Workshop week and a bit of a chilly one…
Not the week we had planned as we were going to have a break away somewhere, but decided against it and thought we’d best get cracking with work instead, plus couldn’t keep putting off those essential DIY jobs.
Chris had brought down his 2003 TF Stepspeed, in xpower grey – LEF, all the way from his home in Acharacle, that we’ve enjoyed a few visits to now. He and his wife Sam made a trip of it and visited family and friends in the area. They picked a bad week weather wise as one of their stops was in Scarborough, where there was quite a big dumping of the white stuff! Glad that they made it over to us safe and sound to drop off the car and are now back up in the Highlands.
The car was booked in for replacement of the drive-plate, Chris had sourced the plate from DMGRS, who stock the correct one for this model. So we replaced this, which went well considering the gearboxes on this model weighs so much more than the standard PG1 boxes, so aligning it to go back on can be a bit a challenge.
Unfortunately, on Chris and Sam’s epic journey down they noticed that the temperature gauge had risen in traffic, with no significant loss of coolant. On pressure testing the system found coolant to be coming from the block and the thermostat housing. So we replaced the head gasket along with a new thermostat and housing.
Chris had also mentioned another strange noise from the rear. When it came removing the hub and drive-shaft the hub fell straight off the drive-shaft, the retaining C-spring on the end of the drive-shaft was in two halves. So we replaced this with one we had on another secondhand drive-shaft off a spare CVT gearbox.
The CV boot on the nearside rear also had a split in it and had deposited a load of grease in to the rear wheel. New CV boot fitted and grease cleaned up.
Couple of other small things to sort and then all ready for Chris to collect in a couple of weeks time.
Leona had brought over their MGF 120 ‘Princess’ for some further work, as she had been given a couple of advisories on a recent MOT. Welding carried out to the inner sill/floor area, replacement of the Lambda sensor and an MOT carried out by the company we use on the site. Pleased to hear that Laura is now fit to be able to drive her again, and they collected her last night. Let’s hope both Laura and Princess are able to get some miles done between them finally.
Terry came down to the workshop today to collect his MGF 75th Anniversary, that was in with us a couple of weeks ago for welding, as mentioned on previous post, and then it had gone round to the paint shop next door at AM Paintworx. The work was finally completed on the car yesterday and does look pretty good! Well done to Aaron and his team for more of their sterling work. Really great to see Terry as always and meet his pal Dave who had kindly driven him down from Darlington.
Have a great weekend everyone near and far, weather is a bit of a mixed bag, but at least it’s no longer in the minuses… for now. 🥶 – https://ift.tt/sjkuO5m
