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 [...]
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 [...]
Well I haven’t posted in a while because it’s been cold and since I don’t have a garage I haven’t really been able to motivate myself to work on fixing the heat when it’s 30degrees out. Ironically fixing the blower motor will have to wait till spring (when I won’t use it anyway).
In the meantime [...]
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)
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 [...]
In an effort to try to narrow down the starting issue, I put 5gallons of 89octane unleaded gas, some lead additive, and replaced the engine oil in the carb dampers with Automatic Transmission Fluid. Next step was to determine top dead center and make sure that the distributor was set right. Dad helped with his [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
