It’s fitted and done. Though these pictures still show the joint not made between mid and rear sections. You’ll just have to trust me on this.
Last night I found that I was able to make an adaptor to match to the mid pipe using a bit of the pipe that was sent me to from ebay, that I hadn’t needed. I bonded this on with Gum Gum exhaust repair paste. the fit between the two pipes was tight, I was surprised I was able to find two bits that slide together so tightly. Cleaned up the old bolts, wire brushed the threaded and they now run nicely so I shall re-use then with the newly sprayed clamps. When the joint turns up I shall refit it all. Next job after that the body work clean up.
At long last I have gotten on with the Volvo exhaust job. I’ve not been that keen to do it, as it’s not a nice job in my eyes. Last night I got the parts off, partly using the grinder and a slitting disk. Then using my new wire brush in the grinder to clean up the pipes and sprayed painted them with aluminium oxide paint for exhausts. I ordered a second hand exhaust pipe from a breaker on ebay, this is shown in the photo below with the pipes lying on the ground so that I could work out how I was going to make it work.
I got the Volvo out and made some ramps to get it up so that I might see if taking the exhaust off was a good plan or not. The hole in the exhaust is worse since I picked at it. I also had a good dig round the wheel arch, sill and floor plan joint, now there is a massive hole: The car has gone in for a quote to repair…. could be the end for the Volvo.
I have only owned 3 Volvo 300 series cars and only had this one for about 7 years now, so how is it that I have never noticed that Volvo chose to proudly advertise the fact that they’d chosen to use standard H4 bulb/lamps by embossing it right into the lens itself.
Took a spin in the Volvo to Seatown beach the other week. It’s a stunning beach with this meandering stream running down it, constantly cutting a new route though the beach. Abigail had wonderful fun jumping over it, in it and getting very wet.
That drill bit I bought (wrote about it here: https://bhhh.co.uk/new-drill-bit/), for a mere £3, well, it wasn’t worth that much. This is the second time I have made this mistake. I shall try not to make this mistake again. Perhaps cutting tools should always be purchased from reputable suppliers and good money will buy something that will function well. This drill bit was simply not sharp right from the get go, it wasn’t even like it went blunt fast, it just didn’t, and doesn’t cut aluminium. Also the solderless glue stuff that I got hasn’t worked to stick the bit onto the rear windscreen. I have resolved to taping it to the window with some of the glue stuff as an electrical contact. I have yet to see if this will work. perhaps it’ll work. Otherwise I am not sure how I will fix this. This was not stuck well, […]
The rear screen heater had failed to function. I wasn’t sure why until I opened the boot lid to find out how the bumper unbolted and spotted that the connector to the heating grid had come away from the heating pattern on the window. So I not really knowing how to re-attach it I bought some electrical glue stuff on ebay. It turned up in the form of some silvery paste in a hypodermic syringe arrangement. Lethal I am sure. Here are the instructions that are on the back of the packet exactly word for misspelled/incorrect word: Usage method:One: Workshop production line, combined with the actual situation, the conductive silver paint can be printed directly on the circuit board, can be used 100-140 °C below the barbecue 30 minutes to complete the curing, suitable for LED lamps and low-temperature paster components circuit board production and development.Two: Repair button/keyboard/circuit board/and personal […]
The temperature in the garage last night was about 3° at 8.45 pm. The copper slip grease was pretty hard and reasonably unpleasant to apply with ones fingers. I’m not really sure why I applied it, I do not serious expect to be taking the bumper off again in the life of the car. But, then again, who knows what the futures holds. Not me clearly. All bolted up, but I had to leave the brackets loose to see how fitted, the holes are slotted and so the bracket can be adjusted left and right to sit the bumper centrally on the car. So this was one of those, do it twice jobs, fit, check, take off, tighten brackets, refit and see how it goes. A bit of back to black applied to the bumper to turn it from it’s usual grey to a shinier black for the photo. Shame […]
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