

Here's what I want for Christmas: A
do it yourself Amazon kit.
¯"I wanna be Bobby's girl!"¯
...and BTW, I love my new
lift-and-separate-rocket-bra!"

...when the puller finally releases a stuck
a rear drum....or
hey, I take it back about wanting to borrow your SVO 12 83...

François:
Do you know what kind of a bomb it was?
Clouseau: The exploding kind!

A similar look is what most people get from the
(summer help maybe) guy behind the counter at their automotive parts store when
he asks them "...what car is this alternator for", and they reply for
instance "...a '66 122S".

What we drink at SwEm!

...from the 122S Owners Manual.

With apologies to comedian
Jeff Foxworthy...You may be a Volvo-nut if:
1. Your kitchen sink
has doubled as a fuse-block final cleaning station.
2. You decide you like
movies like "All the Presidents Men" and "Mouse Hunt" just
because of the starring vehicles.
3. You know what a
dash-pot is.
4. You have as many
pictures of your Volvo(s) in various poses and locations as your family.
5. You were convinced
your spine was shrinking until you replaced the seat cushion suspension bands.
6. You talk back, in expletives,
to new car commercials featuring "dual A arm front suspension".
7. When someone says
"I used to have one of those", you matter-of-factly observe that you
still do!
Suggestions Welcome.

SUV (Swedish Utility Volvo)
Mobile Amateur Radio, QSL Card Motiv

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Choices? |

source: Car & Driver Mar. 2001 |
Peter Egan [Road & Track] Tool Dictionary:
- AIR COMPRESSOR: A machine that takes energy produced in a
coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed
air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips
rusty suspension bolts last tightened 40 years ago by someone in Abingdon,
Oxfordshire, and rounds them off.
- AVIATION METAL SNIPS: See hacksaw.
- BATTERY ELECTROLYTE TESTER: A handy tool for transferring sulfuric
acid from a car battery to the inside of your toolbox after determining that
your battery is dead as a doornail, just as you thought.HAMMER:
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a
kind of divining rod to locate expensive car parts not far from the object
we are trying to hit.
- CRAFTSMAN 1/2 x 16-INCH SCREWDRIVER: A large motor mount prying
tool that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end
without the handle.
- DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching
flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest
and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against the Snap-On
Tool Calender over the bench grinder.
- EIGHT-FOOT LONG DOUGLAS FIR 2X4: Used for levering a car upward off
a hydraulic jack.
- ELECTRIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning steel Pop rivets in
their holes until you die of old age, but it also works great for drilling
rollbar mounting holes in the floor of a sports car just above the brake
line that goes to the rear axle.
- E-Z OUT BOLT AND STUD EXTRACTOR: A tool that snaps off in bolt
holes and is ten times harder than any known drill bit.
- HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board
principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion,
and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your
future becomes.
- HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering a Mustang to the ground
after you have installed a set of Ford Motorsports lowered road springs,
trapping the jack handle firmly under the front air dam.
- MECHANIC'S KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of
cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on
boxes containing convertible tops or tonneau covers.
- OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting those stale
garage cigarettes you keep hidden in the back of the Whitworth socket drawer
(What wife would think to look in there?) because you can never remember to
buy lighter fluid for the Zippo lighter you got from the PX at Fort
Campbell.
- PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the lids of old-style
paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; can also be used, as
the name implies, to round-out Phillips screw heads.
- PHONE: Tool for calling your neighbor Chris to see if he has
another hydraulic floor jack.
- PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads.
- SNAP-ON GASKET SCRAPER: Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for
spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog-doo off your boot.
- TIMING LIGHT: A stroboscopic instrument for illuminating grease
buildup on crankshaft pulleys.
- TWEEZERS: A tool for removing wood splinters.
- TWO-TON HYDRAULIC ENGINE HOIST: A handy tool for testing the
tensile strength of ground straps and hydraulic clutch lines you may have
forgotten to disconnect.
- TROUBLE LIGHT: The mechanic's own tanning booth. Sometimes called a
drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, "the sunshine
vitamin," which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health
benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about
the same rate that 105-mm howitzer shells might be used during, say, the
first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its
name is somewhat misleading.
- VISE-GRIPS: Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is
available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the
palm of your hand.
- WHITWORTH SOCKETS: Once used for working on older British cars an
motorcycles, they are now used mainly for hiding six-month old Salems from
the sort of person who would throw them away for no good reason.
- WIRE WHEEL: Cleans rust off old bolts and then throws them
somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes
fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar callouses in about the time it
takes you to say, "Django Reinhardt."
- ZIPPO LIGHTER: See oxyacetelene torch.
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