Hello everyone! Thank you for allowing me to join.
This is my 72’ Monte Carlo. I acquired this vehicle on a trade for a side by side. To my knowledge, I am the 4th owner. And the 3rd owner practically knew nothing about the car other than it had a new generation 6 454 with a “hot cam” and a th400 that was placed in the car roughly a year ago. Supposedly the car underwent a restoration 10 years ago, when they changed the color from gulf green to this hunter green now.
The car ran fairly rough on its test drive. I could tell from my experience the car was in desperate need for a timing adjustment and a tune up. The car is running extremely rich, as evidenced by the blacker than sin spark plugs when I pulled them after I got the car home.
After getting the car home, I found more and more lazy hodgepodge fixes and lazy short cuts that were taken. Unfortunately not the kind of car I was looking for. Knowing now I would have ran far away but there’s no going back!
Some of the immediate issues:
1. Power steering pump was wobbling: Due to longer bolts being used and not able to tighten bracket onto the block & stripped threats in water pump so the belt cannot be tightened.
2. Crank pulley has some damage from maybe a hammer? Eventually this will shear off a belt so this needs to be addressed.
3. Car has a slight lean to the drivers front. Unsure what is causing this yet.
Down the road:
1. Bubbling in C pillars underneath the vinyl top.
2. Everything else 😂
Like I said I wasn’t looking for a project, but hopefully I can fix the immediate issues and just be able to enjoy the car for a couple years. I’ll add pictures shortly!
