Today, I mainly wrote the 1000th response to the original post in this thread. :thumbs_up:

Fitted a new Vacuum pump to the D5

It’s run in!,
 

Took my ‘05 D5 183 V70 D5 to 150,000 miles. Probably need to change the running in oil soonest....

worked on making as mold for this S60R "PCC/M3 CSL" custom tailgate fascia we modelled and shaped using clay

Bought 4 new tyres and a set of Orpheus alloys for my V70.
Getting them repainted in very metallic silver, before fitting to the car.

Gary

Booked the car in for an MOT on Saturday. Gave the car a once over a few weeks ago and all was well.

just changed my top engine mount bar from the dirty black thing.
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heres the new one
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this is the parts, which i got from volvo bob, i had them sandblasted and powder coated, in total it only cost me £20 and looks so much better.
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Nice color :thumbs_up:

Btw, quite a weird/costly design from Volvo this bar. Guess they couldn't find how to attach the torque mount. At least if it was a real strut tower bar.

when you replace your top mount with a polybush you get a tremendous amount of vibration into the cabin, all the dash shakes, steering wheel shakes and your keys are dancing away..................

well today i cured it, you need one of these dampeners, volvo no longer sell them, i found it on a top mount bar

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they were very expensive
i have cleaned this one up and sprayed it with alloy wheel autoglym spray to keep it clean

I concede
 

Ok, to celebrate 150,000 miles, and after 9.5 years and around 90,000 miles, I actually changed the broken swirl flap control on my '05 V70 D5 SE 183.
Naturally, getting 4 of the 5 injectors out was easy enough, but number 5 is now showing a couple of battle scars from the sharp end of a cold chisel, but t did what it was told in the end.

It's not a hard job, and you can easily do it without draining any coolant. What you can't do however, at least, not without a substantial ultrasonic bath, is clean the inlet manifold to any great degree.

This annoyed me, but at least there's a little more grunt around 3,800 RPM but much more importantly, the little nag light doesn't come on.
I won't pretend that there's any other major differences, but I still feel fractionally better as a result.