My 1965 122s Journey

spock345 · Jan 17, 2021

89-240gl+t said:
This is what it looks like on my car

Yeah, that doesn't look quite right for the Volvo setup. Probably one of the contributing factors to the previous owner's setup.

The links do look a bit long.

At least the thing is a manual choke carburetor. The electric choke carburetor is annoying to deal with. Especially when you are running the original coil and don't have an easy way to just give power to the choke when the ignition is on (ignition wire is in the armored cable). Also your choke knob will actually do something.

Also if you have cold start hesitation issues hooking up the manifold heater helps a little.

89-240gl+t · Jan 17, 2021

spock345 said:
Yeah, that doesn't look quite right for the Volvo setup. Probably one of the contributing factors to the previous owner's setup.

The links do look a bit long.

At least the thing is a manual choke carburetor. The electric choke carburetor is annoying to deal with. Especially when you are running the original coil and don't have an easy way to just give power to the choke when the ignition is on (ignition wire is in the armored cable). Also your choke knob will actually do something.

Also if you have cold start hesitation issues hooking up the manifold heater helps a little.

Yeah figured the person just slapped it on and didn’t want to do it the right way sadly... hoping that what I ordered will work, if not I’ll just return it and order the correct one. I’m not very familiar with the throttle linkage but I think it’s pretty close to what it needs to be. Should work out

Actually cold start isn’t that bad at all

MikeJr. · Jan 18, 2021

I've always liked that green on green color combo. Very cool

89-240gl+t · Jan 18, 2021

MikeJr. said:
I've always liked that green on green color combo. Very cool

I was too fond of it at first, but it has definitely grown on me. Excited to get the rest of the interior together to see how it looks

R32RennSport · Jan 18, 2021

Right on, looks like a great start to a pretty solid purchase! Keep us updated!

89-240gl+t · Jan 18, 2021

R32RennSport said:
Right on, looks like a great start to a pretty solid purchase! Keep us updated!

Will do!

Ended up wiring the fog lights and helping my wife's cousin drop the fuel tank and rear wire harness on his 1961 Ford Ranchero. Nice to work on something else besides a Volvo all the time

89-240gl+t · Jan 19, 2021

Got quite a bit done today

Went to the exhaust shop to get a new muffler since it was blown out in the inside. No more rattling which is nice

The bumper chrome is pretty bad and my neighbor is into lowriders and recommended I soak the parts overnight in some oxalic acid. After rinsing I took the buffer and ran some compound and then some chrome polish. Came out decent for what it started at

Then I got ambitious and decided to take the seats and carpet out, ill be using sound deadening throughout the car including the roof when I do the head liner some time next week. The passenger side needs a new floor pan installed.

Tomorrow ill be finishing up the rest of the chrome bumpers that is soaking currently and then vacuum/shampoo the carpets.

spock345 · Jan 20, 2021

Those floors seem reasonable intact. Although you never know until you break out the wire wheel and angle grinder and keep finding more rust.

For me welding in the floors wasn't all that bad. The tedious part was cutting out the old ones.

I am guessing your window seals were/are leaking?

I found little bits of rot around the semicircular cuts in the rear pans. So I ended up with POR 15 and a bunch of little circular patches to avoid replacing the whole pans.

89-240gl+t · Jan 20, 2021

spock345 said:
Those floors seem reasonable intact. Although you never know until you break out the wire wheel and angle grinder and keep finding more rust.

For me welding in the floors wasn't all that bad. The tedious part was cutting out the old ones.

I am guessing your window seals were/are leaking?

I found little bits of rot around the semicircular cuts in the rear pans. So I ended up with POR 15 and a bunch of little circular patches to avoid replacing the whole pans.

Yeah they aren?t that bad looking, I poked around and didn?t see any holes. Headed to Home Depot to get some wire wheels and some brushes to put down the Por-15.

Yeah all the deals are super bad, ordered every single rubber seal for the car and will be here Friday. Trying to get all the floor prepped and ready for the sound deadening.

Did you close all those little semi circle holes in the floor panels?

spock345 · Jan 20, 2021

89-240gl+t said:
Yeah they aren’t that bad looking, I poked around and didn’t see any holes. Headed to Home Depot to get some wire wheels and some brushes to put down the Por-15.

Yeah all the deals are super bad, ordered every single rubber seal for the car and will be here Friday. Trying to get all the floor prepped and ready for the sound deadening.

Did you close all those little semi circle holes in the floor panels?

They are covered by POR 15 and butyl mats at this point. So effectively yes. The replacement floor pans also lack those semi-circle cuts so I didn't sweat it. Seems like an edge that rust can form on underneath the undercoating.

I found a heat gun and metal putty knife is the best combo for getting the old sound deadening off.

89-240gl+t · Jan 20, 2021

spock345 said:
They are covered by POR 15 and butyl mats at this point. So effectively yes. The replacement floor pans also lack those semi-circle cuts so I didn't sweat it. Seems like an edge that rust can form on underneath the undercoating.

