One of the BEST THINGS for a Volvo 240
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- Опубликовано: 6 май 2023
- Removing the headlights on a Volvo 240 to rebuild them and replace the reflectors, clips and seals inside. A good way to improve the brightness of the lights that are notoriously not very good. I also do some rust treatment with fluid film, perma film and owatrol.
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Anyone else who can't help but count the bells to see what time it when he's working?
Of course if all went well at the beginning you wouldn't have the epic alternate breakdown. Volvo love from your American cousins. Great video
Yeah! Misfortunes are a blessing when you have a RUclips channel 😂 Thanks 👍
As soon as you said "Deez nuts" I knew there was some fun coming. Then "it's been awhile" LOL.
Then "the important thing is not to rush". Sounds like my excuse when I don't really want to do the work.
The rust! Damn it. She is so beautiful on the outside. Don't let the rust destroy the car.
The headlights. The modular nature is a joy to work with. But the hex heads in old plastic that breaks, the adjusters which seize. Makes life hard. Love the vid.
Thanks man 👍
Great job Sledge. Hope that Lily will get a good 'report card'.
Thanks! Fingers are crossed, or as they do here 'Thumbs pressed' 😃
No music, no bullshit. j ust doing whatever you're doing. I absolutely adore this channel ever since the odometer gear video helped my ass fix mine. Gotta treat my 245 with some rust protection (maybe more than protection since it's rocker panels are like a swiss cheese) as it may soon fall apart.
Thanks for the kind words! And good luck with it, it's always a bad time digging holes in your Volvo 😩
Bring back the mattress
Nice job 👍🏴
Thanks 🙂
For some reason those church bells are comedic gold! Love the video.
Haha cheers!
Some nice work there. A burst of satisfaction and feeling of a productive day and i didn't even do anything 😵💫
Had my volvo for just under a year now, and every day I find something new on it that needs to be fixed, funny enough it doesn't bother me, actually I find it enjoyable
thanks for editing fast forwarding and no music.....I have 2 240 a 164 and a 740
I looked back at this Video as my 240 also needs new reflectors.Really good info thanks,I'm doing mine when the parts come.
Glad it helped 👍
Great job reviving the headligths! That's just the 240 thing you have to do after 35 years 😀. I still remember undoing those rusted bolts 😅
Nice man, be doing this to my 780 soon
you guys are lucky, here in Canada we got the plastic headlight covers. Which yellows over time
basically, I can't see shit at night whatever I do ;P
2:40 Perfectly timed church bell of doom
Just a suggestion...rather than epoxying in standard hex-headed bolts and duplicating the problem you just fought, I would have put in hex headed bolts with a Phillips screwdriver cross, preferably made of stainless steel. That way you can hold the hex-headed bolt from the front with a Phillips screwdriver and not be dependent on the ancient plastic and epoxy to keep the bolt from turning.
Nice recovery job!
Thanks!
Nice easy job :)
I love those wheels. I've never seen a 240 with those in the USA.
Those headlight bolts. I think I posted this comment before in an Involved video, but I replace those with stainless steel, and only tighten the nuts lightly, slathered in copper grease. Or perhaps one step further would be to use nylon nuts.
Thanks, I tried to do them up as little as possible and also used a healthy amount of copper grease 😄
I've changed a few to stainless or titanium.
I use nickel based anti seize.
Patiently waiting for new videos and a general Volvo update!
That front end looks great, especially how you handled the rust and lights 👍👍🤠❗💯
Thanks 👍
good work, I seem to remember reading somewhere that the beam is meant to be at the same height as the headlamps when the car is pointing at a wall 20 feet away. #freethekitty
Thanks, nice tip!
That looks fresh! 👌🏻
Thanks! 🙂
The headlights are probably the only challenging part to replace on those cars. I had a similar issue with my daily driver which is a 2005 Honda CR-V with the elusive 5 speed manual gearbox. Manufactured in the UK btw. Apparently they have 2 separate fuses for each headlight on my car and one of them blew out recently and I was scratching my head trying to figure out why the passenger side headlight wasn’t working, obviously here in the states that’s the right side. Anyways, to make a long story short I talked to a mechanic friend of mine who told me about the fuses and sure enough I found a blown fuse and after I swapped it out with a new one the light started working again. Not sure why they did that with the fuses but I’m glad it was a simple fix.
I love how temperamental these old bricks are my 740 does the damndest things 😂 your right though it adds personality to the vehicle i wouldn't have it any other way
That's good that you can buy just the reflector. I don't know what they did for American models as at one time all cars there had to have sealed beam headlamps.
American models received plastic lenses. I think this was to get through the US DOT laws.
The black metal clips that hold the headlight glass in, also double up as clips to hold the airbox lid on, if the stock clips have broken off.
Haha, good to know 😃
It's not a volvo if the airbox lid isn't strapped on.
Love the video's had a 77 244 anniversary model let it go 10 yrs ago sorry i did 😢, recently purchased a 1991 960 love it, thanks for your time showing how to fix and keep them on the road👍 from Ireland 🇮🇪
Thanks! The 960 are very nice indeed!
I owned a '77 264 50th anniversary model. I'm sorry that I let mine go, too.
Very nice and satisfying as it lifts up the look of the car. I quite like that rust protector product!
