That’s some dedication from your wife haha.

What subframe rubber mounts do you have installed?
Maybe mines are tired and needs to be replaced.

The vibrations are transferred from the front mounting points to the middle of the chassis, so if the subframe is shaking, seems natural to transfer ...

On another note, I got back driving around with the new brace for a bit.
Not sure if the brace is worth the slight decrease in torsion flex. I have a lot of vibration on idle and accelerating that’s now transferred to the pedal box and seats.
Feels like there’s a lot more road noise and ...

They're meant to be like that. It matches the curvature of the strut tower.

Did the main delta link bushings on her car (again) today.

Both were coming apart after about 60K miles. (Febi from FCP)

https://turbochuckcom.ipage.com/webimages/projects/97%20Volvo%20855/2026/Suspension/psdelta.jpg
https://turbochuckcom.ipage.com/webimages/projects/97%20Volvo%20855/2026 ...

Thanks for letting us know about this brand Chuck. Interesting that they list the FWD and AWD with different racks. Are they different?

Neil.


I don't *think* so, but I'm not familiar with the AWD cars.

The info is based reports from people who have installed them, one of who track drives ...

Folks have been having good luck with the AAE brand steering rack on RockAuto. It's new, not remanufactured.

I gave up after 2 hours on these low profile tires. Also could not get my ebay "duck bill" attachment to function correctly. Whats your secret?


It took 2 of the bead jack/drop center tools to keep the tire bead in the "low" area of the rim barrel. The bead isn't going to "stretch" so you need ...

I'm going to suggest that you just start here--> Motrinic M4.4 Wiki

That will answer your beginning questions. Form there, you can decide if that's something that you want to tackle yourself. The info is all there to get started with a DIY route on flashing/tuning.

If it's not something you ...

That looks great! Congrats!

What did you bolt the tire changer on to, a steel plate?


It's a 1/2" thick AL plate. I tapped holes in it, so I could take things apart and store it away when I'm not using it...and the plate won't rust when it sits outside. It moves around a little bit, but now ...

Seeing as my wife keeps killing tires on her GLT (4 in the past year, 2 since Jan), I decided to try my hand at mounting/balancing tires.
(She claims "bad roads", and they *are* bad. I however drive on the same roads....and more than she does. Haven't killed a tire yet)

I picked up the manual tire ...