Ferrari Mailing List: Re: A little OT - car projects

[Fellippe Galletta (fellippe.galletta]

Volvos still have the straitlaced, boring stereotype.......even the new ones I'm sure. 

It reminds me that there are very few truly invisible cars in the world today, which is sometimes nice in the world we live in full of idiots.

Your Volvos and Saabs have that boring/eccentric stereotype......corvettes, mustangs, their own.....bmw/audi/benz their own.....exotics have good and bad.....

People are idiots.....shouldn't let them affect you, but it does.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net> wrote:

I don't know what stereotype you feel you are being cast into, but everyone...  Every one of my friends who owns a Volvo(5) wears Birkenstocks (every day), is balding but has a ponytail and works in academia... No shit.  All good guys but it's like they're part of some club or something?!?!???

Rick

On Dec 4, 2014, at 5:08 AM, Fellippe Galletta <fellippe.galletta [at] gmail.com> wrote:

I'll always pay attention.....family had a 740 wagon growing up and I had an 850 for a little while.

I do find the bulletrproofness of an old 240 (or 300D diesel benz) intriguing....

It's a shame we live in a society that judges people too much for the cars we drive -- the Ferrari list has known me as a real car guy, but own a Volvo and the outside world will stereotype the shit out of you in a not so cool way. True story.

FG

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Matt Boyd <ferrari308driver [at] gmail.com> wrote:

+1, this happened just last year in my 91 Volvo 940 Turbo.....keeping it just because my son is about to get his license and might as well keep one 'disposable' car. Bought it in 95 with 17k miles, now sitting mostly unused at 247k miles and still going strong. That said, build quality on interior components on that vintage Volvo pretty much suck, at least for long-term ownership like we've had. But mechanically it is pretty rock solid.

 

Not that anyone cares about my 91 Volvo. :)

 

-matt

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Good call. I had a failed hydraulic hose on my Triumph TR3b's clutch slave cylinder. The lining stripped away forming sort of a one-way valve. Fluid under pedal pressure went through. Not enough reverse pressure to overcome the blockage. Thanks for the reminder.

-rick

-------- Original message --------

From: Doug & Terri

Date:12/03/2014 9:15 AM (GMT-06:00)

To: 'Rick Lindsay'

Cc: 'The FerrariList'

Subject: RE: [Ferrari] A little OT - car projects

-rick notes “I suspect a stuck left front caliper cylinder but we'll see.”



Hmmmm – I found a similar problem.  Turned out to be the rubber flex hose from chassis to caliper.  Like Little Lord Fauntleroy – good on the outside, rotten on the inside.  It had swollen and broken up to the extent that it wouldn’t let the caliper’s normal operating methods retract the caliper piston.  The little square distorted piston rubber bands were not strong enough to overcome the pressure needed to return the pistons.  Ergo – not only one side drag a bit but it had a ‘head start’ when brakes were applied.



I hate cars – a lesson learned way to late in the game - - I am committed to my own repairs with known results for the first try - - ever since I ‘fixed’ my Schwinn’s coaster brakes lo those many years ago.



Onward



DOUG

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