The Smurf Replacement - 1983 244 GLT(Updated with working pics!)
With the Smurf gone, the GT project not even started, and me trying to sell the S60, I needed to get another car ready so I can do some work on the wagon.
I found on Craigslists a none running 1983 244 GLT manual with 250k miles on it for $250. The PO brought it from a retired Volvo tech in '99 who kept it well maintain. In 2002, it would not pass emission so the owner didn't think it was worth fixen so it just used it to drive around on the farm. After a year or 2, it stop running so he parked it and after he got tired of his wife nagging to sell it, he put it up on Craigslist.
I went and looked at and it looked like to be a very clean, no body damage or major rust, and maybe not much was needed to get it back on the road. I brought for $150 and took it home that day.
As I figured, the pumps were dead and fuel dist. was stuck, so I empty the gas tank, put on some new pumps and freed up the fuel dist. Though in a fresh battery and gas and to my amazement, it fired right on up:, and after some adjustments, it was drivable. After only putting less then 200 miles on it, the alternator belt broke and the rad. split all to hell and this was the start of a seeming never ending nightmare.
I thought I would just be able to slap on some belts and a rad. but that would be the case. The adjustment bolt was rusted and seized to the alternator so I had to put on a spare 940 100 amp alternator in place and it was a really tight fit. When I go to started it, it wouldn't start, I had spark but no fuel. I thought maybe the CPR was bad because there was not much fuel coming out but guess again.
After a few days of bad words and tool trowing, I found out the new pumps were dead and was the weekend so I decided to go ahead and change the interior aver to black with some 850 seats and install a booming stereo system.
This post is getting kinda long so I will couture it later until then here are some more pictures if I can pbase to work right.
Adam
With the Smurf gone, the GT project not even started, and me trying to sell the S60, I needed to get another car ready so I can do some work on the wagon.
I found on Craigslists a none running 1983 244 GLT manual with 250k miles on it for $250. The PO brought it from a retired Volvo tech in '99 who kept it well maintain. In 2002, it would not pass emission so the owner didn't think it was worth fixen so it just used it to drive around on the farm. After a year or 2, it stop running so he parked it and after he got tired of his wife nagging to sell it, he put it up on Craigslist.
I went and looked at and it looked like to be a very clean, no body damage or major rust, and maybe not much was needed to get it back on the road. I brought for $150 and took it home that day.
As I figured, the pumps were dead and fuel dist. was stuck, so I empty the gas tank, put on some new pumps and freed up the fuel dist. Though in a fresh battery and gas and to my amazement, it fired right on up:, and after some adjustments, it was drivable. After only putting less then 200 miles on it, the alternator belt broke and the rad. split all to hell and this was the start of a seeming never ending nightmare.
I thought I would just be able to slap on some belts and a rad. but that would be the case. The adjustment bolt was rusted and seized to the alternator so I had to put on a spare 940 100 amp alternator in place and it was a really tight fit. When I go to started it, it wouldn't start, I had spark but no fuel. I thought maybe the CPR was bad because there was not much fuel coming out but guess again.
After a few days of bad words and tool trowing, I found out the new pumps were dead and was the weekend so I decided to go ahead and change the interior aver to black with some 850 seats and install a booming stereo system.
This post is getting kinda long so I will couture it later until then here are some more pictures if I can pbase to work right.
Adam
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