Itinerant Air-Cooled

Happy new year from sequestered upstate NY!

I’ve managed to gulp a valve on my favourite Volvo, but taking it as a sign from the Creator that I have time to do a head job without impacting anything at work

No travel for the next three months at least

Abscate wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 23, 2021 3:46 am

Happy new year from sequestered upstate NY!

I’ve managed to gulp a valve on my favourite Volvo, but taking it as a sign from the Creator that I have time to do a head job without impacting anything at work

No travel for the next three months at least

... and how is the Volvo?
Colin

Well, it took forever into November 21 but I got the head reworked, back on the car, and back on the road. Did a power steering rack too. In fairness, three of the kids plus SWMBO relocated to new jobs over summer so I had to refurnish three Volvo’s for each of them. I did three charity Volvo refurbs too.

The 1999 T5 is a really fun car. Gets 25-29 mpg highway ( top end if you stay off the boost) but is a zippy near 300 HP with the M56 fivespeed. It’s still on the original clutch after 6 -9 girls learned stick shift on it