Volvo 760 Nivomat conversion ride height

[volvo B230ET]

Originally Posted by griston64

It took me ages to get them that small ! I had to compress them overnight between two copies of War And Peace held down by ten baked bean tins

That must of been it then, i put 4 family packs of baked beans on mine.

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by volvo B230ET

Hahah i never realized there was a place for the smallest photos, looks like ive started something now aha. yeah thats a good shout ill give it ago, ill post a link when ive set one up.

Try postimages.org - free to set the account up and when you have a pic you want to show in your post, use the "Hotlink for forums" - just click the blue button at the right hand side of the link and it should change to "Copied" then just right click in your post and then click "Paste" and hit return twice so it leaves a line underneth as a border - makes things tricky to read other wise unless it's just a few words to describe the pic.

You get reasonable sized pics then :


Gratuitous shot of a B280E in a 760 engine bay. ^^^^^

Signature pics have to be quite small by the way...............

[jpliddy]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Coil-Spri...w/333606901284

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/KYB-Kayab...Y/173270879612

There you are Jim, KYB springs (Heavy Duty aka reinforced) and gas dampers for the rear end.

For the OP, wanting to lower the car by 40mm :

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-K...6/192785569967

However - there is nothing in the listing to confirm if they will fit the IRS saloon versions - worth double checking before purchase!

hi dave
pretty sure my 940 does not have IRS suspension was that a luxury for the 960s

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by jpliddy

hi dave
pretty sure my 940 does not have IRS suspension was that a luxury for the 960s

The first links are the ones you're interested in JIm, yours is an estate, correct? If so it won't have IRS so those heavy duty (or reinforced as they describe them as) springs and dampers should be a spanner job to fit.

The last link was for the OP who wants to lower his car but i'm not sure if those springs are compatible with IRS which was only on the saloons. Allegedly gave a smoother ride although in fairness, the live axle, semi-independent set up on the 7/9x5s is very smooth anyway.