1992 Volvo 940

I found this car via one of the members of the Volvo 700 vereniging. The car is 940 sedan on LPG. AL th emore reason to have it as a temporary car, as there would be no change the car would remain in te collection. The ugliest sedan they produced, LPG (only a quarter of the booth of a station is now left) and an engine to small for the enginebay. (only 4 cylinders)

As you might have guessed by the appearance of this page, it's going to stay a while. The 740 has to much work on it to get it driving and I have to little time to spare at the moment, not mentioning the money. Also this car is cheap to drive, only 2/3 in fuel costs compared to the diesel.

The car was bought as a working car, but it has several issues. The speedo didn't want to go past 80 km/h, the fuel usage was 1 liter per 6 kilometer, the aftermarket cruisecontrol failed sometimes without reason and it lost some coolant, which never was fixed. Just to keep it running the speedo was diagnosed, replaced and fitted back as the replacement died completely within 1 week after fitting. Also the radiator was replaced to stop it's leaking and the cruise control was fixed. The fitting was a real bodge job with open 12V connections just dangling under the dash.

To fix the mileage of the car, I looked in depth at the air system. As the car was converted to lpg, the damage of a backfire was the first culprit. The damage wasn't the bigest problem, the fix was. The airhose had ripped and this was fixed with some tape. The tape blocked the hose for more then 75%, so I replaced the tape.
Together with the tape the airbox was replaced and fitted with a K&N filter. The filter can be used for the Volvo 780 V6, so it's a good investment.

After all this work, the car was drivable and the milage was good. The collant leakage however wasn't solved. The culpret proved to be the heater valve. As it's in a terrible location and I was offered a working ECC, I decided to remove the original heater all together and replace it with an ECC.

The ECC was complete, or I expected it to be complete, so during a holiday I removed the dash and old heater to make way for the ECC. The removal was done in 1 day, so I expected the fitting of the ECC to be 2 days tops. This proved a big miscalculation. I was missing parts of the wireloom, airduct and... the heatervalve. In the ECC setup, that one is located in the enginebay and wasn't included.

At a salvage yard I found a valve and all seames ok... until the sommer arrived. The ECC just refused to coll the car. The valve proved to be leaking. Notinto the car (it was in the enginebay anyhow), but the valve didn't close properly. Afther all this work I still had to replace the heater valve with a new one. With all this done, it's now time to treat the car on some goodies, so the original cruise control of the diesel is being fitted (B230 specific parts are already fitted) and I'm moving the electric windows, mirrors and some minor extras to this car.