Thank you for the advice FireFox31! I have been doing most of the work on my Volvo for the last six years. I've been focusing on making it run and drive as best as it can, but that means that I have been neglecting the aesthetic side of car maintenance. It is currently running great, so I have more ...

Thank you for that matthew1. I do believe that one of the reasons that I still so enjoy to drive and maintain my 850 after all these years is that it is a constant reminder of my Father's love

My Dad was a bit of a car guy and he bought it new. He had an 1986 740 at the time. He was really excited about the 850, especially the front wheel drive because Boston had a lot of snow in the winter. When we picked it up, it was going to be his new car, and I was going to inherit the 740, as I was ...

I appreciate the offer, abscate! Over the years I have stocked up on 93/94 non-turbo parts from junkyards, in the hopes that if something goes wrong, I can keep in going. For a while there were so many, almost untouched. These days they few and far between in junkyards near me.

It has been parked ...

Here are a couple of pictures from the last year. It is actually black, with black interior. It is a manual, so I never had to worry about transmission repairs, although I did burn out a clutch when I was learning to drive it back when it was still under warranty

I was just giving my 93 Volvo 850 a tune-up today and I started wondering if anybody out there has been driving an 850 as long as I have? I started driving mine the first or second week of January 1993. It is still going strong and I have absolutely no interest in getting a different car. For me the ...

I am glad that things are getting better for you! I was thinking about your problem the past couple of days and I was wondering about your throttle position sensor. This is another idle thought ( pun intended ( sorry )). If your throttle position sensor is getting dirty it could be giving bad ...

Just for kicks, before you start in on more part swapping, pull the IACV again and see if it has refrozen. I just remembered that when I cleaned mine, the first time I sprayed it out it seemed to move freely at first, but all I really did was loosen the gunk up and it re-hardened when it dried. To ...

Okay, I tried to clean up the area as best as I could and started it up and ran it for a bit. I saw a very small seep of oil start from what I think is the mating between the oil pump and the motor?


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I am thinking that the oil leak is originating from behind the oil pump. Perhaps ...

MAF cleaner should work fine for cleaning your IACV.

As for the Engine Coolant temperature sensor. Those can cause a lot of problems as well. When they start to go you may notice things like the fan going non-stop and hard starts. They are easier to diagnose because they should throw a code on your ...