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

Post by **Chuck W** » 21 Jul 2021, 09:50

Cookeh wrote: ↑21 Jul 2021, 09:16 ARB bushings don't look great either, I'd add then to the to-do list.

Unless the subframe is being dropped, it's not worth the effort to remove the bar just to wrestle with getting the old bushings off and new ones on. Especially for the stock bar. The bushings look bad, but it's more cosmetic, really.

Post by **smacknab** » 21 Jul 2021, 15:43

Brought my S70 to my local volvo indie for the first time since moving to a new city. Needed some help with the AC and wanted to have an actual professional do a complete inspection of the car. I had told him it had been my project car, and after he saw all the work i did he must've appreciated it because he offered me a job. Thought that was pretty funny.

yanga001 · Post by **yanga001** » 21 Jul 2021, 17:41

Drove out for work today to look at fires & tornado damage. Had a cool 7.5 l/100km with an estimated range of 920 km while cruising at 105 km/h. Was hoping to push it further but then 1.5 hours of traffic hit.

Post by **MoVolvos** » 21 Jul 2021, 18:10

smacknab wrote: ↑21 Jul 2021, 15:43 Brought my S70 to my local volvo indie for the first time since moving to a new city. Needed some help with the AC and wanted to have an actual professional do a complete inspection of the car. I had told him it had been my project car, and after he saw all the work i did he must've appreciated it because he offered me a job. Thought that was pretty funny.

A man's gifts makes room for him.

In the late 2000's one of the church members who was helping our family move saw how clean and organized my tool box was so offered me a job which I did for almost two years. It was crunching numbers at an Engineering firm he subcontracts to. He was a senior engineer at PG&E and needed someone to oversee his project budgets some in the $250M.

Numbers are like chicken scratches for me so it was a very very difficult job but with a baby on the way I had to take it. Never worked on Excel prior so I did a lot of Youtubing to learn

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Post by **abscate** » 22 Jul 2021, 04:44

After watching me wrestle with four bolt control arms a rep from the World wrestling Foundation came by offered me a contract, should have it finished today.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 22 Jul 2021, 09:16

Yuck... 4 bolt. I hate these things.

Post by **Chuck W** » 22 Jul 2021, 09:39

Looks like the cylinder drop that popped up on my wife's '97 GLT after the COP conversion has finally been fixed.

Did the conversion (based on the VAST set-up) and the car ran fine for a week, then dropped out #2 and would randomly work or not work. After a week of checking ECUs for botched resistor installs and tracing wires, I finally found the culprit.
One of the jumper wires I made under the ECU box had failed and was hiding inside the heat-shrink. The heat-shrink was holding together just enough for it to be intermittent, but finally just came apart while I was (carefully) examining things under there while ringing out cables.
Re-did the connection and all is well again.

Post by **abscate** » 22 Jul 2021, 15:00

Chuck W wrote: ↑22 Jul 2021, 09:39 Looks like the cylinder drop that popped up on my wife's '97 GLT after the COP conversion has finally been fixed.

Did the conversion (based on the VAST set-up) and the car ran fine for a week, then dropped out #2 and would randomly work or not work. After a week of checking ECUs for botched resistor installs and tracing wires, I finally found the culprit.
One of the jumper wires I made under the ECU box had failed and was hiding inside the heat-shrink. The heat-shrink was holding together just enough for it to be intermittent, but finally just came apart while I was (carefully) examining things under there while ringing out cables.
Re-did the connection and all is well again.

Nice systematic troubleshooting , Chuck.

Popped the tie rod end of the wheel hub, swing th eknuckle out of the way, and the four bolt control arm bolts were inserted by hand in 2 minutes.

Post by **Chuck W** » 22 Jul 2021, 17:14

abscate wrote: ↑22 Jul 2021, 15:00
Nice systematic troubleshooting , Chuck.

That was the Cliff Notes version of the trouble-shooting. It also involved modding up 2 additional ECUs, reflowing the solder joints on 3 ECUs, injector and coil swapping, and other various things. I was finally able to rule out the ECUs when I was able to install the one from my car (which is modded the same way, just different calibrations) and it finally chugged on 4 cylinders. The two other times I did that, was when the connection decided to work, and the car ran(idled/revved) fine.

Once I was finally able to rule out a bad ECU, it was just a matter of tracing the wiring.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 22 Jul 2021, 21:32

Those are some of the hardest things to trace. Nice work!

Changed the oil today and then went on to investigate the noise I'm hearing in the rear end over bumps. Turns out these brackets need to go! I've flattened my right rear brake line. It doesn't look like the delta link has contacted it on the left side, but the brake line is obviously hitting on the right side.
It's hard to see in the pic, but you can probably see the flat part.

You can probably tell the bracket I'm referring to is the one right above the brake line. These are not present on FWD cars. Time to break out the grinder!

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