rebelx
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Post by rebelx on May 21, 2009 22:45:09 GMT -5
How long has it been since some of you touched your monte/monte's(in corts n twomany's case), lol. me personally. come september. it will be 2 yrs come then. so figure 1yr 8months since i even touched my poor monte last. i havent even started it up......  now she sits there. collecting dust and leaves. maybe this summer sometime i'll be able to pull her outta storage and start some long needed work on it. |
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Post by 85t5mcss on May 22, 2009 19:45:41 GMT -5
Up until about a week and a half ago, it was about 2 years, but I 've driven it off and on since I got it running.
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Post by twomanymontes on May 22, 2009 22:28:45 GMT -5
LOL! The 86 sat dormant from the first week of November to Mid April, Over the last month and a half, I have been working on it as well as my son's Monte and even managed to get some work done on the 01.
Two Years without working of starting the Monte! I could never go that long! I'm Jonesing to drive the 86 3 weeks after it gets put away!!
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Post by x on May 23, 2009 1:03:56 GMT -5
Hmmm....well, lesee. I drive the '87 MC LS/CL daily, so as of right now (about 1am Saturday morning), about 3 hours ... got home from Dad's team's softball game ~10p..... The older 4 MCs ... since I put 'em away last ... November ... so, about 6 months? Cort | 35swm | "Mr Monte Carlo"."Mr Road Trip" | pig valve.pacemaker ...Chitown #2 = 07/25/09WRMNshowcase.legos.HO.models.MCs.RTs.CHD = www.chevyasylum.com/cort"I've got bruises on my memory" ... Dwight Yoakam ... 'Thousand Miles From Nowhere' |
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Post by 85t5mcss on May 23, 2009 20:44:16 GMT -5
Two Years without starting the Monte! I could never go that long! I'm Jonesing to drive the 86 3 weeks after it gets put away!! Believe me, I wanted to start it. But with no heads on it, I couldn't. |
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Post by x on Jun 20, 2009 1:44:04 GMT -5
I had the older 4 MCs out for the first time last Sunday (June 13) ... and hope to have 'em out again tomorrow, Saturday, June 20! Woo hoo!!!!! Cort | 35swm | "Mr Monte Carlo"."Mr Road Trip" | pig valve.pacemaker ...RT 66 = Sept 5-16, '09WRMNshowcase.legos.HO.models.MCs.RTs.CHD = www.chevyasylum.com/cort"I know I told you that I could survive" ... Deborah Allen ... 'Baby I Lied' |
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Post by dfischbone on Jun 23, 2009 17:25:21 GMT -5
Hey Ben, Mike, Cort, et al. As you all know I have touched my MC recently. I am proud to report I have a whole 5 miles logged on my new motor. Once I have the headers installed I will drive another 4 miles (open header-vroom vroom) to have the rest of the system installed. That will be dual cats, dual Flowmasters, notched crossmember, and H pipe. I can't wait to take it out and open it up! ;D
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Post by 85t5mcss on Jun 23, 2009 18:51:57 GMT -5
I put about 100 miles on this year after finally getting it running. Now its on stands again getting some other attention. Hopefully back on the road soon.
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Post by twomanymontes on Jun 23, 2009 21:29:00 GMT -5
Hey Ben, Mike, Cort, et al. As you all know I have touched my MC recently. I am proud to report I have a whole 5 miles logged on my new motor. Once I have the headers installed I will drive another 4 miles (open header-vroom vroom) to have the rest of the system installed. That will be dual cats, dual Flowmasters, notched crossmember, and H pipe. I can't wait to take it out and open it up! ;D Sweet!!!! Now post some pics!!! ;D |
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Post by bigrepp on Jun 23, 2009 23:34:33 GMT -5
hmmm well its been about 6 months since ive started it..... but i was looking at the brakes about 2 months ago...
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Post by HardRocker on Jun 24, 2009 8:11:26 GMT -5
Hmmm, I started driving the 75 and 76 back in late April.... prior to that it was mid-October.
The past few weeks I have been driving the 75 nearly every day..... listening to the wind whistle around the windows (need to put new door hinge bushings in, realign, and then adjust the window stops & tracks).... the smell of gently toasted oil as it drips down from the valve covers and intake manifold.... the whine of the input shaft bearing on the tranny and the shimmy of worn tie rod ends and ball joints.......... Dang it's sweet !!! LOL
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Post by 85t5mcss on Jun 24, 2009 19:57:12 GMT -5
Jamie, after a rough day at work, reading that actually made me laugh. Thank You.
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Post by twomanymontes on Jun 24, 2009 21:09:26 GMT -5
Yeah me too, Especially since I got home to find Matt had cooked an ignition wire to the new headers, LOL! Silicone smells pretty bad, LOL!
And I got the 86 out tonight just to take a spin to the parts store, I loved it, I really need to get it out more!
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Post by HardRocker on Jun 26, 2009 1:07:37 GMT -5
You guys are welcome....
I had yesterday off so I had planned to pull the valve covers and put new gaskets under them for now and then maybe work on the door hinges, but you know how things just never work out the way you have planned....
So another ambiance filled evening drive in with the whistle of the wind and the roasted 10W-30..... mmmmmm. I'm lovin' it !! (Don't sue me McDonalds !!)
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montegirl79
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jen - aka outlaw jr.
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Post by montegirl79 on Jun 27, 2009 22:05:25 GMT -5
the SS... about a week. it's sitting on jackstands mid engine swap.
the 71... over 3 years. still unsure how that's going to play out.
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Post by x on Jul 22, 2009 0:17:16 GMT -5
Lesse ... in the last month, I've driven the older 4 about 150 miles or so each ... washed them ... and washed/waxed the daily driver, '87 MC LS/CL. Cort | 35swm | "Mr Monte Carlo"."Mr Road Trip" | pig valve.pacemaker ...Chitown #2 = 07/25/09WRMNshowcase.legos.HO.models.MCs.RTs.CHD = www.chevyasylum.com/cort"I've had enough" ... REO Speedwagon ... 'Time For Me To Fly' |
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Post by 85monte on Jul 22, 2009 20:27:33 GMT -5
lets see the monte was 2 years ago. the GP 5 mins ago  |
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