Hi. Yes the relay is up there, in practice you have to remove the driver side foot cover, lay on the floor and reach all the way up behind the instrument panel, left to clutch pedal if you have one. But I wanted to point out that you are reading the diagram wrongly. The Y/R wire comes _from_ the rel...

Thanks, Klausc - I have also thought about that. If it doesn't work it might give a hint what happened - e.g if theres some pieces of crunched seals in the drained oil. One check that I'm also going to make is to take the tie rod ends off to make sure that the sound is not a reflection from seized /...

Hi. My older Volvo (V70 -00) has been out of use for some years but recently I tried to take it in use. In the vehicle inspection they found a strange noise from the steering rack. The sound comes (I think) from the input shaft housing. The rack has however no play, just the cracking sound. I wonder...