Hopefully you've spotted it, or its the photo angle, but I'm certain the screw on the right of those three is a very different thread pitch even though the diameter looks the same. What one has been getting stuck in the carb and blowing out? I can't see anything in previous posts that mention it, bu...

Hi Kaarel,

Have you found this? There isn't a massive mention of wire colours though.

http://www.volvo300mania.com/uk/forum/v ... =37&t=3837

Thanks Bogbasic, I missed your post yesterday! Dave, that's where my phone used to sit in the old cars, but whilst I don't use satnav often, I'll have it on for traffic on a long journey if it's bad traffic time and for the last 5 miles of somewhere I haven't been before. This is better than nothing...

Glad to see progress BogBasic, how is the idle now?

Last thing for the day (that I have photos off, there are a couple of other projects going on in the background for the car still). I'm not certain about this one yet and think it will need another iteration or two. I've never found a sensible way to mount a phone in a 300. I don't like the brodit m...

Whilst I was doing the above fuel hose I noticed that the rear number plate lamp holder in the car was one of the best condition I'd seen, so decided I'd take it out to CAD up. These normally have their arms either heat distorted or cracked and it was a pretty terrible design for that. So, good lamp...

Fuel Expansion tank hoses. Again, standard fair when you buy a new 340. I mistakenly thought that as this car was 30 years old it would have been done, but no. I had to do it on my 9 yo 1.4, my 15 yo 1.7 and I'd have thought this would have annoyed someone before now! If these aren't done, the car w...

Stereo. The car came with a very much too modern head unit and speakers which cut in and out and crackled when you hit bumps. When I was in with the drivers window I found some choc-block goodness, so had those out for uninsulated crimps. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50247905897_18fe0dd317_b....

Sunroof. This took me a good month or so to build up the courage. I hadn't even tried it for a long time, and when I did it really didn't want to move. I had forgotten how to get access to the mech, so searched the forum and found a post by me in 2009 that explained it :lol: My memory is shot... I d...

So, with the ability to propel itself forward and not boil over, was time to do some more fun bits. Tailgate release/lock needed fixing, intermittent wipe didn't work, drivers side electric window didn't work, sunroof looked... untouched for a long time. Tailgate was just adjust/tighten (remembering...

So, I don't mind admitting this took me longer to trace than it should have done. Now being in full swing of lock down, the car wasn't going out very much (but, unlike the S60 hadn't drained it's own battery, so was doing the weekly shopping trip). On the first run where I saw this problem (the work...

Next exciting adventure was cooling. As mentioned, previous history showed that the car had been misbehaving somewhat. Within the first 50 miles after MOT I was doing purely short journeys. On the way home on a 4 mile trip, temperature gauge just got to temperature and then started climbing. Got the...

I've not been updating this as much as I should... been a bit of recommissioning that is expected of a car that's sat for a bit and a few things to get on top off. One of the things I noticed when buying the car was it had previously been on the forum, so there was a bit of history tracking I could ...

The boot trays are less useful than they look. They leave a very exposed rear wall of plastic when you fold down the seats, so you can't really leave it in all the time and they take up masses of room when they are out!

Cheers Dave. Bumper off is easy enough, when you've done it once before :lol: The below is for a mk3 Hoses off the headlamp washers, thread them through the little metal clampy holders at the base of the arms 7mm socket to remove the bolt holding the headlamp wiper arms on, gently pull off pop the s...