1.3 Maestro Vacuum system

[SimonR]

Hi all,

I've been faddling with a Maestro 1.3 today - it hadn't been on the road for about 10 years and the vacuum system was partially missing. I have the parts to put it back together but need a diagram showing what goes where!

The car drove from Heathrow to St. Ives almost without incident - it shed its alternator belt on the A1M which was sorted in about 30 minutes by a friendly RAC man. It ran OK ish with half of the system plugged in but I need to get it sorted so that I can do the timing and sort the idle out.

Anyone care to draw me a diagram of the pipe-work?

Thanks in advance!!

[E_T_V]

Check out my A series running/tuning post in the FAQ forum. You can omit the thermostat vacuum switch, but otherwise it should be the same.

[SimonR]

Cheers, Dan.

I've just had a look at it and couldn't work out why my vacuum system looked so different. I just realised that your diagrams are for a manual choke car. My one has an auto choke and vacuum switch and a kind of complicated multi-pronged connector in the mix too.

I'm pretty sure that the vacuum switch should have a short pipe connecting it to the pronged connector and there's a T-Piece in the mix too!

Anyone with the auto-choke arrangement fancy taking a photo to go on the FAQ along with Dan's diagram??

Cheers!

[SimonR]

Well, after a couple of educated guesses and chancing on a rather bad photo of it in the Haynes manual (why the hell is this not covered in the Haynes????) I think this is how it works.

Would anyone like to go take a look and tell me if I'm right?

<snip> Take a look at the FAQ for diagrams.

[G Force]

Looks good to me SimonR:)

Gary:)

[SimonR]

Looks good to me SimonR:)


Hah -I hoped you'd be along soon, Gary!

The Maestro is now purring along like a goodun. Just off now to give it a complete service.

Cheers for the confirmation.

SR.

[G Force]

Job well done! and excellently worked out mate.:)

Gary:)