Who is doing what maintenance today?

[Jon Wildsmith]

Had far too much bling before...

That's the conclusion I came to

 

[Crispin]

Repaired my headlight mounting which cracked from the accident. Insurance gave me a cheque for new one but £5 of epoxy putty later and all done. Now for some spots .

 

[Andrew Prince]

Flushed the ATF - got 6l out as usual... Old ATF didn't look great, even though it's been 1000-1500 miles since the last 6l flush.... Going to do the next flush soon(er) - I'll give it 50 miles or so to mix up with the old brown stuff and then put in some fresh red. I was hoping that the ATF would look better than it did. Not that dark but quite murky I think I'm going to buy a cheap 20l drum of Castrol and flush quite regularly until the ATF all looks nice. And then put in the synthetic stuff.

On the positive side, the rear diff oil is still perfectly clean and full to the base of the filler hole. So the weeping input/prop seal is nothing more than a minor weep for now.

Gav plate looks like it took a hit last weekend as it's not perfectly square any more... Gav, when are the forward autobox/engine plates going to be ready?

And I managed to sneakily blast off most of the Lincomb "underseal" at the local jet wash yesterday. The cashier eventually came out to see why a stream of red was flowing past his window.... (I cunningly sent the missus in to buy the tokens ) Fortunately I was done by then so not much he could do at that point. So my LC is about 200 kgs lighter again

 

[sae70]

Flushed the ATF - got 6l out as usual... Old ATF didn't look great, even though it's been 1000-1500 miles since the last 6l flush.... Going to do the next flush soon(er) - I'll give it 50 miles or so to mix up with the old brown stuff and then put in some fresh red. I was hoping that the ATF would look better than it did. Not that dark but quite murky I think I'm going to buy a cheap 20l drum of Castrol and flush quite regularly until the ATF all looks nice. And then put in the synthetic stuff

I did an ATF flush on our Geartronic T5 V70 when we first bought it. From memory the system holds about 9ltrs but only 4/5 come out when you remove the drain plug after doing this pop the drain plug back in, then top back up with same amount of new ATF as you have But then remove the return pipe to the gearbox oil inter-cooler & fit a suitably sized bit of tube over it. start engine with other end of tube in a jug until about 2ltrs of ATF is pumped out Turn off engine, replace with same amount of new ATF and then continue until all is clear This took me 12ltrs of ATF till I was happy, others report 18ltrs Either way it cost me around £100 in oil and kit and took a couple of hours, better than the £300+++ that Volvo wanted to do the same job

Here's some links that may help you, although they are all Volvo specific Someone has to pioneer though

http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=72956

http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=73541

http://www.volvoxc.com/forums/showthrea ... 8:Banane53:

Here's some photos of the set up

 

[Justin_Elliott]

Adjusted the handbrake (on my 80) for the first time ...

Much easier when you follow Chris' instructions (which he kindly hid in the 90 Series section.... )

Much better now...

Although I noticed one of my rear bump stops had failed and the other failing, so one job off the list and another back on.

 

[Rob]

I did exactly the same on my V70R on saturday Steven and got through 10 litres of 3309 (Fuchs Titan ATF 4400) and its still really dark. I think I need about another 10 litres, seems ridiculous how much fluid you need to flush a badly maintained box when it only holds just over 7l. I wish I had gone for something a bit cheaper like you did Well at least it drives a bit smoother now.

 

[sae70]

Rob, the oil I used from Vauxhall is exactly the same oil as used by Volvo The Aisin automatic gearbox used in the Volvo is also used in many Vauxhalls and other makes of car If you buy the ATF from Volvo it's about £18ltr but from Vauxhall it's £6.50ltr

 

[Rob]

£8.71 per litre from Opie so not too bad.

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-60163-fuchs ... -cars.aspx

 

[BIG clean GREEN]

http://www.milneroffroad.com/img/productImages/10900.jpg £3.60L OK even if you only wanted to use it to flush out the sludge !

 

[Rob]

That's not JWS 3309 rated aft so no good for 5 speed volvos. They can't use anything else.

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[Jon Wildsmith]

cut the 1.25" outer tubes off my sliders this evening and replaced with some 2" tube that looks a bit less anemic

 

[Nuclear Chicken]

Hope it counts but changed the XC90 engine oil. Now at 103k and running nicely. As a 5 pot it's a nice engine really given that it has the same bhp as earlier 3.0D4d engines. Fuel and air filter next and auto oil change and then rear diff Haldex BS sissy 4WD thingy oil change too.

 

[Gav Peter]

also painted the chrome surround on the grill black and the toyota emblem which I did gun metal grey, while I had the grill off anyway to change the winch solenoid:

hope that's ok with you Gav

cut the 1.25" outer tubes off my sliders this evening and replaced with some 2" tube that looks a bit less anemic

Yup, all fine so far Jon - carry on

 

[BIG clean GREEN]

Sorry Rob I assumed we were talking about yotas, what with this being a LC forum

 

[Rob]

Well you know how easy it is to go OT.

 

[BIG clean GREEN]

I'm only pulling your pi55er Rob

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

replaced starter battery with one of these, lets see how that copes with winching.

 

[Crispin]

What made you choose that?

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[Jon Wildsmith]

Good reviews, AGM, good capacity, has the terminals the right way round and it fits in the space available

 

[Chris]

Changing Corolla wheel bearing and oiling the hinges on my wallet.

Chris