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I enjoy the teaching of internal combustion engines, if you every go down the path of internal combustion engines for aircraft please make video's. Opposed engines are what is really common in the aircraft world but Radials and other engines need love too. Thanks to your videos I understood the 4 stroke/5 cycle combustion and the other video's about the engines helped out a lot. Thank you for the great explanation and for teaching me about combustion engines.
That's really interesting. Are they still made to that standard and if not, which was the last model to be well built? I've never owned one but it's not too late to change that.
"A car with the aerodynamics of a wall, turned up at the racetrack and won both the European and German Touring Car Championships." You're killing me. Perfect writing, timing , and matter of fact delivery. Hilarious.
In my youth, I was strictly domestic cars. After my stint in the Navy, the only place that I was offered a decent job was with a Volvo dealership on Long Island. This break set me on the course that I followed for the rest of my life. I loved working on Volvos. I rebuilt 3 of them. These engines are beasts. After about a year I was offered a job working at Porsche by the shop foreman at Volvo. I decided to part ways with Volvo and continued to find love for imported cars. I worked for Porsche for the next ten years when I decided to open my own shop on Eastern Long Island. I specialized in all European cars. Now I had my hands back in Volvos as well as Porsches, BMWs, MB, etc. Life was good... I have since retired, but looking back on my decision to start with Volvo was probably one of the best life decisions I ever made. Thanks for this video and the memories it made!
As the former owner of a 740, a 760 Turbo, and a 960, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed this! I recently pondered selling my 2015 Ford Taurus Limited and searching for a 240 as my primary transportation, but my wife said, “Why would you want to be replace your nice car with an “old” Volvo??” You have a good answer here!!
You can explain your situation as equivalent to choosing the right life partner: a reliable life partner vs a young gold digger. Basically you said wifey is a Volvo..So, congrats 😅🎉
My wife had a 240 wagon back in the 1990's - loved that car! I called it the swedish tractor. Ultra reliable, simple to repair, unnaturally good on snow, and ultimately saved several passenger lives when it got high speed T-boned by a commercial truck.
unfortunately kinda true. have an new-ish Volvo my self. the build quality oft the car is good, its very safe, stable and over all a good car. but the drive train is not as good as before. the newer VEA engine family is kinda stressed and over complicated, much like modern VAG engines, and lack any character, again much like modern VAG engines. the 5 cylinders were great. but the 4 pots unfortunately are not.
@@phg4977 The problem with Volvo is that, just like it's German counterparts, it ditched the idea of "the everyday man's car" and went for the more luxury sedan section. Now said affordable vehicles are the purview of the Japanese and Korean automotive industry. I have a Volvo 2010 S60 and, while I really do enjoy it, know that it doesn't compare to both the affordability that its ancestor had.
The stress tests sound even more insane than the legendary Chrysler slant 6. Apparently Chrysler thought the drivers that chose one would haul a house trailer at full throttle every day. Uphill, both ways. Volvo must have asked "What if they added a second trailer, and it was snowing?"
now, Dad had an old retired Taxi, which had an audi straight 6 diesel, but we towed a tractor with that Volvo 244. Sadly far too many have been junked because Sweden got hard environmental laws about having a yard full of old car-wrecks.
@@andreassjoberg3145 kind of ironic because keeping an old car maintained is far better for the environment than buying new disposable cars all the time. I guarantee one million mile Volvo has impacted the environment far less than however many Teslas, new batteries and charges of those batteries it takes to go a million miles. Edit: I forgot Sweden runs on hydroelectric and nuclear, but the manufacturing of the car and new batteries is the biggest impact in that equation anyway.
Most of American designed In-Line 6's were made that way. They were initially built as industrial type for gas powered farm tractors and generators. The Slant 6 was so durable because when they tipped it over to accomodate the new low-line hoods, the unintened result was better oil wash and a slower oil return to the sump when the emgine was sitting cold. Thus, more oil was retained in the upper parts which simulated the modern pressurized oil systems of today. Oil is everything to longevity, and explains why the GM small blocks were so good. large oil galleys. large oil galleys also are present in the famous AMC 258-6, which Chrysler kept building as the 4.0L. Legendary engines.
Back when the goal wasn't planned obsolescence but rather: Build a good product. Honestly love these cars. A friend of mine has one he's been driving since the mid 90:s. They just don't build them like they used to.
As a retired 40-year collision repair tech, really enjoyed the 240s all those and 740s, almost like a snap together toy. And if we had to do some light mechanical work that was easy to. This car was designed to be repaired properly in the event of a collision with ease and accuracy of repair.
and also designed to never be repaired mechanically. i have yet to see a 70-90 volvo engine that need any repair that is not general care like plugs....did anyone ever blow one with less than 900 000 km in the world ? hard to beleive the t5 is a reworked ford engine ( the 2.3 is a ford tempo engine running on volvo electronics . thats why people been buying tempo engine parts instead... way cheaper without volvo logo even tho its the same part with same quality and same part number just like audi/volks ) and knowing the 850/850R was even more reliable and durable than the famous b18 b20, it tells how volvo used to know that they were doing.
