I admit to being lazy and greedy and this does not require my wife's opinion.

Its been a while since I've visited brickboard but along with advice from my friend John Sargent, the forum has pulled me through many a tight spot. Right now I am resisting family pressure to abandon all three of my beloved remaining 940's and take my wife's XC 70. That would mean an end to tinkering and an admission that the remainder of my life should be spent in an arm chair, rather than upside down on my concrete car port.

Thus, I am trying to get quick answers to a bunch of 940 questions. Anyone want to try these?

1. Transmission seems to be OK. Shifting is tight between gears and especially good when the transmission is warm. However, between second and third there is usually (and always when cold) a very long delay. In other words I can't get it to shift into third under any kind of acceleration unless I back off the accelerator. Then it will shift. When it first drives on a cold morning there seems to be slipping. But, as I said, the transmission otherwise seems nice and tight. I have never done anything transmission like on any 940 I've owned. Including no change of fluid. The car is 200K.

2. Heater. A year ago my heater fan stopped working. It was a difficult job getting access under the glove box, but finally I was able to open the cover and found ???? (its been a year) can't exactly recall what, but I think it was a broken wire, loose wire, disconnected wire ... whatever it was I made a careful and competent repair and immediately the fan went back to normal. The car has been in storage for the past 6 months. When I took it out and drove it, everything worked as it had, except the fan only blows on setting # 5. It produces heat just fine, but only on that setting. I don't know whether to go exploring again at the fan, which was definitely a chore, or whether this might be at the switch?

3. Accelerator pedal is sticky. I've tried lubricating what I can access, but nothing. I just need more info in where this may be hanging up.

4. Very bad "Clunk" at the left front wheel. My guess is ball joint. I've examined the brake caliper and that seems to be fine. The clunk is heard when I go over a bump, even a slight one. I have the ball joint. Just want a little encouragement to get into that job. I've done ball joint before, a couple years ago in connection with replacing a strut. The strut job was the toughest of any project I have ever done on a 940, probably because I tried to separate something instead of just replacing it. Again, can't exactly recall, but I do recall applying Map gas to something for 30 minutes and still struggling to get it apart. This was after the strut was removed. Anyway, that's not the issue, here, except the clunk is coming from the left of the same car on which I did the right strut, so I have a concern that my assumption of ball joint may be just an avoidance of another strut job. Should I expect that if one strut is broken, the other one should be, as well?

5. Windshield is badly pitted. This car must have been used to test a sand blaster on glass. Its not that bad, but I regret getting rid of the car I just donated, which had a brand new windshield. I should have removed it and used it. However, the replacement cost a little over $200. For that money, I would have the pros do this one. I have seen systems for polishing the glass, but that would probably more time, energy = money than $200.

6. A lot of "bearing" type noise is coming from under the hood. Its not the belts. It could be the power steering pump which is low on fluid, but has not effected the turning, yet. It could be the water pump, which has fluid ooze around it. I've replaced water pumps before and have a rebuilt ready to go. Logic would point to the power steering pump, but I've been fairly careful not to run it dry, knowing it could break it. I could probably determine if it is the power steering pump by filling the reservoir, but I know most of the fluid would just squirt out the pin hole in the high pressure line, so I don't want to do that until I fix the line, although it would tract down where the noise was coming from, or not coming from.

7. Very loud rubbing noise coming from it seems passenger side rear wheel. Could be the break shoe for the e-brake is rubbing. Sort of a combo rub and grind, noticeable when I am coming to the end of a stop. Disk brake seems to be working OK, though. Probably can't get any answers on this and I will just have to investigate.

List is unfinished, but if I can get some guidance, I'll be encouraged.

Bob Franklin

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