New Member '71 145 Volvo Estate

[jandalstomper]

I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I brought this car a few months ago but now, apparently have "the Volvo bug"

I'm after a right hand driver window regulator, are there any for sale out there. I'm situated in New Zealand

Cheers

[Billy Smalls]

Hi There

Nice 145 mate; and looking in good nick too. When you window REGULATOR - not sure what you mean? the metal L shaped thing that the glass sits in and is attached up to the winding mechanism??? they tend to turn to dust

Cheers now

[volvorocks]

Nice colour. Like rebel blue on the Polestar.

Regards

[cam]

Originally Posted by volvorocks

Nice colour. Like rebel blue on the Polestar.

Regards

Yes great colour reminds me of a mk1 escort I had many yrs ago. nice to look under the bonnet and see everything unlike most cars today with covers etc.

[classicswede]

I take it the wheels have been banded?

[222s]

From another thread:

Originally Posted by jandalstomper

New member from New Zealand. Here are some pics of my new oldschool 1971 145. Right hand drive. Original condition (which I'd like to maintain this way as much as possible) Planning to give it some tlc this winter as he needs a bit of attention. Just don't know where to start, being in NZ makes accessing information and parts a little tricky. Am open and appreciative to any guidance

A lot of the mechanical parts are shared / similar to those used on the Amazon series (e.g. engine & gearbox were carried over), and all the manuals etc for those are available on this site, if that is any help:

www.volvoamazonpictures.se

I'm not aware of a 140 specific equivalent site, but Volvo's own classic parts division website includes the 140 series parts books for reference:

http://global.gcp.se/global/catalogues/nav45896?type=sc

[Derek UK]

Very nice, but sunshine will help any colour. It certainly helps me!
Let's stir things up a bit. I'll put "I think" in front of this. The hose from your oil filler should go to the air filter spigot. The manifold connection should then loop a hose over to the side ear on the opposite side of the engine. That connection currently not occupied.

[classicswede]

You are right about that. The breather on the filler cap should be going to the air box and the block breather should be going to the inlet manifold.

[140]

No I am sorry, but the I have the 'Green Book' in front of me and the Oil Filler Cap hose is connected to the inlet manifold and the crank case breather is connected to the air filter. I have checked and it's the same for A,B,E and F engines.

[swedishandgerman]

As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter which way round the pipes go. However, as long as whichever one is connected to the inlet manifold inlcudes the one way valve as this needs to be closed apart from at idle, otherwise the purpose of the system won't work.

The reason for this is at very low engine speeds (idle) there is insufficient flow through the air cleaner to draw the crank case fumes in. Therefore, the valve opens at idle when there is high vacuum in the inlet manifold. It makes sense to use that high vacuum at idle to draw the fumes into the chambers via that route. As soon as engine speed rises, the valve closes and the flow is through the air cleaner again.

Personally, I prefer the the idea of the side breather being connected to the inlet manifold. If the pipe is connected to the manifold and the cap, at idle, the vacuum will just draw in fresh air through the air vents in the cap thereby not actually drawing the nastiness from inside the engine. Whereas if it's connected to the side vent, it's drawing directly from the crank case at idle. Additionally, when the engine is running faster, if that valve is in the top and closed when the engine's running nice and hot - therefore 'fumey' - then the hot fumes will be at the highest point (ie the cap) and have nowhere to escape other than through the cap vents, thereby not entering the engine to be burnt, so completely defeating the point of the system. As such, it's a good thing to have the hot fumes being drawn from the highest point with a nice flow through the air filter.

All said, I am quite happy to use the old fashioned system of no closed circuit breathing as it leaves just clean air and petrol going into the chambers! However, that's great on a nice new engine, but as soon as they get a bit older, they do get a bit stinky in the cabin and unburnt oil fumes are very harmful, so I would be happy enough to use a new type cap with a pipe going to the air cleaner and the old type side breather vented down low behind the front wheel. That one way valve is a complication.

If I was the owner of that nice looking 145, I would attach the pipe to the air cleaner with no one way valve and I would plug the inlet manifold take off. I would attach a pipe to the side vent and route it down under the car.