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

[abscate]

Well today was the day I finished and put the last storage bin back on the racks sorted and parts identified! So much for my 3-4 days planned for this. Now at well over 4 weeks into the process. Now I have many, many hand-written sheets to transfer into my stock-list spread sheet. This will take a long time with 2 finger typing and dyslexia!

This has turned out to be a much bigger task than I ever thought it would be. Once everything is typed is it then done? Of course not!

I still have parts like some speakers, a LH axle and a few other parts that have not been catalogued as they are not cleaned or if needing done, tested. Problem is my sheets are now so messy it is almost impossible to find stuff on. Getting this into a spreadsheet and my lightweight laptop down to the garage will allow quick number searches to identify where a part need to be put in storage.

It has been driving me nuts I have to say, but also scary how many parts I could identify and place on a (mostly) P80, even less common items.

Tomorrow I will start the typing.................!

Neil.

You might try taking a photo of a sheet and seeing if google can turn it into text for you. I’m not up on OCR other than to know this is easy to do.

[volvolugnut]

While poking around under the car figuring out the air guide and my plan for a custom undertray, I noticed I have two "ears", thin metal but big holes on the subframe, both of which are hammered up against the subframe. What are these originally for? Doesn't seem to be an issue but part of me is curious while part of me wants to see if it can be bent back I feel it will do more harm than good to the metal and paint if it's not needed.

I would not be concerned about one cycle of bending up then down on a steel bracket. If you break the paint, do touchup with zinc primer and top coat paint.
volvolugnut

[RedBrickCollector]

I would not be concerned about one cycle of bending up then down on a steel bracket. If you break the paint, do touchup with zinc primer and top coat paint.
volvolugnut

Sounds good, but now I wonder what those ears do and if there's any reason to bend it back in the first place. I'm guessing it was done for some sort of access reason and since I'm gonna drop the oil pan sooner rather than later I might just leave it alone instead.

[volvolugnut]

I would not be concerned about one cycle of bending up then down on a steel bracket. If you break the paint, do touchup with zinc primer and top coat paint.
volvolugnut

Sounds good, but now I wonder what those ears do and if there's any reason to bend it back in the first place. I'm guessing it was done for some sort of access reason and since I'm gonna drop the oil pan sooner rather than later I might just leave it alone instead.

Can you provide a photo for others to review? I am not that familiar with your model.
volvolugnut

[Chuck W]

Replaced the worn out 16" Falkens on Perfos with new 17" Falkens on Neptunes today.




(Filthy car is filthy because the in-laws live on a gravel road. That, and the body has 327K+ on it)

[Sveedy]

So a couple of weeks ago I bought an intake manifold spacer, thinking that it would be a good modification. Turns out that I might have been wrong about that. It's a 1/2" thick, so I thought I might ask the tuner I've been working with, if that would make a difference since all 5 runners would effectively be 1/2" longer. Well I guess that's not anything to be concerned about. However, moving the injectors 1/2" further away from the head is. Spray is not going as directly into the head as designed, which can cause AFR issues. He had other concerns as well.
So it looks like I might have wasted some $$ on this one. But oh well. Everything else has worked out.....so far.

Now read my signature.....

[scot850]

I am thinking they may be for the undertray we did not get, as fitted to diesel cars.

This link is to a 98-00 Front subframe. Do you mean the 2 'ears' halfway up the sides on the picture? If so, no idea what they are for.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134404990017

Neil.

[scot850]

Sveedy, I seem to remember someone (possibly you), mentioning this before about buying this to fit. Only reason I could think of for this is to try to cool the charge temperature of the fuel by keeping the intake further away from the cylinder head. However, as you have found it changes the spray direction of the injectors. So what is the claim by the supplier for it's purpose?

Fitting a better intercooler will reduce the temperature of the charge pressure, but those aluminum (say Do88) intercoolers are expensive.

Like you said, sometimes we get it wrong. Been there, done that many times!

Hopefully you can get a refund.

Neil.

[BlackBart]

(Filthy car is filthy because the in-laws live on a gravel road. That, and the body has 327K+ on it)

I see no filth. Those tires are done, however, aren't they!

[RedBrickCollector]

I am thinking they may be for the undertray we did not get, as fitted to diesel cars.

This link is to a 98-00 Front subframe. Do you mean the 2 'ears' halfway up the sides on the picture? If so, no idea what they are for.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134404990017

Neil.

Yeah those are the ones. I'm going to work on the car over the weekend and I'll post a pic of the current state of mine.

Plannning to quiet down my interior, there's a lot of rattly plastic with the foam behind it turned to dust.