The quality of your harness is ok? Do you recall if the seller you bought from was from Russia? I know that guy virtually well enough. He is Russian. Hope to drink a beer or another with him one day. He's like we, MVS crowd, are: a Volvo owner who fixes his old Volvo (V70XC) every other weekend. On...

erikv11 wrote: ↑03 Jan 2022, 11:55 But this choice is similar to dry vs wet lubricant for a bicycle chain.

Never really understood how/where to use the dry lube on chain. Wet lube was always two heads above for me. It is cheaper/faster clean the dirty chain than to replace both chain and sprockets much more frequently

Krons wrote: ↑09 Jan 2022, 11:36I think part of the answer depends on how comfortable your friend is with maintenance and repair.

This.

Rick, we have to revert this commit: https://github.com/vtl/volvo-cem-cracker/commit/301e5da7d349d37ae309df77b07c7b86c1da641d I've got a report that the cracker no longer works for a bunch of P1 CEMs after that commit. Looking further at flash disassembly, this code ldab 0x2,X stab 0x11,SP eorb 0x4,...

First two bytes are clearly 03 55. Third byte in your CEM is hard to crack (there was a theory why some CEMs have problems with the third bytes, lost somewhere in this rather long thread), but if you set CALC_BYTES to 2 and leave it overnight on a battery charger, you'll get it brute forced in under...

3 you can do yourself. May need a coupler, if this one does not come with it.

Everyone is welcome to test the new code: https://github.com/vtl/volvo-cem-cracke ... freq_align It is based on sirloins' discovery that the crack chance is higher with the latency resolution aligned to the CEM MCU's clock frequency.

https://a.d-cd.net/K9CcGt7gVgKFuMMhRAIhLZ1XEBs-1920.jpg Use the head gasket packaging as a protection, lay the cylinder head atop, aiming its exhaust studs into the manifold at the same time. Slightly lift the head from intake side and pull the cardboard out. Just in case, blow the cardboard clean ...

Original bushings are glued to the bar. Yes, one need to weld something onto sway bar to limit lateral movement with greased PU bushings.

Front sway bar job is unfortunately PIA on this car. Rear is PIA too, but slightly less.

volvolugnut wrote: ↑26 Feb 2022, 11:22 It is a bad idea to weld to springs. The metallurgy will be changed and weakened. And the weld is likely to fail anyway.

Nope, the welds stay. The sway bar may be weakened, but PU bushings typically wear out quickly, so sway bar won't work as as good as the stock one (when it worked ).