Good on you Jon, it's a tight job. Precopster is an Aussie (so am I) so, although the heater core pipe-work is the same as yours, being RHD the gas pedal is on the far right of the vehicle for us so it's an obstacle we are fortunate not to have to deal with. Most of the work tight work is on the ...

Sorry to hear it, hope you get it back in one piece, or get a better one - some people eh? Get the word out on all the forums you can, check eBay & other sites, maybe Facebook it or something. You never know.

Thanks precopster, I still have those green ones & the SLOW drip is still there no matter what i do. Haven't had time to look very far for the OEM seals. I'll try the silicon seals. I can't understand why Behr would not put 2 decent O rings in the kit - it's a must to replace the old ones surely!

Precopster mentioned at the beginning of this thread that he had replaced a core without doing the coupling & still had leaks. If the O rings in the coupling are old & you pull the pipes out & push them back in I imagine you might have some problems. Apparently there is no o ring kit for the ...

It looks to me like it could. I have a leaky oil cap & lifted the O ring slightly revealing the small cracks. I haven't had the cover off, but a fair amount of oil tracks along the groove just underneath. Just from your pictures it looks like the groove empties where the oil where the old oil has ...

Welcome to MVS. No you don't have to drain all the coolant. If you are replacing the coupling in the firewall as well (which is advisable) then just unclip & remove the pipes on the engine bay side & tie them upwards. You will lose a little coolant & can place something underneath the car to catch ...

Just a quick note. I started the car this evening, & didn't hear any tapping lifters. What I did hear was a loud wirring 1 second noise like a band-saw - stopped suddenly & everything normal. I took it for a 7 mile drive, with two stops on the trip. No flickering oil light even once, dip stick ...

That's interesting. I had my wife's car (Corolla) serviced there yesterday & noticed the new service sticker was Shell instead of Castrol. Mine was serviced last week & has a Castrol sticker. Maybe he's switched & hadn't used up his Castrol stickers. I'll have to ask him. The oil certainly looks ...

Thanks precopster, between the kids, work & the apartment block issue, I'm not going to be doing the job myself, otherwise I might just do that, although, ecbsykes had some pretty clear pictures on his thread so I got a good idea of everything. That's a very generous offer. You never know, sometime ...

Thanks jbb, yes there was a different noise, but i didn't really listen hard to what it was, & haven't been game to start the car today.

I found the thread. https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30811 Pity I live in an apartment block, or I would have a shot at it, it doesn ...