On site MG F/TF work under taken
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Posted 13 years 4 months ago #26649rough luck wrote: Well after a really busy couple of weeks, I was totally knackered, 3 days awake on the Netherlands work
I woke up on Wednesday at 7am, started out for the Netherlands at 10pm, Arrived at 8.45am on thursday an started striaght off with the list and loads of coffee, head gasket, inlet/exhaust, oil/oil filter, alternator belt, cambelt, tensioner, water pump, coolant, lower oil rail....anddddddddd the surprize addition Yuppp the big knuckle scrapper its self the Mike Satur 4-2-1 manifold,
Finished ready to start the engine at 5pm an then I look under the car while bleeding the coolant.....thermostat O ring on the pipe had gone, an its a total pain to get to when the engines all back together
by about 7pm we had tried sealing it, but I wasn't happy with it even though it worked, so it moved from being a pain to a challenge, your in another country don't speak the lingo, and need to make an O ring and most shops have shut,
By Midnight I was packing up job done...lol and my O ring is a lot better fit than the MG ones
12.30am Friday I'm setting off on the 4 hour drive to the Ferry...lol I had missed mine an had to wait for the 7.20am ferry, then an 4 hour drive over here, should have been 3 but some muppet had a crash (Not ME.. )
another 2 head gaskets done since and I'm all quiet again, but what a couple of weeks, and the last one got my details from here so thank you peoples once again
:woohoo: :omg: YOU HAVE BEEN BUSY :thumbsup: it is great that you have got this work by word of mouth and it is good that Russell has passed some over too. good luck and get some sleep :thumbsup:
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Posted 13 years 4 months ago #26675David
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Posted 13 years 4 months ago #26681The car was a one owner from new early TF with HGF, the gasket was still an original with plastic dowels so it hasn't done bad
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Posted 13 years 4 months ago #26684rough luck wrote: I had my first job from The T-bar on Tuesday, although they are not a posting member they do often have a read up on issues and have found the site great
The car was a one owner from new early TF with HGF, the gasket was still an original with plastic dowels so it hasn't done bad
Well done, you should ask him to sign up :woohoo: :thumbsup:
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Posted 13 years 1 month ago #28811www.roughluckracing.com
Try out the head gasket calculator
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Posted 13 years 1 month ago #28813are you still up for the secret mod we discussed on .org? if so drop me a PM with your address and i'll send the parts over
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Posted 13 years 1 month ago #28815Adam-Mgtf wrote: hey RL!
are you still up for the secret mod we discussed on .org? if so drop me a PM with your address and i'll send the parts over
Yupp I've even bought some triangles to fix them too....lol
Is your old TF up on ebay in bits??
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Posted 13 years 1 month ago #28840www.roughluckracing.com
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Posted 13 years 1 month ago #28844Any ideas what people are looking at around this time of year
Winter Servicing?? something along those lines would that help anyone
or a 10% total bill discount only for T-bar members??
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Posted 13 years 1 month ago #28849What about a glass rear window fitting service?
10% discount for Tbar sounds good too. :broon:
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Posted 13 years 1 month ago #29008Gear cable change
Strip, clean and rebuild rear calipers
Bleed new brake fluid through to all calipers
Replace coolant pipes with stainless steel ones, replace coolant tank and bleed with new coolant
Oil an filter change
and replace a back box from HELL..lol went through 3 grinding discs and 7 new drill bits
me an that back box fort like mad ...I WON
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Posted 13 years 1 month ago #29015How do you deal with that closure plate?:shrug:
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