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Since everyone else has posted useful helpful information about how
to do this, I won't feel so bad about posting something negative:
I would not do this; I would instead teach her how to drive a manual.
The BW35, aka mushbox, is the only transmission you will have a reasonable
chance of installing in this car. It is not a very good transmission
and is frequently the reason why otherwise good volvos wind up in the
junk yard. I've talked to lots of people about these things and all of
them say about the same thing "they're not terribly reliable and nobody
has ever been able to rebuild one in such a way that the car worked for
very long."
I'd say go ahead and do it so long as you don't need to cut anything
or destroy anything to get the transmission into the car; keep the old
transmission in a clean dry place and when the slush box dies you can put
the M41 back in and hopefully your wife will like the car enough that she
will learn to drive a standard so she can keep driving the car.
If you can, buy an automatic equiped 140; drive the car around before
buying, and use the parts from that to put into your 1800; otherwise you
can't be sure the transmission actually works.
Automatic equiped 140s in my area go for about $300-600 depending on
other factors; you're likely to wind up paying that much for bits and
pieces otherwise and you won't have any way of testing the transmission
until it's actually in the car.
chris
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