Did the tune up, pulled the pipe. Made it very easy to get access to the No. 5 plug and to remove and reinstall the new plug wires. The pipe connects to a rubber hose at the intercooler end and a short rubber hose coupling at the turbo. Easy peasy. Gave me an opportunity to check for oil from leakin...

I'm going to do a tune up on my 98 V70XC in the morning. Great tutorials here on the plugs/wires/and distributor cap remove/replace. However, I did not see any info on making access easier by removing the intercooler to turbo inlet hard pipe that is ever so conveniently run right over the top of the...

Problem got bad again - so I pulled drive shaft last night and early this morning. Problem determined to be worn out middle shaft steady bearing - was causing the middle u-joint to orbit around instead of staying centered and it whacked the shaft and exhaust tunnel. Lots of bright metal on the rear ...

Thanks for the info. The nominal 20 miles to work today sounded pretty good. The big bad rattling is gone, which must have been the heat shield impacting on the shaft and or the cat. There is still a low amplitude buzzing speed related rattle intermittently, and a light rumbling resonant response ar...

Been doing a lot of highway hauling with lately with our 98XC, over 7K in the last few months, most of it with a heavy load of tools in the rear cargo area, and sometimes hauling a small 4X8 utility trailer with up to about 500 pounds of stuff in it. I keep the trailer tongue weight minimized, just ...

What's the problem with 2000 miles per quart? I would be happy to get that on almost any car!

Thanks to an all day and late into the evening effort Tuesday by Willie at Coventry (CT) Automotive, the 98 XC70 is back on the road. It WAS a sudden failure of the right rear wheel ebrake system. Not clear what went flying first, but the collateral damage included a broken ebrake drum casting on th...

JRL - I hope you are right. E-brake would be a lot less $$$ than a bevel gear or VC repair! Here's hoping..and praying!!!

Can't say I think I'm being ignored - only posted about 9PM last night! BTW, no abnormal TRACS or ABS trouble lights during the clunking. After I posted to this forum, we went out and did a few more driveway fwd and reverse cycles to see if the left rear wheel was also locking up - the lockup did no...

On the way up to my son's place here in Vernon, CT, we stopped for gas about five miles out. Car had been running absolutely fine. As we left the gas station , we heard (and felt) a repetitive heavy clunking/banging from the right rear of the car - like something was hung up in the wheel. I stopped ...