This is the most fun and rewarding part of refurbishing the spare parts. 🙂
Asembling the spare gearbox back to one piece
This is the most fun and rewarding part of refurbishing the spare parts. 🙂
Viscous coupling unit almost ready
I will let the viscous coupling unit to stay still for some while and then see do I need to add more silicone oil to it. The oil is pretty sticky stuff. 🙂
All parts are now cleaned and as soon this is ready I will mount the planetary gear back inside to the gearbox.
Half way there
One bottle of silicone oil used and half of the discs are in. I had to do one oil change + change summer tyres to one relative’s car so this viscous coupling unit reassembly will continue tomorrow.
Filling the viscous coupling unit
This takes time to do, but still feels very relaxing. 🙂
Dad’s Volvo is back on road
Actually I got it ready yesterday afternoon, but forgot to post anything about it.
Today my plan is to assemble Sierra’s viscous coupling unit and the spare gearbox. I got the X-rings some time ago, but it took a really long time to get those. Luckly I wasn’t in a hurry with those.
Some progress, some challenges
I was able to get the heater block out without breaking anything, but the new heater block was smaller than the earlier… Width of the block for this Volvo is 187mm, but the spare was only 175mm and it also was thinner. I didn’t want to use the too small heater block since it is that hard to replace if it is not working as expected.
Now I need to return the incorrect block and order a new one… So this project is now officially delayed at least a couple of days. :-\
Small repairs to dad’s car
Heater was leaking which means the whole dashboard need to be removed:
To be continued….
Sierra gearbox tail opened
Now the tail section of gearbox is opened:
As soon as the new X-rings for the spare viscous coupling unit arrive I can put that back together. And when that is ready I will swap it to this gearbox.
Cleaning Sierra’s spare gearbox
Before:
After:
Maybe it is now clean enough to to open its tail section…
Rear springs changed to Volvo V40
Yesterday I was traveling with my mother-in-law’s Volvo V40 and started to listen that something is wrong at the left rear suspensions. Today I decided to take a look of it and found out that both rear springs were broken.
Luckily I had used spares available which were quite easy to change. The main thing is to dismantle the shock absorber and spring while they are under the car:
Other-ways you need to dismantle the whole suspension structure away which is not that easy. It is rather easy to get the parts out from the car and back this way.
Seems that for x40 Volvo about 10 years and/or some 200000 kilometers is the time when you need to change plenty of suspension parts. But I think this is quite reasonable for an everyday use car.