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In other news an absolute disaster has befallen the Montego! The starter motor has broken. Woe, woe and thrice woe! I went to go and pick my daughter up at lunch and it wouldnt start and sounded like a flat battery but a jump pack wouldnt do anything.

Took off the starter motor to find the following:

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It should look like this:

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The starter has no bearing supporting the motor on that end so the nose slides into a bronze bush and acts as the bearing. Thus I believe the motor is just shorting on the body of the starter. Any sensible man would replace the starter. I am not a sensible man. I own a welder. You can see where this is going.

 

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9 minutes ago, Tommyboy12 said:

Im missing the inner wings and I have no grille so airflow is probably a mess in the engine bay anyway. That being said air passing over the top of the bonnet at high speed/high pressure should draw air out the gap not suck air into it. Same principle as an aeroplane wing creating lift.

Air flows from high pressure areas such as the base of the windscreen to low pressure areas such as under the bonnet. 

Nice mini-specific example here but it is true of all vehicles with bonnets and windscreens, which is why cowl induction works so well. 

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My legit starter motor repair worked so have some revs from the old girl in celebration. I filmed this for a tiktok video so ten internet points if you can be bothered to hunt it down. Shouldn't be too hard being about the only lunatic posting Montego content on tiktok 😅

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Bought some parts. My starter repair didn't last and I'm sorting a radiator leak. Starter is a rebuild unit stamped Lucas. Radiator came from Rimmerbros. Their Montego/Maestro pages are a bit disorganised but this was advertised as a Maestro 1.3 radiator but it has the dimensions of the 1.6 radiator.

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Set about the task of replacing the starter and radiator this morning. Should have been simple. Turned into a slog which I can demonstrate with a single picture

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The starter motor at least slotted straight in place.

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I don't particularly advocate bodgery but it seemed a waste of a new radiator that nearly fit so...

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6 minutes ago, Tommyboy12 said:

Set about the task of replacing the starter and radiator this morning. Should have been simple. Turned into a slog which I can demonstrate with a single picture

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The starter motor at least slotted straight in place.

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I don't particularly advocate bodgery but it seemed a waste of a new radiator that nearly fit so...

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Factory spec m9. Excellent work

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  • Tommyboy12 changed the title to Austin Montego 1.3 Estate - Contains additional A-series misery
On 26/01/2022 at 17:18, hairnet said:

nutter

hey but its more interesting than listening to bekos french cars :D

 

I rarely go on about my French car. Partly because its boring, partly because it just isn't going wrong atm 😲

your mum letting you borrow her car again this year or you going to get the bike back out? 

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  • Tommyboy12 changed the title to Tommy's A-series Misery - Montego 1.3 for Sale
On 10/2/2021 at 11:08 PM, sharley17194 said:

All isn't well in the AX world, due to the extra weight we are now massively down on power, we already know the cooling isn't the best and it tends to throw steam clouds about.

I've also been hiding a seriously noisy CV joint since before i left because i didn't want to worry people.

So who knows how this story will end..... we are currently staying an hour and a half from John'o.

If the AX does make it, it will roll over 100k on the way home.

 funny when i think about how worried i was about the cv joint, I've just hit 102k and its still knocking. Maybe it just likes to be heard! 

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