Parts to hoard for 1998-2000 S/V70?

[erikv11]

This is all great info. I'm realizing it's valuable to pull a spare copy of any part I may need to rehabilitate on my car. Since my car is a daily driver, I can't have it out of service for days while I'm fixing a part. For instance, I plan to pull steering knuckles to spend days sandblasting and painting them for rust protection, then quickly swap them on to my car. I could then sandblast and paint the knuckles which came off my car and sell them to someone else.

Let me know when the second set is ready please!

[FireFox31]

3) servo motor for heater flaps.

How do you get the five damper/flap motors? I found the recirc and floor/defrost motors in the passenger's footwell, screwed to the white air dam which holds the blower motor and the A/C condenser. Their screws are impossible to access. The cold air arm and rod are buried in the air dam as well. I would have to remove the entire air dam, which I tried doing but only found two bolts high up behind the dash. Are these worth the effort?

I easily pulled the blower motor, air duct temp sensor (left of blower motor), resistor (left of temp sensor) all from the passenger's footwell. I got the ECC and cabin temp sensor by pulling the radio. While tearing apart the entire dash, I got the key chip sensor and cruise control stalk (mine failed after 10 years). And I got practice disassembling the dash!

[abscate]

The recirc motor is on a bracket, which you can access the screw and remove it attached to the bracket

There are only four motors after a vin split in 1999. The driver side two motors got condosolidated into one.

One distribution motor
Two blend motors
One recirc motor

[FireFox31]

abscate says to pull good roof rails because they're easy to pull and sell for $100. Pry up the screw covers and unscrew them, fighting against the silicon around each screw. I think there are little clips at the base of each screw.

And seriously, every wagon needs roof rails. Don't sell them, put them on your car!

[smacknab]

I highly recommend and will buy a spare off of anyone who pulls an extra one - the airbag clock spring. Brittle little plastic part that will trip your SRS light and disable your airbags (potentially fail inspection?)

When mine went bad i found that there are 0 sellers in the country with a new one, and at least at the time 0 used listings also. An indie told me i could use only for the 98-00 p80s but thankfully i realized i could also use one out of the c70s that ran until 04. Managed to get one from a junkyard, but it got me very worried about future stuff not being available.

I would pull more myself but the hardest thing I've found is at most pick n pulls they don't have the keys so with the steering wheel locked you cant spin the wheel enough to access the rear screws to release the airbag. Does anyone know how to disable the steering lock with no key?

[abscate]

I think I have two spares of the clock spring but have never needed to replace one.

You could take off the plastic steering wheel cover and then Dremel the two bolts holding the steering lock on

See details here

https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forum ... ck#p582934

[FireFox31]

AWD cars have many discontinued parts, according to MVS users. Rear parking brake cable retainers may be available aftermarket, but originals are apparently easy to harvest, per scot850. Rear eccentric bolts are "precious", per abscate. Rear Nivomat shocks in good condition have value, though removing them in a yard can be involved.

[scot850]

I have been lucky the last few times I removed Nivomat shocks, although in 2 cases I returned them as the boots were split and they had wear marks on the shafts. The last set were good boots just starting to split and I now have nice new one's courtesy of Volvo Canada. Apparently, Volvo US is telling customers the boots are NLA, but I just bought 4 from Volvo Canada with a 4-week back-order delivery!

The other good part is both our local PnP's seem to now be using a different way to support the cars which is higher making pulling Nivomats now much easier!

Neil.