http://www.brickboard.com/FORUMS/uid=26310 The Volvo owner's resource since 1997. en Copyright 1997-2009, Jarrod Stenberg Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:14 GMT Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:14 GMT brickadmin@denizen.net brickadmin@denizen.net volvo 1440 http://www.brickboard.com/images/logo_b_25.gif http://www.brickboard.com/ 25 25 The Volvo owner's resource since 1997. my 365,000 miler is in need of lots of repair. can anyone please give me a close estimate of the cost and time for the following repairs: 1- water pump replacement 2- Front control arm bushings 3- front wheel bearings inner and outter 4- struts 5- sway bar bushings http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1291793&rss=1 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:56 GMT if you can weld that mess you are the trauma surgeon of welding...there is no more solid metal to weld. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1285836&rss=1 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:41 GMT i came out to my car today to notice that the 3 year old Starla exhaust system I installed already is rusting through. the connection between the 2nd muffler and the inlet pipe has rusted completely through. WTF? Am I out of line in thinking that 3 years is a crappy life span? I mean the basic aluminized pipes on my pontiac (a car that sits for tons of time whatsmore) are 11 years old and look fresh as daisys. I thought that I was getting a good product with Starla. I am tempted to remove the whole system, box it up and mail it back to them. Have any of you had this same issue? http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1285458&rss=1 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:59 GMT hey my 86 244 is beat up and held together with duct tape, bailing wire, sheet metal screws, galvanized duct material, binary epoxy and hopes jsut to name a few....but she keeps kickin....every year I say this is it....i am sick of looking at this heap, but then i smack it with a big hammer and cuss at it and it runs like a charm and I end up holding onto it. Next stop suzuki sv1000s or subaru wrx sti (if I can remove that ugly ass spoiler) http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1284589&rss=1 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:26 GMT fixed the leak and the car runs significantly better. starts easily and from a stop there is no hesitation or stumbling at all under heavey throttle. i used a ton of black RTV and then wraped the works in duct tape. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1284451&rss=1 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:03 GMT remember when most cars only had one belt? lol. the real question is "what caused the crapped out belt to shred to pieces?" http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1284363&rss=1 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:15 GMT what would a crack or tear in the intake belows between the throttlebody and the AAM do? what are the symptoms? http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1284351&rss=1 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:28 GMT the saga continues....went to clean the throttle body today...when I pulled the air intake hose bellows it snapped off near the throttle body. i replaced this piece several years ago witha scan teck piece which is way mor stiff than the oem unit. I have no idea if there was a crack in the underside of the hose before I messed with it, but I am attempting to fix it. since it didn't snap off totally (just 80%) i used a piece of bailing wire to fashion a staple or hog ring on the other end to hold it together. I then used around 1/2 of a tube of black rtv silicone to seal the crack all the way around. when that has cured I will wrap the whole deal in duct tape. hopefully it holds. would a crack in that bellows make my cold starting difficult? i would think that it wouldn't make any difference at idle since it is up stream from the throttle body which is closed at idle. any thoughts? http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1284221&rss=1 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:40 GMT I had a problem with the coolant temp sensor about 7 years ago. it turned out that when i rebuilt the head i didn't fully seat the connector and the computer thought the ambient temp was far below zero F. in that case it started up fine and then would run like crap and then die...and would not start again untill it cooled all the way down. this lead the engine to be flooded. this time i am having cold start issues it runs fine once up to temp. my plan is to start the engine while cold...and pull the hose between the idle air control valve and the throttle body / intake off and see if the idle stabilizes. I have a feeling that if the idle air controler is closed providing an overly rich condition that by alowing more air in the engine should run better. while I am there I may spray out the idle air controler with carb cleaner for good measure, but I took the whole thing off with the throttle body and completely cleaned it all about 5000 miles ago. If that doesn't work I will access the computer in the passenger's foot well and check the resistance of the coolant temp sensor. