I'll throw in a regular saying of mine:

"The next perfect person I meet will be the first......!"

Neil.

To me, in general, the light comes often from the switch (old Manovlover proverb...).

To me, i do like very well what i read here, it's inspiring !

Standard radiators last a long time. OE had a brass re-inforcement tube on the top hose inside of it as it gets a fair amount of stress from the engine moving. Mine failed because that brass tube came loose and moved out into the upper hose removing the strength of the plastic until it sheared. Alwa...

I purchased our family 1998 V70 new when my daughter was born. It is now her first car. What does a 263,281 mile car look like? It's been to the moon (another thread for an earlier generation car exists on this site)! Well, I refreshed it last month. Repaired and refinished all the relevant parts in...

Public Service Announcement Parts are getting/have been end-of-lifed at the dealer (EOL), and 850s are (alarmingly) hard to find in pick n pulls. If I had land and a flatbed, I'd be pulling them onto my property like a comic book super villain and his super magnet. It is, after all, the greatest pa...

I would say the same. There is a small drain hole in the bottom of the intercooler. So it is not 100% sealed. But much more than that and you can get issues. The intercooler may be repairable, but the issue is usually they get oily inside from oil leaking from the turbo. So getting a seal may be a c...

Old guy advice. You want primary reference information on a big thing like this, not sifting through3 facts in 97 posts of untruth. Link to volvo web store https://www.volvopartswebstore.com/showAssembly.aspx?ukey_assembly=236700&ukey_make=865&ukey_model=12011&modelYear=1998&ukey_cat...

I do have the old OEM coil so I'll possibly have that put back in tomorrow. Would what I'm experiencing be due to the coil that was installed? Brand new but again it's aftermarket. That's the idea, yes, that the new coil is not working properly under heat. New parts can be hit-miss, especially elec...

Reviving and older -- but excellent -- thread on PVC modifications to ask... I'm about to tackle this job on my 97 855 and I am going to use the Parker Push-Lok 836-10 fuel line hose, 5/8" (16mm) diameter, instead of the official Volvo line that cracks. Any recent updates on how this mod has b...

FWIW, I did go back and apply a zip tie to every other semicircle. So I did end up using 3 zip ties total.