I have not been on in a long time dispensing recycled knowledge accumulated from those much smarter than me. I have been busy with the race car, remodeling and life in general. This time I am back to apologize to those that I doubted...

For a while we had a string of starter failures in 1988 and newer red blocks and I insisted that this did not make sense. I have a few hundred thousand miles on these cars never a main pump or starter failure. Someone (Art B?) explained that the newer starters are not he same as those from my B21's. I now have a seriously toasted starter AND solenoid on my low mileage 1990 240. The car sat for about 16 months. Starter came out easily because I knew the trick (3' extension with a wobble)and because I now use one of these regularly...

We all got into a pretty heated, at times, discussion of if an impact gun is a good idea in general and for beginners to help them from shearing rusted bolts. I insisted that though I have pretty good air impact, I never use it. Art B insisted I would one day when I had to do some procedure (don't remember what). I have since acquired a battery impact gun that we use at the track or in the PnP on a regular basis. So guess what the first tool was that I grabbed for the starter removal. Starter was out and tested in 15 minutes and I barely got greasy.

I really miss working on the relatively sane and simple Red Blocks but my 940 is so reliable that whenever I have time to wrench, it is on the Saturn Lemons racer or my new-to-me 1995 GM truck. Nothing makes you appreciate the engineering in a Volvo more than wrenching a mid-90's GM product.

This 240 is going to family in need of reliable basic transportation and it just seemed a waste to let it sit in the driveway. They will pay me eventually for the repair parts but the car itself is being sold at the price of "you have to deep clean my house after the drywall dust settles". I think I am getting the better end of the deal. The plans to turn it into a LeMons car just are never gong to happen.