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Volvo 240 Best Mechanic/Restorer 200 1989

posted by  someone claiming to be kittysgreyvolvo on  Tue Nov 19 14:39 CST 2013 [RELATED]

What Art says.

Doing this sort of hobby is for the quietly brave whether you want to desperately need to. You'll want the Bentley Volvo 240 Service Manual.
You'll at least want to identify a Volvo-friendly service facility nearby when daunting tasks like suspension or clutch replacement is needed. (I really do not like pulling transmission on 240s anymore.)

At 240k, and in Pennsylvania State near Pittsburgh or Cranberry Township, you may want to perform an assessment of body corrosion from the years of salt and snow. From your informal risk assessment, you may make rust repair a part of the mechanical restoration or not.

Do you have the original instrument cluster? See the K-number at the bottom of the speedo display plate. That K-number better suggests compatibility of the entire dash head.

You have a 1989 240 DL wagon with 240k miles? Manual or automatic transmission?

Do you have some semblance of car care and repair experience?

cheers,

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