A long time ago I found a web site that had instructions to fabricate a home-made rear trailing arm bushing removal and installation tool. I no longer have a 240 or the tool I made (V70 now), but my son needs one to repair my daughter's car. I have been doing some searching, but to no avail. The link that a lot of folks point to is this: https://www-ese.fnal.gov/People/wilcer/volvo_trailing_arm_bushing_tool.htm
but it comes up as a 403 Access Denied for me.

Can anyone shed some light?

Thanks!

That original link no longer works as you note and gives a 403 error.

Using the Internet Wayback machine there's an archived copy of that web page from August 2018 that still works.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180807085735/http://www-ese.fnal.gov/People/wilcer/volvo_trailing_arm_bushing_tool.htm
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Dave -still with 940's, prev 740/240/140/120 You'd think I'd have learned by now

YAY! Thank you Dave, this is exactly what I was looking for! I did this job on one of my own 240's back in 2009 and kept the tool for years in one of my garage cabinets. Within the last two years we moved to a smaller place (at least a smaller garage) and I gave away a lot of my Volvo stuff. Now my son as found a 240 for my daughter (she loves them) and hence the need for the tool. Thanks again for unearthing this link, I appreciate it!

Dave Milo

Yes sir Dave Milo …

Mr. Dave Stevens came through for us!

It almost like a Christmas package put under an Internet tree with low hanging fruit for many of us.

Thanks to both of you two Dave’s.

Phil

Hi Dave,

I didn’t know anything about an Internet Way Back machine.

I wonder why or how that particular site or link got itself dusted into oblivion to be denied access 403?

I sand bagged it right away but how to keep in its entirety I will have to print it out into paper form.

Phil

Hi,

There has been an issue hitting the BRICKBOARD with errors issuing the 403 code for me as well.
I have found that my Safari browser, in my Apple I-Pad, gets too full of web cookies or something?
I go into my settings and Safari and clear all web site of all past data.
It goes back to working for a while until I have built up more of something?
This has only affected the BRICKBOARD so far but then, I don’t live on the Internet either.
There has also been an issue with me being a registered member getting to get access other members past posts.
It maybe within the BRICKBOARD’s own server.
Jarrod, the owner has been aware of this happening, I think?
He has eluded, from time to time, that Google is not friendly to those not willing to go all in with Google.

As far as the tool, I have seen versions of the posts and pictures made on the BRICKBOARD from iron pipe parts that are found in hardware stores.
I saw them on Cleanflametrap.com and Art has setup an external link giving credit to that person as he always tries to do. He may have built his own as well.
I didn’t see in a table of contents available but at the very bottom he placed in an external link.
I just checked it out and it has the same server error. So it’s not just the BRICKBOARD but it’s the same link he provided a few years ago.

I just went to the search engine for posts here on the BB and got the same results there.
https://www.brickboard.com/RWD/volvo/1667871/220/240/260/280/homebrew_tab_tool.html
It’s a post from three years ago.
That reference post was commandeered as well.
It might be where Art sited his link back in 2019.
Now it looks all gagged!

I never saved the pictures because I have the OTC branded tool.
I think OTC, as it had to be made by someone for Volvo but haven’t used in years!
Tools like this is what keep toolmakers in business.
Thanks to those engineers painting themselves into corners or creating a market revenue from dealers.
Take your pick to who profits?

The one I have is from the RPR Volvo parts house, in Albany California.
Rusty, the owner, rented it to customers with a hefty deposit, as he lost one. He said then they’re not cheap.
The one I got was couple hundred bucks to me?
He even had extra parts plus another hardened threaded screw that he threw in to enticed me with.
It takes some big wrenches to power that sucker, that I also got in the deal too.
The day was 1500 dollar buying spree that I just happened to walk into while passing through the area.
He was closing his store to retire up to Napa area.

I have no idea if anyone rents one today?
Its an idea to search down though.
It might be an “open market item” now and even by OTC or others for a reasonable price?

I would be very suspicious that who ever makes the tool commercially probably doesn’t like these “home brewed workarounds” but that tough, in my book.
I make stuff all the time “for my use only” and have likewise for companies when I was working for.
Every time with no royalties unfortunately.
They get to own the rights to the tooling fixtures because I worked for them.
It all comes about with a sheet of paper you are, in a way, forced to sign to get hired or even leave the company for X years.
Sort of being indentured.
Reasoning is They provided “The Need to make” but I provided “The How Too!”
The scratch your back, if you scratch mine.
Maybe it’s where blood money terminology comes in? (:-)

This is back to Google and intellectual property controls. The “cloud” is not exactly a wonderful thing IMO.
All this goes back at least a century or two.
The State of Delaware provides laws on enterprises, to name only one of many back room havens or environments, for the corporations.
What goes on in state universities with its patents to sell is a disservice to all talented students.
It’s how intellectual labor is being rationalize.
That’s Another undulating story!

Wish I could help more but it’s what I know and have seen going down for a long time.
INFORMATION for sale like textbooks were going over to CD years ago.
I worried that some information wouldn’t fit on just one CD so it might get suppressed. It was THE business at the time around book publishing thats a hard copy.
Now the CD’s themselves are gone.

The Downloads Only” scheme seems to have taken hold with expiration dates sometimes hidden in the fine print.
You rent or lease everything and own nothing.
Not nice for asset building program for the working class, IMHO.

Good luck searching.
I have made many things from photographs and scaling the knowns within.
If I had a picture file, it could be sent between us, but I don’t.
Maybe someone on the board has them stashed away from the “clouds” eyes!

Check several forums, maybe they missed one?

Phil

Hi Phil, thanks for your reply. I experienced everything you describe re searching on this site and others; it's as though all the information vanished. I used to have the pictures I took of replacing the TABs on my own car on Flickr, but ended up deleting my account due to their policies over the years. Thanks again for the information.

Dave Milo