My Volvo's distributor cap leaked oil all over the ignition

Did you get that price quoted at a shop?
Those aren't the most difficult things to do yourself if you can pull the parts from a junkyard.

>owning a brick and not doing the work yourself

why?

You could have gotten a new ICU for about $20 from a junkyard or $40 shipped from someone on turbobricks.

Sell it to an enthusiast and get a civic bro.

>>13850753

This
If thats the value of your car in a scrapyard than I wouldn't think it too hard to find parts for it for much, much cheaper than 1490

>>13850738
That's shop price, right? How much would it cost to fix it yourself?

>>13850755

I'm not talking about the fender mounted ignition module, that I did replace myself.

I'm talking the big $660 computer in the dash.

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>>13850755
>Volvo
>enthusiast
Lol

>>13850761
Not a lot. I don't have any shop space though. The distributor is right up against the fire wall and I'd have to hoist the engine out to work on it.

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I have replaced all the ignition parts of a redblock, on a parking lot for roughly 150€ using a Leatherman and a sparkplug socket from a socket set. The engine bay is fuckhuge. If you need to replace the bottom of the distributor (or the o-rings holding the oil in) you the task could be bigger, but not by a lot.

Oh. And the control unit (?). I don't know about their prices, but second hand ones can't be that expensive.

t.>>13850955

Sorry to hijack OP but i want to buy a Volvo 240 wagon.

What kind of MPGs do the A/T get?
Thats all im finding right now, but if it came down to it id be willing to attempt a Manual swap.

>>13850955
The entire distributor is fucked.

>>13850764

How the fuck did the distributor leak oil underneath the dash?

>>13850985
Violently.

>>13850974
I'd say no more than twenty. I got 22 on a good day with my B230F 740.

>>13850989
>22
Srs?
Was that highway or city? Combined?

>>13850998
Combined, but mostly city. To uni and back each day.

>>13850738
sounds like its time to diy an electronic ignition conversion