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1284121&rss=1 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:31 GMT i am trying to cure an intermittent cold start issue which has become an all the time issue. she cranks over strongly for 5-10 turns and starts...sputters and sometimes dies...other times the idle air valve opens and saves her from stalling. if you give it some gas the issue seems to go away. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1284118&rss=1 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:20 GMT i was reading about fuel pressure regulators in the FAQ section. it suggests 2 tests...one disconnect the vacuum hose while the engine is running and the engine should speed up....mine does speed up...but only 100rpms or so...very slightly. second it states to perform an acceleration test with the hose removed....how do i do this? what should I look for? I know the many year old regulator is probably in need of replacement...for piece of mind, but I hate to do that without knowing that is what is wrong. I swapped out my fuel injection relay and put in a new filter, but I would rather not replace anything else until I am sure. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1283935&rss=1 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:34 GMT where you are wrong is that it is a crock of shit...you are using a "small amount of energy" to extract energy that is already there! ha! this fails so many forms of logic and reason as to be laughable...the reason that hydrogen is not used as a fuel is that it takes more energy to split the hydrogen from the water molecule than the hydrogen produces when used...aka a negative net. in nature it takes the power of lightening bolts to do this task. this is a similar concept to the electic super charger....aka takes more electricity to make the supercharger turn than the increased air flow creates in power output. Also if you have even a moderate amount of water in your fuel (not the microscopic water alcohol mix seen in intake sprayer/foggers) you run the real risk of locking up the engine on the compression stroke. The water is nearly impossible to compress (it will compress microscopically but not before your connecting rods bend). a 50% water to fuel mix will kill an engine in minutes if not seconds. ask any boater who's engine has gulped some of the drink....in those cases the salvaged engines usually stalled before they inhaled much. the only ways a scam like this will produce improved fuel consumption is that you will briefly be lighter as your wallet will be slimmer and then you will be consuming zero fuel as you walk your now enlightened person around... if you do try this....please put it on you tube. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1283904&rss=1 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:44 GMT sure you can do that if you want to hydro lock and kill your engine...no big deal if your goal is to utterly destroy an engine. (this accidentally happens to marine engines all the time) http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1283884&rss=1 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:42 GMT I had this exact problem...I called the cat manufacturer and they were of no help at all...they jsut said "well it should have come with a plug" i looked high and low and couldn't find anything that would fit...i was ready to get a crappy old O2 sensor out of a junk car and put it in there...i ended up going to a friend's house who is a metal fabricator...looked through his scrap bin and found a piece of round stock that was about 1/4 inch thick...he held it in place with a magnet and welded the hole shut for me....that sealed it up pretty well. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1283883&rss=1 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:40 GMT I have a chart in my service manuel to aid in this diagnosis. does this sound to anyone like a bad fuel pump of regulator? http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1283866&rss=1 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:09 GMT start her up and she sputters and nearly dies untill the idle air valve opens and she speeds up in idle....sometimes she will actually stall....but starts again.... just put on new plug wires, distributor cap and rotor. fuel filter was done 2000 miles ago....i cant see any vacuum leaks and the metal oil cap jiggle test has been passed....any ideas? http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1283739&rss=1 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:44 GMT does anyone have a driver's side tail light lense that I can buy perhaps from a parts car? my glue and puzzle work has given up on me and pieces are now missing. as a side note...my crappy running engine has been cured with....you guessed it...new plug wires...i thought no way could these be bad they are a year old boge cords and and have less than 5000 miles on them....well the plug wires were replaced but the coil to cap wire was not included in the kit and i remember not changing it. when i pulled the vac line to the fuel pressure regulator I got a shock when i brushed that wire.... replaced all with a set of borge warners with aftermarket style ends...problem solved. i still have a sneaking suspicion that the in-tank fuel pick up tube or the pump may be going but we will see if the problem arises again after the tank runs low. