Decided to paint my amaltheas semi-gloss white
success!
Blew an axle so took the opportunity to do front pads and rotors as well as lower control arm bushings, inner tie rods, and ball joints.[emoji33]
What's going on there?
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It's crazy how much of a difference these cars look with a bit of stance. Even non-car friends of mine comment on it. So, it looks good Ed.Added some spacers, to remedy 2 minor issues. The tires were rubbing on the inner wheel well and to my opinion the wheels were too far inside.
So added 15mm spacers in the front (no more rubbing) and 20mm spacers in the back. This makes the wheels just about flush with the wheel well edge:
I left the turbo on the engine. Removed the intake pipe, wastegate actuator and compressor housing (5 bolts). Unbolted downpipe. Held exhaust side of turbine with a 13mm socket, removed compressor wheel nut 10mm (REVERSE THREADS don't forget). The wheel does not just slide off easy. I had to put some effort in it to just get it to spin a little and then basically would rotate while pulling at the same time until to came off. New one also had to be rotated while applying pressure to get it all the way on the shaft. Be sure to mark your compressor housing to line back up with the center cartridge. I had marked mine in a few places but when I shot the housing with brake clean, my marks disappeared. Next time I would just scribe it with a pocket screwdriver so it won't disappear. Care must be taken putting the compressor housing back on as there is a large o-ring on the outside of compressor side (I use a light coating of silicone paste such as Sil-Glyde on the o-ring)of the cartridge and you don't want the housing to bend any of the blades or you will need to start over with a new wheel. It took me about 3 hours and I had never done this before but I also have a full lift and it was up and down a few times. I was prepared not to drive the car home that night but everything went well and I was able to drive it.How easy is the compressor wheel install? Does it require removing the entire turbo?
Just went through something similar. If it didn't fail it means it is "incomplete" and you have not gone through a proper driving cycle. Volvo recommends that in order to make your car emissions "ready" you need to complete a driving cycle with certain types of driving. Here is what they recommend to do so: increase speed to 40 mph; drive 50 mph for 20 min; idle for 5 min. (with AC off); increase speed to 40 mph; drive 50 mph for 20 min; idle for 5 min. (with AC off). You may have to do this twice.Ended up being one of those days...
Not sure how I'm going to pass smog right now.
The car recently had engine swap 05 S60 2.4 non turbo. Mechanic forgot to plug in coolant sensor from firewall to reservoir so I had a Low Coolant message in car for last few weeks. This week I tried figuring it out which is when Oceans60R pointed out to me what this cable was for and when I plugged it in my problems were solved.
Now to the next, maybe 3 days ago all the sudden I had a Service Reminder on dash. I tried clearing it manually but couldn't do it, decided to run the obd2 and saw a code for P0420 which is Cat related -.-" after the car is on for maybe 3 minutes of driving the light goes away? But the damn light comes on EVERY time now I start the car. No CEL just the notification in message that's all. Sense I did read the code I decided to try to clear it, drive car roughly 20 miles and decided to try the smog because it is due in a few days. It got rejected, all 3 things were emission related. He said it didn't fail, but rejected; suggested I continued to drive more and let it sit during night. I used my OBD2 dongle snd DashCommand app and it again does verify that the modules to read the information in the car haven't been properly been reset (? I believe ?) so I dunno... tomorrow I'll put some miles on her maybe another 60? And then go to smog... I honestly don't think I have a problem to actually fall smog I think it's just this stupid light getting me stuck in a trap? Any ideas?
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