What will we think up next?
Something good I hope...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEKAwCoCKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ9uT23ixLc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n7G0q0uzgQ
http://www.halfbakery.com/
http://www.powernapkit.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSClmgcxD0c&feature=related
http://www.vat19.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs7Ro5nB_YM
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Humorous Office Slang
I found these a couple of years ago and they are still relevant. I try to use one everyday just to keep things fresh and co-workers surprised. Try one today, you'll be glad you did. Have some of your own?
If you know of the original source for these please inform me so I can give proper credit.
New Office Slang
404 - Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, “404 Not Found,” which means the document requested couldn’t be located. “Don’t bother asking John. He’s 404.”
Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.
Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “I dunno, ask Rick. He’s our alpha geek.”
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Beepilepsy - The brief siezure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.
Betamaxed - When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in “Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market”
Blamestorming - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Blowing Your Buffer - Losing one’s train of thought. Occurs when the person you are speaking with won’t let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so astonishing that your train gets derailed. “Damn, I just blew my buffer!” (Synonym: “Head Crash”)
Bookmark - To take note of a person for future reference. “After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him.”
Brain Fart - A byproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly; a burst of useful information. “I know you’re busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?” Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.
CGI Joe - A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure.
Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
Chip Jewelry - Old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decoration. “I paid three grand for that Mac and now it’s nothing but chip jewelry.”
Chips and Salsa - Chips = hardware, salsa = software. “First we gotta figure out if the problem’s in your chips or your salsa.”
CLM (Career Limiting Move)- Used by microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. “Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.”
Cobweb - A WWW site that never changes.
Crapplet - A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. “I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!”
CROP DUSTING - Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.....
Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.
Dead Tree Edition - The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
Dilberted - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character. “Damn, I’ve been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week.”
Dorito Syndrome - The feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. “I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I’ve got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome.”
Egosurfing - Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one’s own name.
Elvis Year - The peak year of popularity as in “1993 was Barney the dinosaur’s Elvis year”
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
Generica - Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in “we were so lost in generica that I couldn’t remember what city it was”
Glazing - Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open; a popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. “Didn’t he notice that by the second session half the room was glazing?”
GOOD job - A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
Gray Matter - Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established.
Graybar Land - The place you go while you’re staring at a computer that’s processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen). “That CAD rendering put me in graybar land for like an hour.”
High Dome - Egghead, scientist, PhD
Idea Hamsters - People whose idea generators are always running.
Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
It’s a Feature - From the old adage, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” Used sarcastically to describe an unpleasant problem you wish to gloss over.
Keyboard Plaque - The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on some people’s computer keyboards.
Link Rot - The process by which web page’s links become obsolete as the sites they’re connected to change or die.
Meatspace - The physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also “carbon community” “facetime” “F2F” “RL”
Mouse Potato - The online generation’s answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error.
Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or telecommute.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Perot - To quit unexpectedly. “My cellular phone just perot’ed.”
Plug-and-Play - A new hire who doesn’t require training. “That new guy is totally plug-and-play.”
Prairie Dogging - When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what’s going on.
Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. “God, today was a total salmon day!”
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, shits over everything and then leaves.
SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. “Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage”
Square-Headed Spouse - Computer
Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy - A person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny.
Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been used so much its magnetic strip is worn away.
Tourists - Those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs. “There were only three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.”
Treeware - Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
Under Mouse Arrest - Getting busted for violating an online service’s rule of conduct. “Sorry I couldn’t get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest.”
Uninstalled - Euphemism for being fired. Also: decruitment.
Vulcan Nerve Pinch - The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the warm re-boot for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control key, the Command key, the Return key and the Power On key.
WOOFYS - Well Off Older Folks
World Wide Wait - The real meaning of WWW
Xerox Subsidy - Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
Yuppie Food Coupons - Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.
If you know of the original source for these please inform me so I can give proper credit.
New Office Slang
404 - Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, “404 Not Found,” which means the document requested couldn’t be located. “Don’t bother asking John. He’s 404.”
Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.
Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “I dunno, ask Rick. He’s our alpha geek.”
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Beepilepsy - The brief siezure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.
Betamaxed - When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in “Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market”
Blamestorming - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Blowing Your Buffer - Losing one’s train of thought. Occurs when the person you are speaking with won’t let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so astonishing that your train gets derailed. “Damn, I just blew my buffer!” (Synonym: “Head Crash”)
Bookmark - To take note of a person for future reference. “After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him.”
