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I'd tend to agree, but I'm getting really worn down by the old Volvo 240 thing. I mean, the only car I've ever owned since like 1985.
The selector shaft seal in the M47 II of the kittys grey 1991 240 failed on a drive from NE WA-state to Everett, WA a month ago. Damnable thing to have happen. The grey ghost has 153,xxx, if even the odo is off, so prolly less miles. Like about 56k miles I'd put on the wee grey beastie since like purchase in St. Louis in 2000 from a USAF guy that bough it in Germany in 1991, so it is very different than a North American 240, yet does have EGR. I have babied the damn thing and drive it like a little owld bastard. Well, I may haumpt on the thing on the freeways and get it up to 80-90 mph. I've had it over 120 sustained at times. Good Michelin tires help. And it finds ways to leak this or that fluid. All karp I can diagnose and remedy. I shift that M47 II as gently as a babe's cooing when presented with a colorful rattle. Never forced. And well, there you go.
I stopped in Ellensburg, WA, leaking like crazy with a well basted cat converter and under side with melting undercoating on the return a month later, and severely overfilled with "Type F" mineral. So it never went dry. I have it in the shop. Pulling an M47 out of a 240 is such a pain unless you have it on a lift and you are standing up in a clean, fresh air filled shop with bright light and ice tea at the ready. I'm simply tired of it.
The owld Volvo 240 thing ain't no fun no more and it sort of expensive. Bad grammar intended as an aside.
If I stated I'd like something light and airy, some of you would say, "try a P1800?" Yeah, I really want to rebuild the front suspension on a P1800, and it'll need it. Does it have rust? "Then what of a 122 or 130?" you may suggest.
When can I take the damnable thing around and over the continental divide into MT-state to Missoula or Kaispell and back over the cascades to Bellingham or into Vancouver, BC without weighing consequences of some trip killing part failing on it.
I'm a better mechanic for other people, but I'm not considering the entire car as a convergence of multiple systems.
At least Canadians seem to appreciate a well care for Volvo from yester-millenia, but they usually drive something newer, and drive that newer car into Bellingham to buy up all the WA state dairy products for 1000 square kilometers. They don't pay WA-state tax as a result. That's how they can afford newer Canadian cars in Southern BC.
You enjoy an excellent ale? Try Kulshan bewery in beautiful, beautiful, Bellingham, WA. The best brew pub I've ever known and the best ales I've ever enjoyed. Ever. Forever. And anywhere.
Nasty hack, that.
cheers,
dud.
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