^^^ Desperate journalist ^^^

I highly recommend Paul Newcombe aka Newcomotion in Wendell MA. He’s a Master Volvo Tech in every way. Plus he’s a pleasure to work.

Sam

I thought of a tip today to make it more comfortable to work down low on the front of V70 engines. The steel radiator support has an edge on the back side that is always cutting into your arms. This is particularly hard when the fan is removed. I realized a length of split hose or wire loom would ma...

Thanks Stu and yes, it's time for more shirts. I'll start cooking some designs up. I'll work with you to get yours shipped to NZ.

For heat sink size and details see: https://www.volvoxc.com/forums/showthread.php?27249-I-added-a-heatsink-to-my-2004-CEM-CPU Lots of info here on what and where to buy. For my situation, after many times of hot start failures and limp mode, I will be getting Xemodex to remanufacture my CEM. Today i...

Wayback Machine has a snapshot of .pdf that Ozark Lee's link pointed to. You have to goto waybackmachine.org, not archive.org (although one would think that that the first would be the same as the second...) And enter: https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/downloads/Volvo_850.zip Can a mod put this in ...

I forgot to ask a couple of questions related to this. 1) do you have a place to do work on your car? 2) are you looking for someone to come to you to help your or were you going to drive your car to some member's location? (related to question 1 above) 3) what is your time line for these repairs? 4...

You're also forgetting the $12-15 in shipping to send it back, plus several days of down time without the car. I'd rather not replace them every 1-2 years.

Water pump is WAY down the list and would be huge waste. The water pump would only fail if you had a cooling system with SEVERE corrosion with rust and seriously murky coolant. The radiator and heater cores would rot through and leak before the impeller in water pump corroded away so that it diminis...

Thanks for the additional info, the cooling fan controller is something I have replaced several of on S80 and the related P3 models for overheating. That is odd. If the fans can be run by ECM for a/c pressure and the ECM is signalling the over temp warning then you may have a failed water pump. I ha...