Brain Fart - A byproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly; a burst of useful information. “I know you’re busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?” Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.
CGI Joe - A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure.
Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
Chip Jewelry - Old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decoration. “I paid three grand for that Mac and now it’s nothing but chip jewelry.”
Chips and Salsa - Chips = hardware, salsa = software. “First we gotta figure out if the problem’s in your chips or your salsa.”
CLM (Career Limiting Move)- Used by microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. “Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.”
Cobweb - A WWW site that never changes.
Crapplet - A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. “I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!”
CROP DUSTING - Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.....
Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.
Dead Tree Edition - The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
Dilberted - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character. “Damn, I’ve been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week.”
Dorito Syndrome - The feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. “I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I’ve got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome.”
Egosurfing - Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one’s own name.
Elvis Year - The peak year of popularity as in “1993 was Barney the dinosaur’s Elvis year”
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
Generica - Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in “we were so lost in generica that I couldn’t remember what city it was”
Glazing - Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open; a popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. “Didn’t he notice that by the second session half the room was glazing?”
GOOD job - A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
Gray Matter - Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established.
Graybar Land - The place you go while you’re staring at a computer that’s processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen). “That CAD rendering put me in graybar land for like an hour.”
High Dome - Egghead, scientist, PhD
Idea Hamsters - People whose idea generators are always running.
Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.
It’s a Feature - From the old adage, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” Used sarcastically to describe an unpleasant problem you wish to gloss over.
Keyboard Plaque - The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on some people’s computer keyboards.
Link Rot - The process by which web page’s links become obsolete as the sites they’re connected to change or die.
Meatspace - The physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also “carbon community” “facetime” “F2F” “RL”
Mouse Potato - The online generation’s answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error.
Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or telecommute.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Perot - To quit unexpectedly. “My cellular phone just perot’ed.”
Plug-and-Play - A new hire who doesn’t require training. “That new guy is totally plug-and-play.”
Prairie Dogging - When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what’s going on.
Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. “God, today was a total salmon day!”
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, shits over everything and then leaves.
SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. “Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage”
Square-Headed Spouse - Computer
Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy - A person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny.
Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been used so much its magnetic strip is worn away.
Tourists - Those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs. “There were only three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.”
Treeware - Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
Under Mouse Arrest - Getting busted for violating an online service’s rule of conduct. “Sorry I couldn’t get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest.”
Uninstalled - Euphemism for being fired. Also: decruitment.
Vulcan Nerve Pinch - The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the warm re-boot for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control key, the Command key, the Return key and the Power On key.
WOOFYS - Well Off Older Folks
World Wide Wait - The real meaning of WWW
Xerox Subsidy - Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
Yuppie Food Coupons - Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.
Popular Literature features forebodings
What do we make of these mysterious intimations of future events? How do some souls obtain seemingly supernatural insight into the supraconscious realms? Is it mere coincidence?
Take this story for example.
Book Foretells the RMS Titanic Disaster
Author Morgan Robertson's Book Very Similar to Real-Life Tragedy
© Emily Eppig
Nov 19, 2008
Morgan Robertson wrote Futility fourteen years before the RMS Titanic sunk in the Atlantic Ocean. Many details in his book are eerily similar to the real-life tragedy.
A book written in 1898 by Morgan Robertson entitled Futility closely mirrors the real-life tragedy of the RMS Titanic that occurred 14 years later. In Robertson’s book, a transatlantic liner called the Titan crosses the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage, strikes an iceberg on her starboard side and sinks.
Similarities Between Futility and the RMS Titanic Disaster
• The first and most obvious similarity is that Robertson called his ship the Titan.
• Both the fictional ship and the real ship sunk during the month of April – the Titan on the 15th and the Titanic on the 14th.
• The Titan carried 24 lifeboats and 3,000 passengers while the Titanic carried 20 lifeboats and 2,207 passengers.
• The Titan measured at 800 feet long and weighed 75,000 tons and the Titanic measured at 882.5 feet and weighed 66,000 tons.
• Both ships had three propellers.
• Both ships were going between 23 to 25 knots upon striking an iceberg.
• Both ships sunk in similar areas of the Atlantic and the Titan left from New York to sail to England while the Titanic left England to sail to New York.
