Not today, but Sunday. On my way to re-assembling the car from the manual swap I decided to do the preventative maintenance items while I had the suspension off. So did timing belt, water pump, aux belt, spark plugs, wires, rotor and cap. So 1 day diversion from putting the car back on the ground, ...

Yahoo! The 850 AWD manual has finally left the garage with the owner! My fingers/hands are shredded from all the sharp metal and ragged broken plastic. Car even left a small mark of oil on the floor to mark it's territory! :shock: Owner texted me when he got home (about 30km away) to say the car was...

Spent the last 2 days buttoning up the manual conversion. Reinstalled all the top part of the engine bay, wiring, fluid fill (nothing gushed out :D). Bleed the clutch and brakes yesterday and installed the battery. Always nervous for the first start after all that major work. Sure enough, turned th...

Today a few hours were spent on what seems like a never ending task! That task is sorting, cleaning, identifying and logging parts that have been handed to me when an owner has sold on their Volvo. Maybe 18 months ago I helped a young guy return his one family from new, 96 Volvo 850 10V base auto to...

I did a thread on repairing my glovebox kick panel. here is a follow on where I created my own ABS Slurry to repair a pillar trim: Please note the following: 1) You cannot use spare trim parts to create the slurry if they are stamped PC + ABS. That means is a mix of polycarbonate and ABS and wont di...

I cleaned out a glass jar with a metal lid. this is important, you need metal or glass as these solvents dissolve alot of plastics or other materials. any pickle jar. mason jar etc will work. I used a salsa jar. I cut the ABS filament into small pieces and put then in the jar then added MEK and put ...

here is the broken part to repair followed by the repair itself.
Note in this case I also used some flat nails from a nail gun as stretchers across the breaks to fortify them. It worked extremely well.

I built up the patches from the back along with the nails to give it some strength

Here is the end result from the front. Not perfect but over all I am happy with the result.

I emailed her. I'll post back here when she responds. Thanks to you NC855R and everyone in this thread.

Heard back from Toni and all is well. She got a set from upstate NY and is back on her Journey. She is holding the Reaper at Bay by staying ahead of him in Scamper, her V70