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Burco,
I too am always looking to rescue a 240, and being that I'm cheap, my experience has been that the ones I find are neglected mechanically so I've gotten in the habit of just doing a blanket replacement of the following parts. Its probably overkill, but I can then have one of my son's or wife then drive the car knowing that from a mechanical stand point, the car is safe and sound.
I'll start in this order:
1. Engine, then
2. Transmission (depends on manual or a/t)
3. Suspension, front and back, or
4. Brakes, (depends which one is in direr straights)
5. Interior, then finally
6. Exterior.
1. Engine,
- Oil pan seal,
- New engine mounts,
- Valve cover seal,
- Rear cam seal with IPD cam seal cover,
- All new front seals,
- New water pump,
- New accessory bushings,
- New belts,
- New timing belt and tensioner, timing belt cover if its broken
- Clean the throttle body and new gasket,
- New crank position sensor,
- New oil separator, new flame trap and rubber hoses.
- New heater hoses,
- New radiator hoses, making sure to flush the entire system,
- New plugs,
- New distributor, and rotor,
- New wires,
- New fuel filter,
- Pull the alternator and check the regulator. Depending on what the regulator looks like will determine if I put in a rebuilt one or not.
2. Transmission
Depending on what I have depends on what I do.
- Manual, replace the fluid with 2 quarts of the proper weight,
- replace transmission mount,
- if a/t, then drop the pan, clean the screen and magnet, reinstall, then flush the entire system.
- flush the differential and check the speedo connection while I'm there. paying particular attention to see if its ever been touch. You can tell if the wire holding the two together has been removed or not.
3. Suspension
- All rubber bushings come out and SuperPro Poly's go in,
- Rear shocks get Billy's Heavy duty,
- Front struts get Billy Touring, or Billy HD's if I have strut tower's to accommodate them, I replace everything while I'm in there.
- Lemforder control arm ball joints, and outside tide rods ends go on.
4. Brakes
- All rubber lines get replaced with stainless braided lines
- new rotors, pads, etc, making sure the properly bed them once installed.
- All old fluid pushed out and new Dot 4 installed.
- check the front wheel bearings for any play. You might want to repack them at this time as well as you have may have no idea of the maintenance history of the car. That has been my experience.
5. Interior
6. Exterior
- I like to upgrade the rims from 14" to 15" and 740/940 Steelies fit just fine and then open up the broader range of tire options.
Both 5 & 6 vary depending on what I'm trying to do as this is the part where you get to add your little touches to the car, because at this point, the car is now , in my humble, but correct opinion, safe to drive.
Good luck and I hope this helps.
Matt
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1989 - 245, 1990 - 245, 1991 - 245, and 1993 - 245
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