I have found nothing positive about aftermarket parts..and wow holy crap..even a limited to rings and bearings overhaul is going to be way expensive..really blows something unassociated can be so costly..if it was not such a nice car I am not sure I would put another dime in it..still kinda chapped ...

Really..nobody has an opinion on where to get parts?..aftermarkets parts? yay nay?

Alright well we have an update..got the engine pulled and I was right..it did not bend a single valve..it bent EVERY valve..wow. It shows no damage to the pistons..and zero ridge at the top of the stroke..I am sorely tempted to just do the head..but..there would still be question marks so..I will ge...

Anyone have a favorite supplier of Volvo parts for this rebuild?

There is no more valuable resource than the interweb and forums..no matter what you have..if it is mass produced..somebody somewhere has had the same issue. I was looking at the other cover..and it appears that..really all I would have to do is bore a hole through where the other sensor goes and I c...

Wow..I guess I am pretty lucky..I have to assume if it was going to fail it would have.. 10,000 miles should have been plenty for calling it successful? I had heard that about outboard motor block halves could not be swapped but successfully did one of those as well.

I will get some pics of them both..the only difference between the two was the cam sensor hole..went right together and no leaks. My daughter is coming over to help so it should go much faster..this will be our third pull...or drop I suppose.

What would I need to look for?..I actually swapped those some 10,000 miles ago as the 240 engine was a 38 and the V50 a 39 so it had the dual cam sensors..I have noticed no issues..but do not really know what I am looking for. Everything seems ok with the cover head and camshafts..when I pulled the ...

Alright got the belt on and ran compression..good news is..well there is no good news other than it speeds up the rebuild..the original engine has no bent valves BUT..ran with a blown head gasket for a long time and damaged the head..it can be southern engineered..but I am not interested in half ste...

Alright so I got the aligning tool set to make sure this was set perfect..(not sure how one would do it accurately otherwise) so since I needed to pull the little sensors off the end of the cams and could not get to one with the impact I went ahead and pulled the camshaft cover off to inspect the ca...