pinguin
Queen Bitch of MWC Thread
- Joined
- May 13, 2006
- Location
- McCarrons Lake
Traded my 99 V70XC to MistrThou for his 93 240+T
Here's what I gave up (MistrThou taking delivery)
In return, I get this glorious beast:
Ramrod it around town unchanged for a bit:
The rubber line that was on the trans cooler blew off on my way home from work, and cooked the transmission, so I swapped in the standard accumulator modded one that we all have in a corner of the garage:
Onto a trailer to my buddy's place (in the middle of a snowstorm)
Out with the old, in with the new. If I remember correctly, I got the new transmission from some local dude with a lifted 745. It's a weird story involving road construction and burnouts in a ranger.
Anyway, after that, I mostly just drove it a bit while collecting shit to continue the build. I hacked out the original radiator support, and then life happened, it sat. I got married, built a new house. Moved it in to my half of the garage.
Then I got back to work. After a bit of waffling and being too chicken to start, I welded in a new(TB New) radiator support. But from the wrong car:
Fits great, except the charge pipe exits right into the battery tray
And it's too low
On to the problem I can fix easily:
A little cut and weld.
Apply rattle can until she looks factory fresh.
And for the first time in a couple years, it's running.
Other than me being a hack and putting it too low, the 940 Rad/IC pack fit like they were made to be there.
Here's what I gave up (MistrThou taking delivery)

In return, I get this glorious beast:

Ramrod it around town unchanged for a bit:


The rubber line that was on the trans cooler blew off on my way home from work, and cooked the transmission, so I swapped in the standard accumulator modded one that we all have in a corner of the garage:

Onto a trailer to my buddy's place (in the middle of a snowstorm)

Out with the old, in with the new. If I remember correctly, I got the new transmission from some local dude with a lifted 745. It's a weird story involving road construction and burnouts in a ranger.
Anyway, after that, I mostly just drove it a bit while collecting shit to continue the build. I hacked out the original radiator support, and then life happened, it sat. I got married, built a new house. Moved it in to my half of the garage.
Then I got back to work. After a bit of waffling and being too chicken to start, I welded in a new(TB New) radiator support. But from the wrong car:


Fits great, except the charge pipe exits right into the battery tray

And it's too low


On to the problem I can fix easily:

A little cut and weld.

Apply rattle can until she looks factory fresh.

And for the first time in a couple years, it's running.
Other than me being a hack and putting it too low, the 940 Rad/IC pack fit like they were made to be there.
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