On the DL - 1985 Volvo 244 DL

yugo4life said:

That looks fantastic with the spring cut! I plan on doing the same thing to my 84 244 GL after Christmas. Mine looks identical to yours except the Draco's that came with it.

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Thanks! It's a fun old car to drive and I'm glad I got it.

Swapped out the M cam for a T cam that the roommate had lying around. Driveability is much better and the car gets up to speed a little quicker and cruises nicely now. Didn't take too many pics but I did get one of all the zip ties I used to keep the timing belt in place.


A/C condenser was missing a nut on bottom of the bracket, put some new ones on and its properly secured now.


Decided to check the harness in the engine bay and found a few wires that were badly corroded. Replaced a wire going to the A/C condenser as well as one going to the alternator and oil pressure sender. I didn't have a new plug for the sender so I pulled apart a new banana plug and reused the original plug housing.


Fuse #12 kept popping on me so I went hunting again for corroded wires. I checked all the wiring under the car and they all look good and still have the factory shielding. Finally found the culprit. It seems the wiring was so tight on the trans tunnel opening that it rubbed through over time. I also replaced the wiring to the overdrive button as they had some bare wire spots showing.


Fresh wiring has been soldered in, heat shrunk, wrapped in Tesa tape, and reinforced with electrical tape in contact areas. Hopefully it will last another 30+ years.

Score a fair bit of parts at PNP a few weeks ago.


Super happy to find a non-warped insert!


All the trim I got went on without issue except for the damn front bumper trim... I ended up removing all the metal clips from the plastic retainers and putting them on the trim then snapping it all into place.


Gave the car a nice wash after all the new parts were installed. Love the foam bottle attachment for my pressure washer.


Seeing as this is going to be replacing my Genesis Coupe as my daily here in a few months, I went and ordered just about all the motor, steering, and brake maintenance items I could think of. I've got to get it all installed before the Davis show.

It looks like a 240 threw up all over our house

Spent the day tearing down the engine bay to get it ready for cleaning.


Part of the harness was ingeniously routed through the intake manifold... That was fun to pull through while trying to not damage any of the flaky harness.

Got some cleaning done this weekend. In the process of cleaning and painting brackets and manifolds. Just have the engine left to degrease and it will be ready for reassembly.

Hood looks much better cleaned up and not covered in grime.

Side to side comparison of clean and dirty inner fender wells.

Got a little bit of work done this past week. Took off the crank housing and cleaned it, put on a new gasket and press in new seals.



Broke an exhaust stud... Atleast its right in the front and easy to get to. All the others came out without issue.

Manifold stud pulling party! The Mad Scientist and I have a solution

You should bring her to Davis. Going to be great.

LC4CARL said:

You should bring her to Davis. Going to be great.

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Already registered! This will be the first time I'm able to go up for the Saturday events. I'm excited for the drive, even if I'm in the slow group!

Well I wasn't able to get the stud out....broke the extractor bit in the stud so I'll just run 7/8 and deal with it for now.

Made some more progress today putting it all back together. Should have it running by Monday/Tuesday. Still need to do a few other interior things and flush the trans/diff.

Been a while since I posted anything here as I was working out some engine issues.

Took a nice shot while working on the car a few weeks ago.


Picked up some replacement seats from an '81 242 a while back and got them painted and installed while the roommate replaced his fuel pump. They were originally black but had sat in the sun so long that most of the seat fabric turned white.



Folding front seats came in handy when I needed to bring home some 2x4's. Also got the new taillights installed.


Picked up an arm rest at Pick N' Pull over Thanksgiving weekend. Ordered a new cover for it from aaaupholster.com and it fits pretty damn good, just need to install it in the car.

That?s a really nice car Please stick to those stock wheels. Looks awsome on a silver car...

Scaramanga said:

That?s a really nice car Please stick to those stock wheels. Looks awsome on a silver car...

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He really has nailed the restoration on this car However, I think he might be searching for more grip

Love this car. Wish my garage was this clean.

We had a nice sunny weekend that wasn't too cold, so I got some quality of life work done on the car.

Installed a new head unit with Bluetooth and factory volt gauge. The head unit puts out 100W peak so I had to run some nice power wire for it as the factory doesn't quite cut it. Rear speakers are in but front ones got delayed in shipping.


Got an OEM trunk popper installed on the car that I snagged from Pick N' Pull months ago.


Installed the arm rest. I forgot the damn hardware at the yard when I got it, so I had to source some longer bolts.


Got a nice shot of the car at EuroSunday. I need to clean up the engine bay again and work on removing the broken exhaust stud...

Got some long over due maintenance done on the brakes and steering components. Had to fix a frozen piston on the driver rear caliper and a plugged bleed port on the passenger rear caliper.

New pads and rotors all around


New ball joints, inner/outer tie rods, Turbo Sways w/poly kit


Some of that delicious Volvo gravy


Scored some doors with working power windows at Pick N' Pull this weekend. Will be moving over the internals into my doors so I can get rid of the manual windows!

Nice score on the trunk popper kit and armrest!

I'm definitely happy with the arm rest! The trunk popper is surprisingly loud but effective.

I got the donor doors stripped down and have found the wiring schematic for the power windows so I will make a harness for it this weekend and start the conversion in a week or two.


Put in some LED lights for the top cluster lights, much brighter! I also put LEDs in the dome and trunk lights.

Dave Barton needs a picture of your underhood emissions label! https://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=353129

kyote said:

Dave Barton needs a picture of your underhood emissions label! https://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=353129

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Responded to his PM and added them to his thread!