Inlet Gasket Replacement.

friday was nice so got the roof down on the astra (ok here come the jokes)




sue (my wife ) says the f smells funny my relpy ok ill have a look some time

so after work i get a txt mark thiers steam pooring out of the car ( the F)

i look up to the sky oh bla bla ect





so get home and the F has steam coming from the back i go in my shed to have a play with some carbon wrap in discust with the F






i go in have dinner and set about a laptop for a freind (new one to be set up )

a bit more carbon wrap





SAT 8.30 am take the hard roof of the F







unfold the soft roof







hmm how can i open this up withought cracking the plastic rear window
ah i know heat gun







god its cold -3 on tha astra dash and still ice on the F






a few swear words as im getting colder
ok all pannels off now lets see the damage



oh bleep bleep bleep that dont look good

oh bleeeeeeeeeep no no not HGF

err lets have a look





phew close one butt still not sure so off to get new inlet gasket god its cold astra dash say ice warning +3





so finaly strip the inlet off and the gasket is shot grrrrrrrrrrrrr



so now sand side of head to clean mating surface and fit new gasket





re assemble the car



a bit more of the car put back on also ran up to temp and no leaks horay happy chapie time




forgot to take any more photos as to cold so i washed the F hoping she would be better behaved



so quick spririted drive to deliver the new laptop




after setting up the laptop time to go home via a nice twisty road at + national RED LINE lol

i forgot what the leds looked like i just converted sues car and never looked at night that was 2 years ago lol




a little trick i forgot the switches turn blue when switched on good eh




sue and my self have been talking about the F iffunds where not as tight we would keep the F for weekends and sunday drives
and get sue a newish car something like a trigra now way the ka yuck but could be a 207 convertable just have to see what the bike sells for and how the bank ballance is in march april
so one f cols be for sale or kept
my drive today i realy enjoyed it fell in love a little bit but cost of repair frightens me but as a spair car then that dont count

by the way 1 former owner 50k miles serviced every year and a full set of calipers discs and pads lat year

Great thread Mark

that is a fantastic idea to use a heat gun to safely fold the soft top

Red Devil wrote: Great thread Mark

that is a fantastic idea to use a heat gun to safely fold the soft top

you said hair dryer i dont own one only hairdressers drive TF 85s in white

...........and curling tongues :lol:

Nice one Mark. Glad to hear you are a happy chappy with the MG again.

Beautiful looking F mark, love that colour. She looks like brand new too

Nice one Mark. I did the same repair to my F Sunday.

mowog73 wrote: Nice one Mark. I did the same repair to my F Sunday.

A bit warmer where you are ?????

-5C is a normal day time high this time of year but our winter thus far has unseasonably warm. We have had more days at +5 than -5. I am fortunate though, I do have a heater garage to work on the F in.