Finally have some Milano pics

**Gubi** · #1 (**permalink**) 07-17-2005, 06:36 PM

Took me a while as I had a bunch of little issues to fix, but I finally had time to wash, polish, and wax the new Milano. It's an 87 Gold with only 64,000 miles on the clock - she was a heck of a find.

At this point everything is pretty much working perfectly. The only major problems were getting the headliner recovered (easy job), rebuilding the power steering pump seals (easy job once I figured out what needed doing), and replacing a leaky brake compensator valve (I let my mechanic do this one...I hate bleeding brakes).

The car is pretty much bone-stock besides Koni reds (in the rear only for some reason) and an ANSA rear muffler section. Even the cat converter is original, and amazingly it still passes smog. It's got door bump strips which I find sort of dorky looking, but they're riveted on so they're not coming off until when/if I need a full repaint.

Drives really, really smooth...I've heard it's tough to get the Milano vibration-free due to the many donuts and the high speed of the driveshaft, but this one is like butter. Even the synchros on 1 and 2 are good.

Interior is darned near perfect. The outside had one 1x2" scratch near the front wheel that I resprayed pretty well (thank you Tower Paint). The paint had been neglected for a while: it was shiny but had a lot of minor scratches. I used the Meguiar's three-step kit (cleaner/polish/wax) and it did a sweet job of hiding them - frankly, I was amazed at how well it worked. The only corrosion I could find was some surface stuff around the battery tray (leaky battery in the past) and that got treated and resprayed as well. Oh, and I added the cloverleaf stickers for a little flair (had to offset the semi-boring blue color)

Enjoy!

**Gubi** · #2 (**permalink**) 07-17-2005, 06:37 PM

More pics...

**Gubi** · #3 (**permalink**) 07-17-2005, 06:38 PM

Engine compartment...

PSk · #4 (**permalink**) 07-17-2005, 07:49 PM

Very tidy!. Lucky man.

Pete

DonBeeson · #5 (**permalink**) 07-18-2005, 12:51 AM

That's a good looking milano, I have a question about your master cylinder for your clutch...did you manually connect it to your brake reservoir? Or is this normal on all milanos and mine was weird?

DOM! · #6 (**permalink**) 07-18-2005, 11:05 AM

That is stock, my GTV6 also has that same setup.

DonBeeson · #7 (**permalink**) 07-18-2005, 01:25 PM

Well then, i had a different reservoir added on for some reason, that explains why i have that little hose sticking out of my brake reservoir, that also provides the full answer to my problem! Thanks a bunch!

**Gubi** · #8 (**permalink**) 07-18-2005, 07:08 PM

Yep, it's stock. It makes bleeding the clutch a PITA because there's not all that much fluid until the hose starts sucking air. That and if you have a leak it's not really clear which system is losing fluid.

DonBeeson · #9 (**permalink**) 07-19-2005, 12:22 AM

Sorry for stealing your thread (sorta) Gubi, I recognize the problems that that setup may have, but my setup is looking a little bit weirder right now, so i think i shall revert back to that. Undoing an old owners doing....argh.
Very nice milano though, same colour as mine. Where'd you pick up thos decals?

**Gubi** · #10 (**permalink**) 07-19-2005, 03:51 PM

The decals were from IAP...like $4 each.

DonBeeson · #11 (**permalink**) 07-19-2005, 05:36 PM

*waits for a centerline comment* haha jk joe..i like centerline as much as iap
well i think i may order some after a repaint

borrani · #12 (**permalink**) 07-19-2005, 05:55 PM

Only the 2nd Milano I've seen without air conditioning!

Steve S.

**Gubi** · #13 (**permalink**) 07-19-2005, 06:00 PM

Nope, it's got the standard Milano A/C with a 134A conversion. You just can't really see the compressor in the pictures, but it's there.