Slowbrick's 240 Turbo

Over the past month ive focused on cleaning up the interior. The car has sat closed up in my garage since we moved into our new house in 2017. As you can imagine the interior has gotten musty and gross so I stripped it all out, cleaned, dynamatted and have started reassembling.

Alot of stuff is missing and I didnt realise I didnt even have a dash assembly as it was donated to the 245 2 years ago. Thanks to a helpful young dude not far from me I was able to pull out an entire dash assembly to replace the one missing from my car.

Ive also pulled all the engine bay wiring into the cabin in preparation for feeding it through the front passenger kickpanel to tuck the wiring in the guard. Ive also removed most of the dodgy and added wiring that was jerry rigged over the years. Its a very slow and tedious job but it will be worthwhile I think when im not chasing old problems with the new setup.

I do have some left! The next job before putting the door cards back on is to service the power windows as they havent moved in 5 years. Ill remember that and put some matting behind the speakers.

Plugged away some more at the interior. Just putting everything back in its stock location as a base. Going down to Bunnings now to get the nylon washers for the power window regs and might have time to fit the front door cards. That bag of wires are the engine bay wires that will remain inside until after I paint and the engine bay.

Progress pic

VolvoHordz

I heard chipping away at something is better than plugging away so maybe try that? Haha

Im happy to try both methods. Although ive heard sometimes its better to plug away than chip away and vise versa. Although sometimes I feel like doing neither and would prefer to just run away.

Did more interior work today. Replaced the broken window reg washers with some nylon ones I got from Bunnings. They are a tad too thick to be used on both sides of the pin and think if I had to I could have sanded them down to fit. I ended up being able to put a new one on each and an old one on each and that looks to work ok.

The dynamat I ordered looks to be taking a while to arrive so I went ahead and fitted the new door cards I got from Paul ages ago. Then I doused the entire interior in Megs interior clean and got rid of the dirt and mould that had grown on the dash and door cards. Then I soaked everything in Autoglym vinyl and rubber care and let it evaporate over an hour and it looks like magic now.

I'll revisit the dynamat in the doors when it arrives and after I've picked out some speakers for the front doors so I only have to take them apart one more time. Right now I'm happy to fit everything so I can make sure everything fits well and that I've got all the fasteners I need.

Philia_Bear

https://ozvolvo.org/discussion/comment/182766#Comment_182766

Upgrade the masking tape to gorrila tape and call it good

I have that gorilla tape and have been using it to repair cracked interior pieces, its good shit.

Last week a bunch of suspension parts arrived so figured it was time I got started on that. Way back in 2016 I sold off most of the good parts I had to make way for the new parts and its taken me 4 years to replace those good parts with new good parts.

The car has just been sitting on whatever came out of @VolvoHordz 242 or something just so it could be rolled around. Today I got that stuff out and got everything taken apart and painted black. Here are some pictures :)

Stuff thats here

Front shocks: Koni yellow

Front shock bearings: OEM Volvo

Front springs: DVS lowering springs

Front control arm bushings: Superpro poly

Front swaybar bushings: Superpro poly

Front brake discs: Brembo standard

Front balljoints: AC Delco professional.

Stuff that I still have to order

Rear trailing arms: Bne comfort arms (eggplant)

Rear diff bushings: Bne solid spherical bushings (eggplant)

Rear shocks: Koni yellow

Rear springs: ? probably kings lowering

Panhard bar: DVS adjustable or Bne (really depends on how a spherical mounted bar goes for a DD)

Rear brake discs: Brembo standard

GreenGL

What part was on fire?

Great capture of it btw!

Front control arm bushing. Fire always works well :D