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Help, Advice and DIY Tutorials on Volvo's P80 platform cars -- Volvo's 1990s "bread and butter" cars -- powered by the ubiquitous and durable Volvo inline 5-cylinder engine.

1992 - 1997 850, including 850 R, 850 T-5R, 850 T-5, 850 GLT
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Re: What did you do to your Volvo today?

Post by j-dawg »

abscate wrote: 14 Jan 2021, 04:31 I hope you told the OH owner about the rust on one of the license plate bolts.

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That's where it starts! Next thing you know you're welding in new floor pans!
Cookeh wrote: 14 Jan 2021, 05:04 Please tell me the cooper union is actually about coopers? Thats a dying art.
Barrel makers' organized labor! That's my alma mater. As abscate says, best known for art and architecture, though I studied engineering. Also known for providing free tuition to its students. That changed to a half-tuition scholarship a few years after I left. The school acted like other private universities, which, as gatekeepers of the middle class, can pay for their rock climbing walls and day spas by jacking up tuition on undergrads. Lavish admin salaries and a new building designed by a starchitect drove up debts. They were financed with risky bets on hedge funds in 2006. You know the rest.

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Picked up an instrument cluster with a activated trip computer, also forgot my trip computer switch up north so the swap will have to wait until the next time i go up.
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Post by abscate »

j-dawg wrote: 14 Jan 2021, 08:52
abscate wrote: 14 Jan 2021, 04:31 I hope you told the OH owner about the rust on one of the license plate bolts.

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That's where it starts! Next thing you know you're welding in new floor pans!
Cookeh wrote: 14 Jan 2021, 05:04 Please tell me the cooper union is actually about coopers? Thats a dying art.
Barrel makers' organized labor! That's my alma mater. As abscate says, best known for art and architecture, though I studied engineering. Also known for providing free tuition to its students. That changed to a half-tuition scholarship a few years after I left. The school acted like other private universities, which, as gatekeepers of the middle class, can pay for their rock climbing walls and day spas by jacking up tuition on undergrads. Lavish admin salaries and a new building designed by a starchitect drove up debts. They were financed with risky bets on hedge funds in 2006. You know the rest.

If you can't tell, I'm still sour about it.
I really missed the Mark with that description. I’ve never met anyone from Cooper Union who wasn’t interesting as Hades.
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Post by abscate »

Today, got Autozoned.

Fit parking brake shoes which had no chance in Hades of fitting , because the lower tangs were cut about 3 cm too long

If they don’t say Volvo, you’ll be full of sorrow; non-Swedish parts, will break your heart.

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Post by volvolugnut »

A confirmed cheap guy did not get out the file and reshape the offensive parts?

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Post by abscate »

Not unless the one who made this part pays me for finishing their job

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Post by S60UT »

Are those for the P80 or P2 ?
00 S70 GLT SE T5 Swap
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NVM, saw your other posts
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Post by bmdubya1198 »

Time to contact Autozone and ask for a raise!
00 V70R Venetian Red/Charcoal M56 Swapped 214k
07 XC90 V8 AWD Sport Titanium Grey/Black 220k
92 245 White/Beige 249k
91 944 Turbo 175k
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Post by abscate »

Price of the feel good rush for saving $5 at the local store , good

dIY labor lost for having to repeat this job down the road, $75-100. We were lucky to have some spare workable shoes in stock so we are back on road.

Next time, FCP as usual
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