You're a kick ass guy if I ever knew one... You definitely sound like me with your going round and buying things up when you were younger, but I can't do that cause of my parental limitations kicking in too often, but I can totally picture myself doing the same thing if I only had a job.

The car will be driveable with a change of the fluid in the carbs and that's that most likely. The guy did drive it around for a little bit as it is, but yeah, change of fluids in the carbs, a little quickie tuning of them, an oil and filter change and then a brake fluid flush and I'm pretty sure I'd be able to drive it back then and there. I just need a way to get up there now and have someone help me out with it. And actually, the guy who's selling it said he's ok with helping me get it up and ready to go, but that still leaves me with no way to get up there, and then what happens if it dies on the way down... Should be alright, it is a Volvo after all, and I can bring extra crap of course, I've got a few spares... And can take ignition components off of my car, buy new plugs as well, I already have a fuel filter for it...




Now, do you or anyone else have any advice for my 142?(crankcase breather and brake booster topics)

Thanks Matt!

EDIT
I just emailed this to him:
Yeah, how'd that turn out?(the skiing?) I will be getting the car. I've
decided, my mind has been made up, and it's going to come home with me. $250
is ok right? I just need to find a way to get up there now early enough that
it's going to be daylight while I tune the carbs, play with the timing, bleed
the brake system(can you help with that? have you bled a system before?),
change the oil and filter, the fuel filter, and then check out some of the
other systems and take it for a test drive. I should bring my bike pump too to
put air in the tires... =D And then some new spark plugs and the spark plug
wires from my 142.
Thanks man,
Kyle

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Kyle E.
VP of Membership and Website Administrator
Oregon Volvo Tuners
Portland/Corvallis, OR - 1968 142 - 71b20b SUs, m40, ask me for more info...