@@Broken_AK47 Dad blew up a 940 engine once, but it was a trashed old car with a malfunctioning dash, no working temp gauge. One of the coolant pipes burst, and the engine kept trooping on until it seized like a brick. Apart from that, nothing really. Leaky head gaskets occasionally, leaky rear main seal permanently. But just refilling oil slightly above low as soon as it hits slightly below low keeps the leak manageable. Road in front of my parents house has a giant black mark from 2 decades plus of leaky oil seals.
Easily the best car I ever worked on, changing the brake pads made me insanely happy, I looked forward to it, I couldn't figure out why other companies weren't stealing the ideas
Because the design is to easying the mechanic's job to repair the broken parts of the car after collision with standard tools such as hammer, a saw, a metal plate scissor, and maybe a welding machine. The old days were a practical age for mechanics, or for someone that had passion for mending things themselves.
One thing forgotten was that when the new OHC redblock was developed, volvo made it a non interference engine(most of them until 98 still are) in case the belt would snap no harm would be done to engine and you could put a new one in and continue to drive. Volvo also marked up everything so you could retime it with ease yourself without any specialty tools.
Broke mine while ago, dropping some screw down the casing of the belt and it snapped when I turned the key. It was a 2h job, granted it was the first time with did it and my car has the ac bolts in a different spot from other models, which took at least 30m to figure out. Knowing what you are doing it is a 30minute job really. No special tools required. I basically can fix almost the entire car with a 15€ tool kit from Lidl.
yep, i stripped my timing belt one winter. took me half an hour to replace after buying one at the local dealer. when i blew my headgasket i just drove 140 kms home to the garage to change it. took an hour or so.
My brother drives this car (Volvo 940, B230F) for about 10KM without realizing the timing belt was stripped! It still arrives safely at the destination! The only complains is "the engine does not run smoothly" He order the new timing belt & he install the timing belt himself on the next day!
@@redblock5949 yeah, i have a B234f in my manual 940 wagon which is a 16 valve and sadly not a non interference engine but having a NA engine that makes almost as much power as the turbo version(155 instead of the turbo's 165hp) is pretty fun as well, especially bc it has an automatic locking differential from factory, which is awesome for drifting! So i'll accept the downside of having to change the timing belt at the correct intervals and not just driving it until it snaps lol. xD but the B230ft would have been pretty cool as well :D
As a mechanic coming up in the late 80s and early 90s...i wanted to hate the 240s...but i couldn't...they were , as you said...rugged,reliable, and simple...these days...if i could find one that isn't rusty i would buy it and resto mod it in a heart beat
Back in the 1980's I sold cars. 1 year Chevy, and 3 years Volvo. The Volvo 240 series was unparalleled. My own 1983 lasted 375,000 miles and something like 20 years. She was sand beige, and I named her "Sandy". I still miss her.
These Volvo’s were a huge part of my childhood. My grandparents bought 18 of them in row. They were teachers in Minneapolis that retired in 1968 and being from Norwegian and Swedish families decided to spend their summers driving around Scandinavia visiting family and exploring. They would buy the car from the factory in Gøttenberg in the Spring. Pick it up in June and drive it around until August. They would then have it shipped Virginia and drive it back to Minneapolis and use it until the following Spring when they would sell it and repeat the process. They always had friends that wanted to buy their last car. Bought the last one in 1985. When my grandma wrecked it it kept her from getting seriously injured despite the damage.
When you put the key in the ignition, I already had the startup sound playing in my head. And sure enough, it sounded exactly as I remembered when you turned the key :) As a Swede born in the early 70's, that's what I grew up with. Thanks for yet another great vid!
Volvo is a Chinese Government owned Company now, brutally sad as the CCP mafia is going to kill Volvo and destroy its name. I had a Volvo for over 20 years, went everywhere with it... all over the country... Never broke. Loved it...
I have the same thinking when a BMW motorcycle wheels by. I still have 3 of them, but a brain injury prevents me from driving anything. My wife enjoys the '04 V70T5. A rocket ship of a Volvo which is still very popular in the traffic patrols of the UK.
My wife and I had a VOLVO 240 (245) wagon. It was a Euro-spec car that had been sent over here in error. The VOLVO dealer begged us to sell it back to them after they discovered this at our first service. We kept the car for a number of years before selling to a serviceman that was taking it with him back to Europe. This car would 'cruise' all day at speeds well above our speed limit without even breathing hard. And it got very good fuel mileage doing it too. Suffice it to say, we loved that car.
