It never ceases to amaze me the things I find wrong with this car. I noticed the tail lights were sticking out about 1/4″ from the body. I had too many other “real” issues so this was placed on the back burner. Then I was walking past the car and my jeans caught the edge […]
’66 Volvo – PCV Modification
I noticed a few guys out there were doing this modification so I decided to give it a go. I will include a diagram, but in short here is how the PCV, Positive Crankcase Ventilation, works on my B20. A small amount of unburned, or burned gas and air mixture gets pushed past the piston […]
’66 Volvo – Running on two cylinders
After stopping for a load of petrol the 122 started shaking like crazy, I stopped at the nearest business and popped the bonnet. The engine was barely running and shaking like crazy, it sounded like it was running on 3 cylinders. I removed the #4 sparkplug wire, nothing happened; that cylinder is dead. I removed […]
Waterfall in the kitchen
On night we were watching TV and I started hearing water pouring in the kitchen; never a good sound. I ran to the kitchen and water was pouring from one of the can lights in the ceiling. One of the kids had taken a bath and the tub was draining through the kitchen ceiling, just […]
Ghost at the refrigerator
For some time now our refrigerator has been turning of the icemaker, or completely locking the control panel so we cannot access water or ice. Both of these “features” are controlled by the same button, so I was thinking the button is sticking down at random times. I removed the control panel which […]
The big pool leak of 2016
I noticed the pool was losing water faster than just the normal evaporation rate. I was also getting a lot of air and sand in the pump skimmer when pulling water just from the main drains. So, something was wrong, I definitely had a leak. I let the water leak down past the skimmer and […]
’99 F150 – Intake Gasket Replacement, Spark Plug Change, Injector Cleaning
I was getting a misfire on cylinders number 7 and 8. After some investigation I noticed the spark plug hole #7 and #8 was full of antifreeze. 🙁 Apparently the intake gasket was leaking and the spark plug holes were conveniently right there to catch the spill. The high voltage from the coil was shorting to […]
’07 S40 – Timing Belt Change, Seal Replacement, Water Pump Replacement, and More…
When we purchased the S40 it had a bad PCV system. There was such a vacuum in the crankcase the vacuum would pull the dipstick out of your hand from one inch away. This was a factory recall and Volvo fixed it free. But, the damage was done. All that vacuum for thousands of miles […]
’99 F150 – Heater Core Install
The heater in the Ford has slowly stopped heating. So I finally made the decision to replace the heater core. It is one of those parts that cost $40, but will take days to install. I started this on a Saturday morning, after 10 hours the archaeological dig revealed the header core. […]
’07 S40 – New Headlights
The headlights on the S40 were very bad when we purchased the car. I tried using several brands of polishing compounds to bring new life to the lights, it did help, but it was still really dangerous to drive at night. It looked like the plastic had thousands of little cracks going all the way […]