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

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 29 Mar 2019, 20:00

abscate wrote: 29 Mar 2019, 07:58 My parents impressed on me the importance of quality in rubbers: Shoes, Coats, Tires, ground sheets, Roof coverings, coolant hoses, and other products.

(cover your eyes June..)

If you eat too much while working on your Volvo, you can get Mann Boobs..

So I added yet another Volvo to the fleet today. This one is a $100 1998 S90. It runs and drives!!! But the transmission is on its last leg. I got it towed home, little did I know I probably could have driven it. For $100 I didn’t even bother trying to drive it before buying.

Though it’s a bit rough on the outside, it’s CLEAN underneath. No rust to be found.

Post by **abscate** » 30 Mar 2019, 04:30

Bmdub for the $100 score!

Look , it’s already ahead of your R!

( that was a mean shot this early)

..oh wait...that’s the XC, the R must be behind that...

Maybe can we can find you a transmission up here for that. S90 might be hard to find.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 30 Mar 2019, 08:01

abscate wrote: 30 Mar 2019, 04:30 Bmdub for the $100 score!

Look , it’s already ahead of your R!

( that was a mean shot this early)

..oh wait...that’s the XC, the R must be behind that...

Maybe can we can find you a transmission up here for that. S90 might be hard to find.

There are quite a few 960/S90s at the junkyard right now, and I may have a lead on a good one at a local full service junkyard. I'll let you know if I can't get one!

Haha, the R is in the garage to the right of that picture right now. I've got the GLT parked behind the XC90... that makes 4 Volvos on the driveway (and garage) now! I wish I had gotten a picture when my cousin had his S70 T5 here. My neighbors already know me as the "the guy with all the Volvos."

I need to drive the R up to my cousin's job later so he can mount and balance my tires on the Propus Cs and correct my alignment (although I did a hell of a job with the string and jack stand method! The steering wheel is almost dead straight.). Hopefully I'll be able to run the wires for the clutch switch (which I never installed, but Rob Hilton advised me that I need one) and get that all wrapped up so I can drive it there without issue... maybe it'll even make boost by then!

Post by **abscate** » 30 Mar 2019, 10:00

ECM terminals B4 and B 15 get bridged to enable cranking on the ME7 management, confirm that on your model of course.

I think clutch in resistance on that switch is 2000-2500 Ohms
I confirmed in an earlier thread that this is an analogue input and that the state of the switch is not logic latched in any way

Post by **mrbrian200** » 30 Mar 2019, 12:27

Lets see now, some item in that order I'm a little more excited about than the other two. Should be an easy guess.

Post by **abscate** » 30 Mar 2019, 13:38

Ooohhhh, bleeding brakes. My favorite. You get to be both master and slave, S&M

Post by **Rattnalle** » 30 Mar 2019, 13:41

abscate wrote: 30 Mar 2019, 13:38 Ooohhhh, bleeding brakes. My favorite. You get to be both master and slave, S&M

You must really like going unstoppably fast if you put that in your brakes

Post by **abscate** » 30 Mar 2019, 14:07

Uh oh , was that PS and not brake fluid ?

Post by **ZionXIX** » 30 Mar 2019, 16:14

Dropped off my 850 turbo wagon at the dealership today for inspection of the gas tank. Hoping for recall replacement. A guy in an alfa romeo pulled into the service center behind me and stuck his head out the window and said, "is that a turbo wagon? Thats F'n awesome!"

Post by **mrbrian200** » 30 Mar 2019, 20:49

Yes that's PS fluid. @ 125k miles it's overdue for a flush/new fluid. Flushed the brake fluid last year. The thing I'm sorta excited about, a little hint: It's a 2006.