I had a 1980 245 I bought in 1985 from someone in the US Air Force. He had bought the (US spec?) vehicle in England but had removed the catalytic converter so he could use it with regular gasoline. (I later had to buy a catalytic converter when I lived in a state with pollution tests.) The only visible difference between mine and all the other 1980 245s was mine had round headlights. Suited me fine-- the round sealed beams were cheaper than the rectangular ones. I spent a lot maintaining that car, but by the late 1990s I had trouble finding folks who could service it in my area. So I sold it to a guy who was a bigger fanatic. He had bought it for his adult daughter, who I hear hated it. I kept seeing it on the road for a few years. I don't doubt she finally found a way to wreck it irreparably. It had electrical flaws but I just knew to carry some fuses, and plan to put in a new alternator every 100,000 miles
I owned three 240's between 1975 and 2008 and I can state without a doubt they were the most reliable and all round pleasant cars in my 53 years of driving.
@@JamaicanToast Fuel consumption was not a strong point I admit, 28 or so mpg around town, but in those days petrol prices were not the concern as they are today. They were comfortable and 'smooth' enough for me and family. The 1975 244 DL was the first car I ever owned with power steering so I found It light, especially for such a large car and all of them cornered very well. But it was the incredible reliability; the large carrying capacity; the fantastic heater on a winter day and the all important safety features that appealed to me. And the 'Red Block' B21 engines - say no more - unbreakable! For Instance our second 244DL bought in 1980 we kept for 18 years and that engine never had anything other than oil and air filter change, plugs, points and timing belt in all that time!
I can’t think of another person who has more of my respect. Every time I randomly watch you I say out loud to myself “God I just love this guy!” Common sense with high intelligence add in the innate sense of what we don’t actually know about things we love. GOODJOB.
10 Star Thumbs Up. An incredible, informative and humorous video. A regular highly informative, stautus quo challenging video. Accompanied by some brilliantly "PC bypassing" snarky humor along the way. As a boomer big c.i. American V-8 fan with an Engineering Physics degree. I learn new concepts every time I watch your videos. It takes me back to why I love Engineering. It's, unfortunately, the only science left where your results are displayed to the public.
Worked on Volvos for many years I know these 240s inside out , one of my all time favorite cars. We had several customers that had well over 500k miles on them did several V8 conversions, easier than you'd think.
Fun fact about the red block: The same foundry line were those red cylinder blocks were made is still in use today making 11, 13 and 16 liter engine blocks for Volvo Group! (Trucks, VCE, bus and Penta)
Thank you so much for this one! Being 50yrs today and having lived in Sweden all my life, I remember those cars very well. Some say, it is the car that built Sweden. Thanks again, sincerely, Alicia from Sweden.
You mean exactly 50 years?? So it's your birthday?? If so happy birthday and congrats on living in Sweden. I turned 51 last month but am still in denial! To myself I think I am fine staying at 50 foreva! Like Abba!
I could not agree more. I used Volvo from 1978 to 1998, 20 years and it is a very good and reliable car. I had to divorce the car since in Indonesia it was rather difficult to get the spare parts and hard to find competent mechanic around where I live. At that time came to my mind if Volvo conducted simple training for the car users I would be more than happy to join the course. By the way I am a mechanical engineer. Anyway, I still admire that it was a good car. Cheers from Jakarta, Indonesia.
I inherited my beige Volvo 240 from my great grandfather, I've done my best to take care of it and keep it as original as i could, it's an awesome car, probably the one and only car i'll ever have.
Thank you for speaking about this "red block" engine. My first car I've got from my dad was 240 Turbo, very strong, very reliable, also very easy to maintain. Only my bad was, my self that I didn't properly cool down the turbo.
one of my childhood friends owns one of these 240 Turbo, he inherited the car from his father when he passed away. His dad was so cool he basically let all of us drive stick shift with that 240. We went on a road trip with the whole gang about 2 weeks ago, long story short, the 240 made the whole trip without a single issue I may be a JDM fan, but the Volvo 240 Turbo holds a special place in my heart, that machine is the GOAT
JDM ? Have my doubts ! JDM means "japanese domestic market " , I cannot see you living in Japan and or driving cars meant JUST for the Japanese market (like KEI cars f.e.)
@@51tomtomtom KEI can be sold in EU now from 20 years ago. The Gull winged door 600cc 2 cylinder Suzuki mid engine could be upgraded to a Honda 4 cylinder 750 or a Harley?
