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

Post by **abscate** » 17 Dec 2021, 14:58

55-60F in upstate NY today. Banged out a lower control arm, two rear rotors , but got stuck on a rear caliper that crumbled into rust as we touched it. Couldn’t get hard line off either. Back together for another day

xanthefin · Post by **xanthefin** » 19 Dec 2021, 07:27

I just realised it took me five years to fix this as i had picture from 2016.

yanga001 · Post by **yanga001** » 19 Dec 2021, 14:05

Added about a qt of oil after 3800 km a few days back. Put about 1200 km's on the car this week due to work and pleasure.

I swear i saw a nautic blue wagon with a roof rack and alloys on earlier today. It even had a yellow NY license plate.

Abscate do you have an evil twin?

Post by **manovlov** » 20 Dec 2021, 04:53

I have organized my new toolbox, finally. I was loosing so much time, from the place where the car stood, to the cellar, to pick up tools. This rolling one is top, a bit heavy to carry, but it's okay.

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I changed both controls arms. I suspected they were out since a moment....Now, it turns like on rails, and I have almost no problem of parallelism. I'll change the sub frame silent blocks, and the rear ones on spring.

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xanthefin · Post by **xanthefin** » 24 Dec 2021, 08:38

manovlov wrote: ↑20 Dec 2021, 04:53 I have organized my new toolbox, finally. I was loosing so much time, from the place where the car stood, to the cellar, to pick up tools. This rolling one is top, a bit heavy to carry, but it's okay.

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I changed both controls arms. I suspected they were out since a moment....Now, it turns like on rails, and I have almost no problem of parallelism. I'll change the sub frame silent blocks, and the rear ones on spring.

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Good choice of the control arms as only choice which lasted on mine more than year so far.

Post by **Chuck W** » 25 Dec 2021, 17:30

Discovered a couple days ago that the passenger side radiator mount in the wife's GLT had broken. Spent time today swapping in a replacement radiator, newer IC (brackets had come loose from the core on the old one, and replaced the cracked fan shroud. "Tucked" the fan to the inside of the shroud while I was in there.

Luckily I had all the parts in the garage, so no waiting.

Stopped for a Mother-Nature induced beer break when the rains rolled through, but had it all wrapped up in 3 hours or so.

Post by **foggydogg** » 25 Dec 2021, 20:30

Wrestled the donor subframe under the '99 NA-M project - no small feat given the condition my condition was in (old song reference)...

...and was slowed by a hard plastic line that a previous visitor to that area of the car had coiled up and left dangling.
A pic and tele-text to the Sage of Albany confirmed my guess on routing.
Trial-bolted the mess together, hooked the rack to the column, then discovered a pool of juice under the car...

Post by **foggydogg** » 25 Dec 2021, 20:34

...in a place where dry floor should have been.

Seems that during what I suspect was an off-road excursion, the old subframe and steering rack weren't the only casualties.
This poor thing is just not cooperating.

Post by **Sveedy** » 26 Dec 2021, 07:39

Chuck W wrote: ↑25 Dec 2021, 17:30 Discovered a couple days ago that the passenger side radiator mount in the wife's GLT had broken. Spent time today swapping in a replacement radiator, newer IC (brackets had come loose from the core on the old one, and replaced the cracked fan shroud. "Tucked" the fan to the inside of the shroud while I was in there.

Luckily I had all the parts in the garage, so no waiting.

Stopped for a Mother-Nature induced beer break when the rains rolled through, but had it all wrapped up in 3 hours or so.

So when you say " tucked ", do you mean that you mount the fan to the inside of the shroud instead of where it normally sits ( bolted to the outside ) ? If so, does that improve the cooling ?

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 26 Dec 2021, 08:36

Sveedy wrote: ↑26 Dec 2021, 07:39
So when you say " tucked ", do you mean that you mount the fan to the inside of the shroud instead of where it normally sits ( bolted to the outside ) ? If so, does that improve the cooling ?

Correct. It's mostly for space savings, I'm not sure if there is any difference in cooling ability.

I need to do this to mine again. I had tucked a fan in there before, but it had been cracked and eventually needed to be replaced. With my do88 intercooler, there is no space to spare.

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