'Tank' A 'Rolling Resto' Bloggy (of sorts)

[Paul240480]

im about an hours drive from poiters... pop in next time you over, kettle is always on..

Will let ya know if I am down your way

[Paul240480]

Well Tank is just behaving lately. I popped up to Carhaix last week to help a mate who was over at his little piece of land. He is THE 240 Guru! He needed his yearly day of help on his land . I gladly came to his aid. My 'payment ' ? A trailer full of oak for my log burner and an alternator from his stock of spares for "Tank". Current one works well, but the bearings are , well past their best

[Paul240480]

.............and touching wood, after another 5k miles no problems with Tank. I am ready for another oil change, just received my new filter, so that will be done soon.

Also I have this ready to fit:

[TerryG]

PLEASE don't tell me you are fitting them under your car to flash in time with your "bangin' choonz"

[SirTainleyBarking]

I thought it was the trim for his "Elvis in Las Vegas" suit.....

[Paul240480]

Lol nope on both counts, though Elvis is a hero of mine ......?

No all the dash lights have died. So the plan is to wire a run of these for the dash lights and a run for the heater controls . Soldered into the feed for the clock, they should work with the dash dimmer. That's the plan anyway.
Idea stolen from here: http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthrea ... t=LED+dash

[Paul240480]

Smoke in the cabin coming through the vents with a nasty electrical whiff was not in my plans....

Have put it down to the fan blower motor. What a nightmare to get to



Will I ever get this back together......

[Paul240480]

Lots of bits in the boot!

Back seat is 'toppers' too.
The fan motor was not sounding at all healthy yesterday when I tried it without the engine going. Really struggled on speed 1 . Sounded like a strangled duck too.
Having said that, I could not see any signs of obvious heat damage, there was a feint electrical whiff, but that would be there on any old leccy motor?.
The noise is the bearing, no doubt there.
Anyway, I have ordered a new fan motor from PFV . Tank is now off the road until the new bit is fitted . Just hoping that the leccy smoke was from the fan motor!

[Paul240480]

Done a re-test on the fan with my spare battery. Runs fine on speed 3. So ran it on speed 1. Okay for a while, then slower and slower till it stopped. Kept it connected to power and it got hotter and hotter and began to pong in that all-telling electrical way... So theres the problem. New one should arrive during the week.

Whilst it is out, I have decided to replace the matrix too. As these have a nasty habit of giving out bigtime & dumping the coolant in the passenger footwell Thought as it was stripped out it'd be stupid not to replace it. Don't wanna do this jobby twice!!!

So a fellow volvoist is in one of my gites, after my hunting the web for a day he gave me a site & they only have them 'on the shelf'

So ordered one today.

http://www.adrad.co.uk

[Paul240480]

Delay my last! email from the company today..... The item is no longer available full refund onto my card........

The hunt go's on, Tony Barrett (aka The Old Volvo Man) at Braydons is now on the case, gotta ring him back later tonight.........