Big Will
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Looking fantastic. Love the stance.
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Finding those fuel hoses for the AWDs is definitely becoming challenging to put it mildly!
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Haha fair enough. The Volvo stuff does work amazingly well I agree. When Ben and I were doing my engine rebuild we initially tried to use the Victor Reinz equivalent just to install the brass vent on the angle gear (same mod that you and did to the rear diff) and it did absolutely nothing...I might as well have just put a dab of water on it. Then we used the Volvo stuff and case closed. Oh and for the rear swaybar endlinks, I believe that Moog also makes them and sometimes Rockauto has those so that's a quality option.
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I'm so impressed by the care you're taking to prep and then protect all the parts. Well done! Maybe someone else can chime in but I thought you can use a more standard sealant on the rear diff just like on the gearbox and angle gear rather than the Volvo anaerobic stuff? I can't think of the stuff I have but I'm pretty sure it's gray.
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You mind posting up or PMing me a part number for that fuel line. $993 is absolutely insane. I imagine the 99 has some different lines than the 98 as the fuel line setup is different but still curious to see what's available here in Germany and at what prices. Thanks in advance!
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Well-documented. It sucks that a lot of the fuel parts are NLA now but your solution looks pretty robust.
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Thank you. I don't mind some stains and don't expect them to be literally mint - I can always clean them. :)
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If you do end up parting this nice sedan I would be interested in original floor mats and the "info" switch.
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Great work!
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Best of luck! Where have you located the jacks out of curiosity?
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Nick I haven't been on here in ages. Great find!
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You've done an awesome job with the project. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing it.
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Beautiful work there Nick. While I was in Arizona I had the chance to have the bushings pressed into my spare subframe and the LCAs as I mentioned to you and also drilled the vent hole on the rear diff cover and installed the vent just like on my angle gear. I used the Volvo anaerobic sealant in both cases to seal the brass vent which seems to work like a charm. Question - noticed you don't have the backing plates installed at the rear spindles. Are you just installing those once you've gotten the whole lump bolted up?
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H - just saw the news. Very sorry to hear you're parting it out. It's an amazing car and I think I speak for everyone to say thanks for spending so much time documenting and researching which has benefited so many of us. Look forward to seeing your next project!
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Yea that should be what's referred to sometimes as the crush collar. The same type of thing exists in the rear diff if you need to change that big seal facing forward.
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Hi all, Just want to jump in here for a minute on the Ohlins. I can say from experience that if you unhook the line from the shock you will lose some pressure. Ideally you wouldn't do that. However, if you do end up doing that, just make sure you go to a repair shop that deals with Ohlins (probably easiest to find a motorcycle shop) and have the reservoirs recharged. When you do so make sure you jack up the car a little bit. They should be at 145-150 PSI. It's really easy to do. Just remove the screw from the end of the chamber and don't lose the little o-ring on it. Then you'll recharge it via a needle (like for a basketball pump) with nitrogen. This can be done on the car, just make sure it's not sitting on the ground. You won't have to have the shocks rebuilt if you unhook the line...that's a little extreme. If they had 75 or 100K on them then that might be a different conversation but not brand new. As for springs, you can also use the Euro R stock springs which I believe were pn:9200184 but I'm not 100% sure those are still available. Hope that helps!
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Looks like some good work! Following this thread with interest.
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Thanks guys. No intention of buying new Öhlins. Aside from a unicorn maybe floating around somewhere I don't think that would be possible. The ones I have on there are just fine. I just recharged the reservoirs with nitrogen. They had lost some pressure over 10 years. As for the rear axle boots. I didn't replace them - one axle is new and the boot on the other looks to be in great shape.
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I also took a couple of pictures to show the drain hole in the cover that the machine shop made on the spare rear differential: You can also see that there is a tiny vent hole near the top of the cover similar to what the angle gears originally came with. Although probably overkill, there's no reason why you couldn't install the updated angle gear vent and filter there as well.
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Little update: My spare rear suspension parts went from this: To this: Most of the parts were powder-coated black. I primered and painted the rear axles with a Rustoleum cast-iron color engine enamel. You'll see one side of one is already painted black as it was brand new whereas the other needed a little glass bead blasting. The toe bars I did in a BMW Mystic Blue Metallic as I had a rattle can of that leftover. I have all of the bushings and an extra set of rear spindles that are clean and painted. At some point I'll have enough time to actually install this stuff.
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Glad you posted an update with all the work you've done. Car looks like it's doing really well considering it sees all those Northeast winters!
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Luckily there are aftermarket options for most of those discontinued parts Are you sure they stopped making the collar gear? There are an awful lot of AWD cars out there that would still need that part and it's the same part automatic and manual.
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Thanks for the update. I'm assuming the screws and bolts etc. are still available individually.
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For the rears, I decided not to mount the reservoirs in the plastic trim along the sides of the wagon trunk. I guess it depends on what you carry back there but I wouldn't want to risk them getting damaged or knocked around. Instead, I have them wrapped in towels under the side floor panels. They're still perfectly accessible but are protected. You might even be able to install them using the supplied brackets under the panels actually into the metal.
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They use the same strut mount and spring seat and little rubber washer (that everyone forgets exists) but the bump stop is totally different and I don't believe available through Volvo. You also can't replace these items without essentially doing a rebuild or you end up unhooking the pressure hose and losing some of the shock oil and theoretically losing pressure. You can change springs easily but not the hardware. To change the springs you undo a nut on the bottom and then the tube slides out from the rest of the shock as more or less shown above. To the OP: looks like a lot of nice stuff on your wagon!
