What did you do to your P2 Volvo today?

[DonnVa]

Picked up a sun visor w/ the garage Homelink I/F. It works great after I got schooled on the technology shift in garage door openers in the early 2010’s. My garage door opener is the new kind w/ Security + 2.0. The ones in the my car age range are the old style and will not program or looks like it programs but won’t communicate. I had to get a Homelink compatibility bridge. I plugged the bridge into the outlet above the door opener, programmed the Volvo visor button to the bridge remote, then pushed the learn button on the garage door opener, pushed the visor button and presto, the visor button works. Pick-a-part visor $12, bridge $35. Lol

[gnalan]

Over the last week I've slowly been getting back to working on my car. I added a can of Liqui Moly fuel system cleaner to my tank, that was around the 3/8 mark, and drove it around 60 miles to help clean the injectors and the rest of the fuel system, then filled the tank after it hit the red mark. (I don't know if 93 octane is required, but that's what I use. It was $4.799 a gallon when I filled it.)

I also changed out the gas shocks on the trunk and the hood, which both still had the original ones from the factory on them. (After the wind blew hard enough to knock the hood down onto my head and shoulder I figured it was time to change them.)

I still need to figure out why I have a misfire going on at idle and low rpms. Seems to clear up and run fine between 3,000 and 6,500rpm wide open and at part throttle, but under 3,000rpm it starts bucking/stumbling pretty bad.

I'm hoping changing the spark plugs, and the oil, will get it running right again (at least well enough until I can get a new laptop to use DiCE/VIDA to diagnose the problem properly).

[abscate]

My low idle miss / no miss at 3000 rpm on my T5 was fixed with a simple new set of plugs, wishing you well.

[MDK]

So, I had a knock in the right hand rear suspension on my 04 V70 R going over potholes. I took the wheel off and checked the bushings and it looks like the brushing at the wheel knuckle was torn or just missing some rubber. The dealership wanted 90$ plus labor to replace it. I went to home Depot yesterday and bought some locktite construction adhesive and filled it in. Let it dry for 24 hours. I just got back from a test drive and the knock is gone. In the diagram it would be #10. MDK

[scot850]

Finally got time with my buddies son to work on his 06 S60 2.5T AWD. Young lad has a busy schedule and was working 6am-12am before arriving here. He is keen to learn and I am more than happy to teach someone who does want to.

Plan was to replace all the engine mounts and to try to replace/fix the oil return pipe for the cylinder head to the top of the pcv catch can. I realised that had been replaced before as it was not the corrugated plastic crap my son had on his 06 XC70 that just crumbled and leaked all over the place. This had a pipe like the older P80's and is what Volvo went back to when replacing the plastic crap.

Due to his restricted time, we had to get the car mobile so he could get back home.

We removed the strut brace to do the top mount and the turbo cross engine pipe to give access to the oil pipe.

Eventually we only got the 3 important mounts done. The upper and lower torque mounts (the lower one had totally failed) and the crank pulley mount which again was oil soaked from the leaking cylinder head oil pipe.

Another piece of Volvo wonderful design as those who have swapped this mount will have found. Access to the 2 large bolts holding the pad to the sub-frame cannot be accessed until you remove the 2 bolts into the engine block allowing the engine to be jacked up about 3/4".

Glad they did do a smart thing of having 2 locator pins in the engine mount into the sub-frame for locating.

Once we figured that out it went well and 3/5 mounts done 2 of which were really bad.

thankfully my buddies son is of smaller build than me as he actually was the only reason we were able to get the oil pipe off. Whoever did this the last time was an ass making access to the threaded pipe clamp nearly impossible and using a 1/4" rather than 7mm nut on the end. This was also partly obscured by the ETM.

On getting the pipe off the 3 dreaded letters were printed on the pipe. URO!!! No, never use this crap. The top end of the pipe was rock hard so would not clamp on the head and had shrunk and come loose, the lower end had multiple splits in the pipe. Fitted a genuine pipe and hopefully all is good now. My only concern is if the PCV system is blocked we don't blow out the engine seals. He was give instructions to do a glove test on the engine ASAP as we ran out of time.

Could not believe the difference. When the car started and was rev'd the engine just didn't move at all!

We will tackle the 2 cone mounts when hopefully we get access to a hoist.

Neil.

[abscate]

Another Volvo mechanic in the making.

[erikv11]

Changed the oil change on the S60R. Pulled the oil level sensor and cleaned it out well with carb cleaner. It gave a phantom "low oil" message at some point between the last oil change and the present, hopefully the cleaning prevents that from happening again.

Oil pan looks so clean inside, no sludge!

[jonesg]

changed 2 tires by hand today, tired but its done.

[volvolugnut]

changed 2 tires by hand today, tired but its done.

Tire irons and a cooperative tire are satisfying.
volvolugnut

[br0dy519]

Wife's XC70 rear right rotor was super hot and smelled of cooking ceramic brake pad. Removed the caliper, regreased the slide pins, and worked the piston back and forth. Did three pumps of the brake, then used some channel locks to compress it back. Did this about 10 times. It's moving much more freely now. Rotor had some very stiff spots when turning and was clearly warped. Rotor is getting turned at the machine shop and will be ready tomorrow morning.

Really hope that did it, and I don't have to overnight a caliper as we are going on a camping trip friday with it ( not far , about a 20km drive ). Also I'm very cheap. If worse comes to worse I may just feather the brakes until next week when I can get one from Rockauto to my detroit mailbox.