foggydogg wrote: ↑29 Dec 2021, 17:34 Uhmm...
Is that the car that just spent eleven months in various stages of disassembled ?

Absolutely not.

it was 10 months

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Got it, thanks. Good luck with your other projects!

All the above except the most recent several posts split from What did you do to your Volvo today? I think I got everything.

Please do edit your posts in this topic if you want to. Editing time window is now infinite on your posts.

It’s going to end up in the top,of the radiator for the rest of that radiator’s life. No worries. Now, if it were a Saturn,loss of rings would be a concern.

I’ll contemplate that over a Mars Bar.

You don’t need to lock the cams on a non VVT CAR. Set the crank to the timing mark , take the belt off, remove water pump

Nasty business with water pipe

Check cam timing marks
Reinstall belt , two full revolutions of motor , check marks , pull the pin

Took her out on her first road trip since getting everything buttoned up. 50 miles of secondary roads where I could start the break in process. Ran flawlessly. Never a CEL or anything to even indicate that all the work had been done. Can't open it up yet of course, but I can tell that it's all there...

bmdubya1198 wrote: ↑13 Mar 2022, 09:51 Also look around for dried white coolant spray/leakage.

Right, like around any hoses and fittings, or down the radiator seams.

"Getting oetikered" is a new phrase we could start using.