Slowbrick's 240 Turbo

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.

carnut222

Good to see a reusable shopping bag being, well, reused!

Is that a wheel centre cap being used as a window winder hole plug in the rear door trim? Excellent and creative idea! :)

Looking good! Nice to see this project progressing.

I always keep those bags for odd jobs in the garage and also for garbage bags when they get on.

Yep that's a centre cap. I did that ages ago when I first put the power windows in back in around 2009. I'm going to redo the mounting for them as back then I secured them with masking tape and a cut up piece of icecream lid hahaha.

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

Yeah ok. What would you suggest as an alternative?

Well I guess ill fit them, if they fail within an unreasonable time then ill submit a warranty claim. I have them here so am not going to just not fit them. Ill keep the bne ones in mind but im not just going to write of the Volvo ones just because.