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Cleaning various water drainage points on a 1981 242 DL 200 1981

posted by  nolongeractive on  Sun Jun 27 06:59 CST 2010
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Is there a service manual that describes the access points for all of the various water drains in a Volvo 242? I just picked up my '81 yesterday and it's not as rust free as I'd hoped it would be. I missed some really key spots when I was looking at it. I was blinded by lust for a decent 242.

I found some bubbling in the paint above the rocker panel trim and it looks like I have some pretty bad rust in there. The door drains were obviously clogged because the outer lower corners of the door panels have disintegrated. The window scrapers seem to have been rotted off for years and there is a lot of crap in the door. I ordered scrapers from IPD and I'm not even going to let the car out of the garage until I take care of this stuff.

Are there other drains that I should find and clear?

Thanks for any help you can offer.






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