You meet the nicest people when you drive a Volvo!
Was greatly pleased to see a note in my e-mail inbox yesterday from a fellow over on the blogroll, Erling Brox of Norway. I have enjoyed reading his stories about his 240 (and the Wartburg!) and it was awfully nice of him to take the time to write.
I DO wish I had a bit more to post of late, however.
But if you've been keeping up with all the other non-Volvo stuff over on Possumblog, you know I've been nearly eaten up with expenses for the other vehicles in the household, as well as kid expenses for every possible imaginable fundraising thing, leaving little time and even less money to play with Jarn. I did manage to snag a nice set of GT sway bars off of eBay a while back that I'll get around to installing sometime, and I have REALLY got to get the taillight wiring fixed. I'd been driving around for I don't know how long without ANY taillights--not even the temporary "fix" I'd settled on of using the rear fog lamps--and didn't realize it until I got stopped by the police on the way home from the store one night. I got a warning ticket, I think mainly because I had the kids in the car with me. I doubt the officer would have been quite so understanding if I had appeared to be anything other than the fine upstanding law-abiding citizen I am. Or that I pretend to be.
ANYway--that needs to be done soonishly. As does a thermostat replacement. I'm still getting very high readings some days but not on others, which makes it look like I've got a sticking thermostat. Need to fix that soon, as well.
BUT, other things continue to intervene.
::sigh::
I DO wish I had a bit more to post of late, however.
But if you've been keeping up with all the other non-Volvo stuff over on Possumblog, you know I've been nearly eaten up with expenses for the other vehicles in the household, as well as kid expenses for every possible imaginable fundraising thing, leaving little time and even less money to play with Jarn. I did manage to snag a nice set of GT sway bars off of eBay a while back that I'll get around to installing sometime, and I have REALLY got to get the taillight wiring fixed. I'd been driving around for I don't know how long without ANY taillights--not even the temporary "fix" I'd settled on of using the rear fog lamps--and didn't realize it until I got stopped by the police on the way home from the store one night. I got a warning ticket, I think mainly because I had the kids in the car with me. I doubt the officer would have been quite so understanding if I had appeared to be anything other than the fine upstanding law-abiding citizen I am. Or that I pretend to be.
ANYway--that needs to be done soonishly. As does a thermostat replacement. I'm still getting very high readings some days but not on others, which makes it look like I've got a sticking thermostat. Need to fix that soon, as well.
BUT, other things continue to intervene.
::sigh::
posted by Terry at 11/30/2006 10:41:00 AM
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Remember that air flow meter problem I had? My mechanic replaced it with a rebuilt one (which he obtains from an air flow meter rebuilding specialist on th other side of town). That much you know. A couple of weeks later, I had just exited the freeway coming back from somewhere when the engine died. This time I knew how to disable the meter and get the car back to the mechanic, Lui, in limp-home mode. He put another rebuilt one in. Two more weeks. The engine was running rough, getting worse, dying. This time he's getting suspicious. He sent back the second rebuilt AFM and simply put a second-hand one in instead. It's been three weeks now and the car is running fine. It looks like the AFMs were being rebuilt wrongly somehow. There's a chance there is a gremlin in the car, however.
Oh, there's probably a gremlin somewhere, but I think the biggest one is the one you found with the air meter! Funny that a used one would give you better service than a rebuilt one, but I've also heard of brand new ones doing the same thing.
Silly old cars.
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