Not much happened from the time I brought it inside until yesterday. I took everything apart a, couldn't figure out why the timing belt wouldn't come off, and it was too hot out for me to bother to find out why, so here it sat like this for over a month while I worked on two other cars instead.
I was extremely confused by this because one of the projects in the meantime was a timing belt on my friend's 2000 V70 GLT, on which we had no such issues removing the timing belt. Eventually this....thing was discovered on the boss behind the harmonic balancer. Needless to say I deleted that and moved on, after having the entire project held up for a month by a tiny ring of rubber.
Someone cut some corners on this car
This is more like it
Banjo bolt update is also applicable to P80s!
Oh no. No Meyle plz. Swapped that out for a Lemforder.
Never seen anything like this before. I hadn't done an oil change yet on this car because we basically haven't been driving it and I figured I might as well just wait until we did the pan job.....but that keeps not happening so here we are. So yeah don't use aftermarket oil filters. I wonder if this had anything to do with this car's suspected oil pressure issues. I guess we will find out next time I drive it.
And we're back together. Also threw in a few coolant hoses and some other random stuff while I was at it. More maintenance and upgrades to come, but at least I'm not worried about the timing belt blowing up anymore.