Tc's 960 Thread

[Jamest5r]

Wish i had painted my discs before fitting, they have only been on for 2 weeks and looking a bit brownish you reckon i could still rub them down a bit and paint t/c?? also what paint you using?

Cheers

[pookie]

Keep up the good work Craig.

Salut!

Pookie

[Tomcat]

Wish i had painted my discs before fitting, they have only been on for 2 weeks and looking a bit brownish you reckon i could still rub them down a bit and paint t/c?? also what paint you using?

Cheers

Don't see why not, just give them a gentle rub down with some wet and dry and then paint them. I've just used some enamel paint as it's what I had lying around in the colour I wanted.

[Tomcat]

Finally decided to replace the juddering front brakes today, didn't take long to work out why they where juddering, anyone guess(These discs are less than 12 months old)..







Look at all that crap on the mounting faces!, some stupid bugger didn't even clean them properly, no wonder the discs are knackered. Cleaned everything up and then fitted the new freshly painted discs, all looking good, painted the calipers and the mounting brackets, left everything to dry. Came back an hour later to fit the now dry mounting brackets and.......they wont go on, because the new discs are the wrong bloody ones!!, the shop that sold them to me has sold me some that have a deeper bell on them so they sit about 5mm further back than the old ones. Because I've now got to take them back I've had to spend the afternoon with some paint stripper removing all the lovely paint I put on them!....GRRRRRRR!!!

So after spending the whole day on my car all I've managed to get done is painting the calipers and mounting brackets, removing the high level brake light from the rear shelf and wiring in the brake light on the spoiler...Ah well at least it's something else done off the looong list,lol.

[Tomcat]

Managed to get some primer on the front bumper yesterday, sadly though it's not going to be ready for paint just yet as all it's done is highlight the fact that there's still loads of sanding a filling still to do.



Managed to get the front brakes sort at last, why would it cost more money for replacement discs that have a SMALLER mounting bell?, apparently my car has the same front discs as the estate so it cost me another £11 for something that contains less metal.....Stange.



I also fitted the 5mm spacers today as well as the discs and all the rubbing and other associated crap has stopped (thank god). Front brakes are bloody awefull at the moment as they still need to bed in, but at least there's no more brake judder from warp discs...

[Porcine_Aviator]

Mrs PA has just looked that these and said wooo very nice.

I hope she doesn't want me to do something like that on her 850.

[Tomcat]

Ahhh but you can only paint them like that if they're new isn't that right?..(Wink,wink)....lol.

[t5 pete]

the bumper is coming allong nicley

[Tomcat]

Made very little progress lately due to having man flu, however feeling a little better since yesterday so I've been back in the garage. After hoping to get all the filling and priming done on the front bumper a slight hiccup has occured today, during construction I didn't use my normal flexible filler and instead used what I had in, result.......three big cracks on the N/s corner. At least this happened before I painted it and not afterwards, this has now prompted me to make a fresh one out of fibreglass rather than using the plastic one, to do this though I'll have to remove the chrome strip out of the front bumper and get rid of the cracks again. More updates to come once I get some spare cash to throw at it.

[Tomcat]

Had a little present arrive today from Nads, a replacement composite leaf for the back end from a nivomat equiped car. I had a go at fitting it today, with no haynes book to work from I spent three hours attempting to remove the old one, after removing most of the suspension on the N/S and undoing the 10 bolts holding the diff carrier in I gave up, after 3 hours it had become obvious to me that I was never going to have time to finish it today so I then spent another hour putting it back together. Just had time to paint the rear calipers to match the fronts, would you believe that after all that effort the back end is now sitting even higher than before!!.

[Tomcat]

After reading Vadis tonight I've found out that there are approximatley 3 special Volvo tools needed to change out the rear leaf, being as I have NONE of them I'm going to ring the local independant tomorrow and see if they have any of them, failing that I will bite the bullet and ring the local main dealers and see what ridiculous price they want for changing it.

[t5 pete]

if you can get pictures of the tools surley you will be able to make them

[Tomcat]

I've got pics Pete, two I could defo make, the third is doubtfull as it looks complicated and the photos don't show much detail.

[t5 pete]

come on then get the pics up

[Tomcat]

Lol, I'll post them up tomorrow Pete, I'm on the laptop and Vadis is on the Pc upstairs, I'm feelin lazy,lol.

[Tomcat]

Ok...had a chat with the local independant today and they don't have the tools to do it, I then wrang the nearest main dealer (Rybrook in Warrington). At first the guy on the phone was a complete waste of time as they "wouldn't take a car out of spec", after much explaining that it was a factory part he said he'd look into it and get back to me. A while later he wrang back in a much better mood and said he'd spoken to some of the "Older" tech's in the workshop, that it was a complete bitch of a job to do and that they'd want between 5-600 for doing it!. This I think puts the nail in it for me, I will wait until I've got the rear coilolvers sorted and then I will just have to try and do it myself, with or without the bloody volvo special tools.

[phil_woods]

That dealer TC is a joke! I took my mates car to get a software update and they wouldnt do it. I explained why I wanted it doing and they just said "we can do a diagnostic for you" which had already been done " but we can not just do the download".

That dealer is a joke mate, I know an indy in liverpool. He has a few stolen cars and that but if you could look past that he is quite good. I dont have a phone number but could describe where it is if you like?

By the way im joking about the stolen motors, they are ringers really lol

[Tomcat]

LMAO, now I don't know what to believe...

[t5 pete]

Theres always ways around things tc even if you make your own tools im sure it can be done

[phil_woods]

Could you not use a pedro multitool (angle grinder) and replace bolts etc that you destroy?