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The fuel pump relay does get pretty hot, even after soldering the connections back together and cleaning all the contacts. And yep, it's been hotter than hell here lately. I gave it a good look and it hasn't melted any connections again, yet. Maybe it's time for a new one.
Fuel baths were from trying to fix the very loud buzzing from the main pump. Everything checked out, it was just an old pump - I eventually replaced it with a remanufactured Bosch pump and it's considerably quieter.
And Dad and I routinely spend more than our 240's are worth keeping them in good shape. I dig that. You can't put a price on your daily transportation, nor on what is becoming a classic. But this is not my 240 - it's soon to be someone else's. It has gone from being a lovable, quirky, but still solid car, to "someone else's problem".
The difficulty is that with that hesitation/stumbling that could leave someone to die in the middle of an intersection, no one is going to buy it. I live in what has become (unfortunately) a very rich place where no one is in dire need of a beater for transportation, and Northern VA is also the "Land of 1000 Volvos." Every week a dozen or more 240's come up on Craigslist, all of them in better shape than this one and most of them selling for little more than what I would like to get out of this car in order to break even. There's a nearly identicle car, same year, same model, with far less rust, half the miles, and a current inspection for $699.
Would mine pass inspection? Almost certainly. Could I fix the current issue with driveability? I know I can. Do I want to work my butt off in 100 deg. weather with 95% relative humidity for several days, possibly end up spending yet more money on parts, pay to have the vehicle tagged so I can drive it to the inspection station, pay for an inspection, fix any little thing the inspection center can nitpick about in a dishonest attempt to drum up work, and then sell the car for just barely enough to cover what I've put into it or less?? I love 240's, and I'm willing to go to great lengths to see them keep running, but sir, I would sooner drop a grenade into it's gas tank and push it off a bridge.
I like the k-jet but all of my under-hood experience is with the B230 and a mechanically fuel injected B21 is a very different beast, that's why I've yet to locate key components, also the fact that until recently the car was mechanically near-perfect and needed no work to drive extremely well has kept me from needing to play under the hood. Add to that the appalling lack of information about k-jets in Bentley, and the general worthlessness of the Haynes, and it's been tough figuring some things out on my own. I'd get there if I was keeping the car but it is sitting in my father's driveway and he says it's got to go. I'm not selling the car to make money, I'm not selling it because I've given up on it, I'm selling the car because I have no where to keep it.
And until recently I thought that would be easy because at least it was solid transportation. Now, it'll get you killed in this traffic.
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