New Acquisition: Austin Maxi

[vulgalour]

Yup. same deal on the Princess. They're absorbent so any fuel or oil leaks are soaked into them and that can then smoke.  Replaced mine with some aluminium sheet.  If there's no heatshield you'll find you get vapourlock on the three days of really hot weather we have each year so it's worth replacing them if you can to avoid that.

[keef]

Here's a couple of pics of original heat shield.

[cbowditch]

Here's a couple of pics of original heat shield.

 

Thanks, yes that's them. So definitely not home made then!

[keef]

Did you get all the spares with it?

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22857520@N06/sets/72157623780749522/with/4495828222/

[purplebargeken]

If the interior needs a slight clean am more than happy to pop over for the day and give it some attention. 

[Zelandeth]

Nice. Just over in Milton Keynes here, so if you need a hand with something sure I could drop by to lend a hand (or ear, nose etc whatever is most relevant to the task at hand).

 

Getting the carbs balanced is easy enough to do by ear once you've done it a few times, can make the world of difference though.

 

Never driven a Maxi, always liked the look of them though...just sadly they'd started to go up in price even before I was looking. Probably only going to go up now with the MOT changes...

[cbowditch]

Did you get all the spares with it?

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/sets/72157623780749522/with/4495828222/

 

       

 

Wow, great find. No I didn't get any of that stuff, and its needs it  I think this was from when it was sold in 2007. Unfortunately the previous owner has just run it into the ground since these pics were taken

[cbowditch]

Nice. Just over in Milton Keynes here, so if you need a hand with something sure I could drop by to lend a hand (or ear, nose etc whatever is most relevant to the task at hand).

 

Getting the carbs balanced is easy enough to do by ear once you've done it a few times, can make the world of difference though.

 

Never driven a Maxi, always liked the look of them though...just sadly they'd started to go up in price even before I was looking. Probably only going to go up now with the MOT changes...

 

Thanks for the offer. I may well need some help if I can't get it running properly!

[cbowditch]

Latest Update. Carbs off again. I've attached a pic of the dirty heatshields. They were covered in oily grime. I've ordered some aly ones, but they're not coming until next week.

[keef]

 Unfortunately the previous owner has just run it into the ground since these pics were taken

That's a shame.

 

Plenty of help on the Maxi Group on Facebook, if you need it.

 

As others on here have said replace the broken heat shield with ally plate. Friend usedan old number plate.

[keef]

Any updates?

 

Just fitted a new exhaust to Leak (my 1976 1750). All that was left of the back section was a single silencer that was virtually welded to the front pipe!