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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland trip – May 2025
Days 1-4 of 15…

We’re now up in Inverness, for the night, following our fourth day on this current trip.

We started off with our first leg on the morning of Sunday 4th, in Morpeth, for some work on Dave’s 1997 MGF VVC (in Diamond White II) that he’s owned for over twenty years. We replaced the middle section of the speedometer cable, only to find that this hadn’t resolved the issue, we will return on our way back down at the end of this trip, and to replace one of the control arms. Thanks to them for a brew and a bacon butty on a very cold morning.

From Morpeth we headed on up to Lockerbie for the night, ready to carry on to Carmyle on Monday morning.

Monday morning found us over at Glenn and Susan’s. When Glenn had been replacing the headlights on his TF 135 85th Anniversary he’d noticed that the condenser for the aircon was badly corroded, along with the radiator that was starting to show signs of corrosion. Plus the bonnet lock cover had seen better days. Glenn had managed to source the condenser, along with a pump and pipes. As the pump and pipes were all in really good order still it was decided to just replace the condenser. New radiator also fitted, along with a stainless bonnet-lock cover. The gear selection was being a bit notchy so both gear cable ends were replaced, the bracket was slightly bent too, so this was straightened out and the gears are feeling loads better. Both front track-rod-end ball-joints replaced and car all good to go again.

Really lovely to see Glenn and Susan and have a catch-up. Thanks to them for the tons of tea and Tunnock’s! Plus the sun shone all day too.

From there we headed up to Kirkintilloch for the night, where we had a short commute, of a couple of miles, the following morning on Tuesday.

Neil had bought himself a 2003 TF 1.6 (in xpower grey) a couple of years ago as a project. Having done a lot of work himself he wanted the clutch replacing as a preventative measure, as he felt it was a bit on the stiff side anyway. So full clutch replacement carried out along with a new clutch release-arm. A couple of awkward bolts, but all in all a good one to do.

It was great to meet Neil, who had nipped back down from the rally event he was at, with his family, in Fort William. Thanks to him for the provision of a constant flow of cuppas.

From Neil’s we set off to head further north to our next set of digs in Dunfermline.

From Dunfermline, this morning, we headed over to Cupar, where it was lovely to see Ewen again, great to have a catch-up with him whilst we carried out the minor service on his 2009 LE 500 – number 284. Thanks to him for the tea and Tunnock’s! We look forward to seeing him again next year when the cambelt service is due.

From Ewen’s, we had good run up to Inverness, with fab weather again allowing for the amazing scenery that Scotland provides, and enough time to get out for a decent walk when we got here. It’s not too far for our commute tomorrow morning, over to Kiltarlity. – https://ift.tt/pFjmYuV