Slowbrick's 240 Turbo

Slowbrick · 2016-04-14T03:42:31+00:00

Never seen photos of your 240. Wish I'd seen them earlier, that's clean. Good work! Very jelly of the Geminis/Galaxies, do want.

Slowbrick

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

Slowbrick
https://ozvolvo.org/discussion/comment/182763#Comment_182763
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.

Upgrade the masking tape to gorrila tape and call it good

Slowbrick

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.

Slowbrick

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 :)

Philia_Bear

So what did you order to go into it?

Slowbrick

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!

Slowbrick

GreenGL
What part was on fire?
Great capture of it btw!

Front control arm bushing. Fire always works well :D

VolvoHordz

When your ordering bne stuff let me know, I am after spherical bearings for the diff as well so perhaps can save on shipping

Philia_Bear

VolvoHordz
When your ordering bne stuff let me know, I am after spherical bearings for the diff as well so perhaps can save on shipping

@Slowbrick

If you want (near) free shipping and are not fussed with delivery timelines... I can order and have shipped to my place and then I can bring the stuff back in my luggage

ramrod

Those genuine front strut mounts are garbage

You have been warned in advance (I wouldn't use them)

Slowbrick

Yeah ok. What would you suggest as an alternative?

ramrod

https://www.bneshop.com/collections/240/products/240-spherical-offset-strut-mounts

They're expensive but when they last forever it makes it worth it

I'll give the Volvo genuine ones about four weeks then you'll start seeing the rubber cracking

Major Ledfoot

Ayup. There's been a lot of reports about new replacement blue-boxed-genuine top strut mounts failing very quickly, IIRC James had a set fail on one of his cars.

Bne's ones are The Go, but lead time can be an issue.

Slowbrick

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.

240

Ramrod is 100% correct about the strut mounts

My 240 had the original mounts when I bought it and they eventually failed at just over 400,000kms

I got new genuine volvo ones and within about 10,000kms the rubber had cracked badly, I have read lots of reports of the same thing.

I then tried to order a set of the bne kaplenhke ones but 12 months after taking my money he still didn't have them in stock, despite telling me every month or so that they were not far off, so I got my money back

Ex850R

Do K-Mac do the strut mounts?

Slowbrick

Angry reacts only.

I'm much less angry about the rust hole than I am about having to remove the dash again! Maybe I'll just glue a milk bottle over it instead.

Major Ledfoot

Slowbrick
https://cdn.ozvolvo.org/uploads/285/1S8P1T8A54CM.jpg
Angry reacts only.
I'm much less angry about the rust hole than I am about having to remove the dash again! Maybe I'll just glue a milk bottle over it instead.

Damn, what a biach of a place to get a rust hole. And unusual; the more common place for metal cancer in that area is on the horizontal panel above - i.e. below the windscreen, just past the join.

Recently I cut that section out of a parts car body to repair another car which has rust in that horizontal panel.

Philia_Bear

Time for quick disconnect dash?

carnut222

Bugger! That's why I delete that water-trapping foam on all mine like the factory did starting in about 1990. Why do you need to remove the dash? That hole goes into the plenum chamber, so any water going in there shouldn't end up inside the car...well, it may end up in the heater box...yes, bugger! Now I see!

Slowbrick

carnut222
Bugger! That's why I delete that water-trapping foam on all mine like the factory did starting in about 1990. Why do you need to remove the dash? That hole goes into the plenum chamber, so any water going in there shouldn't end up inside the car...well, it may end up in the heater box...yes, bugger! Now I see!

I want to remove the dash to make sure I dont miss anything on the inside and to make sure I dont set my new dash on fire when I weld it back up. Its nowhere near as bad as what ive been working with on the HQ but still slightly annoying.

VolvoHordz
Dash out and hvac out and you can paint the back side of the patch. Orobably also a bunch of smuts built up as well for it to hage rusted out in the first place.
At least its an easy location to paint the back side v's the corners of that cavity. I know the pain all to well :(

Yeah it looks pretty easy to get to with the hardest part going to be unpicking and resealing the seam on the top cowling. I was going to tidy up and repaint the engine bay anyway so after ive done all the suspension and other jobs ill come back to this. Figured now its been exposed and painted it cant get much worse.

Nothing a grinder, bottle of bunnings gas and a Joe Rogan podcast cant fix hahahah

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