Springfield Flyer.

[Buickguy3]

          Mike, I'm in total awe of your talent. One day we will meet over a beer in Carmen's Black and White and spend a little time on the Salt.
    Doug 

[tauruck]

Nah, forget the beer. Let's spend a week on the salt rather.
That's the dream or the results of the "fever"!!!!!!.
I don't do beer but I'll share some of the Mexican stuff with you in Montana.
My best bud in the States. Sorry guys, Doug is.

Now there are some pissed off guys around.

[floydjer]

"Mexican stuff"...."Buds"///..whooo -hoo !!

[Seldom Seen Slim]

C'mon, Jerry, quit with the innocent act.  You live in Michigan, and Michigan's a semi-legal state, so...   You don't have to show us your med card, though. 

PS  What color's yours?

[tauruck]

Jerry knows I don't drink other than on special occasions.

I know he doesn't.

BTW, my compressor problem is over. The flu is gone I think.
It's so hot here right now I don't know if it's fever or just the weather?.

I'm so busy with work I tried hiring a helping hand but he lasted one shift!!!.

[floydjer]

So..what was the issue w/ the compressor??  And Slim, I can`t remember where my card is...Duuuuude. JB

[tauruck]

Dud motor but the replacement is perfect.
Happy I can do my work now.

[tauruck]

Waiting for Epoxy to cure  is like watching paint dry so I decided to
get my Volvo Station wagon sorted out. Jacked it up, pulled off the
plastic protection plate under the motor and gear box so I could get
to the bolts that hold the catalytic converter and gave up.

These FWD, AWD vehicles are wall to wall in the engine bay.
How mechanics work on then daily is beyond me!!!!.
Lying under the car with the hood open you can't even see daylight.

Kevin does this stuff for a living and he'll get the 5 bolts off over the
weekend. The cat is used up and i'm not going to spend 12 grand I
don't have for a replacement.
Liner is still on hold until I clear the workspace but I needed a break.

[floydjer]

Put a timing chain in an S class Mercedes sometime Mike...You will praise Volvo from that day forward...

[Buickguy3]

   When I worked for the Mercedes dealer [about 35 years ago] the mechanics had a trick for changing the timing chains on the V-8 cars. They had about 20 feet of chain around a bunch of idler gears. They would remove the hydraulic tensioner and the cam followers and find the master link and remove it and attach the new chain to the end of the old one. Rotate the motor and feed in the new and pull the old one out. Careful to keep the cam gears engaged. Whole job took about two hours as opposed to a couple of days.
    Doug 

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Columbus had a Mercedes dealership?

[floydjer]

Heck Slim...The largest selling Rolls-Royce dealer on the planet is in Zionsville Indiana....

[tauruck]

Things were supposed to be simpler with modern technology, I thought!!!!!!
My mate Kevin looks 10 years older than he is. He works on all these new cars. .

BTW, I need to drain the 4 year old fuel from the Volvo. The standard operation is to strip
the rear seats out, remove the cover plate under the carpet to get to the internal fuel
pump which takes a special tool. I was thinking of attaching a Holley 12v high volume
pump to the outlet on the fuel filter and do it that way. Any thoughts??.
The other way is to much of a PITA.

[Ron Gibson]

If you have an electric pump in the tank, due to gear tolerances, I don't think you can pull through it. If it is electric, does it work? If so why not jumper in and let the regular pump run to empty the tank, or am I missing something? Is the filler located so you can get a syphon hose in to drain the tank?

Ron

[tauruck]

The pump works but there's a relay that cuts it after about 10 seconds if the motor isn't running.
We're going to check if we can siphon/pump the fuel out through the filler on the weekend.