What a wet week that was, thank crunchie it’s Friday!
Wednesday found us over in Tickhill, near Doncaster, for work on John’s year 2000 MGF 120 mpi (in Solar Red – CMU). We’d last seen him and the car a couple of years ago for hydragas pump up. Since then he’d had it in to a garage for a head replacement and to then find where quite a bad oil leak was coming from, only to be told that it would be in his best interests to just scrap the car. That’s not very helpful is it.
John thought the head gasket had gone again, so asked if we could come over and sort it. Fortunately, for John, the head gasket was fine. The cambelt service, however, was well overdue. So we got cracking and did this for him. The brake lines had come up as an advisory on his last MOT, so we replaced these for him too. The oil leak was coming from the cam oil-seals and the oil-pump oil-seal, so we replaced all of these and cleaned up the excess oil. We’re pleased to have got John sorted, he can again enjoy what is a cracking car, that definitely doesn’t need to be scrapped!
Thursday morning we went only a short distance along to Kirk Ella, for the minor service on Steve’s year 2001 MGF 120 (also in Solar Red). Good to see Steve again.
From there we headed over to Broomfleet as Laura had been experiencing an intermittent misfire on her MGF ‘Princess’, on inspection we found that the head gasket had gone again, not sure why, but we’ve arranged for her to come back into the workshop next week to get her sorted once again.
This Friday morning found us over in Stockport, for a cambelt service on Dave’s 2003 TF 135 (another Solar Red). He’d been given the car and is gradually getting everything done to get it back on the road, having been stood for a couple of years. It’s very low mileage and has evidently been well cared for in the past. We’d apparently worked on it some years ago, as there was one of our decals in the folder, which unfortunately didn’t have a lot of service history and we can’t recall the previous owner, which is a shame. Pleased to see though that Dave is invested in it and will enjoy a new lease of life.
Thanks to everyone for the welcome warming brews this week. Have a great weekend everyone, here’s hoping the wet stuff clears up a bit. ☔️ – https://ift.tt/NwpekdU
