Scrap metal price is in the weeds so there is no squeeze left after towing costs. The good news is parts cars are living longer in junkyards. I hope you knew that the 1998 doesn’t need emissions in NY anymore? All my 99s just went exempt

Excellent suggestion. Or use the poor man's IR thermometer: run it around good then look under there to see if it's glowing.

Excellent suggestion. Or use the poor man's IR thermometer: run it around good then look under there to see if it's glowing. Accuracy is improved at night. volvolugnutr Yep, same with looking for shorts to block ground in plug wires. A dark garage is your best friend. Or it's a bad place if you're ...

Not sure I understand the question but I’d do a glove test and check compression.

volvolugnut wrote: ↑01 Nov 2024, 12:16 Perps may have stolen the Volvo to try to blend in suburban Oregon.
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There are so many Volvos in suburban Oregon I'd expect the perps were statistically already driving one...

BlackBart wrote: ↑01 Nov 2024, 11:11 What happens to those cars full of wet salty sand?

They drop in value from $1.8M to $1.7M.

I'll do the sand removal for $750k, it goes back up in value to $1.8M, and everybody's happy.

It's an Aston Martin Rapide S. Very elegant, very expensive, and I don't think they made many.

Moin,

so the culprit was the TBM, changed it to a Bosch Unit (0 280 750 131), adapt it with VIDA and after short warming up, the engine stayed at one RPM in the Range for TÜV.

Thanks for the Help! Good thing i found this place.

Regards - Alex

The 8 mm bolt that keeps the coil at the valve cover is actually its high-voltage ground. Without that ground the coil burns. If you keep the ground contact in good shape those coils almost never die. Really? I mean the engine has one massive ground connection at the valve cover to the chassis, and...

Sorry, I was not clear. The brake push bleeder system has to be cleaned after use. They expressly say not to leave fluid in it and to clan on completion with de-natured alcohol. This is what I have: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/mvp-0107?srsltid=AfmBOooWuc-C8xAuJzetijkqACjhVRLWYKndyWUvEkpNJo1Cc...