• In the fictional tale, the ship was called the largest ship of the time, unsinkable and “one of the greatest works of man”. The Titanic was also the largest ship at the time, it was called unsinkable, and “a wonder of the age”.
Details Were Added to Reprints of Futility after the Titanic Sunk
After the tragedy of the Titanic in 1912, Futility was reprinted and several reprints since then have claimed to be the original work. Jack W. Hannah in Mansfield, Ohio printed the only true genuine reprint of the original in 1975. All the others have added details to make the “prophecy” more compelling – as if the similarities were not already weird enough.
Was Morgan Robertson Psychic?
Some believe that Robertson did in fact possess some kind of extrasensory perception that enabled him to tell the story of the RMS Titanic 14 years prior to the sinking. Robertson was poor most of his life and no evidence supports that his situation changed after the real-life tragedy of the Titanic took place. Robertson died in 1915 of a drug overdose at the age of 53.
In fact, one of his other books has some mysterious parallels with a major world event. This particular book, written in 1905 and called the The Submarine Destroyer dealt with a futuristic war between the United States and Japan. In the book, Japan carries out sneak-attacks on the United States. In the fictional story, the United States entered into war with Japan during the month of December and the war was fought with aircraft carrying what he termed “sun bombs”. These sun bombs exploded with such ferocity that they emitted a flash of blinding light and destroyed whole cities.
Sources:
Gardner, Mark. The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold. Prometheus Books. 1007
Robertson, Morgan. The Wreck of the Titan or Futility. Filiguarian Publishing. 1996
Weird, wild, stuff.
bh
Take this story for example.
Book Foretells the RMS Titanic Disaster
Author Morgan Robertson's Book Very Similar to Real-Life Tragedy
© Emily Eppig
Nov 19, 2008
Morgan Robertson wrote Futility fourteen years before the RMS Titanic sunk in the Atlantic Ocean. Many details in his book are eerily similar to the real-life tragedy.
A book written in 1898 by Morgan Robertson entitled Futility closely mirrors the real-life tragedy of the RMS Titanic that occurred 14 years later. In Robertson’s book, a transatlantic liner called the Titan crosses the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage, strikes an iceberg on her starboard side and sinks.
Similarities Between Futility and the RMS Titanic Disaster
• The first and most obvious similarity is that Robertson called his ship the Titan.
• Both the fictional ship and the real ship sunk during the month of April – the Titan on the 15th and the Titanic on the 14th.
• The Titan carried 24 lifeboats and 3,000 passengers while the Titanic carried 20 lifeboats and 2,207 passengers.
• The Titan measured at 800 feet long and weighed 75,000 tons and the Titanic measured at 882.5 feet and weighed 66,000 tons.
• Both ships had three propellers.
• Both ships were going between 23 to 25 knots upon striking an iceberg.
• Both ships sunk in similar areas of the Atlantic and the Titan left from New York to sail to England while the Titanic left England to sail to New York.
• In the fictional tale, the ship was called the largest ship of the time, unsinkable and “one of the greatest works of man”. The Titanic was also the largest ship at the time, it was called unsinkable, and “a wonder of the age”.
Details Were Added to Reprints of Futility after the Titanic Sunk
After the tragedy of the Titanic in 1912, Futility was reprinted and several reprints since then have claimed to be the original work. Jack W. Hannah in Mansfield, Ohio printed the only true genuine reprint of the original in 1975. All the others have added details to make the “prophecy” more compelling – as if the similarities were not already weird enough.
Was Morgan Robertson Psychic?
Some believe that Robertson did in fact possess some kind of extrasensory perception that enabled him to tell the story of the RMS Titanic 14 years prior to the sinking. Robertson was poor most of his life and no evidence supports that his situation changed after the real-life tragedy of the Titanic took place. Robertson died in 1915 of a drug overdose at the age of 53.
In fact, one of his other books has some mysterious parallels with a major world event. This particular book, written in 1905 and called the The Submarine Destroyer dealt with a futuristic war between the United States and Japan. In the book, Japan carries out sneak-attacks on the United States. In the fictional story, the United States entered into war with Japan during the month of December and the war was fought with aircraft carrying what he termed “sun bombs”. These sun bombs exploded with such ferocity that they emitted a flash of blinding light and destroyed whole cities.
