1977 244DL "Amy"

jamesinc · 2013-07-24T00:16:02+00:00

Love the bug-bomb holder you have there, James :)

jamesinc

jamesinc;35026 wroteI added a digital radio

It's a Kenwood KDC-U5049DAB

jamesinc

The centre dash speaker does sound good. Quite a powerful speaker for its size, I was surprised. Had to fiddle with the EQ a bit to get the midrange under control, but ultimately it sounds good.

jamesinc

New genuine Volvo Auxiliary Air Valve hoses arrived today from gcp.se (thanks @Major Ledfoot for the tip)

pieboyfresh

She's gorgeous, @jamesinc - the amount of work you've put in is exemplary.
I'll definitely be using this thread as a reference for my own work, some of the parts you've found (and documented excellently) will help me out tenfold.

@carnut222 what year is your 245? I've got a '80 244 GL in Nissan Signal Yellow which looks identical!
I bought it a month ago, prior to that it was cared for by a lovely lady since she purchased it new in Kalgoorlie, it originally assembled and painted (with Dulon Signal Yellow CLR727) by Nissan. Yours looks like the same colour!

Edit: Sorry, I just saw your other comment - '79 model in CLR725! Great car. All the yellows, Nissan. All of them.

jamesinc

So I've been working on getting the A/C running again in the 244. At this point I've got the system sealed up and the corroded hoses replaced. I tried installing a belt and it keeps rolling:

It's a Bosch 13A0925, which I'm pretty sure is the right belt. It's weird because I used to have a belt on here and it was fine.

Edit: I reckon its supposed to be an 11A0925

jamesinc

So according to all the parts sites it IS in fact a 13A0925. The old belt was a Dayco with the ribbing on the outside. I might go get one of those again and see if it works.

Otherwise the issue is just that the pulleys are very slightly misaligned. Not sure what I can do about that as these mounts aren't really adjustable.

Ex850R

I bought a pile of bushes at, like, 3 bux each from FCP, they went with the 240 when I sold it, the pulleys were waay outta line and kept on going though.

Vee_Que

They don't look straight to me personally.

jamesinc

Vee_Que;119068 wroteThey don't look straight to me personally.

You don't have to guess, I'm telling you they aren't perfectly aligned. Just haven't decided how I'm going to adjust the compressor.

Vee_Que

Can you tilt the bracket on the block side?

jamesinc

Vee_Que;119089 wroteCan you tilt the bracket on the block side?

Like with a shim or washer or something? Maybe, don't see why not. I'll measure it tonight, I think the issue is that the compressor clutch pulley sits rearward of the crank pulley. The pulleys themselves are parallel.

VolvoHordz

hmm if memory serves me correctly there is something about shimming in the green books...

jamesinc

VolvoHordz;119129 wrotehmm if memory serves me correctly there is something about shimming in the green books...

You can shim the crank pulley to change the width of the V (and therefore belt radius). In my case that one was okay (belt tension was good).

Last night I actually swapped the Bosch belt for a Gates belt of the same size, 13A0925. The Gates belt runs a deeper "V" shape than the Bosch, and has not suffered from the rolling over problem.

Now that I've spun my compressor up, it doesn't seem like it's moving any air through the inlet/outlet ports, which suggests I may have cocked up the rebuild in some way :|

Luckily I have the compressor from Nina's old B23E, which is also a York 210, so I'll drain that one and fill it with PAO 68 (hopefully I still have 200ml in the bottle) and go from there.

jamesinc

So, back in 2013 when I was tearing the car down, I did something slightly crazy, which was to photograph and measure all the factory stickers on the car, and then painstakingly (and I mean kern every fucking letter to exactly match the factory sticker level of pain) re-created them in Illustrator. I then sent the vectors to Dave Barton, who made them available on davebarton.com. I finally just last week got around to ordering them. At a few dollars each, I don't know why it took me so damn long.

carnut222

Nice! Well done.

jamesinc

Finished buttoning up the AC system, found a pressure switch thanks to some help from @DCW242, went in today to do a static pressure test with nitrogen and looks like the crank seal has blown on the compressor. Sad!

Not going to mess around with it, I'll just buy a new Four Seasons compressor.

jamesinc

New compressor

jamesinc

Drove Amy down to Fitzroy Falls and back yesterday. She drives well, however the clunks in the suspension are annoying, and road holding is not what it should be. I think I'm also maybe getting tired of the manual rack. It's really heavy with the 205 tyres, OE spec would have been a 175 or 185 tyre. I have the correct 1977-era parts for power steering conversion so I might fit them soon. I need to have the rack rebuilt first though.

Dauntless

Strange that you're finding the steering heavy, mine is quite light with 215 tyres. Tyre pressure too low? I like about 40psi. Are you running a standard steering wheel?

My blue 240 had the manual rack replaced with a power rack which had the lines capped off, and it was a bit heavier but still fine to daily drive.

From memory there are a couple of different balljoint options, and I opted for those with the most castor. Looks like you're already running max camber.

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