Recent content by blueinportland

Replacing the inner tie rods today, I noticed a thin film of grease and road dirt mixed together on the driver's side of the steering rack, on the engagement teeth and polished shaft. I wiped off the road grime, but I'm wondering now - of course after I wrangled the boot back into place - if any...

85 240 wagon, strut mounts are shot in the typical fashion - looking to replace them with the new version of the Kaplhenke strut mounts. Car has stock springs and Bilstein HD's, what's the consensus on Luxe Steer from anyone who's done a similar setup, is it needed or will it ride alright with a...

Because I changed my speedometer cable and replaced the weeping seals on the speedometer cable housing, I just happened to drain and refill the tranny today. Beginning to wish I didn't - the fluid looked fine, and there was only a moderate amount of metallic sediment on the drain plug, but this...

Alright folks, this will be my first time changing the coolant in the 240 wagon, and I've heard it's good to buy Volvo antifreeze, and I'm curious what your guy's takes are on that. Secondly, where would I go to purchase Volvo brand antifreeze? I don't really want to deal with shipping it or...

I had my first junkyard experience today. Went out to pick n pull Portland south, to pull out a back door window for my Uncle's 1990 Volvo 245, and a front door handle. Fun experience first time in the yards, and I got the parts I needed.

I've been curious about this since it was mentioned here in this thread: http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=260338&page=2 My 1985 240 wagon, same year and color as the one in question in this thread has a red number on the trip meter also. The car is 5 miles short of rolling over...

Picked up these Bosch fog lamps from Ansel at the Garage sale today, I mounted them this evening. They seem a bit close together, but there were only two pairs of bolts under the front bumper, the others being way far out to the side. I may move them later, haven't wired them up yet. So, should...

Well, I'm not very good with photoshop, and I'm curious to see what my car would look like lowered say, 3 inches in the front and 2.5 in the back. Feel free to try lowering it to other levels as well, that's just a general idea. Thanks a bunch in advance to anyone willing to tackle this. The...

Anybody else with this paint color? If so please share. Sorry, don't know the code, I'll check it tomorrow. pictars:

So...my car has LH 2.2, B230f engine, I'm assuming it's safe to remove the preheat set up? I already unbolted it from the manifold but thought I better check here to make sure it's OK to do and will have no negative effects, I read somewhere that 2.2 doesn't like it being removed as much as...

I'm hearing a kind of Thud thud thud thud thud coming from my engine bay. It doesn't sound like an engine knock and doesn't sound very metallic either, but sounds like it may be coming from the water pump of power steering fluid pump. It only does it when the car is warm as well and seems to go...

I don't know how many times this has been mentioned or something has been posted but I as well have what sounds like a very slight knock when cold starting the Volvo. It goes away after the car has warmed up, and the car seems to run fine and has fine power, and burns no oil. Could this be...

I was changing the oil tonight, and reached down with the oil filter wrench towards the filter and when I got close to the alternator, a huge spark arced across to the oil filter wrench from what looked like one of the terminals on the alternator. Scared the shizzle out of me, and was strong...

Okay, so we've always used Pennzoil 10w30 in the 240 but now they seem to have new cleaning additives that I'm not too fond of, so for this change I'm going to use the normal Mann oil filter but switch to Napa 10w30, which I have heard is made by Valvoline. Any thoughts on this oil? Don't really...

I'm curious how to tell if my '85 wagon has the original engine. I bet it does but stuff was done to it and I'd be curious to know. I can't find the actual vin number on the engine block, but these are the numbers I've found. It's a b230f. Vin number is yv1ax8854f3596505, two numbers on the cam...