In searching the web for information about the Zenith Stromberg 175 CD2SE carburetors in my Volvo, I found this amazing PDF. This is perhaps the most concise and well illustrated document I’ve seen. I think my heartrate went up a little when I found it! It gives me a much better understanding for how they [...]
I got a good start on cleaning the front carburetor this weekend. It is really gunked up – I am halfway into my second can of carb cleaner and not even done yet. The only screws I haven’t been able to get out are on the top unfortunately. I was going to cut a notch in the [...]
Jim and I went out to the car last night to take a closer look at the carbs. Jim tried to start it while I sprayed some carb cleaner in there and it backfired a few times but didn’t start. We decided to take them off, which didn’t end up being a huge [...]
Put the new sparkplug wires I got from NAPA on the other night. Autozone and Advance didn’t have them and I tried Napa as a fallback – but not only did they have the right ones but I spent half an hour talking with the guy at the counter about them. He picked out some [...]
Friday after work I stopped by Autozone (mistake) and then Advance to get some parts. I got plugs at Autozone but I’m not convinced they’re the right ones because the old wires didn’t fit with them. Nowhere had the wire sets in stock (which sorta puzzled me) so I’m either going to have to order [...]
Spent the weekend browsing parts resources for the car and found this great site called VP-autoparts that seems to have everything you’d ever need for a 164 restoration. Unfortunately a good deal of it is in Swedish but they do have a US office and were really helpful on the phone. I asked [...]
Ordered the Chilton manual from JC Whitney, guess I’m waiting until it gets here for further work. In the meantime I’m parts shopping, browsing Ebay, and working on this site. It will need a new dash at some point (existing is cracked in 2 places) – but that’s not a big deal. I’m just killing [...]
Got out to the car today for the first time, went to change the oil and found that I had the wrong size sockets. Getting under the car was a squeeze and I’m a skinny guy. This sort of thing will be easier once we can actually drive it up on ramps. Largest socket I [...]
