Project 740 "The BattleShip!"

[hemihusky]

Hey all. so here is my new cheaper daily driver project! its a 1989 volvo 740 GLE manual.

the car has done 107,000 miles with a full service history right up untill 106,000! i bought this fine thing from stoke on trent where i was told the history was some elderly couple used it eventually the husband died n she sold it on after it being sat for 3 whole years! explains why its a lil spluttery on start up! but i drove home n immediatly found the tires to be unbalanced 60 was hell 70 was even worse go faster n it smooths out slowly. but thats not a hard fix.

i got no clue where this project will go but will keep posting the odds n sods i do to it on here performance mods wont happen for a while cause i said i wanted to keep this my cheap n cheerfull daily for a bit!















previous owners left this! conservative nutcases

[V70 Graham]

Looks tidy enough, and I do like the colour.

[hemihusky]

i do like a good gunmetal silver style silver car. specially with the verry period side stripe =) gonna hafta get that tape deck working (stuck in code atm) n get some orchestral maneuvers in the dark tapes out! enola gay while cursing around in the ocean liner =P

[jamesy12345]

Nice one, great project. Classic insurance might save you some cash

You'll be glad to know Christine won the election. In 2004

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[c70geoff]

Oooooo I do like a 740

[JUDGENINJA]

Many Old schools cars are coming out of the wood work at the moment.... Keep it up!

[Doingitsideways]

Loves me a shovel front 740

[stribo]

Looks very tidy.

[Ettienne]

A fair amount to swap over if it's not turbo, but looks clean enough, local scrappy has just crushed a saloon

[Ettienne]

Local scrappy has engine and box you'll want if tuning and they have a good condition grey estate in

[hemihusky]

i will eventually be looking for a 16V maybe and it will need a box as i think mine is a M47? (4 on the floor with OD) but currently wanna get the fuel guage working right. and the headlining fixed then a bloody good service. who was it on here who made the strut braces for the 700/900 cars was it oblark? id love one of them

[oblark]

The fuel gauge fault will the sender in the tank.

It wasn't me who make 700/900 strut braces

[Doingitsideways]

The fuel guage is also quite possibly dry joints on the board behind the guage.
Plagued 7/900s for years that one.

No, the strut braces are by "MI 1990 740 Turbo"

Think the O/D box is the M46, the 5spd is the M47. Box of choice is the M90.

[jamesy12345]

...who was it on here who made the strut braces for the 700/900 cars was it oblark? id love one of them

it was a guy near me in Newcastle, so I paid attention....username was somthing like MI 740 1998 turbo but looks like he hasn't registered as a trader so the thread has been deleted

Ebay link http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-740-...-/161634823364

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[Doingitsideways]

He's still got a sales thread in 7/900 sales on VOC.

[hemihusky]

would say sender in the tank is more likely atm as just driving around if i stamp the brakes the guage shoots about n sometimes then starts working again other times it sits on empty. but when ya turn the ignition off n on you can still see it move up a lil like its energised it.

thanks for the links ill stick the strut brace on my list of things i want to buy after a good service and run in =) found out my squeak was the power steering pump belt but just gonna replace it. it has seen better days so

[hemihusky]

So things have been done to the battleship believe it or not! a good wash. de-stickered it and applied my stickers back from the 850 on this one

but the main new thing being my new spoiler! this is a original 80's GLE spoiler that i managed to steal away for dirt cheap. part of me was tempted to paint it silver but the black works well with the black coach lines so figured would leave it as it is!.

only slight issue is now the boot struts dont hold the boot no more due to being too heavy so a temp fix was the free steering lock i found in the car when i bought it. least its doing something usefull now!

i also went to volvo to get some belts for the screaming issue and turns out. they dont make um no more joy of joys so contitech to the rescue. but do you think these belts have done a life from the pics? jeezus

Spoiler prep



new spoiler on =)



looking something like now!



shovel nose!



dicking about with my camera a lil here



interior got a lick for a wash. nothing proper yet



new rear look



genuine volvo too no knock offs



think a de-badge may be in order here



my new boot prop. least i found a use for the useless lock



snapping belt much?



oh jeezus



old style volvo writing tells me they been on here a long ass time!



new belts

[AcidicDavey]

Nice feet

I'd be tempted to paint the badges black to go with the spoiler and pin stripes

[hemihusky]

lookin at my slender figure? XD.

but that aint a bad idea either. may give black a try first as its easy to get rid of the paint. more of a pain to re-line um up on the boot!

[AcidicDavey]

At least they are one piece badges so easy to line up
If you do decide to take them off just measure how far from the edges they are incase you want to put them back on