As a young kid I always thought my Norwegian grandparents 200 series Volvos were the most boring cars on the planet. Now I'm coming to see them as actually pretty cool. Thanks for the great history lesson about this automotive classic
The impact these sturdy Swedish icons have had on me personally is probably immeasurable. My grandfathers brother, a CEO back in the 90s had to choose a company car. Everyone was driving Mercedes, but he liked Volvos. So he picked up a 940 with just about all the comforts one can fathom in the 90s. And of course with the biggest engine option available, 2.3L turbo. He clocked in more than a hundred thousand kilometers and in the meanwhile I was born. Sometime early 2000s my grandfathers Volvo 740 had a tree fall on it. While my grandfather did have it fixed he figured it might be time for a new car anyway. So the brothers struck a deal and my grandpa became a happy owner of a nice 940. Clocked in a couple thousand kilometers on it some of them with me as a kid. A kid who fell in love with that cars simplicity, elegance and charisma. Shortly before his passing, my grandpa gave me the keys knowing how I grew up loving the car. I drove him to our favorite coffee place we used to regularly visit and despite his worsening health we had an amazing time reminiscing. Then one autumn day we laid my grandpa to rest, with that Volvo visible in the nearby parking lot. I couldn't help feeling like a piece of him was still left here with us. Now with 600 000km closing in I can't imagine a thing that would make me give up this car. It could sure do more love than I can afford right now, but the red cast iron heart has never stopped beating. I always get cheery with videos of old Volvos and I do feel like this video made justice to something I so dearly love. Can't believe it took me a year to stumble on this but boy am I glad I did. Thank you.
@@OutsideTheTargetDemographic bwahahaha. I like self-deprecating humor; it's not really that bad here, but you set a good foundation and it was too good an opportunity to pass up, haha.
Can confirm these things are still out there. Saw one on the highways of California not too long ago keeping pace with modern cars like it wasn’t bothered. Amazing engineering!
I remember a 240T absolutely cleaning up in NZ touring cars in the 80s. The rules were loose enough (back then) that you could bolt on a huge turbo at any boost to a 2 litre and be fine. Hence the 240T was boosted to ridiculous levels and cleaned up against NA 5 litre V8s
I was working for the local dealer and importer for Volvo in New Zealand in those days phone never stopped for enquiries to buy..I later moved on to Australia owned 2= 240 series lucky also worked for 2 dealerships there .Back to NZ AND A 360 AND 240 and my last one a 960 -great cars the 360 gearbox rear axle was a great little car VOLVO I ROLL
LOL, I will have to show my daughter this video since she is the one driving our beat-up old 1990 Volvo 240. One thing that Volvo definitely screwed up on was the crappy odometers which tend to all fail miserably as the plastic gears disintegrate. Also, the engineer who came up with the flame-trap and its location deserves a serious dope-slap.
This was my very first car. We bought it among four friends to travel through Europe, with the ink of my driving license still wet. We even slept in it during a month. The best car ever, still love it!
NO WAY you just uploaded this video! I literally bought a Volvo 940 Shitbox wagon for drifting and road-trips last week lmao. (I paid 650€ for the ”broken“ car and already got the engine running again and it rips and drifts amazing!)Thank you for your always awesome content man!
Thank you for making this video! I'm not sure how many people will read this but last year I searched for a vehicle to swap out my current daily 1986 300zx with. I love my Nissan so much and I just figured I'd have a "beater" car to daily. I needed something that wasn't too new or costly to repair, and especially reliable. Suddenly one day on Craigslist I found someone selling a blue 1988 Volvo 740 wagon for 850 dollars with 188k miles. It was driven by a 93-year-old lady and it had 2 small dents here and there. I didn't mind the character that came with it. It even has the owner's manual! I was lucky enough to be the first person to look at the vehicle and sure enough, I made the deal. Four thousand miles later, "Blueberry" is doing great! I've replaced a fuel relay, a timing belt that had been previously done in 1998, and replaced the fuel filter. I also tinted the windows and upgraded the sound system with a small amp and subwoofer to make it a little modern. It has the same redblock the 240 has and I love the brick shape of the wagon. It has room when I need it and I even bought her some new shoes that really set off the look. I've gotten many compliments and even a few offers to sell her. I'd be stupid to let her go! I'm very thankful this extra vehicle has entered my life and has become my new daily driver. I hope everyone can have their own version of Blueberry too :)
A very nice homage to Volvo and the redblocks! I would like to note that the 5 cylinder engines succeeding the redblock are also known for reliability, sound and performance. While I will probably never own a 240 series, I take comfort in the sound of my turbocharged 5pot.
just what I wanted to say. I know, it's a new generation of engine, but the 800 series was just as awesome, and just as reliable. Also, the only station wagon to race in BTCC
I've owned 16 Volvos in my life - 120s, 140s, 240s, 940s, and an S60R... The best sounding 2 were my 71 142E with it's B20E injected motor and 130HP (understated/underrated) and my R... that 5 just sounds amazing. The 240 Turbo intercooled engine sounded good at full revs, but still sounded like a sewing machine/tractor at idle...
