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"Moby Brick" 960 road trip car project

Sad... they are pretty rare here in France, I really would like to find one someday but when they are sold they're pretty expensive.
 
700/900 are rare in the US, but they're dirt cheap usually. They were nowhere near as desirable as the 240s and these days nobody remembers them so they assume they're impossible to get parts for and nobody wants them. Which admittedly they kinda are, but the 740/940s share redblock parts with the 240 and the 960s share whiteblock parts with the 850/S70/S80.

Speaking of unfindable parts, apparently the EGR pipe is also on backorder, my local dealer couldn't get one. I might have to get creative with a replacement, either try to find a universal EGR pipe with compression fittings, or fabricate one.
 
I'm not used to petrol engines since I'm mostly a diesel guy, but why don't you delete it? That's what I do on all my diesels engines.

I noticed the interest on 200 series on this forum! Here 2/7/900 series are are sought after the same way. Nobody wanted them before but they became popular a few years ago. When I had my first 740 on 2018 people found it ugly and now everyone think it's a cool car ahah.
But I don't really get the special interest on 200 series. I bought a 245 diesel a few years ago for 300€ in a good shape, rust free. I could have use it for my diesel swap, but I chose to resell it to a friend for quite the same price since I preferred my 745 and still prefer it.

But for example here 960/S/V90 are highly sought after since they are rarer and are the only FWD/withblock/m90 combo cars available. So a decent shaped model can be sold between $5000 and $10000.

I find really interesting how cars are perceived in different countries that have different cultural habits and that's a reason why I like to visit this forum.
 
Bilbo19 said:
I'm not used to petrol engines since I'm mostly a diesel guy, but why don't you delete it? That's what I do on all my diesels engines.

I noticed the interest on 200 series on this forum! Here 2/7/900 series are are sought after the same way. Nobody wanted them before but they became popular a few years ago. When I had my first 740 on 2018 people found it ugly and now everyone think it's a cool car ahah.
But I don't really get the special interest on 200 series. I bought a 245 diesel a few years ago for 300€ in a good shape, rust free. I could have use it for my diesel swap, but I chose to resell it to a friend for quite the same price since I preferred my 745 and still prefer it.

But for example here 960/S/V90 are highly sought after since they are rarer and are the only FWD/withblock/m90 combo cars available. So a decent shaped model can be sold between $5000 and $10000.

I find really interesting how cars are perceived in different countries that have different cultural habits and that's a reason why I like to visit this forum.
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1. The check engine light annoys me
2. Unlike with diesels, EGR on a gas engine doesn't really hurt anything and improves fuel economy. Considering fuel prices, I want all the fuel economy I can get.
 
capkirk123 said:
Driver and passenger carpets in all colors claim to still be available, at ~$180 each. Rear seat/trunk carpets don't have all colors available or aren't available at all though.

I fully expect them to go to backorder once I try to order them and the warehouse guy discovers their inventory is just wrong, but there is some hope.
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Rockauto has carpets for 88 to 90 760s in all colours, front and rear seat. They fit 960s if you cut some extra holes for different seat mounting and wiring passthroughs IIRC. Same floorpan.
 
244tiCanuck said:
Rockauto has carpets for 88 to 90 760s in all colours, front and rear seat. They fit 960s if you cut some extra holes for different seat mounting and wiring passthroughs IIRC. Same floorpan.
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Oh that looks quite nice. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to come with the molded foam backing the 960 carpets do. But if new carpets turn out to be unobtainable I'd definitely look into it.

Speaking of carpets, I was sick this week and it was hotter than hell so I didn't get much done, but I extracted the passenger side carpet. While the carpet itself was actually in pretty good shape, the foam backing was somehow even grosser. I think someone spilled a soda between the seats years back and that kinda ate the foam.

https://imgur.com/a/CWn7xMM

However, I decided to throw it into my parent's washing machine (while they weren't home). I put it on the gentlest cycle but the carpet fared just fine, so I put it in for another round on a longer cycle with a bunch of bleach, and it came out pretty well.

https://imgur.com/a/XreBpM5
It didn't completely remove the staining, but the bleach got rid of all the smells, and it no longer oozes goop constantly so I'd call that a win.
 
The rot consumes
https://imgur.com/a/DnPxsvG
Apparently coolant had been leaking into the passenger side for long enough that it ate through the paint and started working on the metal. Nothing horrible, but I am gonna have to treat that before I put this back together. Also the factory sound deadening mats are holding onto coolant somehow too. I was considering scraping them off and replacing them anyway, but now I'm worried about rust underneath them and I have to remove them.

https://imgur.com/a/WSUhNgJ
I pulled up the rear carpet too, to make sure there's no rust back there. The padding was saturated in coolant and just fell apart in my hands when I pulled it up. Fortunately, sound mats like that are much easier to fabricate a replacement for.

The rear carpet construction is certainly a blast from the past. The front carpets were very modern. Molded open-cell foam, a backing layer of mass-loaded vinyl, and then the carpeting, pretty much modern best practices for sound deadening. In contrast, the rear carpet has no backing at all, and the mats underneath it are just paper and jute. A very 60s design, I bet that's unchanged since the 240 or even 140. I wish I could buy just the rear 760 carpet off RockAuto, they actually have a mass-backed design.

https://imgur.com/a/WYb8X0z
Anyway the rear floor pan seems mostly undamaged, although I'll need to scrape up that sound deadening.
 
