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Originally Posted by Laird Scooby
When i had my last 740, i was seriously considering one of these Alan :
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOCAL-REM...4/401377864667
I planned on mounting it on the chassis rail more or less alongside the alternator/slightly in front of it so it would be easy to get at the oil filter. Rivnuts would have been my preferred choice of fitting to screw into the chassis rail with a thin rubber gasket (~1-1.5mm thick) between the remote filter head and chassis rail to prevent vibration.  |
What a cool kit Dave.
For the RB access to the filter is possible, but just a bit irritating. If I'd bothered crawling under the car to start with it would have been much easier, and I probably wouldn't have dropped the old filter in the process (I'll use Bob's suggestion of wrapping a Tesco bag round it next time). Volvo could have put the filter almost anywhere when Sven drew it in about 1970, but chose to have it underneath the slant of the motor, under the exhaust manifold and very close to the alternator's exposed live terminal. It must have been a Friday afternoon in the drawing office and Sven wanted to get away for the weekend :-)
Alan