Volvo V70 P2

[chippie]

Apr 18, 2024 22:42:29 GMT 1 valhalla said:

My wheels are on the way! There is life in Germany after all !

It was also my birthday today, so workshop shut-down to "outside traffic", and I spent a happy few hours just pottering around my new toy.

A happy birthday to ya!….hope you had a great day.albeit a bit late ..

[rhyds]

Penblwydd Hapus lad!

[Noberator]

Belated birthday greetings valhalla.

[valhalla]

I managed to get onto the timing-belt renewal for this today. To be frank, I started it far too late in the afternoon, so it isn't finished yet.....

It was just as well I did this job; firstly I found quite a lot of bits and pieces that were "just not right" around the environmentally-controlled Ebox just to the offside of the engine - the enclosure itself was falling apart, was about to touch the rotating PAS pump pulley, and the pipework that ducts clean & cold air to its fan from the bulkhead was detached.

Then I found that the timing belt had been changed......badly. The timing on the rear camshaft sprocket was out by a tooth, although the front pulley was fine. I had to check, double-check, then triple-check that there wasn't a good reason for this. In the end, it was just plain-old fitting error. It's a bit difficult (aren't they all?) to see the timing marks and align them, but even so, you just use a mirror and take your time. Previous mechanic had done neither.....despite going to the effort to Tippex the marks to make it clearer!

So I need to refill the coolant system tomorrow morning, do the final torque-checks, then fire this engine back up to see what happens. Given that it turns over with decent compression, there might just be a period of "re-adaptation" of the emission parameters before it settles down again.

[valhalla]

Having started it this morning, I might be imagining it, but it definitely sounds much more like a Volvo 5-cyl petrol again. It's now even smoother when revved than before, which I noticed when bleeding the new coolant through the circuits.

One tooth retarded on the rear cam (exhaust) was likely pushing luck a bit - I think this is a 36-tooth wheel, I didn't count - so just as well this hadn't gone into any valve-bounce.

The belt is a little bit "whiney" (Gates kit) which I have seen on a few other Gates I have fitted recently to both Disco 3.0SDV6 and a VW diesel, but I may have a slight bit of over-tension on the pulley, even after resetting it a couple of times to get the tension-indicator slightly lower down the scale. I'm not a big fan of these Gates kits, as the tensioners always seem to be a bit hit-and-miss compared to the INA units in Dayco kits - I just fit these where they are closer to OEM than Dayco.

[valhalla]

I coded-out the daylight running lamp mode on the lighting module yesterday - this is the one where Volvo use dipped-beam lights and all the ancilliary side/tail/marker lights, all the time.....non-stop.

The lighting-switch now does the "normal" operations, and the reason for doing-so was immediately apparent; the front sidelamp bulbs were both blown, but you couldn't tell before!

The Volvo forum/s all whinge about owners doing this, but they are filled with grass-eating, sandal-wearing, po-faced spoilsports.... It's pretty obvious when you need to make yourself visible out on the road, and is the same reason you don't indicate every change of direction irrespective; you're thinking about who is around you, and what they need to know, rather than sleeping behind the wheel and not taking good care.

The planet will be a better place for all the bulbs on my car not being burned-out over each and every pothole each day, so it's the "green" thing to do, anyway.....that's my excuse! Apparently it's a common thing to find bulbs being replaced every month on one of these P2-platform Volvo's, and at £18 + VAT a set for the H7 dipped-beam bulbs (Osram Nightbreakers +150%) that's an expense I can do without.