What did you do to your P2 Volvo today?

[P80GLT]

Started today with washing with cars after a weekend of re-laying my 370,000,000 (three hundred and seventy million) year old Caithness stone which had sunk in a few places over the past 13 years and the dust from the building material had settled on the cars

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This afternoon I went to Pro-Grip to have the alignment checked

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The Pro-Grip before readings were completely different to what Kwik-Fit showed me a couple of weeks ago which were rear toe in the red at 16° & 18° and the front was all in the green according to the Kwik-Fit machine

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Yesterday I managed to get hold of a set of used rubber mats (new mats no longer available in the UK) so tonight I gave them a little TLC and fitted then into the V70

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[yanga001]

Disassembled the CCM and replaced the thermistor with a new digikey one. Tested the AUTO mode and it worked flawlessly. No more jet engines when engaging defrost mode. Cleaned out the sensing fan and checked codes.

The only electrical code remaining on this car is for the rain sensor which has an internal fault. My hopes are that some clear crappy tire silicone will fix this issue.

Bought some meguires light cleaner to treat the passenger side. Will buy some clear coat for it as well.

[jonesg]

Broke ground, or concrete , to begin concrete floor removal , installing a 2 post lift.
Just doing a 4'x13' x 6 inch thick pad with rebar, not the whole garage.
Pried a 2 feet section up and put the tow rope around it, yanked it free with the little tractor.

[BlackBart]

I've considered that very thing. Make sure the leverage from an off-center car on those posts is handled by that new piece of slab. Maybe tie it into the exiting slab edges with drilled holes around the perimeter and epoxied rebar connecting new to old.

[jonesg]

I plan to get a couple of the tall jackstands for balance.
If a v70 battery and 2 rear wheels are removed it becomes nose heavy.
I have an 8 foot ceiling, the volvo is 4 feet, so the max I can raise is 48 inches.

Sick of jackstands, it takes me 45 minutes to raise the car to where I can get 22 inches at the cat/exh coupler. And thats not enough.
I put the rear wheels on ramps, then jack the front frame up with wooden blocks on the trolley jack , its sketchy as all heck until the jackstands are set in place.

[BlackBart]

Yep, exactly... my great big 3-ton floor jack maxes out before the full reach of my medium jack stands, so I'm always on my back on the concrete (or out in the alley on the asphalt!). My 3" ex-carport slab could never handle the forces from a lift, I'd have to saw-cut the whole thing out of there and re-excavate.

[BlackBart]

Just an FYI - When we join new foundations and footings to an existing building, my engineers call for drilling into the existing, and inserting a 2' chunk of 1/2" / #4 rebar with epoxy into the hole every couple of feet. Those bar ends get poured in to the new concrete and bond the whole thing together better than just a joint.

[jonesg]

Just an FYI - When we join new foundations and footings to an existing building, my engineers call for drilling into the existing, and inserting a 2' chunk of 1/2" / #4 rebar with epoxy into the hole every couple of feet. Those bar ends get poured in to the new concrete and bond the whole thing together better than just a joint.

thats the plan, tie the old and new with rebar.

[BlackBart]

Prepping for another 900 mile road trip to Colorado in Betty the Volvo tomorrow. No blizzards in Wyoming this time I'm fairly certain. Straight through, leave at 6AM. Mrs BB will drive a leg. Food / gas stops planned. NPR station list at the ready. Supposed to have a decent tailwind across Wyoming, like 20 to 30.

I topped off the ATF again after drain & fill, looks good and red now. Aired up the tires to 35 - what a difference that makes in how this car behaves. Probably the last trip for these, they're 10 years old and a bit over 3/16". They came on the spare wheels I bought and had life in them, so I've used them two summers. My local Conoco had a high pressure air hose with a gauge(!) to air up the skinny spare. It was at 30-ish. My cheap pocket gauge only goes up to 50. I have tools, spare coil packs, etc. AAA.

Took it for a freeway test run just now to 80-ish. All very smooth, I feel good. Ran her though the car wash.

Pack up the Nana and a sammich and go!

[BlackBart]

Could that automatic dip stick be in a worse location??

The only way I've managed is the wrap my right hand in a rag so it doesn't lay on the hot bell housing and hoses passing through there, flip the catch quickly with my index finger, and get the hell out of there! They couldn't have raised it a foot so it was up by the intake?