Volvo P1800

Car Carpet - Smelly car

I am not sure if I mentioned but the interior of the car is very bad and in fact it smells. The reason is that the car had a leak into the car and the carpets were pulled out.  I pulled them out and they are smelly dirty and discoloured. So the first thing they need is a good clean.
Then  as some of the carpets are faded I think I will use a

"HI-TECH DYE PAINT LEATHER PLASTIC CARPET AND VINYL REFINISHER INDOOR OUTDOOR"



VELTEX CARPET SNAPS

 

Mouldy back of carpet

Front look ok



 

 

Brakes 101

Lets face it, it is very important to be able to stop a car when it is in motion from time to time. My car currently does not run and even if it could cannot stop as the brakes don't work. So let start at the very begining.

http://volvo1800pictures.com/sweden/Volvo_1800_dokumentation_main_page_en.php

I check the out put from the master cylinder where it meet the servo brake cylinder all good.

Next I check the output from the brake cylinder. I skipped the branch union and checked the input to the caliper no problem there so I removed the caliper.

As you can see the rubber boots are all cracked and in bad condition so I will need to rebuild the brake calipers. I bought a rebuild kit from Rock Auto which has now arrived. Getting the piston out will be fun.

CENTRIC	1179000 6 (117.90006)	Disc Brake Hardware Kit	$ 3.47 each
CENTRIC	14390012 (143.90012)	Caliper Repair Kit	$ 7.96 each

Repair kit and brake hardware

This website gives a step by step account of what imovolved in the rebuild.
http://www.swedishbricks.com/faq/brakes.html

Well I managed eventually to gett all the cylinders out of one of the calipers. I also manged to damage my tire inflator and had to buy a compressor at a yard sale for $75.



Compressor




Front Brake caliper broken down

Piston and pitting

Well after breaking down one caliper I check and cleaned up the pistons. It looks like I will need to replace them. The pitting on the large cylinder is to bad and the smaller ones are usable but not great. I will bite the bullet and buy a kit with cylinders.

 

http://www.vintageimportparts.com/p1800.pdf

525 Repair kit 1-circ. Caliper (includes pistons &gaskets) 2/car 1963-68 set $56.80

Brake calipers painted

 

Front bumper rubber mount

My rubber bumper mount came yesterday. Which I got from Vintage Import Parts. Looks good and very easy to mount. Just wrapped the rubber around it and screwed on thorught the bumpers.

This is what it looled like before.

and this is what it looks like now. This video shows how to fit and I found this after I fitted mine.

http://youtu.be/-eFBMFt9Dwk

Of course I had to check the one that aready on there and guess what it's just glued on????  Looks like I need another mount.

Volvo P1800 Air Filters

Air Filter modification   You Tube video Link

K & N Filter 3180     Link to replacement filter

Ok I found the above you tube video about how to convert a standard air filter to accept a K & N air filter. I had thought about doing something like this but decide to go the easire route and just buy replacment filter. However I now have the opportunity to modify the old ones.

Update I just purchased on ebay 2 Air filters for $10+ 9.95 shipping which should fit, I hope.

Getting the engine to start part 6 - Carb Rebuild

Well the car still will not start and I can only now assume it beacuse of the crabs. The carbs has fuel but its not getting to the engine. The cars starts for a bit if I squirt a bit of fuel in the carbs so maybe is the floats not set correctly.

I ordered on line two carb rebuild kits from the http://www.carburetorfactory.com/

http://sucarb.co.uk/  - Link to SU website some intersting stiff here.

Year	Engine/Model	Code	Model	Kit
1972-71	1986cc 142", 144", 145" (2 Carb)	SU-1	HIF-6	155578B
1972-68	1986cc 144" S, 145" S (2 Carb)	ZS-1	175CD	15577C
1968-67	122S, 123GT, 144 1800S (2 Carb)	SU-1	HS-6	15578B
1966-61	1.8L B18D, 122, 544, P120, P130, P220, P1800 (2 Carb)	SU-1	HS-6	15578B
1962-54	B14A, B16B	SU-1	HS-2, HS-4	15251

Carb on engine

Carbs removed



Carb on bench waiting for rebuild kit to arrive



 



Lazy Sunday bits and pieces

Today I thought I would leave the heavy overall stuff and do some fun stuff on my kitchen table. First I needed to weld on some brackets which had come away from the grill surround. It look like these brackets had been welded to the surround originally but the weld broke away. The weld did not look very good I can't believe this is original.
Instead of welding the bracket I decided to use JB Weld epoxy.

 

Grill surround bracket mounted with JB Weld

I also started looking at the air intake grill. My grill has only two spring clip reinforcing brackets the third one is missing.

I think there is no hope of buying one of these, so I am going to try to make one myself.
Here is the finished result. It not fancy but should do the job made with bits and pieces I had lying around.

Finished grill reassembled and polished