How much do you like the car? For most of us on this forum we love our Volvo's. Owning a 20 year old car and using it as a daily driver can start to test one's enthusiasm if you're not a DIY'er. It sounds like you have a pretty good car with great maintenance history with plenty of miles left. I wou...

Well......I just needed to learn about this thing before I pulled the trigger on a new part, see if I missed something and how it all works. Unfortunately I didn't have success with the plate removal keeping the key from being stuck for more than a few days. I surmised that the lock cylinder in mine...

Recently there's been some inquiry into how to disassemble struts and if it's safe or whether or not to just go with pre assembled "quick struts". I've replaced my struts and springs and spring seats a couple years ago and had only to do the strut bearings so I decided to do it this mornin...

That's a shame, great looking XC before the accident. I've never pulled an engine on an XC but I'm sure others will chime in. I'd definitely take the the transmission and angle gear and swap the whole lot. I'm guessing you're taking it out the bottom? I would also go to the effort of changing the tr...

Sooooo…………..how’d it go? Success?

Thanks, that's an old picture from when I bought the car (wrong coolant in expansion bottle) Doesn't look much different now but there's been a lot of work done and it now has Volvo green coolant EngineBayV70.jpg [/quote] I was going to comment on the wiring routing around the top of the radiator on...

In our country its unlawful to deface or alter currency so I would ask that you mail me several 5 pence pieces so I may do a similar job on my wiring.........just kidding, nice tidy job!

Here’s the link to a post that I did on this job a couple years ago, it’s easy and can be done in a few hours with basic tools. Hope this helps.
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That's a good looking Dart Swinger and probably well equipped if it had the rallye wheels, do you remember if it had A/C? I liked the yellow that was offered on those too! Here are a couple pictures of the Charger from last summer, I put 843 miles on it in the last 2 years and took off the tires whe...