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- Birthday 09/19/1973
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Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Restoring the Monte & riding my motorcycle
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Rob Warren
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Air Force (Retired)
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If you want to shop from their site do the following to find your upholstery: Search bar top right type “monte carlo” Categories bar on left choose “Upholstery & Trim Accessories” Categories bar on left choose “Seat Upholstery-Chevrolet” If you are wanting to stay with cloth seats, look for the items that say "Cloth". If you want to stay with the dark green interior (like I did) here is what I ordered: □ AA72GMC0020467G 72 MONTE CARLO CLOTH SPLIT □ AA72GMC0048467G 72 MONTE CARLO CLOTH HTP REAR □ DO71GM00012465G 72 MONTE CARLO FRONT DOOR - 13 DARK GREEN CARPET ON PANELS □ DO71GM00048465G 72 MONTE CARLO REAR PANELS -
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I got my cloth seats (dark green) from Legendary.
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Goodguys 29th Pacific Northwest Nationals
Joker_USAF replied to Joker_USAF's topic in Local Cruises and Events
Thanks but my car isn't here just yet. As of this morning it was still sitting at the port in Galveston awaiting transportation. I hope it gets here soon. -
Well, I am 3 days into living in the US again and there happened to be a huge car show about 15 minutes from me. Today was my first Goodguys event. I saw three 1970 Monte's but none had a member sticker and no owners were around. It was a great event.
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Just ordered the springs. The photo journal made it look too easy not to try it. Thanks for documenting Dennis!
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What did you do to your Monte Carlo today?
Joker_USAF replied to Canuck's topic in General 70-72 Monte Carlo Forum
Actually, yeah. Everything other than the cable coming through to the foot pedal was a piece of cake. Putting the new one in took a little time but nothing like trying to get the old, corroded one out. All of the cable lengths between the old and new matched so no issues there. Since then, I have also rebuilt the rear drums (new springs, wheel cylinder and self adjuster). I haven't been able to take the car out because I am still waiting on the interior to get finished but hopefully by the end of September she'll be on the road. -
What did you do to your Monte Carlo today?
Joker_USAF replied to Canuck's topic in General 70-72 Monte Carlo Forum
Replaced my entire parking brake cable system with a kit from InlineTube. The only PIA area was getting the front cable out of the drivers compartment and then out through the hole in the frame. -
What did you do to your Monte Carlo today?
Joker_USAF replied to Paul Bell's topic in General 70-72 Monte Carlo Forum
I'm slowly working on my restoration. Today I got the rear bumper off, seats out, carpet removed and most of the old sound deadener scrapped off. -
Well I figured I would make sure to update this thread so that we could have the info for historical reference. I figured out what was causing the pump to keep squirting. The picture below is the original that I removed. The mechanics work but the pump itself won't hold pressure and so won't suck the fluid from the bottle. The new one worked fine but wouldn't stop spraying. I have fixed it temporarily until I get figure out a permanent solution. Brief summary on how it works: Latch #1 slides back and forth with slide #3 while the wipers are moving. When #1 slides forward it grabs a tooth (circled left) in the wheel and pulls it back. It will continue to do this unless latch #2 gets underneath as it shown in the picture. Now #2 will only be underneath when it reaches the cut out on the side of the wheel (circled center). When it is in this "resting" position, slide #3 will continue to move back and forth but #1 cannot grab a tooth and so the pump will not spray. When you press the wiper switch inside for fluid, it activates the magnet (copper wire) which pulls #1 upward allowing #2 to grab a tooth to start turning the wheel which activates the pump. The wheel will make one rotation until it reaches the cut out (center circle) which will drop #1 back down causing #2 to slide over it. This disengages the wheel and the pump goes back to "rest". My issue on the new one is that when it comes back around, #1 doesn't drop far/fast enough and so it gets pulled back up to the magnet causing the whole cycle to continue again. I can pull it out of the way myself while it is running to stop it. Just figured I would give to this group while I can since I am pretty sure I will spend most of my time taking info. Rob - btw, I passed the German inspection this week.
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The brass strip is where it's supposed to be and I had cleaned it before I put it all back together.
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Fellas, looking for some help. Some of you may have seen my Facebook post a few weeks ago concerning getting my 72 Monte through the German inspection. One of the items I failed was the lack of a working washer pump. I have since purchased the pump and installed it yesterday. It worked beautifully the first time I pressed the switch in to get the fluid. Then I noticed that it continued to spray my windshield. It will only stop when I turn the wipers off. Now when I turn them on, it starts spraying again immediately. I took the dust cover off and tried it without...same thing. I took the two prong wire connector off of the pump...same thing. Any ideas as to what is causing the continual shower?