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My 2nd Monza

Postby h-bot » Fri Sep 07, 2001 6:54 pm

From: fyrftr50_REMOVE_286843_THIS_@yahoo.com


Well, new Monza to report.
1980 Monza Spyder,
white with camel interior and 43,333 original km's.
Original paint, decals, engine, everything, and it is in
mint, or near mint condition. Even the Spyder emblems
have none of the red faded from them. She is in
fantastic shape, a real keeper. A car I will keep as is, no
additions, no changes or modifications. Original Monza's
like this are too rare to mess with.

I knew
this was too good to be true though. I had it
certified (safetied) this aft and it passed with flying
colours, as expected, but as I was backing it into it's
parking spot, the power steering crapped out and I had to
manually steer the car into the spot, what a bear. It
turns out that the 2 bolts that mount the power
steering fluid reservior to the engine block were sheered
off at the heads and the entire assembly detatched
from the block, go figure. The car still runs with the
belts very loose, of course. But ... How the hell did
this happen???
Bryan


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Postby h-bot » Sat Sep 08, 2001 10:19 am

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Bryan, very odd misshap, but it should be
completely repairable.
Makes me wonder as well.
I
would have to see it.
I hope you can get it fixed
,so you can come on down,this weekend would have been
really perfect.(excelent weather)
My guess, without
seeing the car is that possibly,the pump was
removed/reinstalled for some dealer service early in its life and low
quality bolts were used, or possibly they were over
tightened on the assembly line.
Maybe if you can drive
it here,we can fix it,but that would be a long way
to go without power steering.
Let me know how
this turns out.


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Postby h-bot » Sat Sep 08, 2001 10:46 am

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Marco
Thanks for the offer, but I don't even
want to drive it to the local Canadian Tire. The
entire power steering assebly is hanging loose and a
bump in the road would send the whole unit into the
fan blades which would shred the fan belt or worse.
I'm actually going to try to repair it myself this
afternoon. I'm no mechanic, but it should simply be a matter
of taking apart the pieces, remounting the bracket
and replacing all the parts I took off. I have the
Chilton's manual and the Monza shop manual, so I should be
OK. Fun, fun, fun.
Bryan


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Postby h-bot » Sat Sep 08, 2001 7:59 pm

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cool this is what its all about....
Hey did you get my message about the tranny I found? Its my good friend cliff.


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Postby h-bot » Sun Sep 09, 2001 12:36 am

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G'Day marco
Yes, I read that post, sorry I
didn't reapond right away, just too giddy with the Mint
Monza I have, lol. Sounds like a deal to me, nice and
close, within a reasonable driving distance as well, no
shipping. I'll have to wait a bit to pay for it, but I'll
get his info from you when I'm in Rochester, soon
enough. Talk to you later.
Bryan


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Postby h-bot » Sun Sep 09, 2001 9:15 am

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Good deal bryan, I cant wait to see it.
How did it go fixing it yesterday?


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Postby h-bot » Sun Sep 09, 2001 11:16 am

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I have power steering again. Actually it was 3
bolts that were sheered off at the heads. It looks like
they went one at a time though, I could find only one
bolt head in the underground I park in. Still, a very
strange happening I would imagine. The car made it to a
family dinner without a problem, so I was able to show
it off last night.
Bryan


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Postby h-bot » Mon Sep 10, 2001 5:35 pm

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Bryan, sounds like a great car... would LOVE to see some pics (many!) of such an original and rare car. (especially since the decals are not faded! that's RARE by itself! *smile*)

Ken


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Postby h-bot » Mon Sep 10, 2001 6:06 pm

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She is a real beauty, had the take off the 4
mudguards and the rear louvers (Uggh!) but I'll get my
girlfriend to take some great shots of this gem for me. That
is when she gets over the fact that she thinks I'm
nuts for having 2 Monza's and my Grand Am GT. When I
get some pics, I'll post them right
away.
Bryan
The hood spyder decal has some slight fading and
cracking, but overall, the decal is in excellent shape and
the side striping is in awesome shape.


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