For Sale - Volvo 740 Estate 87, B230K, LPG - Parts/Project

[islipaway]

£250 South East London

So unfortunately it has come to this. First a nice pic.



Good Bits

Engine shows good compression 160-170 across all cyls on my cheap gauge, difference between each ranges from 5-10psi 148000 miles ish.

M47 Box

Clutch, slave, fork arm, hose, less than 50 miles.

LPG system, with a bit of fiddling this was working well for me, big miles for pennies.

New plugs, coil, battery, leads, dizzy cap.

Silicone vacuum hoses.

Coolant replaced with genuine volvo in last 4 months.

Interior seats are decent.

MOT, until 1st of September.

Various spare parts, carb rebuild kit, some gaskets.

5 940 alloys and 1 full size steel wheel.

New aux belts, timing belt looks good from inspection but unsure of age.

Half a tank of V-Power.

Bad Bits

Differential is broken

Brakes need refurbished

Rough idle when running on petrol, having mostly eliminated the vacuum and electrical side of things I assume this is fuel or carb related. Car drives fine on petrol or lpg but on petrol it occasionally stumbles/recovers when returning to idle.

Typical headlining sag.

Heater core bypassed, the control valve was leaking so I bypassed it as car was only used for occasional sunny day trips.

Underside exhibits quite a bit of rust, not at the point of failure but needs attention.

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So if you made it this far, some background.

I picked this car up off ebay sight unseen for the unholy price of £1400. I was advised by a good friend that any old 740 would last forever and the fact it was on lpg made it seem like a really good choice for for a nice cruiser with a bit of character I could use to explore the south of England having moved here and been mostly unable to get out of the city.

It was pretty good going, I learned a lot and was enjoying tinkering with the car and exploring, all was going well.

I decided to treat the car to a new clutch, slave etc to have a trouble free summer.

The day after the clutch was replaced I went for a quick trip down the M20 and disaster struck. The passenger side rear brake caliper seized and I was spun around 180 degrees and ended up on the verge. I got recovered home and the car sat for a while as I waited (and waited) for the weather to get to a point I could roll around under it and check out the damage. Well that day came and I got the caliper off that was stuck. Progress! Or so I thought. On more inspection it became clear the differential has broke, there's a rough grumbling/rattling noise and it doesn't feel right moving.

So it comes to this. I can't really pursue this any further, I need a car for the summer and I don't have the space to keep this and tax it + another car.

I have been quoted £170-200 for scrap and I could remove some of the smaller parts and sell those separately but I'd rather it went to someone who could make use of it.

More current images incoming.

[Triple-S]

That car certainly looks nice, but if it had been almost any other car you might have been seriously injured.
I too have a similar-age 740 estate, which I love as my day-car but am now informed its new and serious water leak may be a cracked water jacket in the head. I don't do much mechanical nowadays so am in a quandary. Do I ask you if your car is back together again or stranded somewhere drive-less? Do I suggest making one car out of two? How does one get to being adjacent to the other (I am a few miles from J8 of the M25 but have no off-road parking) to work on them? Mine has a B230K engine so should I find funds to swap engines, or you to consider an axle swap from my car?
I hate day-car dilema's - they consume too much time for life's important projects and other things... Any ideas?

P

[islipaway]

Hi, my car is in one piece and sort of out of the way parked in a bay overlooked by the flats I live in. It can move around enough to maneuver but I wouldn't use it over any distance and I am certainly not equipped to do an engine swap!

Like you I lack the space, if I could keep it off the road and work on it over time I would, as it stands it needs to go as it continues to consume my funds in tax and my waking thoughts, upset with the loss and frustrated by the inability to repair it. I will be moving back to Scotland in 6 months-1 year and my next car needs to be a bulletproof reliable hauler, which this definitely could be but I just don't have the time or patience anymore.

It is MOTed so could remain on the road at your location for another 4 months or so.

I did a quick quote on anyvan.com and it looks like it would cost about £100 to transport the car from me to you.

[islipaway]

Took a while - here's some more pictures. Gonna keep this up here and elsewhere for a week or so, then ebay, then try and save a few bits and scrap I guess.

[Laird Scooby]

You have a PM - something i'm interested in if you end up removing bits and scrapping the rest.

[123GT-AMAZON]

Hi ,

Is the car still availble ?

Kind regards
Robert.w

[islipaway]

Hi, I have taken a deposit but the car's not been collected yet, holding till end of the month.

[volvo760estate]

hi, if you do end up selling parts, i would be interested in the whole interior as i want to change the colour of my car interior, currently black

cheers ben

[islipaway]

Thanks for the interest, The Vasa is now in the hands of another early 740 fan, hoping to make one better car out of two. Couldn't really have hoped for a better outcome.

[classicswede]

Good to see a happy ending