Sources:
Gardner, Mark. The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold. Prometheus Books. 1007
Robertson, Morgan. The Wreck of the Titan or Futility. Filiguarian Publishing. 1996
Weird, wild, stuff.
bh
My favorite sites for Volvo 240 parts and DIY tech tips
Articles, Forums, Blogs, Photos, Tech tips, Advice, How to's, parts and classifieds.
http://www.brickboard.com/
http://www.volvo-forums.com/
http://www.forums.turbobricks.com/
http://www.forums.swedespeed.com/
http://www.davebarton.com/ Check out his Moose decals and stickers
http://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/
http://www.volvo2.homestead.com/
http://www.cleanflametrap.com/
http://www.volvoforums.com/
www.people.physics.anu.edu.au/~amh110/Handling/volvo_sports_handling_V2.htm Suspension Tips 200 series
www.jimjmorris.com/cvcoa/wipers.htm Tech article with pics how to repair/replace wiper linkage/motor on Volvo 240 series
www.nuceng.ca/bill/volvo/database/ecu.htm Cross reference table for ECUs and Air Mass Meter #'s
http://www.swedishbricks.net/faq/volvofaq.html 200 series tips, articles, links
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~ridgely/e-code-comp.htm 240 E-code headlamps comparisons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jetstar5224/sets/72157622512917998/ Rear Trailing Arm Bushing replacement photos
Parts Sources
http://www.ipdusa.com/ Many of most commonly replaced parts, many special aftermarket parts, great advice and suggestions - moderately priced, competitive, great values and shipping.
http://www.fcpgroton.com/ Many of most commonly replaced parts, some special aftermarket parts, moderately priced, competitive, great values and shipping.
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/markerflash/markerflash.html Side marker turn signals kits and how to.
http://www.partsgeek.com/ Some harder to find OEM type replacement parts for 240 series
http://www.stylingkompaniet.com/ Body kits for Volvo 240s Located in Sweden Great Prices Overseas shipping.
http://www.injectorwhse.com/servlet/the-19754/1985-dsh-93-VOLVO-240-SERIES/Detail fuel injectors
http://www.rceng.com/Fuel-Injector-Cleaning-P43C0.aspx fuel injector cleaning and flow testing
http://www.injectorrx.com/ fuel injector cleaning and flow testing
http://shop.oreillyauto.com/ProductDetail.aspx?MfrCode=EVP&MfrPartNumber=5864 OEM style replacement for 240 series heater flow valve (see also this post in volvoforums.com http://volvoforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36316 )
http://www.vlvworld.com/indexframe.html?200/toc.htm Most OEM style replacement parts for 240
http://www.tascaparts.com/partlocator/index.cfm?siteid=213668 OEM dealer type replacement parts for 240
http://www.swedishautoparts.com/240/240parts.htm Most replacement parts for 240
http://www.avalancheperformance.com/ Performance aftermarket parts for 240
http://www.kaplhenke.com/?gclid=CIDB8bXL15oCFQKJxgodDxZcGA Performance aftermarket parts for 240
http://www.yoshifab.com/store/ Performance aftermarket parts for 240 and more
http://yhst-26451710505916.stores.yahoo.net/index.html Performance aftermarket parts for 240 and more
TOOLS for working on your Volvo
http://www.williammaloney.com/LandRover/VolvoBushings/VolvoBushings.htm Trailing Arm Bushing tool
http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/shopcart/TOOL/POR_TOOL_VOLVOS_pg11.htm Trailing Arm Bushing tool
http://www.harborfreight.com/ Many specialty tools like ones for inner tie rods, bushings, pullers, etc.
