93' 240DL work truck???

I have one of these lovely cars and I use it to work on cable television.
I carry a 24ft ladder on the roof and drive through overgrown and trashed
out allys.

I need to know the best and or cheapest or coolest way to jack the vehicle
up so that I can stop ripping my exhaust off every week and I need more
ground clerance anyways.

I suppose that skid plates would be cool cause then I could just snow
board everywhere. hehe

 

Well the first thing that comes to mind is that if I had one of the somewhat
coveted '93 (last year made) 240's I certainly wouldn't be using it as a
work truck, a beater early 80's model is better for that.

Aside from that, somewhat larger tires and heavy skid plates are probably
the way to go.

 

Maybe you could come up with some spacers for the rear coil springs to raise it
a couple of inches.
KennyH

Horsepower is cheaper than therapy.

 

This may be a stupid idea, but if you are really using it
as a truck and do not care what it looks like....maybe
you could weld the exaust up through the hood....sort of
like a diesel truck....maybe even have one of those cool
flapps on top......<grin>......have fun.....sno

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This doesn't help you out at all... but as a point of interest:

Saw a Volvo "work truck" 740 GLE last week, with a heavily weather worn
500,000 Km club sticker on the trunk, exposed steel beam as a rear bumper
(the factory installed beam... the plastic cover just fell off I guess, as
it looked torn)... The suspension wasn't even sagging under the weight of
all the crap they had in back, the only thing amiss on the whole car really
was the exhaust was incredibly loose.

Take your car to a suspension shop and ask them for help on raising it...
They will probably be in shock as most people lower their cars, but i'm sure
they go up as well as down.

 

With 11 years of driving and hauling the load that you sound like you
carry, what you probably have is worn suspension. Get a set of gas
struts for the front and gas shocks for the rear. That's the best way,
probably. The cheapest is to get an air chisel, remove the fenders,
radiused about 40 inches from the hubs, and install 32x12 Bridgestone
all terrain tires... ;-)

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Randy & \ \/ /alerie's
\__/olvo
'93 960 Estate

 

That'd be cool if you did a clean job if it, and make a Volvo monster
truck.... Install 4WD using some Jeep axels or something ;-).

 

I would be really like to recommend that you start by re-thinking over
the idea of raising the suspension? It's a bad idea to unnaturally alter
the geometrical angles of this car's suspension. Rather use another car
as a truck, like a real truck? The car's suspension may be sagging, so
replacing what causes it to sag, along with suspension bushings, and
especially those hard to get bolts out of bushings. Struts not just the
gas shock part of strut but good used struts trhat will hold the car at
its original height, then get IPD shocks for rear,and/or air shocks
(adjustible) automatically adjusting if available would be ideal.
Remember this car with stock tires P185/70R14 can not handle too much
weight, the next thing I might try is a 15" rim that will fit the space
limitation and install a higher rated tire in 15" size. But all in all I
do not recommend using it like a truck anyway.
Good luck

 

You guys are nucking futs... And no help whatsoever... hehe.

The award for best idea is the exaust throught the hood and plazma cut the
fenders off.

 

Im gonna try puttin some spacers in with the springs if its not too much
work...

And by the way. the car is in very good condition for the year...

 

Yah none of this was really of any help - raising cars isn't the cool thing
to do these days (don't think it ever was)... it's all about "slamming your
ride" (lowering) with guys my age (21)... Tho, I haven't sunk (excuse the
puns) to their low yet.

 

What you're looking for is a 1/2 ton truck.

 

What you're looking for is a 1/2 ton truck.

Maybe that's what he "needs" but that wouldn't be nearly as novel an idea as
using an old Volvo for a work truck.

That's one of the reasons I may keep the old '81 Volvo wagon I have, is to use
it as a pickup. It's got loads of room in the back.
KennyH

Horsepower is cheaper than therapy.