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16v parts to pull?

BassGuy

BassGuy

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Heading to a yard for "Free Parts Day", and they seem to have a 91 940GLE. Basically the rules are, take what you can carry out for $60 (no carts or dragging hoods allowed). Naturally, I want to pull as much as I can carry, so I was wondering what I should be pulling for a 16v conversion on a 240.

So far my list is
-head
-in/ex manifolds
-ECU
-brake booster (if I have time)

I don't have any "special tools", for example for the crank/cam gears (so I'm told by my good Volvo tech friend), and I don't have a cherry picker to pull the pan to get at the cut pistons.
 
Dont bother with the booster.

Do grab the head complete with manifolds and fuel rail and cams with gears. Also grab the crank gear for timing belt. Also grab an extra 16v cam gear if you can find one.
 
How do I pull the crank gear without breaking anything?

And I only thought about the brake booster because I believe it's the "skinny booster", correct? I'm sure I read somewhere about people using them for their conversions.
 
BassGuy said:
How do I pull the crank gear without breaking anything?

And I only thought about the brake booster because I believe it's the "skinny booster", correct? I'm sure I read somewhere about people using them for their conversions.
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Yeah...is it going to go in a 7 or a 2???

The boosters are different, so unless you're swapping it into your 7, leave the booster.

The yard doesn't have hoists available???

Maybe just buy the whole engine, for what it's worth, and then you've got it all.
 
BassGuy said:
How do I pull the crank gear without breaking anything?

And I only thought about the brake booster because I believe it's the "skinny booster", correct? I'm sure I read somewhere about people using them for their conversions.
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bring a bit of rope with you to shove down the sparkplug hole to keep the engine from turning over. Then you can break the balancer bolt free.
 
yeah I'd get some seat belt webbing and come up with some way to transport the head like that, leaving your arms free to carry other things. take some rope and use that to hang ecu's off your neck like flava flav
 
I have a skinny booster on my 1982 242... Get the starter motor and when it's off, stick a screwdriver in the hole to block the flywheel. You can then remove the crank gear...
 
240Psycho said:
bring a bit of rope with you to shove down the sparkplug hole to keep the engine from turning over. Then you can break the balancer bolt free.
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that doesnt seem like a good idea for the valves sake.

take the inspection cover off that is attached to the trans and jam a flat head screwdriver between the bellhousing/block/flywheel. i found that to be the best way to do it in the junk yard
 
the rope trick actually works really well. I did it on the evo when I upgraded the valve springs. I used compressed air 6 months later when I replaced the stem seals that'd been beaten to pieces by the higher lift cams. you roll #1 up to tdc with the valves closed, and it just compresses the rope against the head. nothing to hurt.
 
linuxman51 said:
the rope trick actually works really well. I did it on the evo when I upgraded the valve springs. I used compressed air 6 months later when I replaced the stem seals that'd been beaten to pieces by the higher lift cams. you roll #1 up to tdc with the valves closed, and it just compresses the rope against the head. nothing to hurt.
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The valves are recessed and wont get touched if they're closed. Besides, if you just need the crank pulley off a JY car, and not the head (OP may want it) who gives a ****.
 
maybe. I wouldn't go to the trouble of getting a 16v crank gear for anything but a 16v swap. they're no better than their 8v counter parts, just wider. incidentally, they're not very expensive new.
 
linuxman51 said:
maybe. I wouldn't go to the trouble of getting a 16v crank gear for anything but a 16v swap. they're no better than their 8v counter parts, just wider. incidentally, they're not very expensive new.
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The 8v crank timing gear is around 100 bucks for the volvo one. I pulled mine from a junk yard when i broke the crank key off, only took about 10 minutes with electric impact.
 
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