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greg850r wrote: 12 Jun 2018, 16:40... Every one of them sounded like it was breaking, we used a floor jack handle to extend the 1/2" breaker bar. ...
It's like this every time with these P80 engines, pretty unnerving! Intuitively, leaning in to a long lever arm with steadily increasing torque seems better than hard jerks to get them started, then repeat until they are loose. I've not broken one (yet? knock on wood) so don't have first-hand experience but over the years the left-handed-bit-with-guide approach has given a lot of success for people on this forum.
'95 854 T-5R, Motronic 4.4, 185k
'98 V70, T5 tune-injectors-turbo, LPT engine, 304k, daily driver
'06 S60 R, 201k
'07 XC70, black, 205k
'07 XC70, willow green, 223k
gone: '96 NA 850 210k, '98 NA V70 182k, '98 S70 NA 225k, '96 855 NA 169k

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