Uncle CB,

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!

Thank you for this. This is SO COOL!!!!!

So, thank you again and I'll check it up!!!!!

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!

Thank you!

cheers,

dud.
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Huh-huh. Huh-huh. You said, "Dude."

I may chuck the AC as well. It can get hot here, yet it is usually a dry heat, so, you need only crack the windows to get a good draft while 100°, so you'll get like frost bite or something, or the perspiring works better.

I've not had AC since, like, well over a decade or longer. The 1991 had AC, but I and my ham-handed klutzy hands bumped a line connected to the AC while futzing with something in like 2002 or so and the ozone hole got slightly larger.

Or I may wait for the day to do the coveted AC-134a conversion while replacing the HVAC blower fan motor you have to cut through all the sheet metal and have to pull the engine, transmission, and drive line to get to. May as well upgrade the stereo and install an iced tea brewing machine (so I can drink iced tea while driving as an affront to the motor laws in mighty, Mighty, MIGHTY Washington state). "DONT DRINK AND DRIVE." But it was a diet sprite!

(And then we learn of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation Site fiasco in SE WA-state, so Washington state is not too mighty with a radioactive disaster ongoing for 6+ decades.)

Thank you,

Earl Grey Tea with Hunny and Milk
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We're well stocked with the dairy now. 1% for the tea and the buttermilk, with a little pepper, for the happy. We made the Kessel Milk Run in under 11 parsecs. Beat that, Han Solo and Chewbacca and your non-Volvo AB not made in Sweden Millennium Falcon!

...

While in drydock, Lt. Hikaro Sulu gazed upon the 1973 Volvo 164e, with M410 transmission and space hatch moon roof, making way for the space port, he declared in astonished exclamation, "They say she's got TransWarp Drive!"

"Aye," replied Capt. Montgomery Scott, "And she's a well built rear wheel drive Volvo 100 series, upgraded with a real Made in Sweden Volvo AB TransWarp Drive. She'll run rings around the Enterprise."

Actually, the compressor would not be the issue on the B230 accessory drive layout as the PS pump runs off the back pulley of the AC compressor.

As you mentioned, the relatively slow ratio manual rack from my '76 244 was not compatible with my '81 245.

If replacing like year with like year I believe the ball joints were different because the adjusted toe (?) to allow easier turn-in with the manual rack.

Now there is a "faster" (less turn lock-to-lock...something like 2.5) manual rack that was available but not sure if it was ever stock on any US showroom cars...maybe early GT's? I know it was on a race-prepped 242 I saw in a European museum because it was on the display placard. Neat car all the way around and I think it competed in Touring car race (whatever the predecessor for the DTM was called).