Volvo 740 D24t Diesel

This is my first post to Steemit, and I don't know if there are some car enthusiasts over here but I thought.. why not show my old Volvo 740.

Goodday,

Thought I'll show some pics of my 740.

I call her Beppe because its an old car who always tries to take care of me,
Beppe means Grandma in Frisian.
The engine made more than a million Km's (from my old 740) rest of the car 700.000km's

Engine : D24t
Intake : N/A of VW LT
Turbo : stock turbo @ 1.7 bar
Gearbox : Placed a M90 because of this :

Fuel pump : Screwed up like a morron.
Air filter : Stock airbox with Pipercross air filter element.
Intercooler : Ebay intercooler with china piping

From here on there will be some updates.

Well, I've fucked up.

I found out that my slave cylinder was leaking, that's why I couldn't bleed it.
So just remove it, place my backup cylinder and everythings fine hé?

No, I couldn't remove my old slave cylinder, I've never seen anything so stuck

I used loosening oil, I've tried to turn it with a big set of pliers and eventually I've tried to tap it with a small hammer..
I didn't use heat because everything is a bit oily on the underside of my car, we've had a fire before.. don't want it again.

The result :

So yeah..

Now to fix the problem, bodge style!
Found a piece a metal and I'm fabricating a slave cylinder holder out of it :

She's up and running again!

Testing if de plate fits :

Milled a hole in it for the slave cylinder -edges still rough from grinder but sanded it afterwards-

Painted, fitted and up and running!

They aren't the best pics but at least you can see what's what :)

Now I need to work out the intercooler, especially what kind of intercooler would be best..

Update : found a nice ebay intercooler

I don't really notice allot of difference, or even a difference..
She pulls just as strong as always? :p

And for the fun of it, I've cleaned her up a little bit.

Now for the fun part :
The rolling road!


From 112HP to 147,8HP.

Next updates will be when she's running again, I think I messed up my fuel pump.. but what can you expect with 1000000 km on the engine, 715.000 km on the car.

Somethings got to give XD

Updates wil be soon, hope you like it.