1997 MG "HFH" F - Get your shiny head tanned this summer

[purplebargeken]

Utter bargain, I would like a shot but raging pain is not a nice end to a drive.

[xtriple]

Where on this thread can I find piktoors of this beasty?

 

I is a bit tempted.... but Torquay to the midlands with two dogs and then driving home with them.... hmmmmmmm.

[Pillock]

Will deliver for cost of getting home. Pictures are in here somewhere, but have more for shits and giggles

 

 

 

 

 

[Bear]

Today's job was the new rear screen. First of all I went and purchased the required tools, naturally I went for the highest quality.

 

 

 

I see where you went wrong. You got a hand riveter kit. You need a roof-fabric-retaining-thingy riveter kit. HTH.

[forddeliveryboy]

I'd love it, if only to let my two little ones appreciate what a really good British car is while they're still around at affordable prices. BtB will tell you I missed out by a whisker, time-wise, when he sold it.

 

I'd give it a thorough bit of corrosion protection if needs be both underneath and inside box sections - something I'm used to (I love using schutz guns attached to compressed air tanks). I'd say there's less chance of hgf than anything else, providing it's not run with a coolant leak. I got used to knowledgeable* pub-talk about Citroen suspension years ago and know enough people who reckon the K-series is just fine.

[Taff]

Where on this thread can I find piktoors of this beasty?

 

I is a bit tempted.... but Torquay to the midlands with two dogs and then driving home with them.... hmmmmmmm.

 

do it. The dogs will love you for eveh. As will the MILFs.

[Pillock]

Not for sale no more. Best wash it!

[Taff]

is it staying in-house?

[Pillock]

Very much so, yes

[Taff]

Groovy. The gods of ASMGFOMGHGF will smile for all eternity on both you and the new owner

[Lord Sterling]

is it staying in-house?

Very much so, yes

It wasn't Dugong who bought it was it?

[Pillock]

Nope. As per one of the many AS traditions I'll let the buyer reveal themselves (in the non-fleshy sense) in case there's an exciting collection thread. But not dugong, probably primarily because he's already got one, and it's hard enough fending off the clunge with just one of these.

[Jim Bell]

Everyones a winner!

 

Well done to the lucky shitter getting his mits on this.

[purplebargeken]

Not me either but well done to whoever.

 

Dugong, what is happening with PBL?

[Pillock]

 

This does not happen often. But I treat a special car like a special lady.....

 

....and give it a good spraying with the foamy lance. Will suck the insides clean later.

[Pillock]

Waiting for the new owner to turn up with that feeling of regret. Just had a last hoon around in it. That was a stupid idea.

[Cavcraft]

Waiting for the new owner to turn up with that feeling of regret.

 

I bet people went into Rover garages exactly like that all those years ago.

[Pillock]

[Barry Cade]

Just wondered if there are any updates on the whereabouts of the MGF? It's out of MOT and tax... I have a hankering for another.

[forddeliveryboy]

Aye, it's sitting here keeping out of the salt. The front wheel bearings will need doing before the test along with a joint on the nsr. They're quiet if you don't use the car for a bit, then after 200 miles or so come back. Thought I was hearing things on getting it back up North, I was sure they'd been quiet in the Midlands! Possible to repack with grease I wonder?

 

All the symptoms of inlet gasket leaking too, I've one waiting to go on. One of the rear calipers has always dragged - hopefully a bit of exercise with the pads out should sort it.

 

Someone reversed into the osf wing, too - car should be back on the road in Spring.

 

Do the TF wings need any fettling to fit?

[Barry Cade]

Phew, thought it was AWOL   Inlet gasket was changed to the green type along with the HG, but they only seem to last 2 or 3 years. Front bearings are Metro. TF wings are different - you'd have to do a full front end to fit them, I prefer the F look. Just glad its being fettled. I loved that car.

[Pillock]

Phew x2. 

Nice little honest car that. It made me smile in a way that the Saab that replaced it never really managed, I think at least 85% of the smiles were when overtaking cars costing twenty five times the price.

[forddeliveryboy]

The engine is particularly sweet, feels like it's been driven hard and serviced properly. One of the best fours I've ever known in any car - way preferable to the Honda 1.6 in a late 80s CRX I once had.

 

The spheres are best when the weather's warm, the opposite's true for the old dampers. On a hot day when the roads are smooth, it's in its element. Blisteringly fast when conditions are right for the suspension, bloody rapid the rest of the time.

 

She started misfiring every now and then last Spring, the plug gap was massive. Have a feeling that a couple of months driving rather* rapidly helped this. Looked up the correct gap and reset them all - anyone any idea when the plugs were last replaced or how often they're meant to have new ones? The oil filter was a bit rusty, so I'm guessing it could've been a while.

[Pillock]

I never did plugs, I did dizzy cap and rotor arm, rear window, starter motor and hooning.

[Barry Cade]

The engine is particularly sweet, feels like it's been driven hard and serviced properly. One of the best fours I've ever known in any car - way preferable to the Honda 1.6 in a late 80s CRX I once had.

 

The spheres are best when the weather's warm, the opposite's true for the old dampers. On a hot day when the roads are smooth, it's in its element.

I bought the car as a non runner, it had dropped a valve and was just in a bit of a state. Stripped the top end, redid the head, put on the correct but updated non MLS gasket then gave it a few oil changes and a full coolant flush and refill with top quality coolant, freed off the stuck clutch arm,and replaced the slave cylinder then battered it across to Frankfurt, dicing with the Uber Audi's in the fast lane. It crossed that London in rush hour traffic, and took me to and from work without an issue. The suspension is filled with my own recipe of fluid, which must be kept a secret.

 

The K series is ACE, if proper.

[forddeliveryboy]

Very true. Amazing they're worth so little. Stick a BMW badge on and people would be valuing them in thousands rather than hundreds. 

 

Thanks for the wing info, what sort of coolant, Barry?

[Barry Cade]

It was Comma XStream  G30. Bloody expensive stuff.

[forddeliveryboy]

Isn't that stuff pink?

[Pillock]

I will have another. Mrs_Pillock just glanced over as I was looking at the pictures on this thread and she agrees. 

The plan was always to use the F for our honeymoon, just having a massive roadtrip. Unfortunately family got in the way and it's not happened yet, but there's plenty of Fs out there

[Barry Cade]

Isn't that stuff pink?

Yup, is it not now? Needs to be OAT in a K series