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nice one

Bought two steptronics with dodgy gearboxes. One with suspected head gasket failure as well. Dropped both engines gearboxes and rear subframes. Made one gearbox out of the two. Fitted engine gearbox and rear subframe in the better of the two but the differential gears were clunking. Dropped engine gearbox and subframe again changed the diffs over. Refitted everything. Runs like a Swiss watch. Swapped the soft tops(the scrap one had an electric hood) The electric hood would shut but not open. Cured:woohoo: it with new microswitch. M.O.T with one advisory. Fitted reversing camera with radio and aux ports. Can now see what i reverse into.

Hi and welcome to the forum

Sounds like you've been busy.

James

Untwisted my trailer by adding the missing bolt from the chassis, only been like that since 2006 when I bought it as an ex demo from the local Do-It-All. Also added a couple of extra bolts to the body to replace the incorrect bolts that were letting the body mis-shape when strapping in stuff.

MGF relevance - I use it for moving MGF parts.

Getting one of my TF's ready to sell

Saw a nice SLK 350 for sale, but cant buy as don't have the space

So decision has been made

I could do with you living in my street lol

yes, you have some bottle.

cairnsys wrote: wrote:

graham1 wrote: wrote:

nice job . but where did you get these dials really look the part.

TBH, I thought they were the standard fitting on the Mk2 F. They were on it when I acquired the car.

They are standard.

I changed my TF's dark tinted rear light clusters for mgf smoked ones. Looks much better and only cost £22 off ebay


Steve.

Got the washers working on my second TF. An easy win as the one way valve was blocked with a crud. Soon be off for a MOT!

Quickly followed by another! Sticky clutch freed off with a spot of P**sgas! On a roll as I have also got the heater knobs on as the previous ones had split leaving the clips on the shafts. Better have a lie down now....

Over the past week I have started on the rear subframe swap.

First job was to lift the back of the car which was rather low as the hydragas was empty.
I couldn't even get the standard jack under the rear so I lifted it at the front enough to get the low lift jack under the rear.
I raised her up enough to get a couple of bricks under each side of the subframe to hold her stable.

I then removed the exhaust and cat.
When I replaced most of the exhaust system I used the longer cat saver bolts to future proof replacing the cat.
The last time I sent the car into a garage for a bit of work prior to the MOT they replaced the cat to get through the emissions.
Imagine my surprise to find that there were only 2 of the 6 cat saver nuts on there and that the other bolts were a mix of sizes.
And then I found they had fitted a cat that had a boss for a lambda probe at the front, and had fitted a broken lambda probe in the hole!
I do know the garage have sacked the mechanic who had worked on my car due to his poor standards but I am starting to get rather feed up with all the problems I find resulting from his work, even two and a half years later.

Moving on I have now removed the exhaust heat shield by grinding off the bolts (or what was left of them) and this morning I am repairing and upgrading it.