Bricksters:

My 1992 240 wagon has rolled over 200k and the differential is about to croak. The clunk is getting louder and more frequent, and all other causes have been ruled out.

So I started looking for a swap axle. Hmmmmm. ABS is a problem. A car with an electronic speedo but no ABS isn't a valid donor. The pulse ring that drives the speedo is different on ABS cars because the ABS uses it as well. The part # on my car's axle housing is P1216417--does that # look familiar to anyone?

The alternative would be to pull a good gear set and install it with the pulse ring from my existing axle. Problem there, too--a Volvo shop owner says that generally you can't reuse a gear set, because you can never get the gears aligned exactly as they were before. Then the wear pattern doesn't mesh, and the gears chew themselves up right away.

But IF I could find a really low-mileage axle, that might not be a problem. If the gear set from a 700 or 900 series car would fit the housing on a 200 series, I'd have lots more possible donor cars to pick from. Can anyone tell me which type(s) axle did the 700s and 900s use--the 1030 or the 1031?

Also, I read the FAQ and did a Google search on the archives and I didn't get a clear picture about axle types on the 200 series. One post said all 200 series cars after 1989 used a 1031, but it also said that the finned differential housings were the 1030. Well, my 1992 has a finned housing--which type do I have?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Doug Harvey