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1282637&rss=1 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:23 GMT on my 86 240 all of the buttons are vacuum controlled. I imagine a loose line could be a nightmare. when i did the blower motor i checked them all and they were all still elastic and well fixed to the little fittings. i would check that....you can probably just unhook the center console and lean it out to check everything. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1282632&rss=1 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:16 GMT thanks guys for the input and for not busting my balls on my spelling woes. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1278158&rss=1 Mon, 19 May 2008 13:54 GMT I got a aquote for $162 for labor to replace both front struts. Do you all think this is fair? I am planning on putting the cheap-o struts trom KYB on the old girl....she is so beat and used so infrequently that i can't justify putting good stuff on her....it needs to be done though as the front tires are taking a beating. http://www.brickboard.com/RWD/?id=1278048&rss=1 Sun, 18 May 2008 23:03 GMT I feel like I have had a rather odd perspective on things...I was born into the depths of poverty....and over the course of many years climbed the ranks of the American heirarchy. I don't believe that luck played much of a role in any of it. I also don't believe that the "machine" conspired against me and my family to place us at the bottom where we started. We can talk about the propaghandist structure and the other nonsensical Chompsky-esqe BS but the fact remains...we are individuals and every choice or lack of choice that we make ultimately is within our control..bitter or sweet. Now that I am on my way to the top or the "big house on the hill" which I fully intend on having...when I can put 20% down and make the payments without straining, I don't think that it is fair to condemn me for wanting to secure my place there nor to condmen others who have done the same. I have several friends who are the same age as myself who have great jobs that make great pay and already have all the luxuries of life, should we begrudge them? should I call them money grubbing whores? Reading some of this thread would have me believe that there are many of you out there that will never believe that a person can deserve what they have...that is...if it is a house composed of more than 1500sq. ft. The fact remains that there are those of us out there who put ourselves through extensive and arduous levels of education, scrimped and saved, work fantastic yearly hours at our jobs, invest the spare money that we have, do not lie or cheat and did not purchase something that we cannot afford...it is a delayed but exaggerated success...I still think mom's rules work...learn the rules of the game and play accordingly. I was always taught not to begrudge people for not sharing the same goals as myself, or worse for acheiving that which you failed to do. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1254878&rss=1 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:30 GMT it seems that the argument has shifted to one of proper parenting being the issue...not over reaching of lenders...this is a common argumentative tactic and is one of the traditional flaws...i think some old greek guy came up with a list of them or something....Damn...I am supprised that I remembered that....guess I am capable of learning and retaining despite what they all say. Without retracting my abovementioned point...I agree with you that parenting is a critical point in this country. You are right, the economic power houses are out to make money...plain and simple...I don't think that any reasonable person would deny that...Just like in all forms of life in the world, some eat and some are eaten....the savy prey survives and the exceptional prey can even on occasion become the hunter. It sounds as though you did your part as a parent, is it too much to expect others to?....i don't fault those who weren't taught properly, but the fact is savy or foolish, rich or poor, we all have the same rights and therefore the same ability to make fortunes or famines for ourselves. I am not insinuating that the playing field is even...that is not the case, but the it never has been and never will be...infact it is impossible. Back to your assertions about parenting...If others do not raise their children correctly, well I think that is a topic for another thread. My mother told me when I was a teen that there are those who know how to play the game and those who fight the fact that they are in the game at all...Rule #1 you will never get out of the game... Know the rules of the game and play accordingly... PS: I don't eat McDonalds either. