The red-headed stepchild of Volvo - Boden's 1999 S80 T6

BodenM · 2015-03-05T10:25:48+00:00

They are a nice car. Stay on top of the potential problems and it should be a good thing.

egads (she/her)

Also will mean you can run the fan full bore no matter what at the end of run to clear the heat.

BodenM

egads;55556 wroteAlso will mean you can run the fan full bore no matter what at the end of run to clear the heat.

It already does this anyway, in fact if temps are above 100 when the car shuts off the thermo fan will continue running until temps drop way down, even if you take the key out and lock the car.

egads (she/her)

Depends on if everything continues to work as it should. Switch or bypassed to on is a good failsafe in my opinion.

BodenM

egads;55560 wroteDepends on if everything continues to work as it should. Switch or bypassed to on is a good failsafe in my opinion.

Fair enough. I wanna do this now as a project anyway since @Philia_Bear gave me the idea haha, just gotta get an STC button off eBay since it has the little indicator light in it.

Philia_Bear

I use fog light switches

BodenM

Philia_Bear;55585 wroteI use fog light switches

I want to see if I can give mine a bit of an OEM look, there's a bunch of blank spaces in the switchgear below my CCM perfect for that purpose. If I can't get the OEM switch to work I'll put a generic switch there haha.

Philia_Bear

BodenM;55609 wrote
Philia_Bear;55585 wroteI use fog light switches
I want to see if I can give mine a bit of an OEM look, there's a bunch of blank spaces in the switchgear below my CCM perfect for that purpose. If I can't get the OEM switch to work I'll put a generic switch there haha.

I use the rear fog light switch on the S80 and most any other Volvo
I've never used the dam thing once and its got a light and its easy to re-wire to do your bidding
The light is separate from the switch contacts so you can have the light also come on whenever the fan is on regardless of switch position

Ex850R

I like that idea Mike!
It's another mod I will do then.
I do hope we get hot season like a year or so ago when it was 43-45°C for a week , love the heat....

Vee_Que

I don't get the obsession about knowing when the fan is on. I can normally hear it?

egads (she/her)

Hearing high vs low is hard to my ears in the large new well soundproofed Volvos.

BodenM

The S80's fan is pretty quiet for an engine thermo even when going full tilt, you have to be either standing next to it when it's on or be in the car with the windows down, radio off and not moving or moving slowly to hear it.

BodenM

The balance of today's activities:

Replaced the upper radiator hose.
Replaced the rear right taillight with one that wasn't crazed.
Replumbed the boost gauge properly and added an inline filter. Did a write up on that over on Matthew's Volvo Site.

Just gotta wait for the heater core to arrive before I roll the car into the garage to replace the lower hose, heater core and rear camshaft seals. Then I can flush the system, refill with fresh coolant and be back on the road.

Vee_Que

Put the write up on here too!

BodenM

Vee_Que;56078 wrotePut the write up on here too!

Oh alright :P

Rob

put it in its own thread in the technical section. :)

BodenM

Vee_Que;56078 wrotePut the write up on here too!

Rob;56097 wroteput it in its own thread in the technical section. :)

Done!

Rob

nice.

https://ozvolvo.org/discussion/3218/how-to-installing-a-boost-gauge-in-your-p2-volvo

BodenM

Right so it's looking like my new heater core will be here on Monday so with any luck I'll have the car back on the road that afternoon, which means it will be ready for the SSVC lunch drive on the 16th :D

BodenM

Right, so turns out RHD cars have a very interesting problem with the dash vs heater core location compared to LHD cars. While LHD cars the pedal box is somewhat in the way and the brake switch has to come out, there's no pedal box on RHD cars. Seems simple enough right? *BZZT* WRONG! RHD cars, the actual dash frame itself is in the way, so unless you enjoy either 1. removing your dashboard, or 2. hacking up part of the dash and then gluing it back together you're kinda screwed for swapping the heater core out. Although further investigation of mine seems to show that while my heater core has not leaked, just the O-rings on the metal pipes have. Changed those out (not without great difficulty of course), but now I'm stuck at trying to fit the new metal pipe clips over the pipes again. Got the top one on with some difficulty but with the location of the bottom one it's being a real pain. Will sort it out sometime this week.

Vee_Que

Wwd issues. Pulling the dash out on them should be easy though. 240s are far worse as they built the car around it.

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