I'm selling the 940.  Good riddance.

"luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln!" (luvmesome142) 10/05/2015 at 14:10 • Filed to: None

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Here’s what I wrote in the CL ad. I thought you all might enjoy it.

940 Turbo with a STICK! That’s what sold me last year when I bought this car. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a pretty cool car, and you won’t find any other 940 out there with a manual transmission, but I’m ready to move on. If you’ve got a welder, or know a guy, it has one thing left to do to get it inspected and legal in PA. The left frame rail under the driver’s seat rusted out and needs to be reinforced. I don’t want to deal with that.

I didn’t check it out enough before I bought it from a guy in NY state last October. He had swapped the slushbox for a 4 speed manual with pushbutton overdrive. Nice! It was burning some oil, so I rebuilt the turbo and that cleared that right up. While working on that I realized the cat had been removed, so I bought a new one of those and installed it. The good news is that it’s got a good emissions sticker on it now. The parking brakes were rusted to oblivion. On these cars the parking brake is a small drum brake inside the rear disk brake rotor. I rebuilt those and put a new parking brake cable and rotors in. Oh, then when I pulled it out of the garage after doing the turbo, cat, and brakes, the center drive shaft bearing seized up! So, now it’s got a new one of those.

Some other items of concern. The speedometer doesn’t work and it’s probably the gauge cluster that is to blame. Something about bad capacitors. Look it up. You’ll see it’s a common problem, and the one you find in the junkyard probably has the same issue. The heated seats don’t work, but the heater rocks. And, speaking of climate control, the AC is not working, although all the parts are there. I just didn’t try to fix that. The leather seats have some stitching that has come undone. And, the glove box latch broke. You’ll see from the pics that I pulled that out and it needs to be put back in.

Now the GOOD! Except for those heated seats, every single electrical item works great! Power sunroof -works! All four power windows -work! Power locks -work! Power mirror adjust, left and right -work!. Six way power driver’s seat -works!

Other good stuff: The headlights look fantastic. Real glass lenses! Leather! Well, that’s kind of beat up and gnarly. Mostly, it’s fun to drive. And it’s a whole lot cooler looking that that rusted out econobox you’re considering.

http://erie.craigslist.org/cto/5252747011…

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 10/05/2015 at 14:20

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That is a very long CL ad.

Ike > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 10/05/2015 at 14:22

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If you can't sell and end up parting it, I'll take that drive train

Sam > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/05/2015 at 14:32

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He need an alternate that just says “runs n drives gud. no joyrides. i no wut i have.”

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 10/05/2015 at 14:33

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If someone is interested, they’ll read the whole thing twice.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Ike 10/05/2015 at 14:37

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That is the alternative. Tranny and OD are in good shape. The LSD needs new friction plates. The engine is strong.

Ike > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 10/05/2015 at 14:39

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that's fine engine trans and pedal assembly would be what I need. Still settling into the new house, so I hope you sell it, it not hopefully I'll be in a good place to buy some of the bits

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Ike 10/05/2015 at 16:18

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I’ll keep you posted. Do you live far from Erie, PA?

Ike > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 10/05/2015 at 16:39

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Turns out further then I though, I though you were just past the pa/md border! Lol I'm close to Baltimore, wouldn't be out of the question for a day trip tho

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 10/05/2015 at 18:32

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“Tranny and OD are in good shape.”

Taken out of context, someone may think of this and this (opium dealer)...

ranwhenparked > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 10/05/2015 at 19:27

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I had a 940 Turbo as my second car through most of high school and college - surprisingly fun to drive, great in the snow, and extremely reliable.

My biggest complaints were that the paint seemed to want to turn to chalk upon exposure to sunlight and that every single piece of plastic and fabric in the interior was apparently biodegradable.

I did give it to my younger brother, since it wasn’t worth anything in trade by then, and he proceeded to beat the crap out of it for several more years until my parents traded it in under Cash for Clunkers (he had moved the title into their name, for some reason, so they could). To this day, he’s pissed that they did that. For not being a car person at all or even a person that does the modicum of maintenance on his cars, I’m surprised he cared about that Volvo so much.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 10/05/2015 at 23:11

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My tranny can’t sing or dance though.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 10/05/2015 at 23:24

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Transmissions can make noises that can be a sort of singing...

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Ike 10/06/2015 at 09:39

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My parents live much closer to you and I drive down to visit them often. I know we’re still dealing with hypotheticals here, but send me an email through the CL ad and I’ll give you my email address.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > ranwhenparked 10/06/2015 at 09:40

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Volvo’s will do that do you. I still have an unheathly desire for my first one.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 10/06/2015 at 09:42

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That reminds me. Before the driveshaft bearing siezed up, I kept hearing this high pitched soprano, “whooop whoooooooop” sound that I feared was coming from the transmission bearings.

LongbowMkII > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 10/31/2015 at 08:35

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NP.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 10/31/2015 at 09:05

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Neither can that one...

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! 10/31/2015 at 09:18

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This is a NP all day if you know a good shop. When I lived in PA I worked at a garage that did inspections and we commonly welded on scraps of steel to make old rust buckets legal for like $50-100. We may or may not have driven around the neighborhood at 2AM stealing those galvanized steel For Sale signs realtors used to have in the Midwest to supply our scrap pile.