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

[RedBrickCollector]

Advantages to not having it installed :
One less thing to remove and reinstall if you need to see/do anything under there.
If you happen to be fumble fingered, as I sometimes seem to be, any nut, bolt, socket etc that you might drop, will probably not make it to the ground. Not that they ever do.
Without it, you can reach up behind the drivers side headlight and trip the hood latches if needed.

I'm not sold on it's cooling affect. When the car is moving, then the vast majority of the air is blowing directly on the front of the radiator sandwich. Cooling becomes more of an issue when sitting in traffic, so I would think it would hurt more than help in that situation.

I have broadly similar thoughts because I can't tell if it acts like a shroud or not. Sitting in traffic is my bigger issue, so if it serves to make sure that any air pulled by the fan goes through the radiator, I might get one

[scot850]

It does act as a shroud and channels air through the radiator and A/C. There is a lower duct that pushes more air up and into the radiator.

Neil.

[jsrnsis]

Having done this several times, I use JB Weld Plastic epoxy or Marine GOOP for the plastic pieces to the card and use clamps and pieces of thick cardboard on the outer faces of the panels to prevent the clamps marking and leaving an indent.

For the panel to panel sections, I use PL XL? construction adhesive and again using either clamps or just a weight on the inner part laying the whole panel face down.

Don't go too hard on the previous owner other than for not keeping the parts. One of the most important is a piece that looks like a coffin or T-piece in white that sits at the top rear edge of the panel and sits in a slot in the metal ridge on the top of the door panel. It takes the weight of the door panel and heavy elbows to prevent straining the other mounts.

Neil.

Funny you should say that, because that piece was missing on one door of our white wagon we did the doors on previously, and we assumed it was useless. I just happened to grab the pieces from the parts car I took the other brackets off of, glad I did.

I ended up using construction adhesive for everything and getting creative with the rag-tag assortment of clamps we have. I'll post a detailed writeup in its own thread since I think I'd be the only one to post with the method I used.

I have had good success with contact cement for these type mounts on this fiber board. Clean the old glue by scraping. Apply contact cement to both surfaces and wait until tacky. If it is no longer tacky because you had too many surfaces to apply contact cement, then reactivate the cement with acetone.
A primer coat of thin contact cement may be helpful if the fiber board soaks up the cement.
Clean up excess with acetone.
volvolugnut

I bought a can of brush-on cement, but having more experience with construction adhesive, I went that route and returned the contact cement. I did use spray-on contact cement for the foam and leather inserts though.

On the topic of the shroud on the bottom of the car, it definetly keeps a lot of crap from getting up onto the hose clamps, and AC receiver drier. The white wagon came without a shroud, and the radiator hose clamp was rusted and seized, and the AC receiver drier was rusted through all behind the clamp (and absolutely full of stop leak and dye).

[abscate]

You definitely want the air guide in wet climates. The URO one is decent and really affordable, I got two for one when Amazon sent me a broken one, a replacement, and told me to discard the old. I fixed it of course

[bmdubya1198]

You definitely want the air guide in wet climates. The URO one is decent and really affordable, I got two for one when Amazon sent me a broken one, a replacement, and told me to discard the old. I fixed it of course

I love when they do that... and being that I hate wasting anything, it would certainly be fixed!

[abscate]

You definitely want the air guide in wet climates. The URO one is decent and really affordable, I got two for one when Amazon sent me a broken one, a replacement, and told me to discard the old. I fixed it of course

I love when they do that... and being that I hate wasting anything, it would certainly be fixed!

Internet traffic from Scotland and Calgary to URO just crashed the web

[foggydogg]

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[brunocerous]

Soldered a new pair of headlight sockets into the T5 after stealing one for Blue Steel and installed new Sylvania bulbs.

Now hoping the battery doesn't die again.

1998 Volvo V70 T5 headlights on

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[xanthefin]

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I want wireless starter.

[ZionXIX]

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Some times it do be that way.