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So I went under the car to take a look to the drive shaft. I pushed and pulled the drive shaft with my hands and it did move. is it normal or there should not be any play at all? At some point while I was moving the drive shaft I did hear a sound similar to something pushing ...

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I am in need of a little suggestion and advice here. The mechanic is telling me that the only thing left to do to cure the reduced engine performance problem is to open the flywheel/drive-plate and look for anything out of ordinary and replace it with a good one. For that ...

He can remove the starter quite easily and view all the holes in the reluctance rings on the drive-plate and make sure they're not damaged by turning over the motor by hand (this is not called a "flywheel" in an automatic car but a drive-plate) He can also count how many reluctance holes there are ...

So I called the mechanic today and he found some copper wire in the space underneath the crankshaft or somewhere near the fly wheel! The copper wire got in there most likely from the cranksensor which busted when I first got the car. The cranksensor bracket was broken and so the sensor was sitting ...

so I went to a volvo specialist indy mechanic. He is an experienced mechanic with years of experience in repairing volvo. We did see some play on the iner tie rods which I was suspecting too but the ball joints and control arms looked ok or it was not bad enough to make the noise I was hearing. he ...

Jack a wheel up, and have someone hold the steering wheel tightly

Push/pull wheel at 12 and 6 o'clock. If you feel or hear play, it's control arm

Push / pull wheel at 9 and 3 o'clock. If you hear or feel play, it's tie rods, usually outers
Yeah, I am working on that today. I know for sure that ...

For the control arm, turn the wheel to lock and look at the front bushing. For the rear one, have the wheel jacked.
For the ball joint, don't touch on anything else but the Lemforder or original Volvo. Control arm again only Lemforder.
A little suggestion. Some parts, such as the control arm or ...

From this point on it's a part swapping exercise and you're blessed that you have a Volvo mechanic because he will have access to parts he can swap over such as CVVT solenoid (biggest suspect here), TCV, MAF, etc

Afew months ago one of the local Volvo indies sent a customer my way because the ...

Hello again Volvo specialists!
Problem :
Besides the reduced engine performance issue I am having in my car, which I have posted as a separate topic in this forum, I came to suspect that there are some mechanical problem in the car as well. I want to discuss about and get your advice and ...

This whole thing could be a TPS 1 or TPS 2 (ETM) fault that his scanner can't pick up.

The Volvo ECM doesn't give all its secrets away to just any scanner. I would get it scanned with Vida/Dice before spending any more time on cam timing if he did all you describe and is 100% certain that the cam ...