I just wanted to let those of you that have assisted and helped with this topic or followed it that I finally resolved the short.It was in a very inconspicuous location that was hard to reach and impossible to see, well the main short was at least, I had two separate wiring issues that were causing ...

Yay, persistence pays off. Glad you stuck with it and found both cures. Hope you get to enjoy your car for a while. Thank you very much, it was frustrating at time to the point I wanted to give up but it's not in my nature to give up. I have OCD bad with everything I do especially anything cars, so...

abscate wrote: ↑10 Aug 2020, 18:03 You will need a new throttle body gasket, too

Volvo 9135990, circa £4 in the UK. Presumably similarly cheap in the US.

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I've been getting by on a set I paid less than $10 for over 20 years ago It works but not well. I'm tired of dealing with it. ... I'm looking for the value. ... My $10 set sat on the shelf for nearly 5 years completely unused, ... Here's a radical thought: instead of springing for a "set"...

No joke, I really like my 98 XC. So my plan for the Cloud (maybe rename to the Storm?) is to buy a 2.3 with a 16t on it, do some basics like replace timing belt kit with pump, turbo seal kit, and then put on new steering rack and ac seals. I'm not going to drop $1800 into it though. It's not gonna b...

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Ether - I did not get running on ether, I did get an intake manifold backfire which blew off snorkel. was it just swamped with ether, or does this indicate firing with the intake valve open?

You have spark at the plugs, BUT do you have spark at the proper time in the cycle? This has a distributor, right? Did you remove the distributor doing work? Try using an old timing light to check proper spark timing. Distributors can be tricky to get proper spark timing.

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On Abscate's car it goes to the third row seat heater