Volvo xc90 drive shaft Videos

I've got an 04 2.5 awd and am looking for some more info. Do I have to drain the tranny? I just did the control arms and ball joints so they should come out easy, but its looking like I need a new passenger front axle.

Really cool video. I have been hypnotised by the music. Must-kill-the-president. Seriously though...how DO you get that ball joint back in?

Good video but awful text colour choice as it's really hard to discern over the background pictures.

looks like another XC90 victim....feel sorry for the owner!!

how do you get the ball joint back in?

+sportivomania So I just had to drop the drive shaft and press out and replace the U-Joint

That's great news and well done on tackling this yourself.

Wish I had seen this prior to spending two separate weekends, replacing both arms following the Haynes manual. Just was not strong enough to leaver the arm down, and fit the bottom ball joint on my own.

Yes, Haynes can leave you high and dry sometimes which is why I make some of the videos. I've since found out that the ratchet method I show is also the official Volvo way of reinstalling the arm.

I would say that all of the video still applies. The slight differences in design make no odds to a successful replacement.

+SiRobb Thanks a lot.

Around £110 each.

That's great to hear. Thank you.

This video is for P2 platform Volvos but I'm sure I've seen a video on Robert DIY's channel that is nearer your design.

Thanks for your comment. To save confusion, I'll just say left and right side (as you sit in the car) so this video shows the left side front control arm being replaced. I briefly show how you access the the front bush bolts on the right side because they're slightly obstructed by the oil sump so you need a good fitting offset spanner because there's insufficient room for a ratchet and socket. Other than that, both arms are replaced in the same way.You don't need to remove engine mount bolts and lift the engine if you use the spanner method on the right side. Access to all the bolts on the left side is unrestricted.

Time and cost.

+Michael Neuweiler there should be no gevcu and controller, dcdc and charger should be one. the gevcu is entirely the wrong direction even if the price wasn't so ridiculous on top of that. I can make an AC controller profitable for less than that.

+Dan Frederiksen I see your point. The fact that the GEVCUs sold commercially are not really cheap is true. But it's open source and other possibilities exist. I got my GEVCU 4.3 without casing and wifi for much less. But already the parts cost 150-200.- The product itself is great and offers many possibilities (yes, I'm biased because I provide a lot of code to it). E.g. I'm going to use it to query the ECU for the throttle pedal position via can, control the motor, the charging, the DC-DC converter - all via CAN bus.Does it make sense to spend so much money? I think that's a question everybody is going to answer differently. Does it make sense to spend >1000.- for a TV and waste part of your life in front of it watching mindless shows or movies?There are cheaper solutions around - one could even go for electric bikes. I wanted a decent car with some creature comforts, not a cheesy Leaf/iMiev/Smart. But a Tesla would not fit into my budget. And I wanted to take on the challange. Yes, I fixed some pinball's before and know my way with the soldering iron, yet I'm not an engineer. All I did before with my car was washing it, change the tyres and fill up the oil and washer tank. Not even an oil-change!But you're right, Jack makes it sound too easy - and the fixation on old VW's covnersions doesn't really help. There's much more out there in the world to be converted.It's feasible for nerdy software developers, biologists or musicians but there are quite some hurdles to overcome. Once you've overcome them, the reward is all the bigger. For some of them I'm really proud and happy I was able to learn so much. Nobody's going to take that away from me. And buying an electric car would not have brought me there.Would I do it again? If it was the first car, yes absolutely. But doing another car - probably not.. (although a boat would be really tempting)

+macdieter23558 I agree with the sentiment but Michael is not your average man. Iirc he's some kind of engineer.I agree we have the opportunity for a while yet to shame the idiot obtuse car makers but not with this current approach of using massively overpriced motors and controllers and every little step is a massive engineering exercise.When you can buy a used leaf for 12k$ then it just doesn't make sense to spend 40k$ and a lot of effort on a half decent conversion that has almost zero resale value and can only be serviced by the converter or at great expense.If we are to make a difference in the world we have to wake up and wake up Jack the densoid to that fact that you can get high rpm industrial AC motors for 150$ new, comparable to the motor in the Tesla Roadster. And that a 150kW AC PEM can be done for under 1000$ retail. There is also a lot to be gained by looking into the laptop battery approach where you can get 180$/kWh prices and lower weight/longer range.

As long as we wait for a wonder to happen nothing will happen at all. They will sell their gas guzzler even if there is no more gas! What Michael does is showing that even a more or less normal man is able to build an electric car themselves. So we can show the professional car builders that they should be ashamed not to be able to build an electric car!

+Michael Neuweiler sure. I figure though that we can work on developing components without involving an expensive car. And actually I consider it obvious that we shouldn't convert cars until we have developed more cost effective and easy to use components. Right now they cost 10 times more than they need to and Jack is only making it worse by adding expensive parts that we don't need like the gevcu

It would have been easier, that's for sure. but better? I certainly wouldn't have learned as much and experienced a lot of fantastic "up's" and devastating "downs" (e.g. get to know a lot of nice people all over the world, talk to devices over CAN bus and analzye data, repairing brakes and a transmission, rip out an engine of a car). Also keep in mind that when I started this project, both the i3 not the Tesla S were not available.

:) danke..Die Isolation schieb ich noch etwas vor mir her. Erst muss das Auto mal fahren, dann mach ich unten zu.

Du untertreibst immer so schön! ICH hätte es mir nicht zugetraut, so eine Automatik  wieder hinzukriegen.Und - wegen der Flüssigisolation, schon mal nachgedacht drüber?

Danke. Das könnte man wohl auch zusammenfassen mit : "etwas verrückt" :)