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Seeing that the weather was real nice yesterday I decided to put the Brick up on stands and install the new urethane torque rod bushing I had ordered from "The Doctor - Volvo Specialist".
I was pleased that the bolts weren't rusted in so after setting the rear on jackstands the r/h rod was out in about 2 minutes, I thought this was going to be too easy! I stuffed the rod in the vise and went after it with the torch and melted out the old bushings, let the rod cool, and cleaned it up a bit. About another 10 minutes, again too easy and this should have been a clue that Murphy was hiding under the bench fixin' to strike...
Then things took a turn for the worse... The urethane bushings were almost 1/2" bigger than the hole they needed to go into! I called "The Doctor" and was assured these were the correct bushings and I would need to grease 'em up and press 'em in. The more I looked at/thought about it I didn't see any way they would even start, let alone squeeze in.
I called the local import parts house and was informed that from 81-85 the car could have one of two different torque rod designs. One taking the "hourglass" shaped bushings (that's what I melted out of mine and have since ordered) and the other taking cylindrical bushings. They also indicated they didn't think a urethane bushing could be had for the rods inh my car, I was somewhat depressed.
I again called "The Doctor" and this time was told that in their experience almost all of the early cars had had updated torque rods installed so they automatically assumed mine took the cylindrical bushings and that I could call back on Monday as they probably had some used "updated" rods they could work me a deal on.
Now that my "rant" is out of the way, does anybody know if this is true? If I desire urethane bushings do I need to update torque rods or are two piece urethane bushings available for the rod that came with the hourglass shaped bushings? I still have access to the 85 245GL that has donated a number of innerds to my vehicle if they will be the "updated" style as long as I want to let it set on stands in the backyard for a week until I can retrieve them.
Gee, I feel better now. I was so pi$$ed yesterday that I tore my MC apart and did it's anual major service a couple months early so I guess the incident was not a total loss.;-)
Justin B.
83 244 Turbo
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