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We left our fab digs, just outside of Ilfracombe, on Friday morning and headed a few miles along the road to Braunton, where it was lovely to meet Roger and his 2005 TF 135 in Solar Red (CMU). Originally booked in for fitting a soft-ride kit, heād started to have issues with the clutch, so as a priority he decided to get this sorted instead.
Full clutch replacement carried out along with replacing the clutch release-arm and a new slave-cylinder. Generally all went well, with only two bolts needing grinding off, and when it came to refitting the bell housing, the dowels were being a tad awkward to realign, but we got it all done for Roger, who can now enjoy using the car again. We look forward to seeing him next year to fit a soft-ride kit and a service.
From there we headed on to Plymouth for the next couple of nights.
Saturday morning, found us up bright and early with a very short commute along to Chris and Sueās, for work on Sueās 2012 TF 135. With the service history being slightly unclear Chris wanted to have a full cambelt service carried out along with new alternator belt. He also asked us to carry out a thorough check of anything that needed to be done ahead of the MOT and to prepare for future maintenance. The car is an excellent example, and on only 25k miles. We were thankful of his garage as it tipped it down all morning.
Sunday saw us on a travel day, with a stop in at a couple of touristy locations en route, which was great to make the most of it, despite some dismal weather again. Arriving at our digs, which will accommodate us for the next four nights, in Cambrose we were pleased to see an improvement. Which continued this Monday morning, when we set off to our next call in Scorrier.
Great to see Tim again and his 2003 TF 160 in Xpower Grey (LEF). Originally booked in for a minor service, he first wanted us to see if we could locate a couple of ārattlesā, which were starting to become rather tiresome, not to mention the potential of a serious issue.
Following a process of elimination, we found two causes; the exhaust back-box strap, which didnāt have enough threads in the bolt to enable it to be tightened fully and then weirdly the other was the alternator, which was strange as the sound appeared to becoming from everywhere but this. We were thinking, exhaust heat shield, catalytic converter being damaged, cam rattle or the VVC mechs. While we carried on with the minor service, greasing the pin bushes and removing the old alternator, Tim nipped off to the local motor factors to see if he could get hold of an alternator, fortunately one of them did, so this was duly fitted. The car sounds very nice and smooth now, with no noise at all from the VVC mechs, which is always a good thing. Great to see him and meet his lovely wife this time plus their gorgeous woofer Neville, what a little star.
Having the afternoon free, we took a wander and had a cuppa at Portreath beach, what beautiful spot. I tried to persuade Jon to go surfing, but he was having none of it! – https://ift.tt/amlI3PZ
