Paul Bell

Third gen Novas, 68-74. It's about how the mirror's base is mounted to the top flat section of the door just like our cars have.

As I recall, the right side bullet sport mirror from a Nova has the correctly angled base to mount on these Monte Carlos. I have one....somewhere.

Today I stopped by my garage, popped the hood and had a long hard look at it all. I'm making plans....

On the other forums I subscribe to, there are threads like this. They're usually pretty active. So, what did you do to your Monte Carlo today?

This allows to have a dropped car but retain full suspension travel. It looks cool too. It involves some cutting the at the original shock pocket and welding the thing in. It certainly makes a more stout upper shock mount. I wonder if they'd make it at normal height? http://www.globalwest.net/cof-42-chevellefrontcoilover.html

I know everything there is to know about Monty Carlos. Thanks to canuck, now I know even more!

Welcome Stu! The 1970 fender extension has an alignment pin that goes into a hole in the fender. 71/72 is the other way around, the pin is in the fender and goes into the extension.

I'm gonna start selling parts marked SS/GTO/WS6. That should cover everything.

What's "special insulation"? New one on me.

Found it. V30 about half way down: http://www.chevellestuff.net/1971/options.htm

RPO V30 could be "front and rear bumper guards" OR "front bumper guards" I saw it listed as this on a website that I just can't find again....but I'll keep looking for it. A build sheet would show if RPO V30 was included. Here's what I'm thinking: These cars could have been assembled at any one of nine plants. Perhaps some plants automatically deleted rear bumper guards when the V30 option was ordered with the SS package and some other plants deleted the bumper strip when V30 was ordered with the SS package. Imagine: The person putting together the build sheet had to decide between using the bumper strip when V30 was included or to do the full front & rear V30 option.

Yep, LostnFound's car definitely has the rear bumper strip.

WOW, this thread took off! As rear bumper guards were a option with a cost, you could order them on an SS. They delete the fancy (and probably expensive) rubber strip, didn't give you a credit for it then charged you for the bumper guards. There were 1971 SS cars produced without the bumper strip-because they had the extra cost bumper guards. I had a really good parts counter guy back then. At one time, he had a '71SS and knew all the ins & outs of them. He found me my hockey sticks.

The 1971 Oldsmobile 98 has a very similar rear bumper & tail light setup as our Montes. I think the backup lenses are the same. Although I can't find a picture of one, I'm sure I've seen a '71 98 with a rub strip like the Monte SS has.

Here's the full dilly on the rear SS bumper pad: The 1971 SS Monte Carlo had the bumper strip HOWEVER, the customer could order front and rear bumper guards which removed the SS bumper strip. Certainly, no customers knew about the bumper strip when they ordered the car (it was not mentioned in the sales brochure and the one photo of the SS shows no bumper pad or bumper guards) so they'd never realize adding bumper guards would delete part of the SS trim. A car could be ordered with front bumper guards only so it's feasible for a '71 SS car to have from the factory front bumper guards AND the SS rear bumper strip. The bumpers themselves were the same. When a strip needed to be installed, it would get the needed holes punched into it just as it would for bumper guards. These bumper strips have a steel reinforcement in them with the studs that poked through the back side to go into the bumper. These strips rusted and rotted from the inside causing the strip to bulge and eventually split. I had an original strip and bumper. Back in the day, I asked around to find a replacement. My search led to Metro Mold and we struck a deal. I sent them my strip so they could make a mold. They were the producers of the repo strip. The rubber is the exact same rubber used in a bumper guard. Every time I see a bumper strip today I smile because I know it came from a mold I helped make.

+1 on the top-downs please.

If you have plenty of money you can get the GM spacer: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/NAL-12490679/

Melonized gears is the adding of the coating Melonite which also hardens the gear during the process. Melonite is a wear resistant coating. Yeah Mike, you'll need to drop the pan to get the junk out. I also suggested a new cam and oil pump. I'm curious: Did you use a steel collar on the oil pump drive shaft? http://www.burlingtoneng.com/wear_resistance.html

It sounds like a bad distributor gear. With the damage to the gear, your work at minimum would be replacing the cam as it's gear is surely damaged in some way and dropping the pan to clear out the junk. While in there, I'd also replace the pump. As you shut it down right away and have oil pressure when turning the pump, the bearings are probably just fine. GM may want the entire engine back. You'll also probably need to deal with the dealership that you bought the engine from.

4950746 Generally, they can only be found & purchased attached to an entire car.

There's a 3973683 relay on eekbay right now, $175.00. Lo and behold, it has a vacuum port on it. I have no clue how this thing hooks up but I'll bet it's detailed in a 1970 assembly guide.

I'm not sure if a hose is part of this option. Maybe for the Electrotip washer option. There's chatter on a Chevelle forum that the option if original from the factory adds $2,000.00 to the car's value. It also mentioned that only 12 cars had the option.

Here's two pics I found. The silver box kinda above the brake booster is the relay. There's also a pic of it in the 1970 MC brochure.

There's a mention of them in The Chevelle SS Restoration Guide. Text only, it reads: A rare and unique option for 1970 only was RPO CD3 Electrotip wipers. These were activated by a small button on the signal lever, part number 3873684. The wires were routed down the steering column. A black cover, part number 7806271, protected wires on the column. Three extra holes were drilled in the firewall. A single 0.75 hole was drilled to the top left of the fuse panel where the harness assembly, part number 8901518, was routed through a rubber grommet that was used for protection. Two smaller, 0.147 diameter holes were drilled into the firewall next to the windshield wiper motor assembly to support the relay switch, part number 3973683.