OK, now that I have a moment. When I left off, I was getting the teflon seals on the pinion drum and the rack piston seal. I wound up with a few wraps of electrical tape and some hose clamps on there and let them sit for a couple days (I was busy anyway, so it didn't bother me any to wait). After th...

OK. I referenced a PDF previously, and I can't seem to find it online to link it here. Instead I uploaded it to my site and it can be found HERE It's OLD and I can't find the info on the original person(or web link) who did the work to credit them, but they are apparently out of the UK (RHD rack). I...

If it's been like that for this long, I'd be more inclined to check the tightness of the 4 fasteners at the cowl. You have to remove the wipers and the cowl cover in the engine bay, but that's all pretty simple. The heads of the 4 bolts are accessible there. 10mm socket and a small 1/4" drive r...

Even a 1/4 turn could increase the compressive force enough to silence things. I'm not saying to wail on them with a 1/2-meter-long breaker bar. ;) They're only M6 bolts. If one spins easily, then that mount is probably broken. Things settle. Things compress. Especially after 25 years. It's clamping...

Without knowing exactly HOW the swap was done, it's hard to say. It's possible the mechanic just bypassed the NSS/PNP switch so the starter will actually engage and start the car, but left all of the other wiring, etc in place. Are you getting a CEL at all? (Does it even work?) I'd imagine that you'...

OK, finally got weather and schedule to cooperate to get the rack swapped out. Not much to show, as I was hammering to get things wrapped up before evening plans. Started around 10a and was done putting my tools away around 5:30. I debated on trying to wrestle the rack out by just lowering the subfr...

Have you done all of this step setting up TP? Setting up TunerPro: ..... Step 6: Install the Flasher Plugin. Extract the Flashing Plugin .zip (or .rar) and place the 2 files in the TunerPro root folder. In TunerPro, go to Tools -> custom Tools -> Edit Custom Tools. Click New Tool. Give it a name lik...

Ah, OK. Is it the Fenix 5.2? I'm not really familiar with it or the earlier 850's. I do have a copy of a '96 wiring diagram book HERE . In it, they do have the wiring schematics for the Fenix 5.2 and the Motronic M4.4. With a little detective work, you can find the MAP(pressure sensor) (7/81) and th...

Travelling last week in full Swede mode.


Thule on Thule on Volvo.

1700-ish miles w/o a hiccup.

Well, that annoying rattle came back in full vengeance a couple weeks back, and I think I finally isolated it. Looks like it was the strut bearing, as we were finally able to isolate the noise. https://turbochuckcom.ipage.com/webimages/projects/97%20Volvo%20854T5/2025/Suspension/oldparts.jpg The old...