Well, it's here. Quite a day yesterday, 10 hours on the road. Got up to Bangor, ME around 2:30pm on the bus, where the PO met me with the car. Was on the road back down by 3:30, hit Boston around 8pm after a quick stop for dinner and at the New Hampshire State Liquor Outlet (right at a rest stop -- no sales tax! ).
The car was such a delight on the road coming home. I just set the cruise at 75, turned up the oldschool Alpine, and sat back in the pristine leather and let the miles go by with the D24 humming away up there. I don't understand why people rag on these engines. It is such a sweet running motor, amazingly smooth and quiet. It has the definition of turbo lag -- total dog till the boost comes up -- but on the highway it's a jet. Sounds like one too. What a great long distance cruiser. Also I had forgotten that Volvo makes the best seats in the world. Ah its good to be back....
The car definitely is not perfect. Hell it's 24 years old and is pushing 200k, I don't blame it. I am gonna go totally through it over the next couple weeks: valve adjustment, some new seals and hoses and gaskets, set injection timing, replace injectors and more....
Blower motor is noisy. It sounds like it's right behind the glovebox. Easy fix?
Also it really needs a clutch cable. Anyone know if that is the same part on the diesels and on the gassers? I would assume so, it's just a M46 with a different bellhousing... AutohausAZ shows a clutch cable with a metal casing, but the one one there now has rubber. Which is the stock kind, or better kind?
Well enough said, you want to see pics. It was dark when I got back last night and crap weather today so just some quick stuff for now, more later.
Some shots from the road coming down I-95 last night. My first time in Maine, still lots of snow up there but very nice. Pretty landscape and lots of trees.
The car today... gotta love Boston in the springtime...
Interior is CLEAN...
When was the last time you saw an old 740 with door and seat pockets that looked like these??
Here it is... the great D24T in all its glory.
Enjoy... more coming once the weather is better.
The car was such a delight on the road coming home. I just set the cruise at 75, turned up the oldschool Alpine, and sat back in the pristine leather and let the miles go by with the D24 humming away up there. I don't understand why people rag on these engines. It is such a sweet running motor, amazingly smooth and quiet. It has the definition of turbo lag -- total dog till the boost comes up -- but on the highway it's a jet. Sounds like one too. What a great long distance cruiser. Also I had forgotten that Volvo makes the best seats in the world. Ah its good to be back....
The car definitely is not perfect. Hell it's 24 years old and is pushing 200k, I don't blame it. I am gonna go totally through it over the next couple weeks: valve adjustment, some new seals and hoses and gaskets, set injection timing, replace injectors and more....
Blower motor is noisy. It sounds like it's right behind the glovebox. Easy fix?
Also it really needs a clutch cable. Anyone know if that is the same part on the diesels and on the gassers? I would assume so, it's just a M46 with a different bellhousing... AutohausAZ shows a clutch cable with a metal casing, but the one one there now has rubber. Which is the stock kind, or better kind?
Well enough said, you want to see pics. It was dark when I got back last night and crap weather today so just some quick stuff for now, more later.
Some shots from the road coming down I-95 last night. My first time in Maine, still lots of snow up there but very nice. Pretty landscape and lots of trees.
The car today... gotta love Boston in the springtime...
Interior is CLEAN...
When was the last time you saw an old 740 with door and seat pockets that looked like these??
Here it is... the great D24T in all its glory.
Enjoy... more coming once the weather is better.