And I thought its just a transgender symbol, haha as in Volvo=male "Vulva" and male arrow symbol instead of + sign symbol for female. :lol: :lol: :lol: But here is the ancient greek god Mars/War/iron connection "Ancient logotype At the same time as VOLVO was reactivated, the ancient c...

Special thanks to MDK and Oragex. I knocked off the plastic cover and found the 14mm bolt. I had the job done in 5 minutes with available tools, I may yet go for the HF tool. After 3 generations of engineers, "available tools" included a 1/4" breaker bar (a little sentiment there, I g...

Timing belts are not good for guessing. EPDM rubber has made cracking less likely to occur so cracking is no guide. Driving easy and slow is not as good as higher revs as low revs and the tight-loose cycling be worse. Higher speed gives the cams more inertia. Heat quickens the death. Oil leaks have ...

oragex wrote: ↑11 Oct 2019, 17:08 Uploaded a video showing a few ways to open a stuck hood that won't open www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwOv6AIqxHY

Bookmarking this one to make it a sticky/ reference document for stuck hoods

It runs when you open the door and network wakes up. Open the door and then use something to close the latch and wait 15 minutes and come back and it should be off and when you pull outside handle it comes on. I put LED interior lights in the 2004 I had and the interior lights were on very dimly unt...

Re brake fluid dripping...

In the BMW X5 I mentioned above, I used a piece of wood to press the brake pedal halfway down. This will stop brake fluid from dripping. Good trick!

Thank you for the quick reply. Agreed, the Gates belts are great but the water pump is terrible. I got lucky it was making the noise and found the small leak. Since it only had 40k miles I didn't think that was the issue. I already purchased a new Aisin and I'll go with Continental for the rest as y...

No brand on it...here are the pictures

Quick struts seem like something I can do myself. I only hesitate due to the almost insurmountable problem I had connecting the strut bushing to the control arm during the left rear coil spring replacement linked above. There may be more labor to deal with damage caused by the broken strut. But see...

I am pretty sure that they are not compatible - the mounting points are different. I have an 04 and was in a pull-a-part junkyard looking for a seat bottom that was better than my tattered one. I think that the vehicle I was scavenging on that day was an 08 and the brackets on the bottom of the seat...