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After a couple of well needed days off, post the Cornwall trip, we headed over to Mexborough on Wednesday morning, to assess the damage on Paul’s 1997 MGF 1.8i.
Not good news at all, unfortunately for him, but it’s nothing that can’t be fixed. However, there was nothing that could be done there and then, we had a chat about the way forward and a date arranged to get it over to the workshop, for some much needed TLC! Good to meet Paul and we look forward to seeing him again in the new year.
Having the rest of the day available we headed over to the workshop to get ‘Princess’, a 2001 MGF 1.8i, sorted, mother and daughter Leona and Laura were supposed to be heading off on their well planned trip on the NC500, this coming Monday, in the car, but only a couple of days ago they discovered that the head gasket had gone. So they had her recovered to the workshop for us to get sorted when we had a gap.
Head gasket done, along with replacing the bonnet release cable as the RCA chap had been a bit too tough on opening it and a hydragas pump up. Unfortunately, more disaster was to occur with them when Laura had an accident and has badly broken her ankle! So it looks like they will be waiting now until 2026 to head off on their adventure. We wish Laura a speedy recovery.
Thursday morning found us down in Bilsthorpe, near Newark for the minor service on Ray’s 2001 MGF VVC in Tahiti Blue (JRJ). From there we went over to Desborough for the minor service on Marcus’s 2006 TF 135 in Royal Blue (JFM).
After an overnight stay in Harrington and that brings us to this morning, Friday, when we headed further south, down to Great Doddington, to carry out a short cambelt service on John’s 1998 MkI MGF VVC in Tahiti Blue. The timing appeared to be out by half a tooth, for which we found a crushed roll-pin to be the cause, on the main belt exhaust cam. It literally just fell out when we went to remove it. This had been caused by the bolt not having been tightened up enough. New roll-pin duly fitted.
A bit of a wet and windy run back home, before storm Anne really gets going! Batten down the hatches and stay safe everyone! 💨 – https://ift.tt/hA7WX8u
