Now the last week or so i'v been treating the 360 a bit since i felt guilty for neglecting it for so long so last weekend i gave it a bit of a service. I drained the oil out and replaced the filter. The oil that came out was free of and metal filings so i was happy. Whilst i'm on the subject, is the oil filter in the stupidest place imagineable or is it just me? i spent ages getting all of the old oil off of the engine mount.
Then i changed the air filter:
and the spark plugs. I went for the Bosch Super 4 spark plugs because i'v used these before in my 205 and they are so much better than anything else i'v tried since:
I then scurried over to a scrap yard about 10 miles down the road from me because they said they had a Volvo 360 in. When i got there i found out it was actually a 340 but nevertheless i robbed the tailgate off of it and i found a 440 which donated it's rear view mirror:
Now the tailgate came from a Mk3 340, so it was hardly close to what i was looking for but it was better then what was on there:
So i had it anyway and i went home and fitted it. Now as some of you may know the tailgate lock on Mk2's and Mk3's are completly different so i took the catch from the 340 and bonded it on to my 360 and located it with a pair of self tapping screws:
It's by far the neatest job i'v ever done but it'l do for the time being. The tailgate also came with a wiper, since i dont have the stalk for a rear wiper or the wiring i just junked it and bunged up the holes:
At night the colours match perfectly
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A set of these turned up for me this morning to replace the ones that are in there at the moment as they are just like 2 candles in a glass box.
And that brings me on to today. I started out for college this morning and about 2 minutes in to my journey the gearbox began to make a horrendus grumbeling noise and i thought "oh well that diff's finally had it" so i continued in to gollege, allbeit a bit gingerly and i got there without incident. As i went to leave college (and having made plans to bring the ca in to the workshops on Monday to fit the new gearbox) the car was still grumbeling like hell so i cautiously made my way home but i had got about a mile down the road and the exhaust note sudedenly got much louder and throatier so i thought "damm it, i'v blown a hole somewhere" so now i had alots of bad noises coming from differnet places. When i got home i decided to check where the blowing was coming from and i discovered that the entire rear box was gone from the car, PISS! so now i'v got to buy a new rear box for the car. and there was me thinking that because i had treated her last weekend that she would be nice to me for a while.
