One bad thing about the GLT turbos, there's a lot of crap under that dashboard. Had to partially remove the heater box to repair the vacuum motor on the recirc flapper. Seems that the one way valve on the intake was leaking. It allowed boost into my vacuum motors and blew the rubber part off the plastic part. I reassembeled it and it works now. A note to turbo owners, If the air flow switches from the dash to the floor when you're into the boost, replace that valve NOW, or you might end up with your car looking like this!

Bob
82 intercooled turbowagon
Blower motor works good!

Although I did a blower motor replacement by the book seven years ago I must give you credit for having cajone's ! You are a better man than I am in this respect.

Congrats. Now if you can put it back together with a minimal number of parts left over then you get the diploma.

Back together in seven hours. Everything works but the AC, hope I didn't screw up the evaporater wiggling it around like that. Car has a small freon leak and AC hasn't been used in 2 months so I may be lucky and get away with a recharge. Only one screw left over, anybody know where it goes?

Bob
82 turbowagon 234K

Didn't one fall out of your head about the time you got to the actual blower motor?

You don't graduate until you get it back together again!!

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Matt L. -- Cary, NC -- '91 740 wagon

Sure happy I didn't need to take that much apart on mine!!! Ought to be some award for that!!

dick
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93-940T + 91-940SE + 87-740GLE = One Happy Volvo Garage!

Doesn't it move around when you drive?
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How about a little explication of the pic? Is this disassembled, blown up
or burned? I scrapped out a 76 240 and it looked sort of like this when
we were most of the way through....
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George Downs, The "original" Walrus3, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

pardon my language, but are you f*&$'n serious?? Is that what my dash will look like when my motor decides to head south??
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'82 DL - 150k, '93 940 - 93k

Well, I kind of liked this minimalistic approach -- a tach attached to the steering column and you're ready to go.

...seriously, I hope my heater will NEVER die on me!

Erling.

There really is no need to go quite this far, but since you did, wouldn't it have been a lot easier if you took out the windshield too?

Actually, there's no way to get to the recirc vacuum flapper without going this far. Things wouldn't have been nearly as bad if I only had to change the motor. Still, went from what you saw in the pic to completely reassembled in seven hours so although it was scary, it isn't impossible.

Bob
82 intercooled turbowagon 234K

Bob, I'm inspired. I read your account of the recirc actuator with interest. Can you elaborate on what the boost blew off? Was it inside at the bellows or outside on the hose connection?
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

Hehe, anxious to make another webpage, Art?

Inside. That recirc vac motor sits in the top inside of the heater box. In my pic you can see how far out I had to pull it to see it through the fresh air intake at the top. the boot on the actuator came off, it's much larger in diameter than the little actuators that move the other vents. The boot and metal spring retainer clamp that hold it in place were just lying on the shaft, disconnected from the plastic part of the actuator. Had it back together in 5 min. You have to get in from the top, I can not think of a way you could possibly even see it from any other place.

If you go back in there, take the dash out early, I could have saved an hour or two by doing that.


Bob
82 intercooled turbowagon 234K

"Hehe, anxious to make another webpage, Art?"

No way! I'd rather surround myself with a sea of dashboard pieces than use (wait for) the computer any day.

So you go in through the opening that leads to the cowl, where all the leaves come from. That means you don't have to split the housing halves, right? With the dash removed, and the heater mounting loose, is there enough play to reach this without disconnecterating the heater core? No problems with the evaporator? Can you get a decent sized vacuum hose up into the cowl through that opening to clean?

Does sound like a tempting project if I ever find a dashboard in the boneyard worth swapping in.

Any way to attach an old choke cable to the recirc door laparoscopically perhaps?

(No boost)


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Art Benstein near Baltimore