My experience with the pump failure was that after a couple of incidents of spluttering and failing was that the pump died completely. Have you tried removing the fuel pump relay and jumping the contacts ? When I did this and listened to the fuel pump it was evident that the fuel pump was not runnin...

Thanks for the replies - will work in this tonight

Hello My 1997 850 GLT (160,000 miles) has been running smoothly for ages, and then yesterday it began to stall when taking off from a stoplight. The car would restart immediately, then stutter and stall. After repeating this 2-3 times the car worked as normal. Today I drove the car around the neighb...

The 850 seems to be a great towing vehicle - I have used mine to pull a 18' ski boat out of the lake a few times (to the amusement of the pickup drivers) and never had a problem.

Ceri

So, I bought a new blower from FCP Groton and installed - problem solved. Blower Resistor apparently fine

Hi All My ECC blower fan had been intermittently squealing for the last couple of years, so I thought I would lube the bearings. I did this about a week ago. When I turned on the ECC this evening I could smell an electrical burning smell coming from the blower. When I turned the selector to defrost ...

Thanks Lee

Hi All About a year ago I replaced the heater core, but I still get a faint whiff of coolant smell when I run the vent fan. I don't smell the coolant when I use either the A/C or the heater. Would it be possible that the smell still remains in the ducting after the year(s) of leaking heater core, or...

I also have Craftsman torx sockets and a couple of Eklind torx wrench sets (short and long) to get into the tight spaces under the dash. Both are working well, and I especially like the convenience of the no questions asked replacement policy at Sears

Ceri

Here is a previous thread on the topic

https://www.matthewsvolvosite.com/chat/p ... highlight=

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