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Disconnect the negative cable of your battery before performing any maintenance work on your engine, to prevent electrical shock or accidental starting. Remove the nut from the negative post with a box-end wrench. Lift the cable from your battery, move it outside of the battery box and close the lid of the battery box.

Align the sprocket with the arrow on the oil pump housing and then set the crankshaft sprocket to the top dead center (TDC) position. Using a suitable wrench, move crankshaft to 1/2 notch before top dead center.

Place the camshaft timing marks by aligning the notches on sprockets. Install timing belt, starting at crankshaft, around water pump sprocket, idler pulley, camshaft pulleys and tensioner pulley. Move the crankshaft sprocket to TDC to take up belt slack.

Install belt tensioner to engine block but do not tighten fasteners. Using a suitable torque wrench on the tensioner pulley, torque the pulley to 28 foot-pounds. With torque being applied to the tensioner pulley, move the tensioner up against the tensioner pulley bracket and torque fasteners to 23 foot-pounds.

Pull the tensioner plunger pin. Pretension is proper when pin can be easily removed or installed. Rotate crankshaft two revolutions and inspect the alignment of the timing marks. If the alignment is improper, repeat the operation.

Open the rear lift gate of your Volvo wagon and locate the access panel just inside the gate opening directly behind each taillight in the cargo area. Turn the two retaining clips on the access panel to open it.

Locate the bulb holder inside the access hole and release the retaining clips on either side of the holder. Pull the holder straight out of the taillight housing and turn it so the bulbs are facing you.

Push in slightly on the bulb while rotating it counterclockwise, then remove it from the holder and discard it. Install a new BP17916 bulb; press in on the bulb and rotate it clockwise to lock it in place.

Insert the bulb holder into the back of the taillight assembly, pushing it in until the locking tabs snap in place. Close the access panel and turn the two retaining clips to secure the cover.

Close the rear lift gate and test the repair by turning on the headlight switch or pushing the brake pedal while someone monitors the taillight function.

Pop the hood of the Ford and locate the timing belt near the engine of the vehicle. Loosen and remove the accessory drive belts from the engine with an adjustable wrench.

Take off the right motor mount on the engine. Unscrew the two bolts holding it in place with a socket wrench. Loosen the six crankshaft bolts holding the pulley in place and remove it. Take off both the upper and lower timing belt covers.

Loosen the belt tensioner bolt and push the tensioner away from the belt. Tighten the tensioner bolt to hold it in place and remove the timing belt.

Position the new timing belt on the pulleys and verify that all the timing marks are properly aligned. Loosen the tensioner bolt so the spring can pull it tight against the belt. Tighten down on the tensioner bolt with a wrench and make sure that there is 1/3 of an inch between the tensioner and the crankshaft pulley.

Rotate the crankshaft two turns to realign the timing marks correctly. Put everything back in place in the reverse order that it was removed following the same procedures. Record the date or mileage that the timing belt was replaced so it will be known when it needs to be replaced again.

Bolt the Lokar spring return bracket to the transmission housing. Mount the kickdown adjuster bracket on the spring return bracket.

Mount the kickdown cable bracket to the bolt hole in the transmission tail housing where it mates with the transmission case.

Insert the ball fitting on the end of the kickdown cable into the mounting hole on the larger tang of the OEM transmission kickdown lever. Secure with the supplied screw.

Feed the braided cable housing of the kickdown cable up to the threaded adjuster at the kickdown adjuster bracket. Leave 1 inch of extra length on the cable and trim off the outer housing to the desired length.

Insert the hex carb fitting assembly, including the plastic Lokar cable slide fitting, into the hole in the smaller tang on the original kickdown lever. Install the teardrop spring retainer on the opposite side of the tang and secure the assembly with the supplied screw.

Insert the inner cable into the the Lokar cable slide fitting and place the cable stop on the cable about 1 1/2 inches from the hex fitting. Cut off excess cable about 1 inch beyond the cable stop.

Hold the throttle all the way open and pull the kickdown inner cable tight. Slide the cable stop against the Lokar cable slide fitting and tighten the cable stop Allen screw.

Make sure the carburetor-throttle linkage operates without binding after the kickdown switch is installed. Test-drive the vehicle.