Our first call yesterday morning found us in Leeds, where it was great to see Graham and his Mk I ‘96 MGF 1.8 in paint code HAM.
Graham had got in touch to see if we could replace the clutch, as he was experiencing a problem with the pedal. On investigation we found that there was a lot of free-play on the pedal, which was due to the clevis pin on the master-cylinder being very worn. This we replaced and also bled the system through with fresh clutch fluid. So, a bit of a result for Graham and a slightly easier morning for us.
After a chat we headed on our way over to Pudsey, where it was good to meet Gary and his 2001 Trophy in paint code JFV, which was sitting a little low and needed a hydragas pump up. The cambelt service is due, so a date is booked in for Gary to bring the car over to us at the workshop, in a few months time, and we look forward seeing him again.
An early start this morning for a further visit to Woolston, near Coventry, where it was lovely as always to see Bill and his MGF VVC. Bill had bought a stainless steel back-box, so we fitted this for him along with a homoligated CAT, that we had taken down with us. Great to hear from him later in the day to say that it looked great and sounded fruity, what a fab description! Pleased to have got this done for him on his pride and joy.
On the way back north we called in to Harthill, where it was lovely to meet Tony and his V reg MGF 75th Anniversary, in Mulberry, that had recently been misbehaving.
The symptoms were a random misfire, on code-reading several codes came up, of which none of them were really relevant, these were cleared and didn’t reoccur. There was a bit of a rusty connection on one of the coil-pack HT leads, so we cleaned up all of the coil-pack connections, and reset the ECU to learning mode.
Tony’s going to see how it goes, the coil-pack may have an issue, in which case he’ll come for a run out to us at the workshop, as he would like to get the speedo-cable replaced too.
Hope everyone can enjoy the long weekend where possible, and Happy Easter to all. It may not be top-down weather, but hoping it’s good enough for some enjoyable runs out. – https://ift.tt/anByzqo
