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

[scot850]

Unfortunately, unless you have 00 V70R rear brakes calipers. brackets and vented rear rotors you are out of luck. The 'regular' AWD cars have a dished rear backing plate which is designed around the regular rear calipers (be happy as they are at least still available).

You can use the rear backing plates from S70 AWD V70AWD and V70XC. Let me check with my Volvo mechanic if the ones that were on his 97 850 AWD are still alive. He looks after his car and as a manual he had to have working rear parking brakes.

Neil.

[abscate]

Connected electronics and down pipe. Had to remove rear muffler mounts to get pipe back enough to mount onto manifold

Just need to put on intake manifold to get her to breathe fire

[foggydogg]

Connected electronics and down pipe. Had to remove rear muffler mounts to get pipe back enough to mount onto manifold

Just need to put on intake manifold to get her to breathe fire

Home stretch, miles of motoring pleasure in your near future.

[foggydogg]

Looked over some things on a new-to-me S70 project, got the radio code from Volvo and both the radio and the antenna work as expected. Close to 90 the other day - before the smokescreen from the poor folks up North hid the sun - so it was a real world test of the A/C.

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Worked, air gap on the clutch looked OK but it cycled after a bit,

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(iPhone 7 takes crappy pics, common problem from new.)
Small ViseGrip holds the trigger, patience helps
Used most of the can, $9.98 fix.

[BlackBart]

37!? You'll get hypothermia in there!

[abscate]

Oil change on the Kat , 150250

[jreed]

Transmission fluid change on my '97 855 GLT at about 245k miles (~395 km). 2 gallons (~8L) out, two gallons in, switched half a gallon (~2L) at a time. Happy user of Castrol Transmax High Mileage... shifts great.

[jmartin919]

Do you reset the trans adaptations when you do this?

[FireFox31]

Did you do a flush by disconnecting the hose? I'm annoyed that I drained my trans, added 4 quarts of new fluid, then couldn't do the flush so had to drive it, mixing the new fluid with the old. I'll probably drain it again, add 4 quarts, then flush another 4 quarts through. I don't want to commit more than 12 quarts to the effort but I also don't want to stop short and keep bad fluid in the system.

[jreed]

I didn't reset the transmission adaptations... haven't noticed any problems leaving it alone. I flush the fluid about every two years.
I did disconnect the hose and ran the engine long enough each time to pump out about 1/2 gallon, then refilled with 1/2 gal new fluid, and repeated that process four times total (2 gal / ~8 liters). By the end of the fourth cycle, the fluid coming out of the hose was looking pretty red and clear, so I stopped at that point. In years past I have done 5 cycles (2.5 gal, ~10 liters) and 6 cycles (3 gal, ~12 liters) to be sure of flushing out most or all of the old fluid. My memory is that on the 6th cycle, the fluid that came out was as red and clear as the new fluid going in, so that's probably a good number of cycles to use if you want to be sure that you've changed out all of the old fluid.