Has any one replaced or repaired these wires on a '93 or later 740/940? I say later than '93 because what I saw in the FAC appears to describe something earlier. I have an open switch wire somewhere in the shifter or at the switch itself. The wires are too tight in the shifter to pull the switch out for a closer look.

I have the console apart and have located the yellow 2-wire connector with Brown and Blue wires to the OD relay (these are good). The mating plug has 2 black wires going into a 1/4" black plastic tube/sleeve that goes down out of sight into the shifter "well" (for want of the right word) and then (presumably) up inside the column to the switch. One wire makes it OK but the other one is open.

So far I'm unable to see or access where these sleeved wires enter the shifter column, and am about ready to cut them and splice in my own PB switch on the left side of the console or someplace convenient, because I prefer to use the Down-Shift control vs the Kick-Down under certain conditions.

FWIW, a white label on the black wire sleeve bears Volvo PN 9130021, which I found under 9130021-0 as a "Switch" for $43.73 MSRP at MySwedishParts.com . I assume this is everything but the yellow connector, from which the existing wires and terminals must be removed so the new wires can be fitted.

Wiring in my own switch sounds better all the time, unless someone has the secret to accessing and replacing them in the shifter column.
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Bruce Young
'93 940-NA (current), 240s (one V8), 140s, 122s, since '63.