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#51 |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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![]() If your vin # looks like this [forget the YV1... stuff] BD00899,your car is an 81 coupe.Where B=model year 81 and D = country made,Italy.The wheels on your car more than likely and absent an original window sticker came later.
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#52 |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: 78666
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![]() hey testpoint, when you dig into getting the car running, i have all the fuel delivery stuff for a b28f since i'm transplanting a d24t into mine. i'll send you whatever you need, for a pittance. the motor was running when i pulled it, with good compression all the way around. it was the POS aw55 that took a dump.
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"i live my life 17.8 seconds at a time. for that 1/4 mile or less...i'm free" daily: 03 vw jetta tdi wagon w/5speed_manual. bagged & chipped dead: 82 mercedes 300sd land_yacht DEAD awaiting new heart project: 81 d24ti powered bertone coupe diesel powah ftslow ![]() looking for: volvo 260 front right fender trim vw early tdi engine dead vw cabriolet i have ridden in penis_hood & many of you have not |
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#53 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ellijay
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![]() pgringo,
Thanks! Stand by! Got a good battery to play with will spend the afternoon seeing what happens. Wish I had spent more time trying to find a home for my D24 engine out of my 245 wagon before sending it to the scrap yard. No one seemed to want anything and I was going to deliver for the shipping cost. Last edited by TestPoint; 04-15-2012 at 12:34 PM.. |
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#54 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Tucson ish
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If it does die (after you've become attached) will it be another 5.0 swap? LS? or find a donor 960? ![]()
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_____________________________________________ 80 Bertone (part-time driver) learn how to 5.0-Volvo here.... http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=250257 B20 sound! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FpMWALskko 242, https://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=344891 |
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#55 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ellijay
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![]() Current thought is to restore the Bertone as original. Just had the first setback . . . need a battery, a VOLVO blue labeled battery. Bet that may be at a premium above Advance AP with their 20% off on-line code.
Haven't thought about another swap. Still a few days away from getting the wagon running. |
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#56 |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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![]() Before you go spending primo money on a volvo battery make sure everything else is working fine.The battery is the least thing to worry about in your restoration
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#57 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ellijay
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![]() Just stole the battery out of the golf cart. 'Economy' brand.
Removed spark plugs and they had been changed but were black with soot. Pulled the fuel pump fuses. Shot 3cc of ATF into each cylinder and spun the starter for several minutes, 20 seconds at a time over 30 minutes. Buttoned it all back up and shot starter fluid under the throttle plate. Started right up! Tries to run but obviously has a fuel problem. Guess I should put a few gallons in the tank just to be sure. I have a used fuel distributor that was purchased by the mechanic but not installed. Could be the fuel pump relay also. After I verify that fuel is getting to the distributor and still no start guess it is time to change it. Tomorrow . . . tomorrow . . . . |
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#58 |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Charlotte, NC
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![]() How old is that fuel Tom? Until/unless you get some fresh fuel in it, don't jump to too many conclusions. I'd put a filter in it - fresh fuel and see what you get then.
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#59 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ellijay
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![]() I thought I would jumper the pumps to pump what little fuel is in the tank out of the car and put in 5 gals of fresh gas. It does have a new filter.
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#60 |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Charlotte, NC
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![]() Vivid memories of a buddy chasing the tune on his Weber carbed vintage MG Midget racer all over creation in the cold at Watkins Glen -- only to discover after tearing apart carb and ignition that the 'problem' was old fuel in the cell. I doubt you'll get that lucky -- but at least you'll remove that variable.
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#61 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: 78666
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#62 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ellijay
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![]() Not me.
I replaced the head due to a broken cam belt at 130k miles then got another 50k out of it. My D24 decided it didn't want to start at 180k miles. Transmission was already dying. Put it in storage for 16 years before starting the Ford V8 swap. May get that started this week. Waiting on a fuel pressure regulator. http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=250257 ![]() Last edited by TestPoint; 04-16-2012 at 06:06 AM.. |
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#63 |
Bored member...
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Location: Woodstock Georgia
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![]() D24? Ellijay? Georgia?
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#64 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ellijay
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![]() D24 gone to the recycle yard 2 years ago
There's another Ellijay? |
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#65 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ellijay
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![]() Got out this afternoon chasing the fuel problem. When I started the pumps were not pumping, the fuel pump relay was not operating. ALL the fuses in the kick panel were corroded. Power to the black connector block in the engine bay but not to the relay. Cleaned the fuses and holders for #5, #7 and #13 and now the relay operates when the ignition switch is moved to start position and provides power on yellow/red wires to the pumps. Ran a temp hose from the fuel filter gas line to a gas can and pumped the tank dry. Not much there.
Put 5 gal of fresh gas in. Pumped a gallon through the system by jumpering the pumps on fuses #5 and #7 and I now know that the pump relay works. Previous mechanic told me that he had spent $270 on a fuel injector distributor rebuild kit and installed it. At that point he had fuel to the CI distributor but that the distributor leaked. Now that I had fuel there also I took a couple of the hose connections apart. There was only one copper crush washer on the banjo connectors. No wonder it leaked. Went to NAPA for washers and then got rained out. . . . to be continued. I think this thing is going to start! |
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#66 |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Charlotte, NC
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![]() The man.
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still rides with MrDoug
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Location: Falls Church, VA
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![]() it probably will start.
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#68 |
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
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![]() My '81 Bertone VIN ends in 8737 and my car has no butt cheeks and the undersized spare with compressor.
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#69 |
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Tucson ish
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![]() No cheek on the 80. VC26269AD008279
Go TP! Video of it purring soon? |
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#70 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ellijay
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![]() Spent an entertaining couple of hours working on the fuel delivery problem. The fuel distributor is leaking probably from the amateur installation of the rebuild kit. Pulled it off and thought there were copper crush washers missing from the banjo connections but the guy that installed it put both washers on one side of the banjo. That solved some of the leaks but not all. It is leaking from between the two halves of the body.
The car tries to start, sputters, spins up but never can seem to get going. Runs well on starter fluid. Searching for a distributor. |
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#71 |
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
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![]() Wish I still had mine so I could send it to you. I tried to sell my rebuilt B28F for months at $100 and got zero interest. Ended up selling the fuel distributor for $50 and scrapping the rest.
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Tucson ish
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#73 |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Charlotte, NC
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![]() Put a carb on it.
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#74 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Ellijay
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![]() . . . when I could have had a V8? . . . with injection?
Anyone else out there got a PRV sitting in a corner of the garage? Bosch part number is 0 438 100 076. Used in '80 - '82 B28F engines. Last edited by TestPoint; 04-20-2012 at 10:19 PM.. |
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#75 |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Charlotte, NC
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![]() You may need to create a separate post asking for the part...
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