Manual 8/9 series

darcher93

Looking to swap my v70xc (170*** km) for a manual 8/9 series (preferably a wagon). My car is in excellent condition with ALL the options minus electric seats (one less thing to break...). Mechanically excellent. If anyone has any leads, give me a message.

Dyl

Ex850R

Welcome , @iceton1975‌ or @Philia_Bear‌ ??

iceton1975

!!!!! I advertised this car for 3 weeks on ebay $600, to late its been wrecked now, I have all the parts to convertan auto to manual, we had to pull it apart as we needed the gearbox for a 740Turbo, so I have 2 760Turbo manual boxes one is bearing noise, the other syncro issue

Ex850R

The car Mark wrecked was a 940 Turbo Manual I believe. Pity you missed that one.
Are you keen to do a manual swap?
@iceton1975‌ , Mark , have you got 850 manual box??

There was one on Gumtree , 850 AWD manual white , it is posted on this forum somewhere , search it .

darcher93

Surely there will be issues when swapping out a gearbox from a RWD to an AWD?

Ex850R

For an 850 or 940 no but for XC it may not be worth it unless you do it yourself and get XC manual parts etc.

darcher93

Mmmmmm yeah, I figured that. Hence why this post isn't me wanting to swap the gearboxes, but just get a completely different car.

Ex850R

Yep , check out if that 850 awd is still around?

darcher93

Mmm yeah but I'm tassie and it's in QLD. It's quite an expensive venture to head up that way.

Ex850R

Air fates can be very cheap.
Or.
Mike is up there for xmoz and can drag it part way southward..
Those cars are rare and ripe for lots of power and awd helps there.

darcher93

Yeah true that. Anyone know the history or condition of the car? Car looks reasonable but could be full of gremlins

irishbastard

Ex850R;33409 wroteThe car Mark wrecked was a 940 Turbo Manual I believe. Pity you missed that one.
Are you keen to do a manual swap?
@iceton1975‌ , Mark , have you got 850 manual box??

There was one on Gumtree , 850 AWD manual white , it is posted on this forum somewhere , search it .

No Berrys wrecked a 740 GL manual, not a 940
Turbo

Ex850R

darcher93;33588 wroteYeah true that. Anyone know the history or condition of the car? Car looks reasonable but could be full of gremlins

Ask what service history is.
Nothing to worry about that won't be fixed with a stage '0' anyway.
Only head gasket is a big problem.