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Art, speaking of getting misinformation from ipd, I’m betting you well remember the days before the interweb when the parts listings, tech articles and comments in ipd catalogues and their quarterly newsletters were a major source of information for Volvo hobbyists, as were the monthly/quarterly mailed newsletters from national and local Volvo clubs. I still have a large binder full of ipd stuff somewhere. You had to have purchased something in the past year to stay on the ipd mailing list if you were an international customer, a definite motivation for me to order Mann oil filters and air filters. Ipd sold the Bentley book and as well Grimshaw, which were a bit rich for my tastes at the time. When they started to sell Gerhardt’s Volvo Problem Solver and once had it on a sale I could no longer resist -one of my better investments, but I soon moved out of the K-Jet world into LH and was left floundering a bit until the aftermarket manuals slowly caught up. I depended on a few friendly indies and parts people willing to share what they knew. When the Alt.autos/Volvo Usenet newsgroup started up I was drawn to it immediately. I imagine a few old farts here still remember using the TCP Usenet protocol (NNTP://). When the Popular Mechanics (non-pro version of Alldata) CD came out in the ipd catalogue I jumped for it immediately. That really upped my game until some goofy little replacement for Alt.autos came along called brickboard.
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Dave -still with 940's, prev 740/240/140/120 You'd think I'd have learned by now
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