drwhosc

Ok for the winter project, I am going to finally be replacing my motor mounts. I purchased the Volvo mounts from roger about 2 years ago. While I am in there, what lee should i be doing. I think I am going to refurb my power steering system and rack, but anything else??

SeanR

I'd do the oil pan gasket, check the conditions of the oil lines, electrical wiring and you are right, not a bad time to do the PS system if it is needed.

kelanel

I guess it depends on the state of things in there.
Off the top of my head, WYAITs might include:

front suspension (since the cross member is dropping), IE shock replace/rebuild, or balljoint.
steering rack mount bushings (delrin are popular)
oil pan gasket + stud replacement kit (if you are going the silicone OPG route)
New rubber for sway bar bushings(if bad)
Windage tray/baffle plate during OPG if you want to go nuts


I'm sure im missing a few here, others can chime in and these ones can be searched easily.

EDIT: Sean is a faster typer than I

SeanR

Oh, O-ring on the oil pick up. Although I've never found a bad one, still not a bad idea.

SMTCapeCod

Gregg's headers.

;-)

StratfordShark

Just replaced my mounts and at same time I decided to do:

Oil pan (sump here in uk!) gasket
Rack bushes
New front shocks & springs
New lower ball joints
Tie rods and ends
Sway bar bushings

Only the pan gasket and rack bushes represent very little extra work, or in case of pan gasket are not possible/very difficult with cross member still attached. You are also saving a lot of work if you did the shocks as a separate job.

But the car is off road and in the air, and you are in rhythm of working on it with tools out so makes sense to do as much of this as is practical in terms of cost and your time. Once you start cleaning stuff up (pan was especially greasy in my case) you get the urge to have everything looking clean/new, so you can find yourself looking for little excuse to replace stuff! I was spending so much time cleaning/painting parts that the extra time to do wyait jobs was negligible. None of the extra work I did was strictly necessary or urgent - more nice to do. Unless something was especially urgent I'd say the new pan gasket was the most sensible choice if you had to pick just one extra job.

SMTCapeCod

oh, and check the steering linkage knuckle for wear.

Isn't this great?!

SeanR

Rod bearings too.

SMTCapeCod

Wait I know how's the oil pressure sender?

StratfordShark

I wanted to replace oil sender, but just couldn't persuade the wiring connector to come off, and didn't want to risk damaging it

SeanR

Yea, that 3 pin connector is a pain in the ***.

drwhosc

As usual, more then I could have hoped for. the oil pan gasket i dry, and afraid to fix something that is not broke, but will definitely consider it. the Rod Bearing.... Hopefully not, and interestingly, just last month, my oil pressure gauge pinned at the top, so I will chaco the sender...

So I did a front and top end rebuild, so not I guess it is time to do the bottom end. trying to avoid an internal RnR