Day: 11 May 2025

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland trip – May 2025
Days 5 – 8 of 15…

After a stopover in Inverness for the night on Wednesday, we headed off nice and early on Thursday morning to Kiltarlity, where it was great to meet Gordon, Kate and their very bouncy retriever Darwin.

The first job of the day was to carry out a full cambelt service on Kate‘s 2003 TF 160, in Le Mans Green, that she’s owned since the car was a year old and used to be her daily car.

There was also quite a bit of an oil leak that Gordon had mentioned, this we found to be coming from the hydraulic plunger, so we replaced both of the gaskets in the plunger, which has cured it.

The MOT tester had commented on the back box the last couple of times and Kate had fancied a stainless one, so treated herself to a MGOC super-sports, which suits the car and has a very nice tone. As the cambelt service was quite overdue she’d not been using it, so is now excited to get out and about and enjoy the car again.

The next job of the day was to carry out a short cambelt service on Gordon’s Caterham.

He’s owned the car for almost thirty years, having had many adventures in it, including a run round the Nurburgring and what sounds like an amazing trip across America, over three to four weeks, with 20, or so, other Catherhams. Some great stories shared, throughout the day, between us all.

From there, we headed along to Dingwall and to our digs for the next three nights.

We got cracking bright and early on Friday morning with only a few miles to travel, up the hill, to Eddies house. Whilst there last April we had arranged for a couple of days work with him.

First job of the day was to carry out a full cambelt service, we’d last done this for him at his previous home, so all went nicely with no awkward bolts.

Next job of the day was to replace all four of the hydragas spheres, we’d taken a set of our refurbished ones with us. He and his wife had noticed the ride had become quite harsh, so hopefully this will have given them some comfort back.

The plan was for us to return on Saturday and replace the resister pack, being an aircon model we had made allowance for this, but Eddie decided he’d live without it for now and was just so happy with the other work carried out, it’s given him the chance to use it more often.
Really good to see Eddie again and have a chat while we worked, big thanks to him for his fantastic hospitality too. Plus it was lovely to have doggy fusses with Mervin and Chewbacca.

So we had Saturday off! It was very welcome as was we were feeling a little bit pooped.

So that brings us to today, Sunday. We departed from our digs in Dingwall and took a steady drive down to our new digs for the next couple of nights. We stopped off for cuppas at the Loch Ness centre and in Fort William on the way, with such good weather and stunning scenery. We’re now in a very remote spot, with only a short distance to our next call in Acharacle in the morning.

Hope everyone has had a great weekend getting out and about, where possible, enjoying some very favourable weather. 🌞 – https://ift.tt/Ail9STk