thank you... my best friend from 1998 -2008 was given a 240 Turbo as a gift from his late Grandad... we drove all over UK in that car... it was awesome... sadly Daniel passed away of a heart attack in hosp. back in 2008... but i feel he would be smiling as he looked over my shoulder at this awesome video... it meant a great deal to me to see the history of Daniels 240... many many thanks! 🍸
My boss at work used to own a Volvo 740 like 25 years ago, he used to give it to us for errands, it was built like a tank but for the size it was very easy to drive and extremely comfortable, I was impressed with it. Never had the chance to drive a 200 series unfortunately. Thanks for the video Chief 👍
My first car was a 740 GL Turbo Wagon in 1992! Dark blue metallic with all the chrome all around. Even roof rails and trims. I usually parked this car in spaces two hands longer than the car itself was. Pedestrians stopped by because they could hardly believe. I loved the possibility of having an absolutely flat extended trunk to sleep in over weekends at the sea!
In sweden its often reffered to as unkillable, An old lady close to were I live hit a mooze with her 740 going around 80km/h and the only thing that happened to the car was a slight dent in the roof wich they dented out really easy.
@@alterbayer7196 As I am only european average when it comes to hight (175cm) it was like a king and his castle resp. masterbedroom on wheels. With this "Kombi of Love" I took even my canoe (stuffed with luggage) and 3 friends down to the south of france. Or camped "stealth" on the parkinglot for 4 days during the 24h of Nürburgring... Boogiedown Memorylane!
@@wood_louse119 I hit a Lancia Beta that shot onto the street inbetween parked cars broadside at approximately 45km/h - Lancia 0, Volvo 1. The Lancia got a salvage-title after this surprisingly but hefty meeting.
Great video. I had a 1976 Volvo 244. (2 Series, 4 Cyl, 4 Door) and it was an incredible solid car, I drove it all over Europe and it never let me down, bought with 120,000 miles and sold with 190,000 miles, it was starting to use a bit of oil but still good. Later I moved to live in Thailand and I bought a Volvo 940 with the redblock turbo, I loved that car more than any car I have ever owned, but when I left Thailand in 2016 I had to sell it was I was moving to Ireland and exporting the car was not really an option. The old Volvos are amongst the best cars ever built, I have no experience of the later ones.
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@@salvadorpalma8173 Because I'll buy it, then end up spending $10K doing stuff to it. It's become a pattern with me. I should really buy a 2004 Corolla and just drive it.
Greetings from UK. The Volvo regardless of the model was always termed the "Doctors" car and considered a very safe and reliable "tank" hence a lot of professional people drove them. I never owned one but always hankered after the Volvo P1800 circa 1960, very flash at the time!
Fantastic video! Great content! I will always remember reading Car Magazine back in the day and the pros and cons for all cars on the last pages. For the Volvo 2 series the pros were that It last forever and the cons were that It last forever 😏
My mom got an old 240 when she graduated law school. Drove my sister & me around in it for years as a kid. Was unkillable & always cranked when you put the key in. Damn thing is probably still rolling around somewhere.
I believe this is my favorite of your presentations. I was 10 years old when my dad bought our first new automobile, a 1969 Volvo 142. I felt like an astronaut riding in that car. Why? It was the first car we had with seatbelts! He taught me to drive that car a year before I received my learner's permit...off road of course. ;-) Thank you for reviving the great memories. I think I'll peruse Hemmings and see what's on the market.
I used to get roasted for having multiple old bricks but it seems like they get more and more recognition every day! An interesting variation of the redblock engine is the 2.5l 16v version that only came in marine applications.
Another interesting engine is the b204ft 16v turbo, the most powerful stock redblock. Developed mainly for Italian market and only 2.0liter for tax reasons
@@nedclarke2716 I’m piecing together a 16v 2.5 turbo for my 780 bertone. I bought the crankshaft and block from an aq171 or aq151 and the 16v from a 740/940GLE. I’m going with forged pistons and connecting rods so it should be a unit
I must say that I love your calm voice and how you present things in a nice and understandable way. So many RU-vidrs have interesting channels but I just can’t deal with their high pitched screaming voices “Hey RU-vid, what’s going on…” It stresses me out and I can’t stand it. So thanks for being the opposite of that.
My late uncle had several Volvo Amazon and also 140 til his death in 1980. And as a fact, the second last built "Volvo Amazon" became donated and driven from the Factory in Göteborg in Sweden to Helsingør/Elsinore in Denmark, and is exhibited in the local Technical Museum! It has 600 km and still its original protective plastic on its seats!
