What did you do to your P2 Volvo today?

[Krons]

I come to confess and repent of my sins. The MVS faithful have preached well regarding OEM motor mounts, but I had strayed. Somehow tempted by the harlot Hamburg Technic I wallowed in the sin of crap knockoff front and rear mounts. Immediately I felt the weight of my mistake through the vibrations at idle after picking up from my Indy mechanic during water pump and timing belt service.

But alas in my regret and shame I spent the morning installing Hutchinson mounts in the garage in a woeful act of repentance. Smoothness at idle has returned and the hard rubber of H-T been replaced with the soft and vibration absorbing Hutchinson mounts. Learn from me those who question the words preached here. Go in peace my Volvo friends!

Oh, I remembered this post Mr Krons. I am about to go shopping for said front and rear mounts and my brain said, We were just talking about these somewhere...hmm.

Hutchinson at all FIVE mounts? Or just those round front and rear? I think I did the upper link at the crossbar, and the drag link underneath, since they're so easy.

I just watched this video on replacing all five mounts. Clear and simple...


Question - his is a diesel, and he talks about vacuum lines to the mounts...? Is that just a diesel thing? You need vacuum in your motor mounts?

I think the round ones are most critical to go Hutchinson. The Hamburg-Crapnik were hard as a rock, Hutchinson much softer. I have used TRQ on the others and seemed ok but I’d probably bite the bullet and get the kit from FCPEuro.

No vacuum lines on my 2.5L petrol P2 to change engine mounts.

[vtl]

New good pump is installed. Duty cycle (FPMP) at idle dropped from 48-49% to 31-32%, this is good.

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I may be late to the game but what is that? Live OBDII data?

That's my little toy: https://github.com/vtl/volvo-ddd

[abscate]

Took dog to vet in rear of the V70 as ambulance…..

[dikidera]

What I didn't do today, or more precisely a few days ago, was disconnect my custom RPI diagnostic tool, which drained the car battery. I am charging it, but it may have failed altogether since it was 3 years old already.

This is unfortunate as I was saving for a new wheel hub, new tie rod + summer tyre swap + alignment + charging the AC so we can search for leaks. A new car battery will eat from that budget.

[xHeart]

Took dog to vet in rear of the V70 as ambulance…..😍

+1
Big bill after years of prevention.

[dikidera]

Does anyone know how to clean the PNP switch's plug and pins from corrosion/rust? When I was replacing my transmission, some antifreeze had leaked. And so Drive is intermittent and enters limp home mode, but 4 works fine. I've been driving it for close to 2 weeks this way and it's annoying.
I've tried contact cleaner, but it doesn't seem to do it.

[Blacklab467]

Does anyone know how to clean the PNP switch's plug and pins from corrosion/rust? When I was replacing my transmission, some antifreeze had leaked. And so Drive is intermittent and enters limp home mode, but 4 works fine. I've been driving it for close to 2 weeks this way and it's annoying.
I've tried contact cleaner, but it doesn't seem to do it.

I would first check to see that it is connected and clicked in place, I remember when I rebuilt my valve body that connector was difficult to fully seat and when I put it back together and double checked everything the connector wasn’t seated. It took a lot of force to get it properly connected, I almost overlooked it.

[dikidera]

It's fairly well seated, it's the rust causing an intermittent connection for Drive(and maybe other positions too but P,R,4 work well).

[850 LPT]

Working on my daughters XC70 right now, which I picked up for her 2 weeks ago. Installed a new battery and a new alarm module a few days ago, and did the initial drain and fill on the transmission. The fluid was pretty dark, but not horrible. There was a noticeable clunk shifting into first and coming out of it. That seems to be pretty much gone now. Yesterday I installed a new turn signal stalk, and today is tune up time, plus another drain and fill.
The clock is ticking on this car because we will drive it to Denver on May17th and deliver it to our very exited daughter.

I also took a few fun photos in an almost empty parking garage:

[BlackBart]

Tidy!

VERY empty garage!