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

DennisCA · Post by **DennisCA** » 10 Jul 2025, 14:58

I removed the other fender and well, sigh. Guess I'll be repairing two fenders.

TheWagonlab · Post by **TheWagonlab** » 10 Jul 2025, 15:40

Tearing down my 2.5T from my 2007 xc70. It had a knocking, PCV was backed up with sludge. Today i took the pan off. Metal filings in the filter, the pan was full of sludge, and more Metal.
Im thinking rod bearing material but I haven't gotten that far yet.

Post by **abscate** » 10 Jul 2025, 18:55

Dropped Abby at work at 0830, by 1100….

I’m doing the AC evaporator

Post by **BlackBart** » 10 Jul 2025, 19:01

DennisCA wrote: ↑10 Jul 2025, 14:58 I removed the other fender and well, sigh. Guess I'll be repairing two fenders.

Oh, there’s some fender missing there.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 10 Jul 2025, 20:47

abscate wrote: ↑10 Jul 2025, 18:55 Dropped Abby at work at 0830, by 1100….

I’m doing the AC evaporator

Ah, the job everyone wants to do in July! Have fun!

Post by **abscate** » 11 Jul 2025, 03:53

bmdubya1198 wrote: ↑10 Jul 2025, 20:47
abscate wrote: ↑10 Jul 2025, 18:55 Dropped Abby at work at 0830, by 1100….

I’m doing the AC evaporator
Ah, the job everyone wants to do in July! Have fun!

The Creator smiled on me and gave me a cool drizzly morning today amd tomorrow to finish this up, a nice break ftom the 90F/90RH heat wave we had earlier this week

DennisCA · Post by **DennisCA** » 11 Jul 2025, 06:52

BlackBart wrote: ↑10 Jul 2025, 19:01
DennisCA wrote: ↑10 Jul 2025, 14:58 I removed the other fender and well, sigh. Guess I'll be repairing two fenders.
Oh, there’s some fender missing there.

Not just there either, but at the bottom too. I did that first

Not the nicest welds, buut, some of my mig welders rectifier diodes are on the fritz so it's acting weird, and I use Co2 as shielding gas.

yanga001 · Post by **yanga001** » 11 Jul 2025, 08:32

stopped by my indy and got my hands dirty with a customers car there. A power steering pump quite literally exploded and shot out the shaft on a 98 v70. Never seen that failure before. Had 2-3 ball bearings still left in the race.

Bearing shaft race looked fine, the outer race was a bit worn. Swapped in a new pump and remembered the pain of 7-8 bolts holding a pump in from both sides

. Got her done and got rear pads for my s60 so i can do the rear brakes and rotors this weekend.

FUN TIMES.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 11 Jul 2025, 08:48

abscate wrote: ↑11 Jul 2025, 03:53
bmdubya1198 wrote: ↑10 Jul 2025, 20:47
abscate wrote: ↑10 Jul 2025, 18:55 Dropped Abby at work at 0830, by 1100….

I’m doing the AC evaporator
Ah, the job everyone wants to do in July! Have fun!
The Creator smiled on me and gave me a cool drizzly morning today amd tomorrow to finish this up, a nice break ftom the 90F/90RH heat wave we had earlier this week

Perfect timing in that case!

melmaclifeform · Post by **melmaclifeform** » 11 Jul 2025, 14:12

Got the water pump to cease leaking today. It was pinched and there was a little extra gasket material that was able to be scraped off around the mating surface.

With it all back together, the steering seems to be binding and it definitely needs brakes, engine mounts, and plugs and coils. I drove it .3 miles around the Cul-de-sac, for the first time in approximately four years?

It does look significantly less destroyed than it did when I started, which is also a plus. The last step in all this is painting the fenders and hood so they don’t look completely faded and nasty.

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