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Another not particularly productive week, but made some more progress.

New accessory belt tensioner and idler pulleys arrived. Tensioner pulley is INA, idler is Üro because they probably can't screw that up. The little metal plate that holds down the tensioner pulley (which isn't present on any parts diagram that I've seen) was a little rusty so I sanded it, hit it with ospho, and gave it a coat of POR-15 because I could. I took pictures of none of this so you'll just have to take my word for it.

https://imgur.com/a/uvFtu56

Also got started on removing the sound deadening mats. The dry ice method is for suckers, turning up my heat gun to full power and using some Harbor Freight non-marring scrapers takes it off super easy.

https://imgur.com/a/f88Bo8g

Then a little goo-off spray gel stuff takes off the remaining adhesive. Drivers side came out spotless.

https://imgur.com/a/bIOgk0h

Unfortunately the passenger side continues to be worse. There's a lot of peeling paint and bubbling where the coolant pooled. I'm gonna have to figure out something to do with that, I wanna use something somewhat nicer than POR-15 at least. I'm considering either mastercoat products or sucking it up and buying an actual 2-part epoxy primer and brushing that on.
 
That white beluga is my V90's twin. Mine is a 1997 New Jersey car that sat in a field for like 4 years. It's pretty much rust free which is amazing but rodents had a hell of a party in the car. The interior was absolute trash. I worked my ass on it swapping the complete interior from a V90 part car I bought, including the headliner. I'm using it as a daily this summer and I love that car. Curious about your manual swap as I'm also considering it. I know a guy who has an M90 but he's still holding on to it.20260710_170739.jpg

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Mercifully the wiring in this car is mostly good, other than the typical ignition coil issues. The interior isn't bad either, I sent the drivers side carpet through the washer on a more aggressive setting because I'm losing hope that I'm ever going to get a new one, and it turned out ok.

I have no idea what my plan is for a manual swap, I've done some brief reading but that's probably years in the future still. I might just go 8HP instead depending on how costs shake out, while a stick would be fun I really just want another gear or two to get the mileage up.
 
capkirk123 said:
Mercifully the wiring in this car is mostly good, other than the typical ignition coil issues. The interior isn't bad either, I sent the drivers side carpet through the washer on a more aggressive setting because I'm losing hope that I'm ever going to get a new one, and it turned out ok.

I have no idea what my plan is for a manual swap, I've done some brief reading but that's probably years in the future still. I might just go 8HP instead depending on how costs shake out, while a stick would be fun I really just want another gear or two to get the mileage up.
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Just go with a lower gear ratio
 
Anybody know what the EGT sensor is supposed to read? I tested mine and it read 180 kOhms sitting on the bench, and dropped to about 115 kOhms when I hit it with a heat gun. It's probably fine, but I would like to double-check before I have to dig it out again.
 
The fuel filter was very uncooperative.
https://imgur.com/a/Q8mcpIu
PB blaster and the biggest wrenches I could find were not having much effect, so after 2 days of trying I got mad and put the impact wrench on it. Even that didn't really make any progress. Eventually the inevitable happened, my hand slipped, the impact wrench spun the filter, and it ripped the fuel lines.

https://imgur.com/a/ujD0Rxq
After cleaning up all the fuel I dumped everywhere, I cut the filter the rest of the way free. Having it on a bench made it a little easier, I could get the impact wrench directly onto the fittings and after beating the shit out of it and blasting it with the impact they came free. I also released a lot of black sludge, I'm pretty sure that filter was original.

After determining 6 mm fuel hose is unobtanium and Volvo wants like $70/foot for their fuel hose, I decided to just stick 1/4" Gates Barricade hose on it. The stuff is rated for 225 psi and E85, so it should work fine. Despite the 0.3 mm size difference it went on the barbs pretty snug, but I threw some fuel injector clamps over it anyway for good measure. Hopefully it doesn't leak.

https://imgur.com/a/pOY5NE5
I paid a my local machine shop $I don't wanna talk about it to make a new EGR line, it's 316 stainless and fit perfectly.

https://imgur.com/a/yHW8LfC
That was the last part that was really holding me up, so I out everything back together. You are definitely not supposed to install that intake manifold as one piece, I spent 2 hours wrestling it to get everything to line up properly and get all the bolts in, but it's in.

All it needs now is fluids and it should hopefully run like new. Unfortunately that means I gotta deal with the interior again.
 
bgpzfm142 said:
Next time you need metric sized fuel hose, Belmetric is your friend.

belmetric.com

Cohline Series 2122 Cloth Braided Hose

This hose is built for a leak-free, corrosion-resistant connection in automotive fluid lines. Available now from BelMetric's metric-only fastener catalog.
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Not ethanol resistant, with everyone selling E10 or even E15 these days I'd prefer ethanol resistant hose. Also I'd have to wait for shipping.
 
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