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1254233&rss=1 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:42 GMT Firstly...I am not and have never been associated with the GOP. Secondly...a mortgage is secured debt...i repeat...secured debt... that means that your home is the collateral...you mess up...you forefeit the collateral...that simple. So you claim the lender has made a bad decision, or "50%" of a bad decision? I say they have made the economically beneficial decision....They made a loan that if all else fails they get the collateral back...you loan to a gambler you take a gamble...agreed...but loan to a gambler and hold the note to his car untill he pays you back and you almost can't loose. If Americans stopped buying excessively, this would not occur. My generation (possibly others before me too, but I am not part of them so I don't really know firsthand) thinks that there is honor in showing what you've got. I was largely raised by my depression era blue collar grandparents who hammered into my head that there is no honor in buying something that you cannot afford, and that there is no one to blame but yourself for doing so. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1254230&rss=1 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:26 GMT I stick to my original point...no one put a gun to the borrower's head and made him buy something that he couldn't afford. As adults we must take responsibility for our actions. I don't get the notion that it is someone else's fault that an individual blew his or her budget or didn't account for all possible expenses. Loans and mortgages are a lot like cologne....because a lot is available doesn't mean that it all should be used....that is, at least not all at once. I don't see anyone talking about how credit card companies "trick" or "bait and switch" consumers in to buying things that they cannot afford....just because a house is involved, the paradigm doesn't change. The extension of credit is one of the cornerstones of the economy. That being said, the extension of credit to high risk persons and entities is in fact, vitally neccessary. Without it, there would be no new business formation as well as no younger middle class car and home owners, not to mention no upper education. After all, the fail-out rate in law school and med school would seem to make that sort of a loan a very high risk indeed. The lenders are in the business of making money off of interest...plain and simple. They are not the borrower's parents and really don't care how the borrower fairs in life. If the borrower makes $40,000 a year and wants to get a mortgage with zero down on a $700,000 home, he probably will get it if his credit score is up to snuff. Is that wrong of the lender? I think not. Is it idiotic of the borrower? Absolutely. There once was a client who came to my firm wanting to declair bankruptcy. This fellow was fresh out of the air force and had been living on base. He made $22,000 in the previous year and had received no raises. He moved off of the base, got an apartment for $750 a month and decided that he wanted to buy an Escalade. He went to a small lot that specializes in "urbanizing" the vehicles that it sells and with zero down he left with a used (15,000 miles or so) Escalade with 22 inch wheels and tires which were rolled (no pun intended) into the loan which totaled $72,000 in principal alone. His interest rate was somewhere north of 15% and a Ballon payment was due at the end of the 7 year payment term. The truck was repossessed (who would have thought) and it turned out that he was the 3rd owner of the vehicle and that all of the others resulted in repossession. Was that lender wrong? No. I use this as an example because it illustrates my point the best. The contract fully disclosed the terms of the loan...I repeat...the contract fully disclosed the terms of the loan, I read it, I know...and you didn't have to have any education past 5th grade to understand it. The problem lies in the fact that the borrower never read the damn contract and even if he had he let his pride and sense of entitlement blind him to the simple fact that he couldn't afford to put gas in that monster much less buy it, pimp it out, insure it and opperate it. I say screw him for his myopic misguided acts. Now there is one more vehicle on the road with very little wear and tear and a massive depreciation for a savvy buyer to snatch up at a reduced rate. Take a drive through West Philly (not too far from where I live and work) in the slums where you can buy a house for $10,000. See how many lexuses and benzs and H2s you see...then look into a few windows (don't get shot though) and see how many plasma screens you see. The fact is that in this country the models of wealth have flipped. Those with the least show the most. Just look at the marketing strategy of Nike shoes. They admittedly target the least wealthy group of Americans, inner city black youth, with a product that has one of the highest manufacturing cost to sales price discrepencies in the world and sell a product that they admit (indirectly) is of an inferior quality....