Anyone mechanical?

[batfink79]

Hi all,

Just a bit of help, if anyone can.
I am soon to be unsorning my G plate 1.6. which has been sat in the garage for the last few months. In order to be ready for a new year of fun, there are a few jobs I would like done, these follow;

New cambelt.
New clutch. (on 80k)
Oil change throughout.
sort out the HLA's? (think it might be these, very tappety on start up)
Give it an all round once over.

I am quite happy to put this into the local indy, but I'm not that sure of the cost I would be looking at. Ideas anyone? Failing this I would also be happy for it to go to one of the resident MX5 guys on here for a weekend if anyone could give me a rough ballpark figure.....


Thanks in advance everyone.

Finkers

[snotrag]

Cambelt is <£200 at a specialist for a full job.

Clutch - why bother till its shot? ???

Tappets - Read my previous threads. This can be sorted with repeated, quick oil changes building up to a good quality synthetic.

I guess you'd pay about £50 for an oil chnage - but you really can do it yourself, its very straighforward.

[batfink79]

I think the clutch is on its way out. it feels like its slipping at 80k miles it could probably do with replacing. also the bite point is at what feels like the last couple of cms of travel, which I don't like much.

Oil change: you are probably right, good excuse to get my hands dirty!

[J.P.W.]

Agree with the above. Thought my clutch was dodgy when l got it but l've done several thousand on it. Oil change is dead easy - l'm not very mechanical but l've done mine a few times. Can be done with the car on the ground - all you need is a spanner (19mm?), tray, oil, filter, sump plug washer and Bob's yer uncle. Enjoy getting it back on the road!

[MX-5 Lazza]

Its possible that the clutch master or slave cylinder might be starting to fail causing the high bite point. This is a known weakness on MX5s but is pretty cheap to sort out. Alternatively the clutch fluid might need bleeding. Of course you might be right and the clutch is on it's way out but I'd check these cheaper options first.

[OnlyMX5ives]

IIRC this is the car I sold you last summer.

I really don't think it needs a clutch, the pedal is adjustable but it drove fine and doesn't slip.

I'm sure it had a recent cambelt too.

If you want to flush the oil before changing it then fine but it had a good semi syth when you had it off me so I doubt it needs changing yet, many tap on start up, if it bothers you try an HLA additive.

By all maens pop back and I'll give it a (free) look over.