Wow. I really liked all of your videos explaining engines & its technology since 1-2 years ago, and today I'm extremely surprised because this is my daily car! I still drove '95 Volvo 940 from my father, which still uses the B230F Redblock engine! I really really love to learn about latest engine technology and F1 engines, but well, this simple, robust, and reliable engine wins me over efficient & powerful engine but built to fail like a soda can 🤣. I have the original service book/manual - it provides maintenance schedule until 25 years & 1.000.000KM! I was literally laughing seeing that back then! Every repair is very simple to do and the dealer service manual (along with the VIDA software) really well documented. It is over 600 pages but everything is explained thouroughly how it works, and how to troubleshoot and repair. I am not a car mechanic, but me & my brother now repair this car on our own since last 10 years.
I've owned two: an '82 240 DL and an '87 wagon. Both were awesome. What I appreciated the most was the ease of maintenance and repair (only one repair was ever needed). I also owned a 940 Wagon and had nothing but problems with it. Times change.
My parents have a 1995 volvo 940 turbo with the factory upgrade "turbo plus" that raises the horse power to 190 hp. Engine code B230FT with oil cooled pistons. It has 550000 km on it. Its still original engine and turbo. Of course there has been issues with the car, but never the engine itself. Regular oil changes, and normal maintenance, and it just runs and runs. Great engine!
Brick guy here. 940T wagon b230fk manual m90, from 97 with all the extras and 520000km. Original engine with perfect 162psi on all cylinders, original gearbox. Redblocks never die! Let's go!
Cheers from russia, same shit here, but a knackered one the odometer says 400-something, but i'd add about 200-300K to that, engine rebuilt by some previous owner with liners (discovered this when the head gasket let go), td04-19, vx3, lada ecu, about 250 hp @0,5 bar. Also got myself a 1988 745 with b234f recently, now trying to find a way to get hold of a timing belt tensioner...
@@zloychechen5150 the first owner of my car always brought it to the same dealership where he bought it next to his house. He was the kind of guy that pays Volvo to bring the car to anual inspection, you know, proper rich. LoL With the car came an Excell sheet of all the maintenance and work done in the car for 24 years. Just 30k ago they had the engine machined and all gaskets changed. That alone was a 3k euro job with receipt to prove it. It has to be one of the cars with the most prestine paper work ever.
@@zloychechen5150 it's hard to get the tensioner right now because you are in Russia? I can tell you some sellers, but don't know if they are shipping to RU.
@@salvadorpalma8173 Yes, it is kind of because of that, there are ways around this, it's just that i may have chosen the shittiest one of them all, so the process is stuck at the moment, if there's no progress in the nearest days, i'm ordering it through other means. But thank you for the suggestion.
Since you only went over the best parts then i will mention the Achilles heel of the 200 series. That being the transmissions. The engines alone could easy handle 500hp without much modifications but every transmission would not handle over 250hp. I recently took apart my volvo 240's redblock that has gone 400 000km. It has been in the family since it was new. Maintenance have been good oil changes and fuel cleaning solution every once in a while. Every single specification on clearance was as factory. I was both impressed and slightly mad since i already bought all the parts to replace everything. These engines are insanely durable as long as you do oil changes. Also fun fact about Volvo's name. It was actually supposed to be a ball bearing name from SKF. But they ended up not using it. So when 2 guys that worked for SKF wanted to make a car company they asked SKF for help. They gave them the name and some capital to let them achieve the dream of a Swedish automobile.
I bought my first car, an 89 740 in march of 2022 at 19 years old with 292k kms on the clock, it was a stock N/A car some time ago. Previous 2 owners spent lots of time replacing all the non turbo parts and installing a 531 head with a 15g to pair up with it, along with all the other 940 turbo parts. sitting at around 315k now with a stage 2 clutch, lightened flywheel, on 15 pounds of boost, and BCRacing coilovers. I think that these cars are the best in the world. they are sporty with the right mods, and will keep up with pretty much any modern hot hatch, and more. I intend on keeping this car the rest of my life, whether that means i have to rebuild it 15 times or not. I'm making sure this brick shithouse stays upright, so that 20 years down the road I can confidently say that the volvo 740 and the redblock with all its counterparts is the most reliable and enjoyable motor/car ever made.
Very well made video as well! I appreciate your implementing of a couple of swedish quotes 👍 In salty Norway these cars are still daily drivers and I am proud of them being the closest car manufactured to 🇧🇻.
I used to have a 1983 navy blue 242 DL. I ended up selling it for a couple hundred bucks, because I was moving out of state. This was almost 14 years ago, and I'm still kicking myself for selling it to this day. It was an unbelievable car!