(you have to buy a new pair every year...that is for style right?). Nike consistently turns enormous profits...staggering in fact. It is up to us as Americans to control our own pocketbooks. I believe that our only true means of polictial power stems from how we choose to spend our money. I don't want Uncle Sam playing daddy and telling me how I can spend my money and telling others if and when and how they can lend to me. If you value your self determination, you know the kind of thing that the founding fathers talked about..."long train of usurpations and abuses...." Neither should you. There is a prevelant notion that those in financial ruin are there because "world forces" or "bad luck" or whatever has left them there. Largely this is Hogwash. As the world is not black and white, these forces can, on occasion, conspire to do violence to the individual, but buy in large the problem lies in over spending. My close associate who works for a large and unnamed bankruptcy firm was telling me about a recent file audit that he did. He had at that time (only a few months ago) over 400 open and active personal bankruptcy files. Of those, well in excess of 90% of them were caused by over spending, on cars, on houses, on drugs on gambling etc. The remainder were those caused by catastrophic illness or some other type of total loss like a fire of flood. Upon a deeper inspection you found that of that 10% or so, more than half of those bankruptcys would have been avoided had the individual budgeted differently (aka spend less on a car and vacation and buy slighty more insurance coverage). In the end it seems that only a small percentage of them were the stories you hear of unfortunate circumstances. Was it Bank of America's fault that throughout law school I self medicated with Jack Daniels and Yeungling Lager and amassed substantial credit card debt? Nope...If you wanna dance you gotta pay the band. http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1253932&rss=1 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:12 GMT "criminally negligent lending" now this is an interesting yet inaccurate and inappropriate term. you see, negligence is characterized as a deviation from a standard of care. In the law that standard of care is generally, although not always, that of a reasonable person. As most older Americans (which I confess to not being a member of) recall a time when a person was assumed to be competent and able to make his or her own decisions and to assess his or her own risk tollerances. This is important because while some of us have forgotten this notion, the law has not. This is not a new notion and infact predates this country (I am assuming you are within the USA). When a person decides that he and his family simply must have the house which they cannot put a down payment on and later come to find that they cannot make the payments on, whose fault is it? I don't think that the guy who sold it to him is to blame, after all it isn't his job to balance the buyer's budget. Likewise, it isn't the lender's fault. The lender is a businessperson with the agenda of making money. The model is simple, as the risk of default rises so does the interest rate. When you cannot put a down payment on a house your risk of default is very high and therefore the interest rate is high. There seems to be the notion that there are no lower to middle priced houses out there to be had and that every work-a-day average joe has some sort of entitlement to live in a mansion. People get all bent out of shape when they see high interest rates and foreclosuers happening, but the bottom line is, these people who borrowed are adults. As adults, when they put pen to paper, it is assumed that they knew the risks and potential benefits of such an action. By law the risks are outlined in black and white for all to read. It is not the lenders fault if people don't read the terms of the loan or take risks that are too great. The notion that simply because you are approved for a loan that you can afford it is hogwash. If you are one of those who purchased a McMansion and now are in a McTenemant, soory, but you made those life decisions which placed you there. Once people stop looking at their personal residence as an investment, and characterize it for what it is, a cost, the outlook changes dramatically. Predetory lending is a joke. there are laws against such gross practices, and those are called anti-usory laws and they are nothing new. Maybe if Americans actually saved a dime or two rather than sink it into Escalades and houses that only Puff Daddy can afford, things would change. I am a 26 year old trial attorney. I make a good living and have no kids. My client base makes on average 1/5 of what I make if they are employed at all, almost all of them have 2, 3 and sometimes 4 children. Yet most all of them have huge fancy SUV's and lavish clothing and live in their own houses. I on the other hand live in a tiny crappy apartment, drive my 86 240 with 365,000 miles on her and take public transportation to work. I do still have my 68 firebird 400, but that car only costs me a small amount per year to own as it mostly sits idle. Once people sort out the difference between want and need maybe they can sort out their lives. All of the people making average money who live in above average houses have made their own beds and can now sleep in them....or out of them as the case may be. The way I see it is that for the rest of us who have exercised a moderate degree of self restraint, lets turn lemons into lemonade. For every foreclosed home, there is one more portential investment for us, for every repossessed car, there is one more low milage used car on the market. I never got an allowance as a kid but my buddy did and just like his mom said to him "If you spend all of your money now, there won't be any at the end of the week." http://www.brickboard.com/OPINIONS/?id=1253780&rss=1 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:31 GMT Use the text input below to search brickboard.com query http://www.brickboard.com/FIND/