Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Instrument panel voltage stabilizer (Part I)

The non-working fuel gauge and temp gauge on the instrument panel has always bothered me about this car. I still may install some third party gauges that are more accurate but I at least wanted the stock gauges to work. I read on a few websites that if these gauges werent working that [...]

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

Choke cable fixed

Since I bought this car I’ve had issues with the choke cable.  The entire mechanism would move when I pulled the choke – thus it wouldn’t actually raise the choke on the rear carb.  It was just pulling the whole cable back and forth in the hole in the firewall.  This week I decided to [...]

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Found some great links

Found these a while ago but thought I’d share again:
How to replace the instrument panel voltage regulator in the 164 with cheap, modern parts
Parts familiarization workbook
Building an in-dash air/fuel mixture monitor
And finally… The Volvo 164 club of Sweden Link Page (aka GOLD)