Maybe not the 240, but the early 960s also got redblock engines. And what I love about that model the most is that they used Aisin transmissions. A lot of cars, especially Toyotas, from the 2000s used Aisin transmissions also, which made the already easily maintained car even easier to maintain, especially with how you can just drive to any dealership and ask if they got the transmission for a typical Toyota minibus instead of a Volvo's. My dad's 960 has a cheaper maintenance price than my mom's much newer Honda Fit, and it gets roughly the same mileage when used on highways.
Very interesting/well done! I always remember Volvo had the best reputation of safety & how their style hardly changed but had such a great reputation. Brings back memories when cars had SO MUCH room to work under the hood! 👍✊🖖🇺🇸
Normally when I’m watching a video about cars, tear downs or anything that involves a detailed analysis about engines and how a vehicle operates, I do not comment nor subscribe. But this video in particular has piqued my interest and is genuinely worth the time. The way you narrate, the grammar you use, the punctuations and everything about this video seems lively. Wishing you all the best in your future videos
Last year, I purchased a 91 Volvo 240. I am a truck guy who owns 3 90'S ERA Gm pickup trucks, and this was the first car I purchased because of higher fuel prices. I decided to purchase a 240, and I love this car. I was amazed how simple the car is to work on, and it's fun to drive. I would definitely purchase another 240 to add to my collection of vehicles. Thank you Volvo for making a great simple car.
Back in high school, the parents of a friend (not teachers) had a blue 240. We as teenagers found the thing boring. One day this friend, who is a huge guy, took a baseball bat and hit full force the bumper. It made only dry noise. We were deeply impressed.
as a Volvo for Life guy, having owned 122's. 145's & 245's, I really enjoyed this video ! now please do a video on the awesome Volvo 850 (my current driver)
In the 90s my dad still drove a 140 series estate, it was so reliable that everyone in the family loved it because they knew no matter how far we went, we would surely make it back home.
Friends of my parents had a 240 when I was a kid and, I dunno, I just LOVED this beast. The sound when you started the engine is one of my most lasting memories, no joke. Whe I hear the sound now, it teleports me right back then and there...Thanks for the vid + other amazing content...😃
I am still a grate believer of the redblock, had a b230 squirter in a 940 that ran just about doubled it's HP with a few mods on a stock never opened block. She was mint for 8 years and proper high milage . Lost her to an accident. I so miss that car 😭
i got to say i never expected you to talk of the beloved brick, but the video made justice and it is so true, the teenagers in scandinavia love these, myself included. first car was a 740 with 400k KM on the clock and i dailied it rallied it and was off the road with it several times before me banging the oil sump gave the engine a early demise during a rallycross day. got a 240 now with it's "SPORTY" B23FX engine 136 maad natural aspirated ponies xD and some bolt on upgrades like under drive pulleys lighter flywheel bigger throttle chipped ignition and fuel ecu and a budget ported head soon to be slapped on. love my brick
@@bitchinflexin the ecu chips control the fuel and the ezk chips controll the ignition, so often it's fuel chips you need to run higher boost without getting fuel cut the ignition chips may allow more advance on the NA engines, but more retarding on the turbo chips as higher boost might mean more retard ignition if knock is detected
@@bitchinflexin so if you are looking for a mild upgrade you can install a manual boost controller and adoust up til the stock ecu fuel cuts, as the only difference between the 135hp and 165hp engines was the wastegate pressure and not even the ecu's or open the stock wastegate and put washers in it to stiffen up the spring also works
Excellent video, well done , growing up in the 70,'s and working on the these in the late eighties and nineties they are an amazing machine. A real people's car
This video is so good I’ll watch it again and again! Well done sir! I’ve had 1 Austin, 3 Renault, 1 Peugeot, 1 Mazda, 2 Audi 2 Toyota and I’m on Volvo #3 and all have done 250k+ miles. Current XC70 D5 is at 205,000 and going strong.
Same here (XC 70 D) ! The new XC 60 is ordered but I'll keep the other as well, just having a paint job planned (since Sardinia+my son created some memories)
As a 122 and 740 owner, I love my worked b20 and b230 motors, a very stout motor given the work needed for an SR20 to make 500whp reliably. They did do r-sport builds for the b18/20, double factory hp. First turbo motor was in the 240 though, with the b21, before the 7 series's came out.
Of course i´m proud to be swedish, and, yes, swedish steel is the best. Forged in the furnace of legends comes the all powerful 240, and shows the world what true endurance really means.. This video is a homage to one of the coolest cars in the world, to bad they stopped making it. And to the narrator: you are doing a great job. Please continue..