@6:43 Ask not for whom the bell tolls... lol
Love your videos, they make me wish I had an old volvo to potter with. Keep up the videos, I expect it wont belong before your focus may wander to your new family member. Hope it's going well. Cheers
Thanks, much appreciated! Hope you manage to snag one at some point 👍
I love watching your videos mate I love these cars I hope u get a Volvo 850 t5r at some point
Looks great. Nice and tidy 244. Could do with replacing my 940 reflectors as fog light reflector well rusted.
I think that might be a common thing, never done it on a 940 but did have to swap a glass lens over and it was easier
Nice job, very satisfying I presume 😀👍🏻
Very 😃
It's nice you can get new reflectors, are they expensive? Nice to treat some of that dreaded rust before it gets hold.
Only about €20 something for a kit that includes the clips and the seal too!
Dasty!!!!!!❤
Great content again, very nice to watch👍
Great video.
Thanks 🙂
Went through this with "Old Swede" before I sold her. Had the Driver's side come off no problem but the passenger side spun in the housing on every bolt. I was replacing the complete assembly anyways so I just broke it to pieces to get it out. Also I've had success in the past refinishing the reflective housings on quite a few cars by using Rust-oleum chrome reflective spray paint. We didn't get the headlight wipers here in the states though and we had the plastic TV lenses 😒. SEM makes a product called Rust-Mort that's basically phosphoric acid. It's a rust converter that can be applied with a spray bottle or brushed on turning the rust black and neutralizing it. It works well and stops the rust in its tracks. After that you can apply fluid film and never have that rust come back again.
The German term for ur "Rust-Mort" stuff is Rostumwandler ("rust converter"). It's available from various manufacturers here. I find it important to note that it is not meant to be a final coat. It needs to be painted over or sealed within 10 hours or so…
Mate, i bloody hate that job, ive got a stock of lenses from just buying second hand units rather than attempting to revive them, so well done refurbing yours, suprised the plastic hadn't turned to biscuit 😂 cheers man, hope things are good mate 🤘
Don't tell the Americans you have a stash of E-codes they'll be all over you! 😂
@@Involvod 😂😂
I remember taking about 3 hours when I removed the headlamps on mine. 5 bolts came out no problem, the last one (obviously) did not, even though it didn't look near as bad as yours. I didn't think to take the lamps apart in situ though, that would've saved me a good bit of dremeling in there haha 😆
Great attention to detail and a calm approach delivers effectiveness. Thanks.
Thanks!
Like brand new agian👍👍
good channel
All Volvo 240 built is now all over 30years old.
I think you meant *now? I saw that in the news, 30 years ago today the last one rolled off the production line, how crazy!
Well done with the headlights. I've seen too many times where people have started to rip them out, causing further damage to the mounting holes in the body. The owatrol and fluid film does wonders too on the rusty parts. Can be cleaned off, treated and painted in the future. Or revisit the areas every now and then and reapply Fluid Film as needed. Would defective headlight wipers cause a fail in German inspections?
Smeared some owatrol on my Amazon just to keep some surface rust from further developing on the roof. Worked great so far the past year, but hopefully it will get fixed properly at a shop soon. Saved up a lot of money to get it professionally repaired.
I have been those people in the past! But I thought this time there's no rush so I'm going to take a bit more care. Glad to hear you're also a Fluid Film and Owatrol fan, such good products! The other 240 I took for an inspection only had 1 working headlamp wiper (always seems to be the case) and they didn't say anything 🤞
The headlight and blinker units on the 740 and 940 are a breeze to work on compared to this.. Volvo learned a lot from the 240 .👍
do you know where the blinker fuild container is on the 240? ive been looking for it everywhere!!!!!
well if you had the dough bare metal bar that to save it do what you can
Yeah it would be nice to go all the way with it, there's a few other areas that need welding so it might be a good winter project one day. Just need to get a welder and learn how to use it 😅
So the Brit Expat can see again???😊
A welder and a camera?
Would a bit of wire brushing and some rust converter e.g. brunox, prior to the wax treatment, be worth considering?
Hi involvo'd ,I was wondering if I can find the driver's side head light molding, for my 240 with e-code, I cannot find it anywhere in the United States
What are the two products you used on the rusty bits? I took a photo of the oil you painted but what did you spray on there? I love your videos great work!
Thanks! I used Fluid Film and then brushed over it with Perma Film for a longer term solution, as Fluid Film on its own is amazing but you have to re apply it once or twice a year as it can wash off over time 👍
Points i didnt break that it was already broken 😂 sounds like me
I'm surprised you can still get the parts to do this job since these cars are so old now.
Luckily there's still so many around, so there's still a good parts source!
What is that black liner around the headlight?
What about th light wiper
First they put salt on the roads, then they stop you from washing your car. Sounds like a conspiracy to sell more new cars.
Haha that's a good point! 🤔
Do you realise what you did with the headlights was a green thing.
You have given life to them for another 30 years, well done 👍🏻
Today headlights don’t last 5 years here in Australia because of the sun and plastic headlights go yellow quickly.
The humans just design crap 💩 and machines build the rubbish
Man, isn't she pretty......
We might be quite a bit closer to you soon. Thinking of retiring in Portugal.
Oh nice! Never been but heard great things about it!
Nice one.