Duchess The Volvo 340 CVT

[benji1985]

Good evening all, well today was a busy day for me.
26/03/17
Started off by putting some paint over the square plates in the floor.
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Now she is ready to go to the painters tomorrow.
Do I then decided to start on the engine.
Stripped of the parts to be replaced
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Rocker cover off ready for head to come off
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Head coming off
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Bores cleaned and oiled and rotated around several times
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Cam chain and cams all look good.
Cleaned the mating surfaces
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Sump being Prepped to come off.
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Sump off and cleaned up
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Mating surfaces cleaned and new rubber installed
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New gasket installed for the cam chain cover
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Cam chain cover installed
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Installed the Sump gasket and Sump
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Next to go on was the cylinder head that was cleaned a long time ago
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End plate cover
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New water pump installed
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And lastly for today was the Rocker cover loosely put in place
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And little more to follow tomorrow.

Ben

[benji1985]

Good day all.
27/03/17
We'll today was the day, she was loaded up and went off to the painters.
All ready to go
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All loaded up
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All sat at the painters, a month to go
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Now time for all the little bits to be done.

Ben

[benji1985]

good day all, sorry for lack of replies and updates, I was moving in to my first house.
03/04/17
So with the car gone there is a empty space where she sat.... this is not good.... almost sad, but still cracking on with the engine and other bits ready to go back in to her.
first was i finally got an adapter to fit the oil pressure sender, just waiting on the little spade connector so i dont have to cut wires etc
20170403_104342 by Benjamin Charlton, on Flickr

carried on putting all the nice shiney new bits on the engine... I am very surprised there has not been more mocking of the blue!
end seal went in
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alternator brackets went on
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followed by the alternator and the pulleys
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still need to torque up the bolts
next up was the inlet and exhaust manifold and the coolent pipe (unknown name)
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installed the studs for the exhaust
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I think in my humble option it looks really good
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Next on my list of things to do is the seat, the covers need a good wash, so started to dismantle them.
rear lower seat first
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next was a front seat, you can see the heated pads all screwed up, but appear to have electrical continuity
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that was all for today, a little bit more to follow the next day




04/04/17
stopped off at the painters to drop off missing bolts and the rear door plastic grills, they had made a start on the rear quarter panel
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then i went up to carry on with the seat dismantling
the other front seat
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that's was all i could get done as it was raining but there will be more coming

Ben

[benji1985]

Hello all, sorry for the delay in replying with more pics, been manic and have not got internet in the new house yet, but here is the updates
09/04/17
decided to put a new crush washer on the oil pressure sensor just to make sure all was ok
20170409_104930 by Benjamin Charlton, on Flickr

Attempted to get the bumper insert looking really good... in the end i sent them off to the paint shop to do them.
20170409_104938 by Benjamin Charlton, on Flickr

in the mean time the new connectors arrived for the oil pressure sensor
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also adjusted all the tappets, i will redo this again once in the car
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the bumper inserts sanded down again
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the completed engine, just waiting on new nuts and washers for the rocker cover and V belt, both of which should be here soon and just need to torque up the crank and water pump pulley bolts
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the bumper inserts, GLT front lip and snowcap all painted up, but like i said the painters are going to re do my work as i was still not happy with it.
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went to see the car, and a good start has been made
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10/04/17
today I decided to clean some of the plastics and as you can see the clean left them "aged"
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So after this i went on the hunt for a grey paint that matched the original colour, and i found one, it is a "smoke grey" bumper paint, so brought 3 cans and ready to go up the next day

11/04/17
today was paint the plastic parts day
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before
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after
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I have to admit, this bumper paint was so close to the original you would never have known, but it has all been sent of the the painters to have a coat of lacquer.

More to follow as it develops.

Please tell me what you think to all, I know some of it is a little off from original, but i like it just cant wait to get the car back.

Ben

[Ride_on]

Looks like its going to be better than mine, I feel bad my seat frame is rusty and the seat covers foam layer (or whatever) is disentegrating.

I thought the front inner plastic trims were black, or is there 2 colours.

[SteveP]

Looking really good!

[benji1985]

Looks like its going to be better than mine, I feel bad my seat frame is rusty and the seat covers foam layer (or whatever) is disentegrating.

I thought the front inner plastic trims were black, or is there 2 colours.

Mine were grey, so i just mimicked what I had, hopefully i got it right

[benji1985]

Looking really good!

Thank you, just had word that the front bumpers and bonnet are painted

[SteveP]

Oh and yes, there were two colours used for the non colour coded bumpers of Mk3's. Earlier cars prior to circa '87-early 88 had grey bumpers and later cars was more a dark grey/black. I think the latter looked better, the grey tended to look as if they were supposed to be black but have faded

[benji1985]

Oh and yes, there were two colours used for the non colour coded bumpers of Mk3's. Earlier cars prior to circa '87-early 88 had grey bumpers and later cars was more a dark grey/black. I think the latter looked better, the grey tended to look as if they were supposed to be black but have faded

My bumpers are going to be colour coded to the body work with black inserts, even going to have parking sensors.

Ben

[SteveP]

Fancy

[MCHUDD]

Hi mate.
The first new 300 since Ride-ons. Looks brilliant so far.
Cheers Mark.

[benji1985]

hello all, again sorry for delays in reply, but there is a lot to report this time.
17/04/17
so today i have been sent a pic of the prep work before the respray
ADD PIC IN HERE!!!!

then i was asked to go up and help him put the doors and boot on. so i couldn't not take some pics
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All ready for the transport back to where i am working in it tomorrow

18/04/17
got the car out in to the light and got to see the paint job, he has done a truly great job
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The car back up where she belogs, now comes the task of putting it all back together now
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got a belt at last for the engine
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started by removing the old front suspension and fitted the new
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new steering rack fitted
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old rear suspension removed and replaced with new
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had to call it a day here

19/04/17
today saw more bits going on
rear shocks
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new handbrake cables installed (later undone again.....)
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front cross member and anti roll bar installed
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along with new drop links
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installed the GLT front lip, mainly so it was out of the way and not going to get broken.
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all nice and black

made up the CVT unit mounting frame
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mounted the CVt units and then mounted the whole thing in the car
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also got some new washers and nuts for the top of the engine
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So all in all things are going back together quite quick, I have some things to sort out like new bushes etc

Sadly i have like 10 days of work now so there will not be any more done for a little while.

Please do tell me what you think

Ben

[SteveP]

Looking fantastic, as I said on the book of faces. Really coming together now

[bogbasic]

Excellent work.