How reliable are the engines from these? They appear to be more modern variations of the B200/230. I was wondering if there was any one that I should avoid. Up to this point I actually thought they used Renault engines in a few, especially the 2L but it appears not. Does this mean that a 740/940 would be just as reliable as say a 240? Same engine right?

Very, very reliable.... just as reliable as 240's.. if not moreso, less 740's and no 940's were carbed so imo that's a good thing. Put it this way one of the (few) 740s' I've seen in scrapyards had 410,000 miles...

I would avoid any N/A Best of the bunch... 940 Low pressure turbo with the B230FK engine

Not for what he wants it for though... with unknown fuel quality large displacement NA ftw

Steve: Avoid NA just for performance issues? Surely a na petrol isn't bad eh?

Chris: that's something I've worries about a bit, think I'll need a couple of fuel filters which also makes me think diesel would be a PITA changing fuelling stuff on the side of the road

Im just gonna throw this out there and let the chips fall where they may..................................

Steam powered 240.
Burns anything. You only need water.

I had a dream last night where Fred Dibnah was running after me on the scuttling legs of a crab. in a tophat.
I escaped in what in retrospect, I think was a steam powered 240.
When I got in, it was a 240. But then, after that it was a steam engine.

Now Im not sure how the mechanicals would work, but in my dream that wasnt real, it seemed an effective method of perambulation.
Especially when escaping Victorian obsessed Crab/Men.

Totally logical, the man wouldn't have seen it coming, being deceased and all. Even if he was alive it would catch him out that someone ELSE would use steam power as form of getaway.

volvosneverdie wrote:Fred Dibnah was running after me on the scuttling legs of a crab. in a tophat.

Thats got to win a prize for the most bizarre sentence ever on this forum, or any other car orientated forum for that matter

Thats reminds me of the time we saw Dibnah driving through Doncaster on his traction engine...at the time I still had the 77 Mk1, we somehow got in front of him, parked up, got out and watched him go past, we even got a wave from him! He was at a railway steam engine event in Doncaster a good few years ago.

Hell Driver wrote:

volvosneverdie wrote:Fred Dibnah was running after me on the scuttling legs of a crab. in a tophat.

Thats got to win a prize for the most bizarre sentence ever on this forum, or any other car orientated forum for that matter

Thats reminds me of the time we saw Dibnah driving through Doncaster on his traction engine...at the time I still had the 77 Mk1, we somehow got in front of him, parked up, got out and watched him go past, we even got a wave from him! He was at a railway steam engine event in Doncaster a good few years ago.

You obviously dont read many of my posts!

lovely Dibnah story though.
I bet you got a wave because you looked like good interesting Volvo folk.
The nearest you can get to Victorian without Brass or Crab Legs.

Hell Driver wrote:

volvosneverdie wrote:Fred Dibnah was running after me on the scuttling legs of a crab. in a tophat.

that is deffo gonna be my sig lol