Glenn, my current plan is to buy a whole new brake system and get the car operational enough to travel to real experts.

One of the MAJOR restraints on this entire project is the competence of available techie help. In fact, I rather think it's the controlling restraint. Not budget - I spent oodles on bad service when the car was new. Not parts availability - the car was never crashed or rusted out, so it needs few rare parts. It is, quite simply, poor service which put this car into a storage locker for ten years and is the main obstacle to its rehabilitation today. I could not depend on it even when the car was new. In fact, I retired it after a particularly egregious and disgustingly expensive series of ripoffs by two local dealers and a private Volvo specialty shop. I stopped buying Volvos because I could not get them serviced properly. Old Volvos might be long-lived, but they were not troublefree. They're just robust enough to be worth repairing for a long itme.

Now, years later, I find the service situation has not changed. But I have. I'm more prepared to deal with and judge some of the problems, plus the Net has made it possible to get outside, really EXPERT help. If I lost my Net connection - this would be a large, green planter...