Introducing Viktoria, 1974 Volvo 164E

OldnDecrepit · 2017-08-17T09:37:00+00:00

Looks really good! Yes, assembled by Nissan in Clayton

242GT

Back straight at Wakefield Park.
O&D, how long have you had your 164, it's a very nice car, miss my old 1972 164E

OldnDecrepit

Bought in August 2017 from an owner in Victoria.

Spent lots of time and money on it getting it fixed up but the best change has been the 4-speed auto that was installed by the 164 Guru Rob Eldridge.

OldnDecrepit

Latest upgrade for Viktoria, my 1974 Volvo 164E - carpet for the boot. Now I just need a few other bit for the boot too.

Many thanks to Martin Thomson for supplying the carpet.

Mark_Walton56

That looks great!

OldnDecrepit

More Skandix goodies for Viktoria, my 1974 Volvo 164E. New headlights, boot seal and an AC sticker.

Went to install the boot seal and discovered this when I removed the old one:

Just treating the boot seal area with rust converter after cleaning out the channel. Then the fun of getting the new seal into the old channel can begin. At least the new lights went in without any issues.

Mark_Walton56

I have just done this, weird but true, the best lubricant to get it to slide in is pharmacy personal lubricant, not what you would think of for automotive use.....

zzdhalla

Mark_Walton56;c-160632 wroteI have just done this, weird but true, the best lubricant to get it to slide in is pharmacy personal lubricant, not what you would think of for automotive use.....

Use red rubber grease or glicerine

OldnDecrepit

Here's Viktoria getting her AC gas topped up (again) as it seems she has a slow leak. Hopefully it will run OK for the trip to Bathurst and back next week. Then it's time to replace the compressor with a modern rotary type and track down the leak. Might also replace the condenser. I'm definitely sick of repairing the AC in this car.

ab1

cant recommend parallel flow condenser and rotary compressor enough. combined with hydrocarbon refrigerant makes for ice cold a/c

OldnDecrepit

Update.

As some of you know Viktoria failed to make it to the Bathurst meet in November (see my Bathurst thread for the saga).

For the last week or so she has been at GLT Car Centre where Peer has been working his magic on her. I hope to have her back next week and she'll be sporting a refurbished radiator (2-core), new rotary AC compressor, hoses and condenser. The main fault was the electronic ignition which has been removed and she's back to having points. The transmission cooler has been relocated to behind the front spoiler to aid airflow through the cooling system. Another new cap for the coolant bottle has been tested and is closer to the 10psi required. The old (new) one was failing at 5psi.

ab1

what are the dimensions on that condenser? looks like a very well refined setup. out of curiosity any reason for not opting for a 3 core rad?

OldnDecrepit

Alex

Don't know the dimensions but it's much bigger than the original. It seems to be as large as the radiator now.

Peer thought the 3-core might not fit and was overkill for my setup. It's not like I'm going racing - yet!

OldnDecrepit

Viktoria, my 1974 Volvo 164E, is once again home in my safe hands.

It was the aftermarket electronic ignition that stopped her in Gilgandra on the road to Bathurst. She's back to points and condenser until I can afford a 123-Ignition.

She's now sporting a new radiator (2-core) and new AC compressor, condenser & hoses. The transmission cooler has been re-positioned behind the spoiler so even more air flow though the front grill. Many thanks to Peer at GLT Car Centre for his sterling work.

OldnDecrepit

Once again Viktoria, my 1974 Volvo 164E, has failed to proceed. On the way home from the Sunshine Coast on 9 December there were intermittent misses in engine performance. These steadily got worse and we tried to make it to GLT Car Centre at Capalaba. Alas she finally stopped outside the Centrelink Office, 42 Redland Bay road, so close to the destination.

Ended up getting the NRMA to trailer her to GLT. Peer is once again trying to coax her back to life. This time there's spark but no fuel. So maybe bad fuel, clogged filter or pickup.

Meanwhile we have Ubered home to the Gold Coast.

OldnDecrepit

Viktoria, my 1974 Volvo 164E, is back in my care again today.

Seems that the ignition coil burnt out the condenser in the distributor and so the points eventually failed. Fuel was fine.

Apparently the ignition coil should have been swapped with a non-electronic ignition one when we put points in (news to me).

New coil (Bosch GT40) is in there together with a new condenser.

Drove home fine. Hopeful this is the end of this run of bad luck with Viktoria.

OldnDecrepit

Latest upgrade to Viktoria is a replacement steering idler arm bush.

This has reduced the heaviness of the steering but it's not yet at modern car level. Definitely an improvement and once I put refurbished original wheels on her it should be much better. Currently she is shod with 15R205s which are much bigger than the original stock 165s. Probably opt for 185s on the original rims, with whitewalls of course.

OldnDecrepit

More upgrades for Viktoria.

As many would know the after market electronic ignition failed on the way to OzVolvo meet last year. So recently I sourced a 123Ignition and have had it installed by Peer at GLT Car Centre.

It turned out to be a worthwhile drive to Capalaba as Peer found that she needed a new RH steering arm too.

She's now running better with a little more power.

OldnDecrepit

Latest update for Viktoria is a new coolant bottle.

I had a great deal of trouble finding a new one as none of the usual Volvo suppliers had one. After some googling using the part number I discovered that the Penta Volvo dealers still had these available. One of my local marine dealers managed to source a couple for me from Sweden.

The old one worked fine but the new one looks way better.

Roinik

Now you have something to try the sulfamic acid clean with.

OldnDecrepit

Roinik
Now you have something to try the sulfamic acid clean with.

Do you mean something like CLR?

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