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Thanks!

Looks great!

Thanks for posting! After I bought my 71, my high school friend got a 71 SS 454, tan with a dk brn vinyl roof like in one of the pictures. Sadly he was T Boned while driving it, when a dump truck ran a red light. No injuries but totaled the SS 454. 😞

Welcome Brant! Great looking Monte.

If we are talking about the same thing, it's the switch that will turn on the parking brake "warning light" on the dash. I forgot to plug it back in one time and I drove the car 5 + miles with the parking brakes ON!! My Monte Carlo, is a 1971. I don't know if that matters. Not sure but the return spring (that releases the tension on the rear brakes) is part of the parking brake cables (I THINK) The {GROUND} screw I have an arrow pointing to, is the ground wire attachment point for the dashboard harness.

When I replaced the heater core on my 71 (No A/C) Monte, it turned into a real snowball. Since I had the carpet and dash all out I also blasten and painted the parking brake mechanism. Here is a picture.. before and after. I can't find the painted picture of it.....

Welcome Jeff! Enjoy.

Another Picture:

One very important thing to remember is the shift indicator cable (If you have a column shifter) is very easy to break. See attached picture: This is one thing to watch out for, I knew about it and still broke mine. I had my dash all out of the car when I pulled the cluster.

Took the first ride since the new battery a month ago. Cranked very quickly and fired up faster than I expected. Took a short drive and all is not too bad... 1- Trans leaking 2- Plastic right inner fender cracked (nothing new) big time.

3 more pics of the evap system on my 71: This was leaking vacuum (see the damage) so I replaced the entire canister many years ago. This small blue restrictor was inside one of the small hoses, shown on the diagram below. I almost threw that restrictor out the day I replaced all the small hoses.

Picture from my 71 350 4bbl Monte. Lots of small hoses attached to all this

Not mine but will this help you???

That reminds me how prior to ELPO (A PPG name I believe) or electroplating primer, cars were dipped into a tank of, what we called at DuPont, "BLACK DIP PRIMER". When I restored my 71 back in the 80's I worked at DuPont Automotive finishes laboratory in Troy, Michigan, and we had black dip primer available. It required baking at 400 F. for 30 minutes to cure. We did have large ovens at the lab and I was able to prime the entire Radiator support core and the top plate. That was a long time ago and it still looks great! Good times!!!