Hi I-5 Librarian,

You have at your finger tips a whole slew of decent salvage yards. You may have to research which have Volvos or imports or vintages that may have exposed spark plug wires with holders. I've pulled these over the last 30 years from Volvo, VW, Saabs, BMWs, Fords, and you name it.

I'll record more images as you ask. Anything in particular? Elevation view of?

Wot's it like to do well and reside in such a lovely area as North Seattle, Wedgewood, Ravenna, and such. Where much of the creative talent in tech, other industry, arts, music, and new value generation reside?

I would have loved to work at Microsoft from 1994 to the end of Windows 7. Screw Windows 8.x and well worse, crappy Windows 10. Windows 10: The Crappiest.

I was in the wholly evil Spokane from 2007 to 2015 and Vancouver, WA for a year before that.

Innumerable resumes to so many companies for tech writer work from lovely Olympia to Bellingham. Though Seattle the area (Tacoma, King, and Snohomish counties) is now, like the SF Bay Area, wholly cost-prohibitive for me. Unless 120,000$ per annum.

Stay away from Spokane. Don't get suckered into any opportunity or anything. The region in Eastern WA, the Tri-Cities (The Hanford Nuclear Disaster Area leaking isotopes into the Columbia River to keep Portland Weird - Portland intakes water from the Willamette River), N Idaho, and Western Montana is evil, corrupt, and far worse. Massive corruption. Well, so goes the entirety of AmeriKa.

Also, St. Louis, MO, the deplorable midwest hell hole it is, as the midwest is a hell hole, and the utter polar opposite of Seattle, is worthy to avoid. The suburban areas with the near do well and do well houses on tree lined streets all seem to have dogs, and smells like dog waste, even in the few weeks of cooler weather. The summers are awful and truly smell wretched. Smoking tobacco and texting while driving are pastimes in the midwest dung heap.

The two other images are merely hyperlinked from the not so active any more www.catsandvolvos.com.

Give me a few dayze to reply.

Hard Cider and Pork Chop Sh*tsgiving Day Boyeeeeee (I despise this holiday, today.)
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Spark plug wires may move a little independent of the starting and running engine, yet wire insulation does not contact anything.

I'm unsure what under hood turbulence may do. I've not had a wire failure or short, ever. Yet spark plug wires sets I have, like rotors and caps, are all junk yard pulls. Find some good recently installed wear item stuff.

I've pulled even new plastic insert clips from junkards, and they can fail. Can't tell what may be an OEM or aftermarket, tho.

Working with 3D printed prototypes as CB suggests, unless the resins or material used in 3d printing has improved, would not take the under hood engine heat very long at all.
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Yes, that spark plug wire separator needs a metal bracket that's held by one of the valve cover nuts, Volvo part number 463858 and is still available for $3.03.

To find your odds and ends, try downloading the parts catalog for your 1985 240 at:

www.volvotips.com

Having the part numbers is quite helpful and seeing exploded views can also help too.

And with a handle including "Librarian", I figure you should be able to find what you need in there.
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Eric
Hi Performance Automotive Service (formerly OVO or Old Volvos Only)
Torrance, CA 90502