1968 Volvo 122s Wagon

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Hello Everyone,

Picked up 122s in early november in 2014 after stumbling across Keith602 project and fell in love instantly. It's the complete opposite of what I have done and very excited as to what the future will bring with this build. My step father has been extremely helpful with this car (has restored and own Volvo's most of his life). Still learning a lot of things about this car and wouldn't be possible without everyone's support. Thank you!

Current Shot of Car:


PARTS LIST

Beginning of build thread:






Didn't even have the car more than 24 hours and we already started tinkering with it. :lol:

[P78]

seems in pretty good nick

what are your plans with it?

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Plan to get the carbs worked out first. Learning curve for me...

Immediate plans:
H4 (halogen) conversion headlights.
New distributor.
Completely replace and redo the suspension.
Get this thing lowered (haven't decided which way to go).

Long term:
Either swap to B20 that's been modified. Or drop in a B230.

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Wow that's cool! I love seeing something different like this. Also, your dogs look like badasses lol

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Wow that's cool! I love seeing something different like this. Also, your dogs look like badasses lol

Thanks. Look forward to the build. Will need to start a project thread.

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Well I started the process of getting everything bolted with the help of my step father. The process was a lot of fun.

Well we had two helpers that joined us, but they didn't offer a lot of help. Haha.


Replaced the motor mounts and switched over to a electric fan...




Bolted up the header and the tried to put on the manifold for the new carb. Ran into a little problem. Manifold wouldn't bolt up due to flanges on the bottom hitting the flanges on the header. I wasn't happy considering this should "bolt right up." O well... Nothing the grinder couldn't fix...







After that, it was pretty straigh forward with getting eberything bolted up. Ran temporary lines just to see if it would start and would clean it up later... At least, that is what we thought the plan would be...


Car started and was trying to do the timing and get everything dialed in, but the car wasn't running right. It felt like a cylinder wasn't firing.



I wasn't able to do a compression test, so we pulled all the plugs and did it by "feel." We couldn't feel anything from cylinder 4. So we knew the head had to come off.

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Took the head off today. Looks like cylinder 4 was defiantly my problem child.

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Update: The head was cleared as good for no cracks. So I guess that is good. However, the entire valve train is ****. So will start ordering parts next week.

I felt frisky today, so I got a cigar, made some coffee, and went to town.









Also stumbled across a new heater valve. So i picked that up and will rip the entire heater box out... Still trying to figure how this bloody thing comes apart... May need some Scotch :wink:

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Front end all done, just waiting on springs.


Got the block torn apart today and will take to the shop tomorrow.

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Well I started to to put the bottom end together last weekend.

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Got more put together yesterday. Still waiting on the head to be done. May go with ARP head studs.

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Started working on the engine bay to get it ready for paint.







Car was towed to the body shop to have the engine bay done.

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Engine bay painted.

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Worked on getting the head on today. Will get the valve train finished soon.

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Started putting the motor in today.