Update on the power steering leak..
I went to visit our local home mechanic who does a lot of Volvo work, he confirmed the leak was in one of the small tubes from the pinion to the rack, rusted through. He advised me that these can be made up just like brake lines but have such small radius bends ...

I've been reading this series of posts about the power steering leaks, my leak looks to be at the valve end of the small metal lines that come from the valve and go to the rack itself. From under the car it doesn't appear that I can even get a wrench on these fittings, even if I could there's no ...

Hi everyone,

I just took my snow tires off, noticed that the rear ones are worn terribly on the inside of the tread. It's a tapered wear pattern, not scalloped. When standing behind the car the rear wheels look as if they are tilted inward at the top. It's my understanding that there's no ...

The steering wheel and shaft do not have to be removed, the steering coloum is telescopic, so once the clamp on the upper part of the u joint is undone the upper steering shaft slides upward towards the steering wheel and seperates from the u joint. See the pdf that's linked in the post by 'made in ...

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The damper that directs airflow to 'defrost', 'floor', 'dash vents' sticks if left in the defrost position for a period of time.

When I start up the car after it sits overnight with the airflow selector in the 'defrost' position, the ...

I need to change the lower u joint on my '97 850, am I understanding correctly that the steering wheel and column don't have to come out? Is there room to seperate the upper joint from the lower without pulling the steering column?

I agree Lee.
I had this problem on my 97, the dealer wanted to change the compressor, which would have fixed the problem because a compressor comes with a new clutch.
The difference was I fixed it myself in a few hours with no parts required rather than their $2500 charge.
Many thanks to Matthews ...

I recently changed a trailing arm link, the information I found here was very helpful. I have a come-a-long but I don't have a suburban to anchor it to so I left the linkage attached to the frame and using a small chain on each end connected the puller between the trailing arm and trailer hitch ...

I had another go at this, I was missing the last step, "press the seatback out". The seat pulls toward you (outboard) and THEN lifts up. Many thanks for the help.

I've tried this, (read first post) I can get the clip out but the seat will not lift up and off the mounting (pivot) point. Am I missing something?