70 Monte Trans Filter / AutoZone warning

[Bob Hansen]

FYI

If you go to an Autozone to get a trans filter & gasket for a 70 Monte with a small block they will give you one for a powerglide, it is the only one listed.

[alex's72fgmc]

reach across the counter and slap them! and say very loadly YOU MORON DONT BE A DUMBA$$!!!

 

lol

[Guest]

Auto Zone is new school. You can hire anybody and show them how to use the computer, but they don't really know what they are doing.

[Hoodicoff1]

as Red Foreman would say " You're a dumbass!"

 

[AndyBill402]

Here's a tip that some may find useful. Whenever I go buy a car part at one of the "computer" stores, if I know that the part I want is the same for the same year Chevelle, I tell them I have a Chevelle. I get the right part pronto.

 

If I then ask them if this item is the same for the same year Monte, they often tell me they don't even have a listing for that part.

 

Curious, but true.

 

Andrew Offutt

[MonteCarloTerp]

I hate AutoZone so much, I am sick of dealing with the aholes that work there, but its the closest thing I got.

[wallaby]

Since we are talking about starters, I ask the guy for a starter for a '71 chevy with a big-block. He pushes some buttons then replies "standard or automatic trans"?

Maybe it's just me, I thought a chevy starter was a chevy starter. I know he wants to get me the right part but is a manual trans starter different?

[mjs-13]

Yes, in most cases due to flywheel. Could be 153 tooth or 168 tooth.

[dmdbit]

Mike is right the starters are different.In having owned both a 4spd and an auto monte the starters are different.

 

 

mike b

[Matt'sSS]

That's true for different tranny, what I think is moronish is when they ask if it has AC. That seems to be the standard dumbA$$ question no matter the part you require.

[Landshark]

Stick trans and 454 use a cast iron starter nose. The 350 & 400 turbo cars use the aluminium "cross bolt" nose, and the powerglide cars, which use the smaller flywheel, have the "long and short" aluminium nose, same as Cadillac. The cast iron nose uses a slightly shorter bolt than the cross bolt nose.

[kc8oye]

manual or AT, AC or not are standard questions that the software just asks for

 

btw.. if you don't mind waiting a few days

 

www.partsamerica.com that's the website for 'advance autoparts' great company to deal with, I take all my business there unless I'm in a hurry, then I might hit autozone since it's just around the corner.

[jim's 70]

I worked at a non-chain auto parts store for a lil while. The computer asks the same questions no matter what part you want....we just didn't ask the customer the obviously irrelevant ones. Its pretty funny that most auto part stores chain or not use the same computer program. At least I find it funny lol

Jim