I NEED YOUR HELP - The Maestro Is Worse Than WE Thought - Major Rust Issues - Rebuild Part 3
In this video we disassemble the engine further to find the issue at hand, I also find some extremely bad period repairs that may have caused a lot more issues.
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Background;
In this Maestro vlog my Austin Maestro breaks down due to engine failure! (we suspect) it sounds like the big end has gone which may result in a very expensive repair. Unfortunately there has always been something wrong with this car, the engine has always sounded quite rough so this is a bit of an advice video on how to tell if your cars engine is about to fail and some advice about caring for a daily driven classic.
Please post your thoughts below on this and any help with sourcing any parts is appreciated. Please also drop suggestions below on what you want to see happen with the Maestro.
History:
The Austin Maestro is a five-door hatchback small family car (and two-door van derivative) that was produced from 1982 to 1987 by British Leyland, and from 1988 until 1994 by Rover Group, as a replacement for the Morris Marina and Austin Allegro. The car was produced at Morris' former Oxford plant, also known as Cowley, with 605,000 units sold.[3] Today, the redeveloped factory builds the BMW Mini. An MG-branded performance version was sold as the MG Maestro from 1983 until 1991.
Although later models were sometimes referred to as the Rover Maestro, the model never wore the Rover badge. The Austin Montego saloon was a variant of the Maestro.