As the story usually goes, I bought this Monty of another FM member for the missus' daily, and wasn't gunna do much to it other than a bit of a clean up, lower it and possibly throw on a cheap set of mags if they ever come my way.


Problem is, I seem to be spending a lot of time on the old Cobalt Blue EB, and I keep finding things I wanna fix or replace.......and so the mod bug bites again!

Now the old girl has potential, has already been fitted with an AU engine, shift kit and a few other little mods like clear indicators and repeaters. But the clincher for me was the tidy interior complete with Ghia Leather and Velour seats. I have been on the hunt for these seats for a while now, and as far as I'm concerned, they just came with a car attached.

Enough of the dribble First thing I had to do was fix a pretty annoying leak in the exhaust. I found that the leak was coming from the extractor end flange where it bolts on just before the cat. Turns out there was no flange gasket even in it , so quick trip to supercheap and $10 later, the exhaust sounded nice and quiet again.
I then had to try and figure out the thermo install. They have not been hooked up correctly and are turned on manually from a toggle switch under the dash. I'm still to go and get me a davies craig switch to rectify this little problem, but that's no biggie!
This is what it looks like now

Another thing I like to do is tear the whole interior out and give it a good spring clean. Lucky I did, because I had an episode of friggin national geographic goin on in this car You can learn a lot from going to this extreme to clean a car. There was broken glass under the plastic trims that cover the seat bolts, suggesting the car had been broken into at some stage.

There were 3 redback spiders living under the back seat and in the boot, a plague of friggin dirty little german C**k living under the carpet, and the odd silverfish or two........on a good note, I did find $2.80 in loose change


And now it's all clean





This car also had a few surprises for me. I noticed a bit of coolant was leaking one day and when I pulled the stone tray off, I found that the front support bar of the K frame had been butchered to fit the AU motor, which I have since learnt was common practice, so I'm now gunna get my bro in-law whose a gun welder to fix this one up for me in the coming weeks.


Next was to source some springs for to lower it. I managed to get a set of rear king SL's from SVO-Matt, but I am still on the hunt for a set for the front corners. Now the SL's didn't make it into the Monty, they managed to find there way into the rear of the lane instead , so the EB will just have to wear the lows from the lane for now. As you can see from the pics below, it really needs a set of SL's for the front
Before

During and spring difference



and After


Front deffinately needs to come down now

We have also been having some drama's with the car not starting intermittently. Turns out the problem was with the Auto's safety switch. So I pulled that little sucker out today, pulled it apart, gave it a good clean and a blasting of WD-40 and I reckon I should get another 10 years out of it. Pic's later on this one for anybody interested in what makes up the safety switch
Well! With so many things yet to do and a couple of weeks off over chrissy, I don't think this will be the last time you hear from me about the ongoing saga of the mighty monty!
Cheers,
Mick

Last edited by NCIILANE on Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Woo hoo, another quality thread brought to you my NC11Lane LOL

Good stuff there mate. Sometimes doing the basic stuff like cleaning is just as important as the cool/expensive things.

I must clean the wagon.

Cheers
BenJ

What! The spiders were cool weren't they
Missus had a friggin heart attack when I showed her the redback under the back seat, thinking that the kids had been sitting on them all along.....at least something was eating the C**k
She really flipped out when I told her I found 3 by the time I had finished stripping out the interior

looking good there mick. i love the colour. id go lowes in the front, which should drop it an inch and give the flat look.

cant wait to see what happens next

montys coming along nicely mick

well done

but dont forget about the lane now

an i think im gonna do a spring clean on my interior now but im scared i might find suckers like that

an jus curious
i swear that bonnet looks like a bad homejob on the paint but could just be the angle

Drifty

Nothing wrong with the angle mate! Bonnet, roof, and boot are all rooted. But it's just how a daily that visit's shopping centre's regularly should look
Come to think of it, there's not a straight panel on the beast, but hey! At least there's no rust

yea no rust is a bonus
i got a slight problem of a few bubbles here and there that will be gettin fixed when she gets painted
but the lanes a daily 2 but its ur daily lol
theres the difference

anyways
im offs to bed mate
up for work at 6

have a good 1

Drifty

pfft your gone soft vrblou02, i had to be 40k's away from here by 6am and i stay up till 11pm lol. the lack of sleep catches up on you tho

Not anymore matey! The lane only comes out to play now, no more shopping centres for this baby

Hey thats my $2.80 !!!!!!! lol

And my pet redbacks !!!

jus for u huggie
yea its now 10:30 pm
and i just finished work but my works like near 80 kms away
by the way hows ur sexy lane doin

i dont sleep much anyways but needed it last night


an up at 4 tomoz for an early start
so long hard hours do get very tiring especially where i work

butttt anyways
back on topic

can u show us some pics of that white dash up closer
looks neat as
what colour does she light up?
as i wouldnt mind something like that for mine

anyways im outs

take care folks

Drifty

my lane is a lil sad at the moment. needs all new bushes in the front end, new cat, T5 put in and a body like micks lane... *jelous much*

im pretty sure the dash lights up the same as stock, just with a white background

Yeah the white dash is just stick on's over the original....starting to bubble up

ohhh
i see

Sorry mate...the spiders have gone to a better place.....but you can have the $2.80 back to buy some more