tom71

I think the rod that comes out of the coil spring should be perpendicular to the carb. The picture shows it at a rather severe angle. Are you sure that coil spring is installed correctly? It looks backwards to what mine looks like on my '71. If that coil is not working properly it will choke the carb and cause problems. Hope this helps. Tom

A 60's choke angle guage in West Palm Beach. I love it! Thanks all, I'll work with the choke and get my all original Monte running better. I hope to get it to work, moving to WPB is a little extreme just to raise the temp in the air cleaner! Tom

I found the part at thepartsplace.com It is part CB10780Z and is called the thermal air intake vacuum sensor (Cold start sensor that mounts in air cleaner base). I wish I knew how to tell if it is bad or not. $28 cost.

My 71 350 monte takes awhile to warm up. She runs a little rough until she warms and then is OK. I have a question regarding the air cleaner hardware. There is a round AC plastic cover over a metal disk in with the air cleaner. It has two vacuum hoses going to it. What is it? I put a vacuum gauge on it and it does not hold vacuum. Should it? I put the vacuum guage on the nozzel of the air cleaner hardware and it opens the valve within the nozzel. How do I check the round AC (AC is stamped on the top of this plastic piece) and what is it for? I'd take a picture but I still need to master the posting of pictures. (old guy) Thanks. Tom

I painted mine from the front (all black) then used some very fine grit emry paper to take the paint off the letters. Put the paper on a block of wood and take the paint right off. Came out brand new.

Doug has it right.

My 71 came with an AM radio with driver side and passenger side speakers (not center speakers), also with A/C. The knobs are black with silver trim.