that were originally fitted to the car, then we adjusted both ends of the cables to allow the correct movement.
Both cars all now sorted and up to date on their servicing. Good luck to both Kathryn and Daniel on their many projects that they have going on, we look forward to seeing the progress especially on the SVR and the respray on his MGF.
With a stopover in Wyboston last night, we headed over to Kimbolton where it was great to meet Andy for work on his ‘97 VVC Abingdon (paint code HYF), that he’s been gradually putting back to rights having bought it 5 years ago, where it had been somewhat neglected in its former life, sadly.
Having always had a problem with the clutch, he thought this was the issue and so got us in to replace it. But, the issue was down to a very seized up clutch-release arm, a blown slave-cylinder and blown master-cylinder. So we set about freeing off the release-arm, replaced both the slave and master-cylinders, which has resulted in a very nice smooth clutch pedal for him.
The cars looking really fab, with its new roof etc, few more things to be sorted and it will certainly be a cracking little car.
After a good chat and a cuppa with Andy, we bid our farewells and headed a few miles along the road to Ellington, near Huntingdon for hydragas pump up on Neil’s ‘98 VVC MGF (paint code HFF). Good to meet Neil that we shall hopefully be seeing again next spring for the cambelt service.
On our way home now in good time, with a localish one tomorrow in Chesterfield. – https://ift.tt/VxW39YJ
