Love it Rob, well done.
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Steel toyota box is good too. Similar drop in rpm and increase in mpg. we got 28 mpg on a run.OldnDecrepit;c-155183 wroteWelcome to the Volvo 164 Overdrive Club.
Incredible car and detail work. Engine bay looks a million bucks.
Fantastic, should be a very enjoyable trip to Tamworth.
2 months later
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Other than a minor breakage at Tenterfield on the way down, we had a fantastic run to Tamworth and back.
Broke a steering coupling while parking at the motel.
Valuable lesson is that the nolathane coupling is shit. It had melted on the side facing the exhaust, it was only visible from the underside and still looked as-new from the top. The standard item has aluminium wedges that will foul on eachother still allowing you to steer if the rubber fails, the replacement item does not, when it breaks you have no steering at all.
I was able to rectify it by purchasing some conveyor rubber, punching holes in it for the steel sleeves out of the poly bush, had to triple it up for the correct 27mm thickness. It went together nicely and got us home no problems. have already ordered a genuine replacement and will be fitting it as soon as it arrives.
Even the fuel economy was ok, all things considered. Averaged 8.2km/L, 23mpg, 12.1L/100 whatever your language.
Came away with 2nd in class (140/160) in the Judged categories, there were some top notch cars there so to achieve 2nd makes me very happy.
Some pics from the trip down and from the display day. (a couple courtesy of @paul0075 :) thanks)
Broke a steering coupling while parking at the motel.
Valuable lesson is that the nolathane coupling is shit. It had melted on the side facing the exhaust, it was only visible from the underside and still looked as-new from the top. The standard item has aluminium wedges that will foul on eachother still allowing you to steer if the rubber fails, the replacement item does not, when it breaks you have no steering at all.
I was able to rectify it by purchasing some conveyor rubber, punching holes in it for the steel sleeves out of the poly bush, had to triple it up for the correct 27mm thickness. It went together nicely and got us home no problems. have already ordered a genuine replacement and will be fitting it as soon as it arrives.
Even the fuel economy was ok, all things considered. Averaged 8.2km/L, 23mpg, 12.1L/100 whatever your language.
Came away with 2nd in class (140/160) in the Judged categories, there were some top notch cars there so to achieve 2nd makes me very happy.
Some pics from the trip down and from the display day. (a couple courtesy of @paul0075 :) thanks)
Interestingly I got similar fuel economy in my Auto 4-speed Volvo 164E.
Glad you fixed it okay. Thanks for the update on this, I'm putting a 164 steering box in my 142 and was planning on using that same type of coupling.Rob;157911 wroteBroke a steering coupling while parking at the motel.
Valuable lesson is that the nolathane coupling is shit. It had melted on the side facing the exhaust, it was only visible from the underside and still looked as-new from the top. The standard item has aluminium wedges that will foul on eachother still allowing you to steer if the rubber fails, the replacement item does not, when it breaks you have no steering at all.
Reckon I'll be going OE now.
I'd like to see details on the 140 conversion, especially dealing with the difference in subframe depth.
