Volvo 340 DL Globetrotter '88

[MCHUDD]

Hi Alexander and welcome.
Great looking car. Its great you take the time to use a translator.
I would not even know how to work one
Macplaxton in Dublin ( Ireland ) has a diessel 340.
Cheers Mark.

[Maestro_UA]

Thoughts on an easy styling of the car don't abandon me long ago. I was engaged in virtual tuning in Adobe Photoshop, few times did the Volvo.
Here that from this it turned out =)

One of my first works


And two more options




Such the car was as soon as left plant gate in Holland...

[macplaxton]

Hi Alexander,

Here's my RHD diesel, still a 1.6 (not Volvo D16, but replaced at some point with a Renault F8M)


Volvo_340DL_D_88-D-14183_002.jpg by macplaxton, on Flickr

DSCF4065.JPG by macplaxton, on Flickr

DSCF4097.JPG by macplaxton, on Flickr

DSCF4093.JPG by macplaxton, on Flickr

Non-original vacuum pump.
DSCF4075.JPG by macplaxton, on Flickr
245,529 miles / 395,141 km

[MCHUDD]

Hi Rich.
How are things in your part of Guinness land.
That Dizzler has done some serious millage
Cheers Mark.

[Maestro_UA]

Hello Rich!
The car perfectly looks. Run indeed serious, still for a long time to such)
And such I already found a spoiler mine in Odessa, will call today that would send me it by mail I even more often =)

[Maestro_UA]

Who knows, the spoiler in kgs how many weighs?

[macplaxton]

Who knows, the spoiler in kgs how many weighs?

Don't know, but it's not too heavy (3kg? to 4kg?). Problem sending might be:

"volumetric weight" or "dimensional weight" = L x W x H (cm) / 5000 (or other amount specified by carrier 4000, 6000)
"out of gauge" or "oversize" = carrier might have a dimension limit such as maximum length 150cm or it might cost more for 150cm - 210cm.

[Maestro_UA]

With transfer we have no problems. There is a set of firms which are engaged in transportation of goods across Ukraine =)
Here won't wait in any way when that person will send me)
By mail, which services I often use, to me sent beginning from a radio tape recorder, finishing the block of the D16 engine and the 4th doors for 340 =)

And about weight I asked for this purpose what to choose on what warehouse to me sent a spoiler. One warehouse in 100 meters from the house, but there is accepted by parcels to 10 kg, and other warehouse in 3 km but there restriction on weight - isn't limited.

Laziness - the progress engine =)

[Maestro_UA]

I fused desire to buy that spoiler, owner all too long delayed sending and eventually I refused to buy it. At this stage it not the main thing.

I have such problem: brakes became very solid, wheels aren't always blocked. Changed the vacuum servo - the problem was not in it. Pumped over brakes - it became seems better, but not much more. Bought braking fluid, but didn't manage to change it yet.

In what there can be a problem?

[Maestro_UA]

I didn't update long ago the subject because the occasion wasn't =)
Today I left to clean the car and wrote down video as the car is got after major maintenance in the winter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSgpW2Fo ... e=youtu.be

[Maestro_UA]

I decided to update a subject and to write how Volvo endured winter.

In the winter run made about 750-800 km. There went the car seldom, generally to the village (250 km there and back) on our remarkable equal and direct roads (it is told with sarcasm). For all winter the car was capricious only 1 time — the accumulator from colds sat down.
At any time and temperature the motor was got about a floor of a turn of a key. Still the pleasure at me after a major repair of the engine didn't pass =)

There were 2 visits to car-care center. The bearing of a front nave buzzed.
I bought the bearing in shop. Went to car-care center, 20 minutes of work and I happy left and went home. Pleasure lasted not long, ~ kilometers 50. The rumble again appeared, and from the same party where it was replaced. Thought that that appeared bad. Bought one more.
Called in besides on that car-care center. The car on the hoist. Checked the right bearing (from where the rumble went) — he is silent as the guerrilla.
The master scratched the head, went to the left wheel. It twisted a wheel, and here a trick! The rumble from there goes. All removed that is necessary, and it not in the best condition. Put the new bearing, all twirled and the silence in interior came.

When went home, long couldn't understand: what darling the left bearing published a rumble as though it is right buzzes?)))

Found on the computer some photos to which exactly 1 year =) New yet didn't do as will be - I will throw off surely.

[macplaxton]

Thank you for the update

When went home, long couldn't understand: what darling the left bearing published a rumble as though it is right buzzes?)))

I had a car that did the same once. The front wheel bearing rumble where the sound appeared to come from the opposite side to the defective one.

[Maestro_UA]

Anomaly)

[Alexandr_Ukraine]

Hello, it is Maestro_UA. Alas, I forgot the data for an entrance on a site, it was necessary to make a new account = (

[Alexandr_Ukraine]

I in 3 weeks will overtake the car to other city on long-awaited body repair. It had to begin in the 2012th, but didn't leave at that person with holiday.
The car worried one more winter. In principle, I didn't find new spots of a rust after washing. Only on 1 threshold this infection and on doors below (a sore point ) was a little bit shown.

In log book of the car in the column "Colour" it is specified "Grey". That color that now doesn't arrange to that it dark and a dust is evident.
I want to choose color is lighter. Somehow time at us in the city I saw (only don't laugh) LADA 2107 (the last releases, 2007-2010) with very beautiful color, here is how it looks

on the sun


when in the cloud sky




Approximately so it will look by car



Bumper as I want to paint color of a body, but to leave that black strip.
Over time for the summer I will take such R15 from 400 series. The spoiler as will be, but later (yet didn't find)

That tell? How to you?
If you know still any color like they are throw off in comments, and its name and a code is desirable.
I will be very glad to all comments, thoughts and offers.

P.S

On 10 liters of the diesel around the city the car passed 187 km, perfectly =)