I found a heat gun and metal putty knife is the best combo for getting the old sound deadening off.

Alright good to know, going to wire wheel and maybe flap disc it and see what I discover

Yeah I have a heat gun and bought a metal scraper to get that old sound deadening off, it?s been on there.

R32RennSport · Jan 20, 2021

Your floors look pretty similar to mine when I started, once I started prepping for coating the floors it was apparent that my passenger side would need to be replaced and in the end I ended up doing a few patches on the driver side lower firewall as well. I opted for a combo of Rustoleum Professional products knowing that I was going to cover every square inch in deadening, basically balancing my costs as POR 15 was expensive the the prep and procedure was somewhat intimidating never having used it. I ended up doing three stages of Rustoleum once I had the metal prepped, rust neutralizer, primer, and then multiple coats of enamel. Cured tough as nails before laying down the butyl mat.

spock345 · Jan 20, 2021

R32RennSport said:
Your floors look pretty similar to mine when I started, once I started prepping for coating the floors it was apparent that my passenger side would need to be replaced and in the end I ended up doing a few patches on the driver side lower firewall as well. I opted for a combo of Rustoleum Professional products knowing that I was going to cover every square inch in deadening, basically balancing my costs as POR 15 was expensive the the prep and procedure was somewhat intimidating never having used it. I ended up doing three stages of Rustoleum once I had the metal prepped, rust neutralizer, primer, and then multiple coats of enamel. Cured tough as nails before laying down the butyl mat.

I just did the POR 15 approach because I already had a pint can open to do parts of the trunk. I decided might as well use this before it goes bad.

89-240gl+t · Jan 20, 2021

R32RennSport said:
Your floors look pretty similar to mine when I started, once I started prepping for coating the floors it was apparent that my passenger side would need to be replaced and in the end I ended up doing a few patches on the driver side lower firewall as well. I opted for a combo of Rustoleum Professional products knowing that I was going to cover every square inch in deadening, basically balancing my costs as POR 15 was expensive the the prep and procedure was somewhat intimidating never having used it. I ended up doing three stages of Rustoleum once I had the metal prepped, rust neutralizer, primer, and then multiple coats of enamel. Cured tough as nails before laying down the butyl mat.

Yeah the previous owner tackled the driver side, wish he would have done the passenger side as well. Going to prep the floor and then use the Por-15. My wife?s cousin has some laying around that he?s letting me use. He used it on his ranchero and came out pretty good. I?ll also be covering everything in the sound deadening as well, going to take a lot of prep work but will be worth it

89-240gl+t · Jan 22, 2021

Spent three hours scrapping the old sound deadening off, was not that much fun at all. I did get to put the new stuff to the back seat, hopefully it helps out quite a bit. Going to install some sound insulation as well while im in here. Its not that expensive so figured why not.

Finally got my Vp Autoparts order in today, you always seem to forget the cost once you receive some brand new parts. This weekend if the weather clears up will be a full weekend of installing the goods. Still waiting on the IPD order since a few items were backordered

Lola approves!

89-240gl+t · Apr 2, 2021

Its been a while since an update but quite a bit has been done.

The headliner was pretty shot and the sound deadening was starting to fall down. Wasn't the fun of a job, at the end of removal was covered with it. Turned out pretty good but still need to adjust/tighten the headliner some

The carpet was pretty good but was faded so I used some duplicate-color carpet spray, came out good. We'll see how it holds up.

Installed the correct steering wheel and wrapped it with some vintage RV wrap

Removed the overdrive toggle switch from the steering column and added this nice overdrive switch in the cigarette place

Now for the exciting part, these rear panels were pretty trashed. I tried my best to save them since you cannot buy repop panels and wanted to keep the original look

Rear seats and panels installed

Still have little things to do in the interior, remove the heater box and install the firewall carpet and button a couple other things up. Quite the transformation

89-240gl+t · Apr 2, 2021

Was contemplating about if I wanted to go air ride or not, but after some research it was a little more then I wanted to tackle. Ended up going with Classic Swede 100mm springs, Gaz adjustable shocks/struts and adjustable Panhard bar. The height is exactly what I was going after

Some Comparisons of the fronts

This is stock height and figured I measure to show how much it was lowered

And After

James M · Apr 2, 2021

89-240gl+t said:

This car is hot, your spot on with ride height.

89-240gl+t · Apr 3, 2021

James M said:
This car is hot, your spot on with ride height.

Thanks man! And thanks for motivating me to update this thread!

James M · Apr 3, 2021

89-240gl+t said:
Thanks man! And thanks for motivating me to update this thread!

Absolutely, the way that thing sits is motivating me to get an amazon.

When you get the tires you mentioned in the first post consider some whitewalls, they look great on Jack's car if you've seen his thread

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