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

Post by **RickHaleParker** » 25 Aug 2020, 14:03

abscate wrote: 23 Aug 2020, 15:13 30664459

$75 at FCP

Cookeh

if you find some at the breakers please harvest. I would love a couple of these but not at $75

As my family would say.... strewth!!

Applications: 2001 - 2009 S60 & 2001 - 2008 V70.

Cookeh · Post by **Cookeh** » 25 Aug 2020, 15:08

abscate wrote: 23 Aug 2020, 15:13 30664459

$75 at FCP

Cookeh

if you find some at the breakers please harvest. I would love a couple of these but not at $75

As my family would say.... strewth!!

I'll see what I can find. Not much stock or access to breakers at the minute due to lockdown restrictions, but I'll check out the usual suspects all the same.

Post by **RickHaleParker** » 25 Aug 2020, 17:16

Not a Volvo but I refurbished my Harbor Freight Chicago Electric 18 Volt battery pack, which is NLA.

Got a Porter Cable PC18B battery pack and scavenged the NiMH cells out of it. Then transferred the NiMH cells to the Chicago Electric case. After you get the (+) (-) leads reversed the Ni-Mh cell pack drops right in. A cordless replicating saw and a drill that will not be discarded to the waste bin anytime soon.

Note: A NiMH charger will charge NiCd without any problem. A NiCd charger will charge NiMH BUT it can overcharge the NiHM. Do not leave NiMH in a NiCd charger for more then a couple of days. The eBay vendor I got the battery Porter Cable battery from stated it was NiCd. I did not notice it is NiHM not NiCd until after I had finished the hack.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 25 Aug 2020, 20:48

Yes, the C70 delta link is indeed wider. I read before that it was only the '03-'04, but I guess it's all of them (which actually makes more sense anyway).

Post by **abscate** » 26 Aug 2020, 02:03

I’m not buying they built a whole new rear end for one model

Somewhere, the added an inch of fat to that rear end on each side, cheaply.

Spindles part numbers?

End link and transverse link part numbers?

Fatter tires?

Post by **smacknab** » 26 Aug 2020, 07:34

abscate wrote: 26 Aug 2020, 02:03 I’m not buying they built a whole new rear end for one model

Somewhere, the added an inch of fat to that rear end on each side, cheaply.

Spindles part numbers?

End link and transverse link part numbers?

Fatter tires?

I read on one of the forums about a little extra being welded on somewhere, but I'm not sure where. The spindles, wheel bearings and sway bay all seem to be the same checking VPW and FCP. I used the transverse bushings I had recently installed on my s70 and the endlinks I had ordered for my s70 before I pulled the delta link.

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 26 Aug 2020, 09:06

I think they probably just extended the trailing arms a little bit. Doesn't make much sense cost-wise, but Volvo has done stranger things.

Post by **RickHaleParker** » 26 Aug 2020, 11:03

bmdubya1198 wrote: 26 Aug 2020, 09:06 I think they probably just extended the trailing arms a little bit. Doesn't make much sense cost-wise, but Volvo has done stranger things.

1998 S70
Track Width, Front (in) 59.8
Track Width, Rear (in) 57.8

1998 V70
Track Width, Front (in) 59.8
Track Width, Rear (in) 57.8

1998 C70
Track Width, Front (in) 59.8
Track Width, Rear (in) 59.8

The front track on a P2 XC90 is three inches wider then a P2 S60. The difference is in the control arms. I know this from the V8 swap.

Post by **abscate** » 26 Aug 2020, 20:37

I got the lowdown on a Earl from Elizabeth ...

Post by **bmdubya1198** » 26 Aug 2020, 21:14

abscate wrote: 26 Aug 2020, 20:37 I got the lowdown on a Earl from Elizabeth ...

Yep... that’ll do it!