For a site that I update so rarely I’m impressed that I get so many spam comments! I just went through about 800 from last fall.
Well the Volvo is back on the road and the springtime air seems to be treating her well. I put the intake/exhaust manifold back on with a new [...]
After an evening spent outside in the cold drizzle, and another where it was just freezing cold, I finally have the carburetors running well. A lot of my struggle was with the throttle stop screws. This was a pain in the ass to adjust with a flashlight in my mouth and rain dripping down the [...]
It’s been a while since I posted here but a whole lot has been going on.
I blew the head gasket driving it back into town to my mechanic. I was going to take it in to have the brakes done but about 3 miles outside of town it started spewing coolant out of the [...]
The new waterpump, alternator, and radiator are in the car – after fighting with it for a bit last night. Didn’t clean all the old RTV sealant and so the first shot at putting the waterpump back on and filling the radiator resulted in a leaky mess. Jim and I took everything back off, cleaned [...]
Jim came out the other night and helped me drain the coolant, get the radiator off, and remove the old water pump and fan assembly. We tried a number of insane things to get the bolt off the fan coupling but it didn’t budge. At one point we had the water pump in a vice, [...]
This is a short synopsis because I’m a little tired:
Compression tests on cylinders read OK (thanks Jim for letting me borrow your gauge). They read from about 125-140. The book says that they should be 142-170 but this car is nearly 40 years old and I am not terribly interested in high performance. I will [...]
Drove her 8 miles from storage to my parents house, even with the rear carburetor not quite up to snuff she cruised along smoothly. I was a bit worried about the tires and brakes for the first mile. Actually I still am worried about the tires and brakes but it was overheating a bit on [...]
Went out to the car again on Sunday to check out the timing and the carburetors. It is idling pretty high at around 1400rpm. The air valve on the rear carburetor is not rising as high as the front – indicating a vacuum difference? When you pull the air valve up with [...]
Some video of starting up the car for the first time. The backfire is pretty funny – remnants of the last bit of old gas in the carburetors. At this point I haven’t adjusted anything and the timing is set for top dead center. Haven’t touched the carburetors.
This one is after I [...]
Put rotor and distributor cap back on – marking on the cap which connector the rotor was pointed to for cylinder 1. Connected wires. It started right up. Vroom vroom! Idle was a bit weird and when I pulled the throttle I noticed that only the front carb air valve was rising. The rear carb [...]
