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

[foggydogg]

And now ( apologies to J. Cleese, etal. ), for something entirely different:

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There are a total of four on this installation.

Had some company with my evening iced tea.

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Two breeding pairs of resident Canadas.
The kids grow up so fast these days.

[foggydogg]

This is actually my car. Fought me all the way.

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Thanks again Robert ( he mailed me one from CA).

[abscate]

Changed Elizabeth T5 from the retro brushed steel look interior to warm wood, thanks to foggy and Neil for donating parts from their stashes.

[bmdubya1198]

Very nice!

[scot850]

That interior sure turned out nicely. Glad the parts from Foggy and I found a worthy home!

Yesterday I finally had time and availability to get the 98 V70 SE base back to fit the crank engine mount. Again another one of Volvo designers finest moments of making a simple job way harder than it needs to be by positioning the 2 bolts holding the mount to the sub-frame so that access especially to the rear bolt is almost impossible to get anything onto it as the RH axle is in the way.

My bigger worry was that the 2 bolts into the block would be seized but I whacked the 2 bolts to shock them and then sprayed them with PB Blaster and went and had a coffee. Came back and used an axle stand as a pivot for a long extension (old axle stand with a 'V' for solid axles). Went to put a lot of weight on the breaker bar and nearly fell on my face as they both came loose almost too easily! The other 2 bolts were also not as tight as I expected.

Swap over with a floor jack and a piece of wood under the oil pan was quick, the longest time being getting access to torque the rear bolt to the 60 degree add on torque!

I have to say that I did have a momentary panic when I compared the new part with the old knowing there is a part number change in late 98. The new part is different to the old one and looks a lot more robust. It looks more like the Hutchison part for a P2:

Old versus new crank pulley mount

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I had given this car a thorough going over and noted the mount was separating the rubber and metal. On removing the old part had separated completely on the outer half toward the RH wheel.

Also replaced the 2 x 12V outlet bulbs in the center console I swapped in recently now I found a bunch of the correct bulbs in the 'stash'! Now just have to find a suitable bulb for the ashtray and gearshift position for auto trans. Waiting for responses on this request to bulb suppliers including Mouser who have been helpful in the past.

Neil.

[Goupil]

Got the "new" engine back into the V70 over the weekend, got almost everything back where it should be
It doesnt start

Decided I had worked enough on cars today, I'll go over everything with a fresh brain tomorrow.

[Sveedy]

Very cool on getting things back installed. Great feeling, I know.
And your right - somewhere around 4:00 am the answer will probably come to you.

[bmdubya1198]

Very cool on getting things back installed. Great feeling, I know.
And your right - somewhere around 4:00 am the answer will probably come to you.

Yep, every time!

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Yesterday I finally had time and availability to get the 98 V70 SE base back to fit the crank engine mount. Again another one of Volvo designers finest moments of making a simple job way harder than it needs to be by positioning the 2 bolts holding the mount to the sub-frame so that access especially to the rear bolt is almost impossible to get anything onto it as the RH axle is in the way.

That rear bolt on the engine mount ( front of engine, right side of car) is b* to get to. It pays to out an impact in that anytime the timing belt cover is off from up top and give it a nice antisieze treatment

I have one shorter box end17 that fits in their and cracks it

[abscate]

Before 0900 hot sun…

Harvested brake booster, master cylinder , clutch master , complete m56 shifter from knob to cables, a pillar trim for Caitlin , pedal assembly