Happy Thanksgiving gnalan, and I hope 2021 puts 2020 in the rear view mirror of memories.

Nice main house. I am impressed you are hauling your debris back to town to go to the landfill. Around here, people would find the nearest ditch and dump everything. volvolugnut The Bagster let’s you load a 4x8 foldable haul away with up to 3500 pounds of C&D and they take it away for $160 My d...

2 hours , $100 for a good part.

I would say that quote is about 2x too high

On top of this Firefox chipped in to cover my gas and time, which is appreciated. I just got her back to NY Volvo HQ where we will figure out what to do next. I was able up use rollers from another FDPP car so Firefox could pull his rare mirrored Columba's and brand new tires.

About 500 ml coolant in Heater core and hoses

Cars aren’t simple to work on for the novice, look at some of the threads here on people starting out. Some don’t even know their oil had to be changed. Having stuff controlled by modules and comm lines requires learning some new stuff, but it’s 100x more reliable than analog stuff, and easier to tr...

The base model US as two options for Climate control Manual Climate Control (MCC) Electronic Climate Control (ECC) ECC is often loosely used to describe the controller unit in the dash of the electronic system too If you have MCC you just have red blue stripes for temperature select indication. With...

Ah, MCC it is I link you to the disassembly thread shortly Ding! https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89316&p=504757#p504757 I believe MCC temperature operation is cable/manual controlled while air flow selection is electronically actuated, so you might be into new te...

You need to remove the harmonic balancer but not the crank pulley. Work the belt past the nub with the harmonic balancer removed. I’ve used wood wedges to hold the belt tight up on the crank pulley while I get the belt into tension. Tag them with orange line like an airplane so you remove before fli...

I do worry about the anthro part of safety engineering. They do worry about this in flight, where it has gotten so safe that pilots literally do fall asleep in flight.

There is no substitute for high situational awareness while driving.