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I don't recall any plastic peg either. Pot metal?
You know, now that I think about it…
Inside it I *believe* there’s a plastique (nylon?) rectangular? Female recepticle piece that shears off from the lock cylinder (on some years 200 series? My memory is hazy) if the lock cylinder is forced in-between the lock cylinder & tail piece if that makes sense?
That thing might have given up the ghost in the dry heat down there sitting outdoors or been forced to retract the (trapped/bound up)column lock by a ham fisted owner that didn’t gently relieve the pressure on the column lock by rocking the steering wheel before attempting to turn the key/retract the column lock one too many times (I have seen that & had to dig deep to repair that & match the keys back up to the VIN on a 240 Volvo more than once w/the quality but quintessentially Teutonic locks used on 1973+ Volvos instead of the ‘British auto locks’ used on most Volvos -‘72).
Interesting what you did there with the grinder/Dremel digging the 2 retaining pins out…
…I gently drill an angled hole on either side of the pin, lube & warm the housing & pop them out w/button hook pick tools & silver solder the holes adjacent the pressed in/knurled retaining pin(s) back up in the alloy/file it so you can’t really tell anyones been in there…?
Maybe if you could warm the housing (temp controlled heat gun w/appropriate shaped attachment or similar?), lube & chill the pins with s little needle of liquid nitrogen & had a strong enough electromagnet you could extract the knurled pressed in retaining pin(s) more elegantly & replace them w/o anyone ever knowing you’d been in there/without grinding or drilling the soft alloy housing (diamond bit & dental hand piece might drill the super hard pin, but I’ve never attempted that/would t want to?), idk?
They’re really not intended to be removed as a regular practice from the looks of them & Volvo basically only offers (offered?) the whole assembly keyed to your vin w/o separate parts back in the day…for however much that cost/however long it took order in as their uh ‘turn key solution’
That said, I used to have a replacement ‘face cap kit’ for the Volvo (aftermarket) to re-key the lock back to the original VIN, no idea how I got it or why?.
Short vin or Canadian made cars can be a pain to look up key codes for…
(Sometime around) ‘86+ Model-year models are pressed on the column in my experience. Earlier have the two #3 tapered Phillips (I’m forgetting the exact long-form description for that type of screw/plead senility/senioritis here
) & stamped steel cad-plated clasp dealie.
Lock tumbler itself the same 1978-1993 iirc?
The valet key is just thicker rod the key way in 1 dimension iirc?
Doesn’t go in the glove box lock or rear storage or trunk lock, but in OE German made steel the valet keys actually last longer.
I never lock the glove compartment & mostly had DL wagons w/o optional storage compartment lock.
-‘85 cars had the small truck / ‘secondary’ key or the trunk/boot & glove box or GL+ trim level wagon storage compartment of course…
I use a sharp punch/cold chisel to tap the edges of headless/break-away screws or slot them & whack them loose w/the old forged manual impact & giant enclosed flat-blade attachment ( &/or sharp pair of side cutters thereafter?) to fish those out surgically. That said, they make proper extractor tools for those that are more elegant & do the job more expediently/efficiently w/less risk of damaging something if you do the job professionally on cars day in and day out on theft recoveries or proper repairs/restorations & take pride in your work…
…or deleting the column lock for race car safety…
I can’t tell you how many Saabs I got to sort out (no Column lock, upward facing key hole recipe for disaster) w/froozen latte/coffee in the lock in the ski lodge parking lot in 0F temps stuck in P or Reverse (if manual trans) & parking brake stuck in the ‘on’ position w/armored cable to the front brake calipers…I’ve been trying to forget all these years….
…but being the Swedish, French, & Italian shade tree car guy in a smaller town contemptuous of common kraut cans for the most part of eurotrash cars…
Good luck to ya!
Could be worse? @ least Volvo still has dealerships in the USA?
& it could be a SCAAB stuck in gear with the parking brake on the front wheels super tight & all frozen up/no fun to try to tow in a crowded ski parking lot in arctic winter temps?
We used to joke w/122/Amazon Volvos sans column lock w/armored cable power wire to the ignition coil ‘ya, BYOC (bring your own coil) off the ford (or other brand of car w/compatible Bosch coil?) ya stole last week!’
Looks like ya need a compatible year (‘78-‘80?) complete assy w/key or compatible lock tail piece (iirc. More years of those fit/interchange?) & .17c/hr to remove the retaining line carefully & dig the lock cylinder out of it & replace the tail piece. GLWT!
