What did you do to your Volvo today? Topic is solved

[bmdubya1198]

Well seeing your post yesterday morning is what made me decide "ah, what the hell." I grabbed some things for the R and the 740 at the junkyard yesterday morning and figured I would go ahead and yank it out yesterday afternoon so I could get it all back together today.
I'll see if I can find some butyl tape at Lowe's or Home Depot. I'll put some along the front edges of the dash. Anything to cut down on more squeaking sounds great to me! I want a silent dash! I'll deal with the trunk area noise later.
Next week I'll drop the headliner and re-glue it finally. I'll probably investigate then since I have to remove all of the upper panels.

Hahaha, I'll be passing both of you soon enough my friend!

[bmdubya1198]

Dash is all done! It's unbelievable how quiet the interior is now. I just have a little squeaking coming from the trunk area, but that's not a big deal to me.

It was a bit of a pain to do the job, but from my quick test drive it was well worth it. The second screw from the driver's side didn't go in, I don't know if it wasn't quite aligned or what. The wiper linkage was in the way and it was hard to access with anything but a flex head ratcheting wrench... which I don't have. Seems to be holding perfectly fine without that screw.

Time will tell how this holds up! I have high hopes. The fiberglass cured and hardened well.

[mrbrian200]

It's bothered me since I bought the car that the HU650 is mixing down 'high cut/stereo blend' to strong local FM stations unless I'm literally within a couple miles of the transmitter.

Specifically WNSN South Bend (971ft transmitter height @13kw ERP).. the HU shouldn't be mixing down/cutting off the treble on that station at the piddly distance of 15 miles over open flat rural cornfield terrain.

Applied the brass strip fix to both antenna amplifiers (rear window and bumper). Success. When that coax ground isn't making good contact, you don't just lose AM to static, FM reception suffers also. It was very annoying to me that every time I drove into South Bend I'd have to cut the treble way down, then crank it back up on the drive home. Though this doesn't seem to be the case with the strong stations now, it still is applied to weaker signals. An old Blaupunkt I used to have in a previous car would let you turn off the automated 'high cut' behavior for weaker signals, which is how I personally prefer the FM tuner to behave. I wish there was a software hack or board level mod to these HUs to toggle that crap permanently off.

[RickHaleParker]

Installed new bushing in the shift linkage, she tight now. No more of that seek and thou shall find.

[abscate]

Drove 500 miles upstate NY to Ithaca and back. Counted only 6 Volvo’s in Ithaca WTF?

[June]

Drove 500 miles upstate NY to Ithaca and back. Counted only 6 Volvo’s in Ithaca WTF?

They were hiding out! it'll be so nice to be back home where I see at least one Volvo per square mile again. June

[abscate]

June has an awes9me trip thread rolling in the Road Trip Forum....

[blkbeauty]

Replaced all 5 Ignition coil packs. 99 V70 T5 202k miles

[abscate]

Nice. Don’t forget to sell the old ones as working spares. 10-15 each. Save one.

[abscate]

Tested STC in heavy rain on I88 last night

At 65 mph was getting occasionally flash of the skiddy-light, maybe once twice a minute. Couldn’t slow down, no no no, so turned STC off to compare.....

Went fine, until I hydroplaned for 500 meters with completely slack steering.

Drove rest of way STC on at 55. 30.1 mpg

Conclusion....STC does a much better job controlling traction than driver.

Also, the idiot man light came on as I pulled into gas station, so Elizabeth got 93 no ethanol, that’s 97 octane for you EU guys. I tried to measure spark advance to see if the engine sees any difference but conditions were not amenable for that