Best thing you can do for the engine is get a bicycle for short and super short trips. :wink: Agreed. Except we are in America here, where bikes are only used to exercise, not to get places :o We take bikes, make them stationary, so that we can lose the weight we gained eating bad food in our cars,...

There should be another hard vacuum line that runs from the open nipple to the air door motor under the air cleaner

Excess air from the vacuum leak is unmetered, so your car runs lean, with high NOx emissions

Buying parts like this on eBay is not a good strategy. Good parts are expensive , but that is how you get the “good”

There is a good replacement motor from the company TYC that is about half the price of the Volvo OEM one.

I’m wondering how the pump runs with no electricity

Are those hoses warm or too hot to touch? They should be the latter if the core is in full flow.

“ Son..we are Grizzlies, not that word not used on this forum that alludes to Wildcats”

Precision in Albany is closest I know of. I’ve got a friend who can flatbed down, about an hour from Glen Falls

That looks like cold running condensate , not coolant

Pull the dipstick and look for chocolate milkshake vs brown or black oil.

Here is the cheap diagnostic next time the no-start occurs A three second blast of starting fluid (ether, or di-ethyl ether, same thing) into the snorkel, followed by cranking, will tell you if you have a cold induced fuel delivery problem. If it suddenly breathes fire on ether, then your fuel is no...