What I did today thread...

[Dazza95]

Had Michelin CrossClimates fitted to my recently acquired S60 D5; I am genuinely surprised at how much better the car feels to drive and the reduction in road noise is very pleasant indeed. A big step up from the Firestones that came with the car.

[ThomasG]

I'm just doing (yes, right now) a pre-service check of what needs doing.
Focus on brakes and suspension.
Entropy has a lot to answer for...

[ASt85]

Originally Posted by Dazza95

Had Michelin CrossClimates fitted to my recently acquired S60 D5; I am genuinely surprised at how much better the car feels to drive and the reduction in road noise is very pleasant indeed. A big step up from the Firestones that came with the car.

Completely agree - I had a full set of Michelin Cross Climate V 94XLs fitted around 4 months ago - I still can't believe how much better the car still feels and drives - the grip and level of noise is so much better than the Uniroyal Rain Expert/2s&/or/3s I've been using over the last few years on the family cars and far exceeds the older Pilot/Primacy I used on the 850.

[reggit]

Took the aux belt/tensioners and idlers off and had to abort for the night as it went dark. Found out the tensioner pulley bearing was slightly rough and the alternator freewheel pulley rough as a yak's bottom!
Tonight's job is to see if I can get the alternator pulley off - got the alt out, so hopefully it won't be too hard.
Then it can get put back together when it's not raining!

Found out the timing belt was changed around 7 years ago, before I got the car, but the aux belt wasn't done for some reason. It's 15 years and 142,000 miles old.

[oragex]

Originally Posted by reggit

Took the aux belt/tensioners and idlers off and had to abort for the night as it went dark. Found out the tensioner pulley bearing was slightly rough and the alternator freewheel pulley rough as a yak's bottom!
Tonight's job is to see if I can get the alternator pulley off - got the alt out, so hopefully it won't be too hard.

I found the alt pulley too much fight to be worth removing even with the special tool, plus a quality pulley is not cheap. A used alt comes quite easier, I would just remove and keep the regulator from the old one as spare.
Also the air climate compressor pulley gets rough as the bearing gets dry

[oragex]

A common annoyance, the squeaky creaky armrest got a quick fix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFdgsm1PIA

[reggit]

Originally Posted by oragex

I found the alt pulley too much fight to be worth removing even with the special tool, plus a quality pulley is not cheap. A used alt comes quite easier, I would just remove and keep the regulator from the old one as spare.
Also the air climate compressor pulley gets rough as the bearing gets dry

Got the bearing and the tool - just applying ever increasing levels of violence to it to try and get it to release!

[davebb]

Originally Posted by reggit

Got the bearing and the tool - just applying ever increasing levels of violence to it to try and get it to release!

I found it very hard to undo, don't forget clockwise to undo, also do not rest anything on power steering pulley
Like I did and broke it,
Dave

[reggit]

Originally Posted by davebb

I found it very hard to undo, don't forget clockwise to undo, also do not rest anything on power steering pulley
Like I did and broke it,
Dave

I've taken it off and got it all clamped on a bench. It's blooming tight though. Given up for the night. The violence will resume tomorrow!

[davebb]

Originally Posted by reggit

I've taken it off and got it all clamped on a bench. It's blooming tight though. Given up for the night. The violence will resume tomorrow!

Yes that is the best way, torque is 80nm if I remember,
Give it some wd40 tonight,
Dave