Wanting to fire up old Volvo
 

A friend of mine gave me 1979 Volvo 242. It is kind of a back burner project for me at this time. The car unfortunately has fuel in the oil, and I suspect this may be due to a bad fuel pump? After sitting a couple of years I got ambitious one day, and put a fresh battery in it and the motor spins over happily but does not fire. The common approach for me to usually do at this point would be to take the air cleaner off in put a few drops of gasoline into the carb and enjoy hearing it run. But this is fuel injection that I'm not familiar with whatsoever, and don't know what to take apart quickly and temporarily just to shoot some gas or starting fluid in.. Any suggestions? PS I'm willing to eventually put a new fuel pump on it, and change to fresh clean oil, but since the car is just sitting outside for 2 to 3 years, I thought at least hearing it run once in awhile would be better for it then doing nothing. I'm not trying to drive it, as the clutch seems to be pretty much at the end of its life. Long-term wise, if I want to put some money into it, I would like to use it as a rally car. If you have ever watched Swedish rally on YouTube, you can see how fun it would be to throw this car around sideways on logging roads and other gravel rural roads!!!

Other than Googling up an image, I would like it to somewhat look like the Volvo depicted in YouTube Swedish rally Lindekroken 2022 Stenmurssmall, misstag & action! The car pictured at the 35 second point. White car with contrasting green. My car is Factory 3/4 dark green already, and I would be probably going with bright yellow wheels and mud flaps, so haha it would look like a University of Oregon car😁 if I was WITH IT electronically at my age, I would show pictures of the actual car here

I wouldn't give Google the time of day either, but I did look at DuckDuckGo {i.e., Bing] and got no hits. Do you have the driver's name?

I will try to simplify this. I'm sorry I have to tell you the hard way. No matter what your search engine just simply ask for YouTube when you get to YouTube go to the top of the page where it says search then you enter Swedish rally and the video I mentioned is the first one that crops up

Youtube is filter-bubbled unless you open an Incognito window (which can be scary) but this comes to the top in either case; youtu.be/tPADVgKhMXU?t=35

#wrc #rallysweden #rally
Rally Sweden 2022 - Best of
Wolfeh 114,273 views 27 Feb 2022

but it's not green :confused:

edit: search on 'Swedish rally Lindekroken 2022 Stenmurssmall':
Svenska Rallyt 2022 - Historic
SWE Rallyfilmer
5,685 views1 Mar 2022

It's blue instead of green but I think it's Volvo because all those mudflaps.

Swedish rally not Rally Sweden

Fuel in the oil on an old engine - you sure it isn't blowby?


PS: youtube is owned by google (er alphabet)

I'm not sure of the condition of the car as I have only driven it from a parking place into a trailer. Surely somebody must know how I can get starting fluid or a few drops of gas into the injectors. I will try with this YouTube thing one more time.https://youtu.be/DJ909Xdnmhw

Surely there must be a younger person than myself who is kind and can figure out how to put the proper link on here to the YouTube that I've tried so carefully to describe how to find thank you in advance to whoever it might be

I give up

youtu.be/DJ909Xdnmhw gets 'This video isn't available any more'. Does it work for you? I don't know why it's so difficult. You get a youtu.be address if you right-click on the window. If you copy from the address bar [or omnibar] you get a youtube.com address.

Are you using a desktop or laptop, or one of those new-fangled pocketable things?

You can just spray some starting fluid on the air filter.

Fuel in the oil can cause the bearings to go bad. The fuel thins out the oil a lot. I wouldn't recommend running it at all without changing the oil.

Or remove the air filter and just squirt some gasoline into the intake, using a pump oil can.

I only have my phone. I have a horrible history with laptops being driven over by trucks falling off of desk and shattering on the floor and viruses overwhelming. Thank you two other guys for the air cleaner shoot the stuff in suggestions.

Eureka!!! I feel like I have just won the lottery by getting the link that works finally done for you guys!!!!!!!!!!!🤯🤯🤯🙄

:thumbup:

I'm happy for your success.

Is this the green you mention? Which three-quarters?

http://classiccardb.com/uploads/post...ery-rare-5.jpg
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Pic[ATTACH] kitAttachment 31965[/ATTACH] wonders never cease. I worked about an hour to try to get this picture on here

Thanks for not giving up on me it's the white car with the green Wheels

Neither would I. And probably would consider either an engine overhaul or a swap if it was the case to keep the vehicle for a long term.

Hope you can get it back to life. Would appreciate if you post an update.

Where did you get that ATTACH business? Here you write [img][/img] or click on this icon:https://ecomodder.com/forum/images/e...nsertimage.gif

Doing this gets me:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...chmentid=31965

Vivaldi used to let me right-click and do a Google reverse-image search, but now it does Bing, the MySpace of search engines.

Neither of those showed anything, nor did TinEye.

DuckDuckGo is like the NextDoor of search engines, but I gave it a chance so I could mock it.

DDG doesn't do reverse-image searches and when I searched for reverse-image searches it showed Bing, Google, and Tineye, as well as other random sites. Artist.Ninja successfully found 20 similar images, such as:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1657126319

and

https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...5&d=1657126311
Success! They are images of vehicles! :D

Yandex showed tons of green Volvos--and a few Mercedes.

Honestly, this is all that I was hoping to see. Larry, you took this picture yourself? :)

Hey, uh, how similar is this car to Larry's? :)
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1657128180

I am going to start a separate thread about that.

It also showed this picture:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1657129407
That's red! Way off! I tried to find out more information about it and found this: Jim Hall and the Chaparral 2J: The Story of America's Most Extreme Race Car. That's fascinating, but completely unrelated, although the same guy may have made both.

As you were! :)

https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1657128180

So.... Does the Cd go up or down? It looks equivalent to a half-tonneau pickup bed.

It seems like it has been years since I have seen any real ecomodding.

What's the term we used in the Golden Age of Ecomodding?

Filling the wake?

Half arsed assessment, CD went up, some but probably not significantly. The box top lip is in an odd turbulent area from the rear window that could affect the bluntness of the (?) trunk.