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#1tool Repair Manual,
When a friend or relative asks for help the first question I ask is "do you have a manual for your car?". The days of gapping points and plugs with folded match book covers and static timing by backing off the distributer and putting #1 plug wire near an appropriate [or otherwise} ground are a thing of the past.
#2 Trouble shooting tools,
timing light
tach
digital or at least analog multimeter
fuel preasure guage
vacuum guage [boomers still know how to use it]
compression guage
cheap stethiscope
#3 safety tools
wheel chocks
jack stands
glasses
fire extinguisher [Yaa,I know, I too have bathed in gasoline and stoddard solvent with a lit cigar in my mouth and a lit cigarette over my ear, a round rock under one tire, a bumper jack [remember those?] on one side and a pile of wood chumks under the other]. If it makes you feel better you can look at it this way--I've probably used up most of the luck allotted to backyard mechanics.
As for Volvo specific tools the DMM and the 'T" I made to mount my fuel preasure guage I wouldn't do without.
A contracter friend once told me to "always bid one new tool with every job". I just got a floor press from Harbor Freight for the suspension rebuild on the 740, and now I'm lusting for a digital vernier guage--- hmmmm---Those tappets are sure beginning to make noise again.
rjc
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