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Aug 24th, 2020, 15:14 | #41 | |
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Aug 24th, 2020, 15:41 | #42 |
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A few comments- firstly, glad it’s arrived and on with the project!
The water pump is also driven by those two parallel fan belts- the belts go around the crank, the alternator and the water pump which has the fan on the front of it- don’t drive the car without the belts in place. The galvanised plates are standard- one each side, under the driver and the passengers feet. PAS should be nice and light, if it isn’t and the pump isn’t low on fluid my money is on the universal joints under the bonnet- they’re often neglected. Spray them both with your penetrating oil of choice over a few days and see if it gets better. If not you’ll need to remove that section of the steering column to be able to free them off once they’re off the car, which is pretty easy to do - but see if a few days of penetrating oil does the trick first. Cheers |
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Aug 24th, 2020, 16:10 | #43 |
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Thanks Bugjam. They call it the u-joint, right? If that's the one, I've just sprayed it and turned the wheel and sprayed some more, and will keep doing so a few days.
Loki - I checked the front tyres and ps belt tension, all seem fine. I checked the fluid level, slightly over max after driving it around the block (to check I wasn't being unfair to it - definitely heavy). If the universal joint option doesn't work, should I try bleeding the fluid? |
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Rust under rear bumper
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When checking out that rust, please make sure whoever assists or advises you sees all the photos from both simplysimonroberts and from John H in the thread linked to here https://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showt...er+rust&page=2 Little rust on first look. But not an inexpensive repair. It looks a nice car. Enjoy. There is a post in another thread saying this can affect saloons .... . Last edited by Stephen Edwin; Aug 24th, 2020 at 16:50. |
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Turning the steering wheel lock to lock is all that’s needed to get any air out of the system, so it’s unlikely that’s the problem. Cheers |
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... silly me Chris, I forgot the alternator belt also powers the water pump, so don't run the motor for too long without it being fitted (a minute to check the motor runs after you fit the cam belt would be fine, but no more than that). Alan Last edited by Othen; Aug 25th, 2020 at 06:49. Reason: Grammar. |
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We've only gone and done it, Rodney!
Timing belt and new drive belts fitted. My plan was to get the timing belt in today and put the cover back, and fit the drive belts tomorrow when Brookhouse said they should be here, but as we were working the postie dropped a parcel off with them in - brilliant service. We left the radiator on as I felt the more we tried to do, the more that might go wrong - which I started to regret at one point as the intermediate cog slipped out of position but we found a way to line it up again (a palette knife across the correct slot in the cog which touched the housing mark once in the right place). The hardest part was getting the power steering belt off - we couldn't get it to slacken enough so ended up prying it off with a screwdriver. Funnily, the new one went on fine. Sounds and runs great! We're both feeling relieved and more confident - thank you all so much for your advice. |
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