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Car Forum / Volvo Cars / February 2005

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240 in good shape for sale in Southern Calif (not running)

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Mike <XmikeX@XbluesXbrothersX.net> Drop all Xs - 13 Feb 2005 18:25 GMT
My 1981 240 (actually a 244) ate it's fuel distributor
and I've decided not to fix it.

It's been replaced with a 1991 940 Turbo that my
mechanic had for sale.

The 240 is in pretty good condition considering it's
over 20 years old.  The plastic speedometer drive gear
in the transmission stripped itself about a year ago...
the speedometer says 243,00 miles, I estimate that it has
about 250k to 255k on it...

The car has:
Brown interior
green paint (hood is shedding the clear coat, rest of the car is fine)
Seats seriously need re-upholstering but are intact and complete
Engine needs fuel distributor
3-spd auto trans rebuilt less than 2 years ago (not the overdrive
version)
Copper radiator less than 2 years old
All sheet metal is straight and NO rust
Tires are less than 2 years old
in-tank low pressure pump replaced about 6 months ago.

I have spares:
one set of injectors and the high pressure hoses for them
one high pressure fuel pump
several trim parts

I'd really like to sell the car intact rather than part
it out as I have no space to dismantle the vehicle and
sell off the pieces... and with work and other obligations
I honestly don't have sufficient daylight hours to part it out.

In short, if you can fix or swap the fuel distributor, and
can live without a speedometer, this is a pretty good
deal.

Mike Morris

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James Sweet - 13 Feb 2005 19:14 GMT
> My 1981 240 (actually a 244) ate it's fuel distributor
> and I've decided not to fix it.
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> Mike Morris

Could fix the speedo fairly easily too and it'd be a decent car, not in my
area though.
Mike - 13 Feb 2005 19:15 GMT
> > The plastic speedometer drive gear in the transmission stripped itself about a year ago...
> > the speedometer says 243,00 miles, I estimate that it has about 250k to 255k on it...
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> Could fix the speedo fairly easily too and it'd be a decent car,

Dealer says the speedometer gear is no longer available.  But
240s from that vintage are fairly comon in the junkyards.  You'd
want the gear and speedo cable.

Just realized that I have a complete spare instrument cluster too.

> not in my area though.

And where is that, just out of curiosity?

Mike
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James Sweet - 13 Feb 2005 19:23 GMT
> > > The plastic speedometer drive gear in the transmission stripped itself about a year ago...
> > > the speedometer says 243,00 miles, I estimate that it has about 250k to 255k on it...
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> Mike

Seattle area.
 
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