1966 Volvo 122

[Keith602]

Engine is out. Now to start cleaning, sanding, painting, polishing, etc... ugh. Does anyone have any tricks for removing built up grease and grime? Ive tried some of the off the shelf degreasers but they arent cutting it. I plan on replacing some hoses and wires that might need it as well. Alternator will go in as well. I have a slow trans leak so I'll address that too.







Got some stuff back from polishing including the carbs which look so good, and picked up some plated parts. Wheels came in as well! Although, they wont look like this when they go on the car. Im having the centers powder coated black and leaving the cap and lip polished.

[Earl]

Scrubbing Bubbles works great for degreasing =)

[mtm_motors]

This is going to look fantastic!

I have found LPS ZeroTri to be the best degreaser product I have used... I used it to blast 20,000 miles of gunk off one of my old motorcycles quite well

[austinscottphotography]

it's like we have the same brain....(that sounds weird), you're doing exactly what I would do with my Amazon. there should be an award for people like you who build cars properly

[Nald]

sometimes people will also polish the pulleys and the fan.

I think it suits your car

[Keith602]

Scrubbing Bubbles works great for degreasing =)

I actually had some at the house already so I tried it and it worked great!

This is going to look fantastic!

I have found LPS ZeroTri to be the best degreaser product I have used... I used it to blast 20,000 miles of gunk off one of my old motorcycles quite well

Thanks! Didnt get around to trying that product out, but im sure I will need something degreased someday

it's like we have the same brain....(that sounds weird), you're doing exactly what I would do with my Amazon. there should be an award for people like you who build cars properly

Great minds think alike haha.

sometimes people will also polish the pulleys and the fan.

I think it suits your car

I really like the look of the motor in that pic, but im just going for something a little different. Im going to be running an electric fan so I wont need the fan polished and as far as the pulleys, I just painted them black along with the block. There will be plenty of polished stuff in the bay, I just didnt want to go overboard. Not really going the show route.

[Keith602]

Things are coming along well. Should have things finished up this weekend. The engine is now gloss black. The bay is more of a semi gloss black.

The carbs came out really nice. They had a dull grey steel look to them before. The filter covers were a chrome plated mirror finish when I got them, but I had the polisher do a brushed finish instead. I'm trying to add some pops of brass and chrome under the hood where it seems appropriate. All of the linkage is polished as well.

[Miroteknik]

yessssss

[Seth3G]

this build becomes more of an encouragement very time i read about it... i am getting close myself to putting mine on the road, really close! Great job with everything.

[Sebastianglenn]

Are you throwin new wheels on it?

[Rally]

uggggh just when i thought it couldn't get better. Your engine details are perfect so far.

[Keith602]

this build becomes more of an encouragement very time i read about it... i am getting close myself to putting mine on the road, really close! Great job with everything.

Good to hear you're close to getting it on the road!

Are you throwin new wheels on it?

The car is still on jack stands and im planning on powder coating the centers so I may just have to wait a little longer. I might throw them on for fun but that would require swapping the tires from the steelies and then removing them again before powdercoating.

uggggh just when i thought it couldn't get better. Your engine details are perfect so far.

Thanks man, yeah the bay was really the only area that didnt get much love. Ive gotten things mechanically sound for the most part, but it was never very pretty.

[austinscottphotography]

i loved the brushed!!! keeping it clean and different at the same time

[Keith602]

i loved the brushed!!! keeping it clean and different at the same time

Thanks! Different has become somewhat important to me lately.

[Keith602]

I did a crude little photoshop to get an idea how the wheels will look.

Threw the watermark on there so there isnt any confusion haha