Temps have cooled a bit here in the midwest, where the lack of A/C in the wagon isn't such a terrible thing, just mildly annoying.
Well, that and working from home has simply left me with very little reason to leave the house, other than going to ride bikes, in which case I take a car with a bike rack. And A/C... So the wagon has mostly just sat around all summer. And the PV as well. Dug them out of the garage over the weekend (things tend to.. accumulate... behind them, over time.
And the kid's 940, which hasn't seen much use (he's doing virtual school and never needs to go anywhere for the time being either).
The Volvo 'elephant walk':
The wagon ran fine, as expected, was slightly smoking from one of the spark plug insulator boots when I got back. Er... totally normal. Ish. Whatever. vroooOOOMMBRAAAAAAAAP. Yeah, that gets your attention pretty well when you've been driving slow cars all summer.
I was going to drive the PV around some too... but the carbs were leaking a little bit. Some from the bottom, some from the tops. I guess the ethanol in the fuel has finally done some damage to the seals? Most of them will probably swell up and reseal, but some of the rubber gaskets (like around the idle jet/throttle ports, whatever they're called) were cracked and crumbling, that's not gonna reseal. So rather than drive it around with gas slowly dripping down n the exhaust manifold and alternator, I just parked it again and ordered a couple of DCOE rebuild/gasket kits. And a couple of sets of soft mounts.
Put a little R134A in the kid's 940, the A/C was short cycling and blowing cool air, not cold. I had to recharge it when we bought it, that's been a while. So it has a slow leak, but so slow it's not worth tracking down and fixing.