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Thanks for the reply. Yours was the note I could not find in the archives.
Finding a Volvo mechanic as old as I am occurred to me as well. So this afternoon I took the parts in question to the former Volvo mechanic that sold me the parts car. He has some left over Volvo tools from his past life and had let me use his Volvo puller to remove the rear drums.
He was quick to point out that although he is old, he is not that old. He had worked mostly on 140 and newer cars, had never done this job and does not have the tool.
I've been looking more closely at the picture of that fixture. It seems to me that what it does is firmly anchor the pin while it locates the control arm at about the proper angle and also has a spacer (a rod) to keep the ends of the control arm from being drawn in as the threads inside the bushing pull the bushing into the arm. I wonder if I could do this as follows: 1) bolt the pin to the cross member to lock it in place, 2) get things started with a couple of turns (per manual), 3) clamp the control arm in place , 4) use a piece of threaded rod with two large nuts as a spacer to keep the control arm ends apart as I turn bushings in. I'll be careful to clean up and lubricate the inside of the control arm before starting.
Do you think this would work?
Keith
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