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

[BlackBart]

Some toys arrived this morning -

[admasters71]

Finally rolled my 98 S70 T5m out of the garage and into it's parking space for the winter!
Lots of interior cosmetic work (door cards, headliner,etc), brakes, steering rack, front suspension, engine tuneups and some goodies, painted all horizontal surfaces myself (have a few touchups left). Full tints are next.

[BlackBart]

Nice - did you make a booth? Spray in your garage?

[RedBrickCollector]

I didn't think that the rear brake hoses would be an entirely different ordeal from the front.

Anyway that done I've noticed I have the occasional front groaning from the sway bar hitting the control arm. I figure if I don't want an entirely new bar that would mean greasable polyurethane bushings and sway bar lock stops. Measuring right at the bushing my caliper tells me 21.9-22.2 mm but I can't find any trace of a stock 22mm sway bar. After the bend as a sanity check it's 23.2 or so. Did I measure a 21mm wrong?

[abscate]

Finally rolled my 98 S70 T5m out of the garage and into it's parking space for the winter!
Lots of interior cosmetic work (door cards, headliner,etc), brakes, steering rack, front suspension, engine tuneups and some goodies, painted all horizontal surfaces myself (have a few touchups left). Full tints are next.

What colour is that? Beautiful Perfo wheels, and I have a grill(e) once you want to stop catching eggs …

[scot850]

RedBrickcollector, on your Vin# plate by the battery is all the suspension data including the ant-swaybar fitted to your car (assuming it is original). Volvo stopped selling replacement bushes as they never worked. The original ones were vulcanized/bonded to the bar to stop it moving to the left and right.

For the 98-00 years there were 3 anti-swaybars fitted with different thicknesses and stiffness. Not sure for the 850's though.

I had an IPD front and rear anti-swaybar on my 2000 V70R. The IPD bushes were bad, but they also said you have to grease them every 5000 miles with a marine grease. To do this correctly requires dropping the subframe which is stupid. I replaced the bushes with Energy Suspension bushes that are drilled for grease nipples. I eventually removed it trying to fix a suspension groan and fitted a stock R bar which I seem to recall is 21mm diameter. I think the other 2 options were 20mm and 21.5mm or 22mm on the V70XC.

Neil.

[manovlov]

Hy,

I've replaced (by a used "better condition one") my right suspension strut support bearing front axle, started to be noisy. Went on ebay, bought 2 news parts. Febi Bilstein.

Replaced also my swaybar links...

Manov

[BlackBart]

I got a stack of new Falken tires from TR.

[scot850]

Nice new tires! Always seems to improve a cars ride with the new boots fitted!

We will have to invest in yet another set next spring for the XC70. At least all the winter and summer tires for the other cars and the summers on the XC have been done in the last year.

Neil.

[BlackBart]

I realize I’m very car-nerdy, but I love new tires. I love shopping for tires, reading about tires, comparing tires, and putting them on. (Paying for them - not so much)

Do you want the $500 tire with maybe 10,000 mi of tread life, worthless in anything but warm and dry, or the $80 Chinese tire that says it will go 80,000 mi, where in NONE of those miles it will have any grip?