K-jet.org website down - collecting info to move to alternate web address.

[zimmerdale]

All of the greenbooks seem to be available here in a browser-based Flash version (not downloadable). It takes a bit for them to load in Chrome on my computer, but then I can page through them.

http://www.volvotips.com/index.php/2...ervice-manual/

And according to the disclaimer: "Volvotips has the exclusive courtesy of Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Cars Heritage to publish the Volvo Greenbooks (service manual), parts catalogs and other Volvo-material and publications. Commercial use and publishing at other websites of these items is prohibited."

[wgusler]

Originally Posted by zimmerdale

I contacted fivealive the same day I started this thread. I offered to buy or coordinate the buying of the contents of K-jet.org. I haven't gotten any response. I don't know what his motivations are, but I'd be willing to chip in money as well. Blocking the site from the Internet Archive doesn't seem to me like a sign of good intentions.

I'm in for $100.00. Worth every penny for all the time it has saved me.

[FreeEMSFred]

Originally Posted by oldschoolvolvo

Not if he got a cease & desist order as Gary stated.

Some of us are not state side, and there are plenty of euro servers willing to do much much worse than host green books.

[FreeEMSFred]

Also, between everyone on this board, the collection of downloaded green
books MUST be present almost in full, at least for 200/700/900 cars, if not
more. So, how about a thread dedicated to weeding out these files in a
distributed fashion. I know I at least have a few pertinent ones on one of
my machines. I'd have to look for them, but I bet everyone has a few, and
although the overlap will be sizable, the full set should be close to complete
for all intents and purposes.

As for the rest of the non-download content from the site (text), google's
cache has it for now, so if you care, grab it from there before it fades out
forever and we all miss out on this piece of community history.

[OttoB]

I have some 240 stuff downloaded:
TP30039-2 rear axle
TP30282-2 heater
TP30461-1 AC
and
TP31304-2 B234F
TP31397-1 700 ignition
TP210320 B6304 recond
TP3908202 940 1995 wiring diagram

These at office, will check home pc what I got there.

[jamesinc]

Hi everyone,

A Bruce here. I run ozvolvo.org, the Australian Volvo forums. I'm going to re-host everything I can get hold of under an archive project off the back of Oz Volvo (free for all, in perpetuity) as well as making things available via torrent.

If you have Greenbooks, brochures, or any other technical documentation, please dump them here:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/SJtQR35mGr1zZOEyiU7V

And I'll organise it all in the coming weeks.

Thanks for any help!

[philski o'flood]

Bruces in April...

[gsellstr]

Originally Posted by jamesinc

Hi everyone,

A Bruce here. I run ozvolvo.org, the Australian Volvo forums. I'm going to re-host everything I can get hold of under an archive project off the back of Oz Volvo (free for all, in perpetuity) as well as making things available via torrent.

If you have Greenbooks, brochures, or any other technical documentation, please dump them here:

https://www.dropbox.com/request/SJtQR35mGr1zZOEyiU7V

And I'll organise it all in the coming weeks.

Thanks for any help!

Dude, a tip of the hat to you good sir! I'll have to dig thru the archives, think I have some stuff that isn't greenbook but is still awesome reference material.

[SquareD]

Originally Posted by zimmerdale

I contacted fivealive the same day I started this thread. I offered to buy or coordinate the buying of the contents of K-jet.org. I haven't gotten any response. I don't know what his motivations are, but I'd be willing to chip in money as well. Blocking the site from the Internet Archive doesn't seem to me like a sign of good intentions.

That's what we get for talking bad about WWD bolbos.

But seriously, thankful he hosted it for so long. Hopefully we can get all that info back up somewhere. Thanks to jamesinc for offering to help.

[jamesinc]

I've received 5.2GB of technical documentation so far, along with a heap of vintage Volvo print ads, keep it coming!

Edit: don't worry about possibly submitting the same docs as someone else, I can de-duplicate it fairly easily.

[FreeEMSFred]

That's what simple checksums are for May I recommend distributing in a Git repo? Maybe some hashed source ID in each commit? That way it can be reliably and verifiable distributed with epic redundancy.

