I've owned eight 240 SWs, so maybe I got a bit too casual on this one, but they've all been workshorses with minimal maintenance. I was commuting Anchorage to Seward and the van I was driving blew a head gasket. I needed to grab something quick, and bought a one owner 245 with 208,000. The owner told me it needed a mass air meter and would run rough when it first started. Well it ran beautifully till ninety miles down the road it just stopped on the downhill in Moose Pass. Fortunately the northern lights came out giving me something to shiver and watch, till traffic started coming through at dawn.
I towed it to a friend's driveway and replaced the mass air meter, since I'd been warned. Still no spark at #1 or #2 cylinders, no spark to the distributor. The nearest (bad-price bad-work) mechanic is thirty miles. Before I haul this thing ninety miles back up the road to someone who knows Volvos, is there something else I can do? A friend suggested changing all the fuses, but as you can see this is like mechanics performing brain surgery - the intent is good, but the experience is bad. Winter is coming on in Alaska and before this thing becomes part of the snowbanks, is there something I can do thirty miles from the last vestiges of civilization and eighty miles from the first all night grocery store?
California don't look too bad from the middle of a snowdrift,
Gordito