Guess what - HGF

Good news! Fixed in time for a Spring outing.

Thats really good news

So... my local guy is now showing signs of not wanting to do it - though he used to be a specialist, that's years ago now, and I think he's less keen than expected.

There is still a semi-local expert, but he's about 15 miles away. So the question is... I've only driven maybe 20 miles since I noticed the problem. Would it be very inadvisable to drive it slowly to him, with maybe an hour's break in the middle, or would this be seriously risking making things worse?

Ta

Hi,
It maybe worth having a look at Rough Luck Racings web site.
I know that they used to get around quite a bit, UK wide and most of Europe.

Or Russell Walsh. He did mine in the middle of January, outside. Good man.

Thanks for the recommendations - unfortunately, a phrase we in my part of the world get very familiar with is "excludes NI"

The ride of shame.......on the back of a tow truck!

Hogweed wrote:

So... my local guy is now showing signs of not wanting to do it - though he used to be a specialist, that's years ago now, and I think he's less keen than expected.

There is still a semi-local expert, but he's about 15 miles away. So the question is... I've only driven maybe 20 miles since I noticed the problem. Would it be very inadvisable to drive it slowly to him, with maybe an hour's break in the middle, or would this be seriously risking making things worse?

Ta

When I acquired my F I drove it home about 15 miles topping it up with water every now and then with no big problem,  but my Son followed in his car with a tow rope just in case but it wasn't needed. When we got it home it was a split hose that was leaking, but all the same to that I did do the H/G,  its not that hard to do on an F!  Finding it far more of a job on the 2002 160 VVC. So my advice would be:  get it insured then get a friend to tow it gently to the person you have in mind to do the repair.  Good luck Glyn  (D4KGP) 

If that becomes a plan, do make sure that you affix the tow strop to a point where the front bumper is still with the car & in one piece, on arrival. Particularly if you have a front splitter! My advice would be to remove the bumper, there may be eyes on the subframe, these are for for tiedowns & not a near horizontal pull.
M

Hogweed, I have a 1.8VVC working engine in the garage if needed, let me know,

No charge,

Mat, Galway,

Blimey, what a very generous offer

True but it can be towed GENTLY as I said.