Little winter project - Mancave updates and the MG TF

[Trev Latter]

I've been meaning to knock through the two single garages for a while now and finally got my backside into gear and got on with it. It's only a temporary solution, as i'm planning on knocking the whole lot down to start again in a year or two (once I've fully recovered from installing a new kitchen to maintain the man cave tokens). Anyway, below are the during and after pics.







Of Course, as soon as I'd done it the FIL says he thinks his clutch is slipping on the MG, so we've got it in there at the mo to sort that out. Not sure how long the clutch has been slipping for, but the flywheel is trash. I also discovered a core plug about to fail through corrosion and a few other issues that need sorting, so they'll all get done while the engine is out. Slightly odd design on the MG in that, to remove the flywheel, the sump has to come off as it forms part of the clutch housing which prevents the flywheel from being removed due to fouling the ring gear.

 

[safrane]

Lovely little MG there and the AC is even nicer.

 

[BennyD]

Jeez, your FIL certainly gets his money's worth out of clutches!

 

[Trev Latter]

The clutch is about five or six years old according to him, so I reckon he must be riding the clutch to get it that bad that quickly. We managed to source a decent used flywheel, so that was quite fortunate. We're going to respray under bonnet while it's out as it's starting to look a little sorry for itself now. He's owned it for just under 20 years, which was when it was last partially restored and it still looks nice now. Better in some ways, I think, because it's developed a nice patina since it was last done. It still has original engine, matching numbers etc and has only covered a documented 47k miles from new. Lovely old thing really.

 

[2b1ask1]

Good work there Trevor

 

[alfatwo]

The clutch is about five or six years old according to him, so I reckon he must be riding the clutch to get it that bad that quickly. We managed to source a decent used flywheel, so that was quite fortunate. We're going to respray under bonnet while it's out as it's starting to look a little sorry for itself now. He's owned it for just under 20 years, which was when it was last partially restored and it still looks nice now. Better in some ways, I think, because it's developed a nice patina since it was last done. It still has original engine, matching numbers etc and has only covered a documented 47k miles from new. Lovely old thing really.

Thank god it's not a Coventry Climax motor or else Ben would be taking the **** out of it already!


Dave