Re: Automatic transmissions in B20 engines (gdill2)
Yes...yes it is fun!
My daughter and her husband and kids live in Mesquite TX. His hobby is fixing up rusted out old Chevys, Fords, whatever and selling them for way less than the time and materials he put in. He's a resourceful and stubborn guy who can figure out how to make, build, weld, and fix anything.
Must be something about how they raise them in Texas.
To convert the AT I figured at least a new steering column (for the OD shifter) and a hole in the floor for the clutch pedal. Sounds like it's not that simple!
Definitely a labor of love...
Before I could afford to take the Amazon to a mechanic, I learned how to rebuild a carburetor, install a generator, and put new seals in a brake master and slave cylinder.
When my kids were little and the slave cylinder was leaking a pint every couple of days, the brakes went out going down a hill.
At the bottom was a block retaining wall with a truck parked next to it.
We had a choice of hitting one or the other, but somehow ended up between the two.
My daughter started to cry, and my son just laughed and said "let's do it again!"
Do you belong to a Volvo club back there? I heard there's a pretty good sized one in TX. We have an informal one that meets once a month at a local drive-in.