Of course there are dozens of good sources for parts on Ebay, Craigslist, etc.
http://www.brickboard.com/
http://www.volvo-forums.com/
http://www.forums.turbobricks.com/
http://www.forums.swedespeed.com/
http://www.davebarton.com/ Check out his Moose decals and stickers
http://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/
http://www.volvo2.homestead.com/
http://www.cleanflametrap.com/
http://www.volvoforums.com/
www.people.physics.anu.edu.au/~amh110/Handling/volvo_sports_handling_V2.htm Suspension Tips 200 series
www.jimjmorris.com/cvcoa/wipers.htm Tech article with pics how to repair/replace wiper linkage/motor on Volvo 240 series
www.nuceng.ca/bill/volvo/database/ecu.htm Cross reference table for ECUs and Air Mass Meter #'s
http://www.swedishbricks.net/faq/volvofaq.html 200 series tips, articles, links
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~ridgely/e-code-comp.htm 240 E-code headlamps comparisons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jetstar5224/sets/72157622512917998/ Rear Trailing Arm Bushing replacement photos
Parts Sources
http://www.ipdusa.com/ Many of most commonly replaced parts, many special aftermarket parts, great advice and suggestions - moderately priced, competitive, great values and shipping.
http://www.fcpgroton.com/ Many of most commonly replaced parts, some special aftermarket parts, moderately priced, competitive, great values and shipping.
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/markerflash/markerflash.html Side marker turn signals kits and how to.
http://www.partsgeek.com/ Some harder to find OEM type replacement parts for 240 series
http://www.stylingkompaniet.com/ Body kits for Volvo 240s Located in Sweden Great Prices Overseas shipping.
http://www.injectorwhse.com/servlet/the-19754/1985-dsh-93-VOLVO-240-SERIES/Detail fuel injectors
http://www.rceng.com/Fuel-Injector-Cleaning-P43C0.aspx fuel injector cleaning and flow testing
http://www.injectorrx.com/ fuel injector cleaning and flow testing
http://shop.oreillyauto.com/ProductDetail.aspx?MfrCode=EVP&MfrPartNumber=5864 OEM style replacement for 240 series heater flow valve (see also this post in volvoforums.com http://volvoforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36316 )
http://www.vlvworld.com/indexframe.html?200/toc.htm Most OEM style replacement parts for 240
http://www.tascaparts.com/partlocator/index.cfm?siteid=213668 OEM dealer type replacement parts for 240
http://www.swedishautoparts.com/240/240parts.htm Most replacement parts for 240
http://www.avalancheperformance.com/ Performance aftermarket parts for 240
http://www.kaplhenke.com/?gclid=CIDB8bXL15oCFQKJxgodDxZcGA Performance aftermarket parts for 240
http://www.yoshifab.com/store/ Performance aftermarket parts for 240 and more
http://yhst-26451710505916.stores.yahoo.net/index.html Performance aftermarket parts for 240 and more
TOOLS for working on your Volvo
http://www.williammaloney.com/LandRover/VolvoBushings/VolvoBushings.htm Trailing Arm Bushing tool
http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/shopcart/TOOL/POR_TOOL_VOLVOS_pg11.htm Trailing Arm Bushing tool
http://www.harborfreight.com/ Many specialty tools like ones for inner tie rods, bushings, pullers, etc.
Of course there are dozens of good sources for parts on Ebay, Craigslist, etc.
Monday, March 22, 2010
New Headlights and Seats Swapped…yeah!
This past week I finally installed new headlights and swapped the driver/passenger seats.
The headlights are a great improvement over the old. They also have upgraded 9004 halogen bulbs, Sylvania Extras. Just need to fine adjust the aim of each side.
I swapped the seats to have better support on the driver side and adjustable lumbar support. Woo hoo! It was a tight fit but it works. I reworked the wires, springs and foam while the seats were out. Also added reinforcement pressboard underneath. Much more comfy. The passenger side seat now has front and rear height adjustment but no lumbar. It would be great if there were an adjustable seat belt height adjuster on the door pillars and maybe adjustable seat clip receptacles. Yeah, the small cubby in the center console e-brake area is blue, should be black. I’ll either paint it to match or buy a new one on e-bay or one of many volvo owners forums.
The headlights are a great improvement over the old. They also have upgraded 9004 halogen bulbs, Sylvania Extras. Just need to fine adjust the aim of each side.
I swapped the seats to have better support on the driver side and adjustable lumbar support. Woo hoo! It was a tight fit but it works. I reworked the wires, springs and foam while the seats were out. Also added reinforcement pressboard underneath. Much more comfy. The passenger side seat now has front and rear height adjustment but no lumbar. It would be great if there were an adjustable seat belt height adjuster on the door pillars and maybe adjustable seat clip receptacles. Yeah, the small cubby in the center console e-brake area is blue, should be black. I’ll either paint it to match or buy a new one on e-bay or one of many volvo owners forums.
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