AR Technical Bulletins for Montego

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Technical bulletins 11/06/87 Maestro van front seat cushion damage, Montego headlining sagging with rockwell golde sun roof, revised fixing buttons....

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Technical bulletins 15/05/87 Maestro and Montego strengthened rear brake drums to reduce judder, more secure wheel trims for td wheels....

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Yes, mind you it always seemed odd that one belt was multi v and one just normal, you'd have thought they'd have put multi on both. Then again, if people do what it says in the book/what you told them to do 'cos they haven't got or didn't read the book, then it seems to work fine ...

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No problem, as both you and Jeff mention, there is æ lot of useful information in them, a bit tedious to scan in, but in the end I'm doing myself favour too, because searching for the right item on here beats hell out of battling with the index and four ring binders of stuff. The next batch were 'all...

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It is a scam, the real owner is on the facebook group and isn't selling..
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Montego technical bulletin 12/08/88 spot welds visible on doors, continuous and automatic rear wipe on estate, boot and tailgate central locking fails to engage...

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Montego technical bulletins 28/07/88 excessive oil consumption A series, lock lubrication, heated backlight timer overheating...

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Montego technical bulletins 24/06/88 coolant leak from radiator, stiff steering rack, wrong sun roof screws, windscreen wipers delay wipe malfunction, battery failure, speedo cable noise,...

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Montego technical bulletins 19/05/88 incomplete door hinge welds, engine stalling at idle, change of gearbox type from Honda built PG1 to Rover built, mechanical fuel pump cannot be fitted (o series carb engine), body styling kit paint repair precautions...

[Doctordiesel77]

Some of these overlap with Maestro ones, but I'll try to keep them separate to make searches easier. I'll just put one of each of the Montego technical bulletins in each comment, for the same reason and will include 'technical bulletins' in each comment, so searching 'technical bulletins' plus either...

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Maestro technical bulletins 09/09/88 cooling system leaks, rattles from sun roof...

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Maestro technical bulletins 19/08/88 spot welds visible on doors boot and tailgate central locking fails to engage, new relay connectors...

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Maestro technical bulletins 28/07/88 excessive oil consumption A series, lock lubrication, heated backlight timer overheating...

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Maestro technical bulletins 24/06/88 coolant leak from radiator, stiff steering, wrong sunroof screws, battery failure, speedo cable noise...

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And more Maestro technical bulletins, from 19/05/88 incomplete door hinge welds, engine stalling at idle, change of gearbox type (PG1 Honda built to Rover built)...

[Doctordiesel77]

Having got hold of even more of these technical bulletins, I thought I'd better get back into action. This is a Maestro one from 30/04/88 covering throttle cable seizure, clutch cable problems, power steering belt squeal and poor heater performance. 3004881is1.pdf...

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This company http://www.ep-services.co.uk/. should be able to rebuild your water pump, the pumps are hens teeth these days as marine, industrial and van engines used a different one. This is the cheapest source of cambelt kits that I found. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DAYCO-Tim...-Kit-for-ROVER...

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LH is near side on right hand drive cars, the LH stub has a left hand thread, which might explain the price difference. Most more recent vehicles have right hand thread on both sides, goods vehicle wheel nuts used to be left hand thread on left hand side, but now all are right hand thread. The theory...

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Lack of smoke, good performance and economy implies that it is not far off anyway! If it was slightly overadvanced it would be noisier and probably still perform ok, retarded would make it smoky. The only way to be sure is with a dial gauge, I made some adaptors for mine, but now they are quite chep...