everywhere I look I see statements that the 360 is thirsty I never had complaints at 30 mpg from my tired one in fact thought it good from a car I never drive gently totally gobsmacked that the B230FB I,ve now fitted is returning 38 per gallon and that was a run of 500 kilometres where it rarely wen...

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ready for transplant have already replaced shock absorbers suspension bushes and steering rack today the engine parts arrived

And bringing the motor home in the tyre rack of my truck

a friend put me on to it--never thought i would get another but here she is 1 owner 290,000 k's and soon to receive a B230 FB

after a 2 or so year stint without a 300 series ----well i found another 360 GLT picking it up from the carsales next week ive not been a total traitor ive spent the last 2 years driving a huge 164TE which im keeping I've got quite attached to the thirsty big thing

the sanden compressor is avery common unit likely could be found in many wreckers yards the trick may be to get your one rebuilt with uprated seals etc as your original pump was designed for the older style gasThe unit is very easy to remove as i've just finished stripping the aircon from my parts c...

most of all the trip showed me that i have to wait before loking at newer cars to replace the volvo its stock apart from the removal of the rotor arm rev-limiter mine may have problems as the torque others speak of has left mine instead i have one thats very unhappy under 4000 rpm after that it goes...

back from my trip took longer--and covered more miles than planned originally 12000 k,s at least i've seen a lot of the country now apart from a lot of fuel 2 fuses and a now noisy final drive all went well i changed the transaxle before i left the new one was silent and stayed that way till I got t...

yes was an option my 340 has one but no idea how the thing is activated theres no sign of a switch anywhere and due to it deciding to work in traffic i've removed the fuses that power the thing theres an on-of switch on the unit under the bonnet but even turning it off didnt silence it it uses a sep...

I knew the 360 had issues with the driveshaft coupling so today out came the gearbox I definitely wasnt prepared for what I saw, It was planning a spectacular failure I think, LH diff bearing has 5 mm up and down movement Input shaft bearing had collapsed and the gearbox was using the prop as some s...

my 84 mk2 glt has it and it apears to use the same hardware as the mk 3 model strangely for australia the car has heated seats too though i'm not certain how they connect to the main wiring---made the discovery while repairing the lumbar support units in my front seats

white cars mine and the other at berrys might be the red paint as mines similar in the paint i'd thought it was from not preparing the body properly before painting

my 340 has that light too it has lit up a few times but at around 5500 rpm it is fed with power from the renix but mine doesnt work as its makers intended either in the manuals section under electrical theres a wiring diagram for it

discovered this site while websurfing in holland but english pages are available freight from there would be too expensive for me to contemplate but britain or europe would be affordable i'd guess http://www.scandcar.com/defframe.htm hoping the link works. If not google for "scandcar" hope some find...