Also, allow me to be your mirror, I'd be glad to.

[jamesinc]

I'll PM you

[stiligFox]

I have a couple accessory install manuals I'd gladly scan and add to a collection as well. Volvo 7/900 cargo cover install manual and a radio bezel manual.

[jamesinc]

Happy to include whatever you can provide. I've got about 700 documents at the moment, or 9.6GB of data. That's after de-duplicating everything. We're just working out the details of hosting and organising it all.

[carver]

I think I have a copy of that site from a couple of years ago. I'll have to check my backups...

Edit: Not sure how complete it is, grabbed in 2012 but here's a dropbox link to the archive.

[stiligFox]

Finally uploaded scanned one of my three docs, here's the Volvo 7/9x5 Luggage Cover installation manual. High quality scan at 600dpi. I'll go ahead and add it to your dropbox.

[propav8r]

I sent Fivealive a PM just to see if he was doing okay. Never heard back.

Seems like he somehow feels slighted/offended. Not sure why, and a real shame we don't have the resource anymore. There was a lot of good stuff on that site besides the greenbooks.

[chriselalto]

Some people have their own reasons to justify their actions, If it was worth his time and personal justification to let us know, i imagine he would have knowing the value he granted to us all. But if someone doesnt want to let it be known, there isnt anything we can do but move on and start over.

[Ryan_R]

Sad to see that site go. Does anyone know where else one can find specs on factory cams formatted the way he had them? I know TB has some specs on the front page, but not all the niggly numbers are there.

-Ryan

[quillc]

This one?

[James10952001]

It would be great to get all this stuff in a torrent at some point, then it's far more difficult for anyone to take down. If I had my way it would all be public domain by now, the cars it supports are deprecated, and we should have a right to access all pertinent service information.

[ICantDrift]

Hey bruce (jamesinc),

Would you post a link to the page on your forum or to the dropbox or wherever this stuff ends up when you get it all sorted? Thanks a million times

[4-cyl]

It this stuff still being compiled? I just added the few docs I had copies of.

[TestPoint]

Surly you must have all of them by now. I just uploaded 19 that are probably duplicates but it didn't cost much to be sure.

Any idea when the site will be available?

Volvo 240 1981 Wiring Diagrams TP30316-1.pdf

Volvo 240 Air Conditioning TP30461-1 Full Version.pdf

Volvo 240Volvo 240 Air Conditioning Repair and Maintenance TP11584

Volvo 240 Cruise Control Schematic.pdf

Volvo 240 Heater Unit TP30282-2.pdf

Volvo 240 Series Body TP11410-1.pdf

Volvo 240 Electrical systems repair TP11402-2.pdf

Volvo 240 O2 Sensor Fault Tracing TP11585-2.pdf

Volvo 240 Steering Repairs TP30001-3 Part 1.pdf

Volvo 240 series front suspension TP30000-1.pdf

Volvo 240 Steering Repairs TP30001-3 Part 1.pdf

Volvo 240 B21F CSI Green book TP11121-3 ci fuel injection repairs.pdf

Volvo 240 Steering repairs TP30001-3 part 2.pdf

Volvo 240 series front suspension TP30000-1.pdf

Volvo 240 Cruise Control TP30866-2.pdf

Volvo 240 AW automatic transmissions TP30578-1 aw55 aw70 aw71.pdf

Volvo B28F Repair and Maintenance TP 304301 Section 2-1.p

Volvo B28F CI Fuel system TP 305921.pdf

Volvo K-jet Fuel Pressure Regulator (WUR) Servicing.pdf

Volvo Diesel Service Manual part 1.pdf

Volvo Diesel Service Manual part 2.pdf

[jamesinc]

Yeah, I can make them available pretty soon as a flat archive of downloads. We have been trying to make the entire collection fully searchable, but I think the computing power required to do that is too expensive to maintain, so for now it'll just be download links. There's just over 1000 items in total.

Basically I just need to dump it into an S3 bucket and make a front-end to serve it all.