When I was growing up the 70's 80's these were the most regular-blend boring cars ever! Years later I moved to Sante Fe, NM. I was pretty hard up at the time. I traveled there after college and my lady figured the dry air would help with her arthritis. We rented a UHaul 👉one way with no idea what we would drive once we setteltted into our cheap hotel. We desparatley needed a ride! After scouring the local newspaper 📄 (this is many years before the internet) we found for about $500 dollars, that bland cream color. It plowed through NM deep snows, we tooled around NM AZ for about a year, it never had any issues. We drove it all the way back to Staten Island at 80 mph on the lower route back east. We drove it there for another few years with no ZERO problems EVER. I see them once in a while in my state of Maine and they always brings a smile. Such a classic, timeless vehicle
I bought a 245 new in 1976 and drove it for 36 years, doing all maintenance myself. IMHO this wagon was a disguised sports car--the tremendous torque, stick-shift and rear wheel drive added up to an exciting driving experience. Unbelievably, the car was capable of starting in third or even fourth gear! The load capacity was essentially unlimited with the flat roof and six roll bars and I personally hauled many oversized loads. Once I hauled all the materials for a 10' x 10' x 15' tall garden building in one trip! I admit that was not a great idea and I never repeated that size load. Still, the car handled it with no problem. BTW, my 245 never had any major engine issues in over a quarter million miles. It is interesting that my B21F engine had Bosch continuous fuel injection. This was an entirely mechanical system and was one of the earliest engines with fuel injection. I really miss that car!
My father has a P1800S 1966 with the B18 double carburator motor, actually sounds very nice for a 4cyl and it is the original motor since 57 years ago. I really enjoy driving it, and am currently helping him fix things on it as they break (because eventually things do, even in volvos)
My first view of the Volvo 240 was the first Wellington street race (NZ, 1985, televised live). Entries included 5-litre Holden Commodore V8's, 5.8 litre Ford (Aus) Falcons, a swag of BMW 635's, 3.5 litre Rover Vitesse V8, - and one Volvo 240T, which arrived too late for practice and had to start from the back of the grid. Well this hulking great brick just carved its way through the field, then it was involved in a shunt and had to pit to have its bonnet tied down. Carved its way back to the lead again then its bonnet started flapping and it got black-flagged and had to pit *again*. And again. And it did it all again - here it was passing BMW's of almost twice the capacity and a Holden V8 of over double - how the hell could the motor hang together? Yes it won the race, and there was never a more worthy winner. Hugely impressive.
It won the race in spite of all of the extra pit stops. I bet that the other teams were thankful for those pit stops or they may have been badly shown up!.
@@dartdude4084You are so lucky with that. Even today cars from California are imported into the Netherlands sometimes and they always have ridiculously low rust for their age.
I had a 244 back in the mid 80's and used it to do a house move. The back passenger doors opened wide enough to get a full sized TV / video unit on the back seats. Epic car that I have fond memories of to this day.
I'm loving this video. My 1990 Volvo 240DL Estate with the automatic is still running like new at 620,000 km. I'm just now at the point where you start the red 244. It needs a tune up and carburetor set up. It should start MUCH quicker than that. Our 81 had the 2.1 litre with side draught Zenith carburetor and even at -40 degrees it started better than that
The first thing that came to my mind was some dude with a 240 who drained the oil and put sand, dirt, rocks and water in the intake, and the engine still ran after a while. Not sure if it was a Redblock, I'm hearing that name for the first time. Also that red Volvo (yours?) looks mighty fine!
I had a mate who did that through sheer neglect. We pulled the dipstick on it one time and it was dry, covered in metal dust. Still ran after he filled the thing to FULL with oil- I mean literally to the top of the oil filler.
I have a 1985 244 DL and I can't stop loving this car! Granted, 80's sealing tech isn't nearly as good as it is today, but if it leaks, it still has fluid! I'm saving up to swap in a Ford 302 HO motor for that good ol Merican burble, but I know that I'll miss the endless reliability of the redblock motor!
I had a 1988 740 wagon with a Ford 302 HO and AOD transmission. It was fun to drive, but I missed out on the redblock experience since I bought the car already converted. Now I am looking for a decent 240, manual transmission.
When I was looking for 240s, I would often see ones with 500 000 kilometres on the clock still sell for many thousands of dollars. Now gotten my hands on a 245 from '87 with less than 200k which is barely broken in for a redblock. Pretty good in terms of rust and mechanics but it has a few smaller things I need to sort out before I can take it on the road. The electronics are also a mess, the previous owner has done some weird stuff. Also got a '67 Volvo L3314N with the absolutely indestructible B18 in it, less than 100 000km on that one, which is essentially untouched.
It's possible that your '87 245 probably has 1.2 million in the clock, just that the odo is limited to 6 digits and turned from 999,999 back to 0 once.
@@envitech02 the milage gets registered on a government database every couple years when it goes in for the EU control, I would've known if it had 1.2 million.
