Well Happy Easter to me! Today wife and I were visiting a museum in town, and on our way home our driving route happened to drive right past my local Pic-A-Part...
With a beautiful 60 degree sunny day, and wife being a curious trooper who had never seen the inside of one of these fine establishments, and they being surprisingly open for business on an Easter Sunday, we decided to pay our $2 per person admission and go for a lovely stroll thru this oil and antifreeze slicked theme park seeking Volvos...
Less than 60 seconds into our little walk, there was a line-up of about a dozen old Volvos all nicely clumped together, and ONE of the cars was a 1990 240 model, with hood standing wide open and a pair of beautiful hood springs with the elusive internal helper springs staring right back at me! So I fished the shoe lace out of my shoe as a pulling tool, asked wife to keep the hood from falling on my head, popped them off, and paid another $4 to the cashier for the pair as we walked out the door...
Took me about 2 minutes to fish them into my existing springs after returning home and they work fantastically! Hood now stands proud with maybe 1 inch droop or less! $8 well-spent!
I did check the other Volvos before leaving, thinking I'd scavenge any others remaining for you fine folks here on this board, but there were no other 240's in the lineup...so they only had the single pair, which I shall greedily hoard for myself...
He is risen indeed! And also now is my Bird's hood!
Summary of my experience with the hood spring thing: Brand new OER Second Gen springs DID NOT WORK. But Volvo helper springs thru the middle of correct First Gen springs DID WORK.
And for clarification, no need to pigeon hole your search for these springs by seeking "early 80's 240's" as stated earlier: I did a little research that might help widen your search...the Volvo 240 and 260 series with this dual inner/outer spring setup was produced in the same body style from 1975 - 1993. 240 is by and large the most popular model, but depending on where in the world you are living, model names may also include 240, 242, 244, 245, 260, 262, 264, 265.
