Well another attempt to wake the MG from it’s near five year slumber has failed.

I’m starting to think the car just doesn’t like me.

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The other woman (apologies for crap pic-cameraphone!)

After getting some help swapping the clutch slave, clutch master and brake master, it was done to me to give the car a simple service and get her ready for her MoT.

With a service kit ordered up from the MGCC, I set about swapping the plugs, fitting a new, uprated Lucas sport coil and then finally replaced the points and condenser. Taking the battery off charge, I hooked it up and everything was set.

I pulled choke (kids, ask your Dad) all the way out and turned the key, ready for the hearty roar of the trusty B-series engine.

Nothing happened.

Not sure the battery had got enough charge I grabbed the jump leads and manouvered the Sloman Family fun bus into position to act as a mule to kickstart the ol’ girl.

Hopping back into the B I quietly though ‘Right, here we go!’

Nothing happened.

Now, I’m no mechanic, as I fully admit, but I am a keen at having a go and I’ve taught myself to do an awful lot under the bonnet of a car, and believe you can do anything with a Haynes manual and a socket set. Then, somewhere from the depths of my mind, a thought came rushing forth. ‘I bet the starter motor is stuck.’ I grabbed my hammer and gave the starter a few brief, short ‘thwapps’ with the base of the shaft and, hey presto, it started to turner over.

Still wouldn’t bloody start though. So, as it stands, I’ve run out of ideas. My current plan is to replace the worn seatbelts and finish fitting the new carpets. Then I’ll stick it on a trailer and take it to someone who can show me why it’s not starting, and how to fix it. Of course be the time I manage to do all this it’ll probably be the Autum/winter and I can’t have the car out in crap weather.

Hmmm, maybe I’ll get it on the road for Summer 2011…