Yet another what car?

[OJCar]

I think points setting tool in 1969 were more:

 

[Rannsachair]

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I do have a few packets, can be handy on the mill too

And I have never smoked...

 

[Morris]

How thick is a calibrated Rizla paper?

 

[Seadog]

dark lines on old number plate from where it is delaminating

I don't mind the dark lines so much, but the jaunty angle is definitely not on

 

[Rannsachair]

How thick is a calibrated Rizla paper?

• Rizla Silver (Ultra Thin): ~20 microns, designed for a slow, subtle burn with minimal paper taste.
• Rizla Precision: Extremely thin, approximately 1/7th the thickness of a Green.
• Rizla Green (Medium): ~32 microns, designed to be robust and easy to roll.
• Rizla Red (Medium): Standard, medium thickness for a balanced, "free-burning" experience.
• Rizla Micron: 12.5 GSM (grams per square meter) "micron-thin" paper.

 

[Bobupndown]

This is the start, next I have picked up a jack, tools and spare wheel winch to fit, just got to get a spare wheel, rubber mats and boot liner ordered too. I will also be wire brushing surface rust on the underside, treating with Vactan then spray with Noxudol, it is pretty good, so I want to keep it that way with the salt we get on the roads.

This is the way I deal with new (to me) cars.

 

[reb78]

Mine was a lovely car, rotted out on me eventually after 275k. Still went from oil change to oil change without topping up. I had 2 Volvo 240 estates before, they were complete slugs though, the GLT was a flying machine in comparison.

Oh, my GLT was a brilliant car - it would fly along at 20 years old and happily keep up with the younger Mercs and BMWs. Back in the day before so many speed cameras!

 

[Cobbler]

Oh, my GLT was a brilliant car - it would fly along at 20 years old and happily keep up with the younger Mercs and BMWs. Back in the day before so many speed cameras!

I never found ours felt quick, it just got on with it, 104mph was 4000rpm in overdrive top! This was on a French motorway you honour, really, on a trip to Paris. At a quarter of a million miles, the seats & interior was like new, you could have clocked it by half & no one would know, it was that good quality.

 

[reb78]

I never found ours felt quick, it just got on with it, 104mph was 4000rpm in overdrive top! This was on a French motorway you honour, really, on a trip to Paris. At a quarter of a million miles, the seats & interior was like new, you could have clocked it by half & no one would know, it was that good quality.

I had the 5 speed box rather than the OD edition. I dont know if that helped. I seem to recall it would happily sit at 110 on the autobahns... This was the 2.3 injected high compression naturally aspirated version. I drove a 740 once with the OD and a 2.3 turbo and that seemed pretty nippy too.

 

[Cobbler]

My brother had a 940 turbo & had nothing but trouble with it, some were silly faults, one I recall was the clutch pipe was too close to the turbo, cooked the fluid, he worked out what the problem was, but couldn’t get the dealers to understand & do anything about it.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

I miss my xc70...2.5t with around 210bhp. It was built like a tank but it did go quite well.

My mate has the V70R...I always wanted one with the burnt orange interior.

 

[Rannsachair]

Work on the Volvo continues:

The tail gate handle felt sticky at times:

corroded pin replaiced with 316 stainless and a new spring

then to fut a spare wheel carrier/winch:

it replaces the cover:

I gave the underside of a good second hand winch a coat of POR15

Nightmare to fit, needed to remove the battery box, move the battery cable and the bolts holding down the seat runners to squeeze it in:

I also uncovered that the locally fitted expensive towbar was a bit of a cowboy job!

so tidied the wiring and back together with the new jack and toolkit:

Just to buy a spare wheel now I am ready for it...

 

[Ton-up]

I know its always good to have a spare wheel but I have a VW T5.1 van which I use everyday, have had it for 12 years, done 250,000 miles and the spare wheel was used for the first time a fortnight ago!!

 

[Bobupndown]

I know its always good to have a spare wheel but I have a VW T5.1 van which I use everyday, have had it for 12 years, done 250,000 miles and the spare wheel was used for the first time a fortnight ago!!

And if you hadn't had that spare wheel?
I wouldn't drive a car without one. My wife's Fiat 500 and son's Pug 108 came with gunk and a compressor, both ditched and replaced with spacesaver spares, jack and wheelbase kits picked up on Gumtree for around £40 each.
Must teach my son how to use it before he needs it!

 

[Rannsachair]

And why I always do a full oil and filter change on a car I buy, even with a full service history:

 

[Bobupndown]

And why I always do a full oil and filter change on a car I buy, even with a full service history:
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That air filter has been in there for a long time. I change mine every other oil change at 20k miles, they normally come out looking clean.

 

[Rannsachair]

That air filter has been in there for a long time. I change mine every other oil change at 20k miles, they normally come out looking clean.

I am the same except when I have taken the Defender offroading on dusty tracks. There was a receipt for a filter change 20,000 miles prior and the owner said a family member had serviced it since then - so I suspect just an oil change. The owner worked with old colleagues of mine and seemed honest, though I will get an idea when it is drier out and I doo the oil change.

 

[reb78]

I;ve taken to doing all filters every oil change. On the BMW I would leave the cabin filters but you have to take them off to get to the air filter! The only one I sometimes leave if i am in a hurry is the fuel filter - on a couple of the cars its in a proper awkward place - i think many cars go a lifetime without a fuel filter change. I just service whenever i reach a 10000 mile spot (i.e. 140k, 150k etc) now as its easy to remember. Having said that, I do the 110 every 6k but thats particularly high mileage now.

 

[Turbo]

I;ve taken to doing all filters every oil change. On the BMW I would leave the cabin filters but you have to take them off to get to the air filter! The only one I sometimes leave if i am in a hurry is the fuel filter - on a couple of the cars its in a proper awkward place - i think many cars go a lifetime without a fuel filter change. I just service whenever i reach a 10000 mile spot (i.e. 140k, 150k etc) now as its easy to remember. Having said that, I do the 110 every 6k but thats particularly high mileage now.

Same here, less than £20 buys the oil, air and fuel filters so its cheap insurance against future problems.

 

[Rannsachair]

Well I can honestly say that this Volvo is great for servicing - oil change took 15 minutes. The most time consuming part was removing the undertray - which is held on by good sized plated bolts that had no rust. Filter right in front of you when you pull the cover of the engine.
I see
e Volvo use Mann filters:

the old filter looked good, so likely its been changed recently.

Oil filter housing is one of the easiest to get at I have worked on:

Its 2 degrees outside this morning and thats me just spinning off the fuel filter which is also super accessible.

Will be auto box and Haldex service next.

and that's the deep pile carpet mats out and replaced with rubber: