Hi oldduke and jwalkerm,

A very happy Friday to you!

Oh, yet I've had the air bag retaining screws come loose on two of three airbag-equipped 240s. So I had to tighten them! Yes, I forgot, take the fuse out and / or remove the battery cable from the battery and wait at least 1/2-hour.

Thank you, jwalker!

The airbags in two of the three airbag steering wheels I have here are splitting along the (fatigue or split?) seams. They've never blown. I have a few spares.

Yes, forgot, at least 1/2 hour to let the airbag system lose the charge. Air bags are loud when they go off!

Hiya oldduke!

I'm glad to help you, but I dunno if i have special knowledge. I read the brickboard articles like you. Maybe the recurring frequency of a symptom cause. Your questions #5 ... We read of corrosion All along the Watch Tower, I mean the wire harness, and connectors, and such. Not just corrosion as sheet and plate carbon steel rusting.

Oh, that kitty on the broad and mighty Volvo 240 Shoulder is loitering on the
http://catsandvolvos.com website. I dearly love the photography and enjoining of two among my fave topics: Kitties and Volvos. You see another image here at the message end.

As for your question #5, I'm thinkin'. I'm unsure, and it varies by year and engine control. Like failing wire harness conductor insulation on late K-Jet / early L-Jet 240 models. We also have intermittent faults. The article of the fellow in NYX that stalled while on the what you call the Tri-borough / R. F. Kennedy (in 2008) bridge. A spin to the fuses fixed his Volvo. Yet you read where Art B states we should also look at the wire harness terminations at the fuse box. Corrosion causes resistance along the circuit path, reducing volts and amps (current), and creates heat.

Folks have been bothered with corrosion at the LH-Jet ignition power stage connector. I forget who, yet another says, with LH-Jet, you want to disassembled the power stage, and replace the thermal paste between the power stage amplifier transistor and the metal heat sink.

So, at 25 years and more, corrosion is in the Volvo 240 harnesses even in dry environments at any mechanical bond. We also have the low-pressure fuel line, that is 12.7 mm inside diameter. The fuel line is old and the stupid ethanol has deleterious qualities to the older rubber formations in old low pressure fuel line. By now, all RWD Volvos should replace all original and old formulation low pressure fuel lines for both carburetter and fuel injected Volvo models.

So, for systemic wire harness (electrics) corrosion and low pressure fuel lines .... of all European makes and models. Why? Same materials and systems manufacturers. We are in a race with the age of materials, now, on 1991 Volvo and BMW and Saab.

I just found this bookmark in the Opera (v12.17) browser I use:

http://www.ipdusa.com/blogs/104/top-10-problems-with-240-volvos

It'd be swell to at least have a spot in the 700-900-90 FAQ for 240 top tens or twenties. I started, and failed, at listing something in a LibreOffice and MS Word docs, yet the daytime jobs demand more keyboard time than the carpal tunnel tolerates.

There have been entire threads here on your brickboard.com and also on turbobricks.com that address the Volvo 240 gotchas like your Question #5 here asks for in far greater breadth and depth than the links to the lPd article. (Though huge kudos to iPd for placing this info so both new and ongoing Volvo 240 folks have a start, yet it does not ever end. The care taking of that Volvo car.) If I can find these brickboard threads again, I'll post them here.

We also have a sort of like list, or a treatment of issues in the 700-900-90 FAQ, that may be applicable. I imagine you've studied these 700-900-90 FAQ pages (?):

Keep It Rolling: Vehicle Preventive Maintenance
https://www.brickboard.com/FAQ/700-900/HighMileageVehiclePrevMaint.htm

Buying Used (700-900-90 or, more generally, Later RWD Volvo?)
https://www.brickboard.com/FAQ/700-900/BuyingUsed7xx.htm

There may be a few other articles.

I'm not sure, yet would our Art Benstein's http://cleanflametrap.com/ and Dave Barton's http://www.davebarton.com/ may have such info?

Matthew's Volvo Site? But that's mostly AWD / FWD.

There may be such a listing in several turbobrick.com threads in the forum maintenance section.

On the front page of the 700-900-90 FAQ is a reference to an FAQ for 240 here:

http://www.swedishbricks.net/contents.htm

It would be nice to have a listing in a chart for high mileage Volvo 240s that also reflects age. Maybe varies by equipment range, yet we always should repack them Volvo RWD rear wheel bearings at maybe every 50 to 100k?

Hope that helps you. Yet what's considered important to treat may have changed in the current state of the intersubjectively understood topics we share here on our brickboard.com. (Though unending fealty and gratitude to the J. Stenberg Hegemony!)

Would you know what rear axles or make or RWD cars that use differential fluid to lube the rear wheel bearings. If oil lubed, could they still be roller or tapered bearings, or would they be beefy ball bearings?

Ripple or Thunderbird? I had me some Night Train last time. Been a long time for any Ripple. One or two blasts of that and all I can do is nap! I like the Carlos Burgundy. Ripe to share like as you build your grill-out fire to do some grilling. Washington State has some good dark red box wines from Powers. Merlot and and a not so big Cabernet.

Yet I'd been enjoying this Summer's round of fruity brewed beverage offerings a little bit.

I like the Shiner Prickly Pear Summer Seasonal in the can. I'd been looking for a lemon ale. No, not a lemon shandy like beer + lemonade or lemon soda. Where the mash boil has a lot of lemon peel, the boil also gets lemon juice a little later in the mash boil. Just malted barley or barley and wheat for the malt. Then hopped using a hops with citrus and melon qualities. I guess the much sought after citra hops? Galaxy hops? I dunno. I'm looking. A local brewer made some on their 3 bbl system and I had a lonely two pints. It was good, yet not ever the same there after on their 15 bbl system. All these craft brewers produce the same, it seems. There's exceptions.

Hope that helps. Sorry to go on so.

Save for Black Raven Brewing Company in north Redmond, WA and Kulshan, Chuckanut, Aslan, and Boundary Bay (IPA!) Brewing in beautiful, beautiful , beautiful Bellingham, WA. (You have to say it at least three times.)

Mighty WA-state. Awaitin' Canadian Annexation with Baited Breath.

Any day now.

Ha!

Back to Work. Happy Friday!
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