Who has the most miles on factory engine?

[ChaddGostas]

over 200,000 on mine, wish I knew for sure, someone replaced the odometer and didn't put the right mileage on it.
I tested the compression in my cylinders the other day and came up with the following numbers.
150,170,170,170,150.
I think my valve stem seals are about shot but I want to take some sea foam and unhook a vacuum line and suck it into the manifold first, I heard this trick from my neighbor, said it cleared his engine out in a matter of seconds.

[cmblackburn]

Need to change my sig line, but mine just turned 280,000 miles. Was my sister-in-laws car, so I'm pretty sure same engine. Don't think the transmission fluid has ever been changed. Still goes 100 miles a day, 4 to 5 days a week. I baby it a little and don't mention the word turbo around it. .
Shane

Glad to know she's still going You never got back to me about whether or not I need to swing by and help you put the new interior in, hope everything's well!

[rspi]

I tested the compression in my cylinders the other day and came up with the following numbers.
150,170,170,170,150.

Those are low compression numbers and you have more than a 10% spread. Did you do the test with the motor warm/hot? They should be between 185-215.

[ChaddGostas]

I tested the compression in my cylinders the other day and came up with the following numbers.
150,170,170,170,150.

Those are low compression numbers and you have more than a 10% spread. Did you do the test with the motor warm/hot? They should be between 185-215.

I did the compression test with the engine warm.
I am hoping the numbers are due to the valves being gunked up.
A new <used> 109000 mile engine will cost me 1000.00
The car was neglected when I got it. the p.c.v. was packed with what looked like asphalt. smoke tar everywhere, I detailed it and cleaned the heck out of it. glued the head liner back on, changed a broken strut, the body is in superior condition. had new brakes, tires and half shafts, bearings, it ran very well.
I replaced the p.c.v., ran a can of sea foam through it, and the blue smoke cut down 75%.
I can do the test again and start a post, I was curious as to why the numbers were the same on the ends <1+5> and the middle 3, <2+3+4> were the same also.
I want to do the valve stem seals but if I know the compression is shot I may as well do the rings too,I don't want to waste the time doing only a half of a job.
The car still has very good pickup I put a throttle plate from a 960 on it, WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!
I tried on 2 occasions at a junk yard, to pull the heads from some different cars, first had a chunk missing from the front cam seal seat on the cylinder head. The second one the cam cover was R.T.V.ed to the cylinder head. <moron> I ended up breaking off all 6 pry points on the heads. I have 2 more cars to chose from, the job takes me about 4 hours to get the head ready to split from the block while in the car, no jack, no room to work but it is getting darn cold here in Wisconsin. This may have to wait until summer. good reason to get a replacement engine.
I love this site and, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this car.
I apologize for the rave and large story.
I figure, 4 new struts, tie rod ends swapable engine, and a couple days worth of work, I will have a car that runs for forever.

[obayha]

Glad to know she's still going You never got back to me about whether or not I need to swing by and help you put the new interior in, hope everything's well![/quote]


The Christmas stuff is here.. PM me with your time off.. Any warm day and I am up for some tune up. I'm riding with only one front seat now. In the middle of changing out the LEATHER. Long story. Pam says you need to come this way. Needs a crazy fix.
My car smokes worse than I use to.. .

Shane

[rspi]

I tested the compression in my cylinders the other day and came up with the following numbers.
150,170,170,170,150.

Those are low compression numbers and you have more than a 10% spread. Did you do the test with the motor warm/hot? They should be between 185-215.

I did the compression test with the engine warm.
I am hoping the numbers are due to the valves being gunked up.
A new <used> 109000 mile engine will cost me 1000.00
The car was neglected when I got it. the p.c.v. was packed with what looked like asphalt. smoke tar everywhere, I detailed it and cleaned the heck out of it. glued the head liner back on, changed a broken strut, the body is in superior condition. had new brakes, tires and half shafts, bearings, it ran very well.
I replaced the p.c.v., ran a can of sea foam through it, and the blue smoke cut down 75%.
I can do the test again and start a post, I was curious as to why the numbers were the same on the ends <1+5> and the middle 3, <2+3+4> were the same also.
I want to do the valve stem seals but if I know the compression is shot I may as well do the rings too,I don't want to waste the time doing only a half of a job.
The car still has very good pickup I put a throttle plate from a 960 on it, WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!
I tried on 2 occasions at a junk yard, to pull the heads from some different cars, first had a chunk missing from the front cam seal seat on the cylinder head. The second one the cam cover was R.T.V.ed to the cylinder head. <moron> I ended up breaking off all 6 pry points on the heads. I have 2 more cars to chose from, the job takes me about 4 hours to get the head ready to split from the block while in the car, no jack, no room to work but it is getting darn cold here in Wisconsin. This may have to wait until summer. good reason to get a replacement engine.
I love this site and, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this car.
I apologize for the rave and large story.
I figure, 4 new struts, tie rod ends swapable engine, and a couple days worth of work, I will have a car that runs for forever.

Well, if the car still runs good, I would just bump my oil changes to 3,000 miles and drive it until it stops running. You may get a few more years out of it.

[chrisV70]

Hello together,
just read this thread and found that my engine also is worth to reporting:
Until some BMW driver was smashing it because that guy did not understand curve physics, I had an 855 bought new in 1995. Upon accident, it had 682.000 km on the first engine (B5252). Thereof 250.000km on LPG. Compression at 670.000: 12,5 bar all 5 cylinders. Always perfectly maintained and run on synthetic oil only. Operated on lowest possible RPM and never abused by the right foot. Consumption: 8.3ltr/100km gasoline and 9.1 on LPG respectively. That WAS legendary quality. This motor easily would have seen a Million km...

[JRL]

An older guy named Doug who used to post on SS had over 500K on his 99 S70 NA
3 ETMs, original tranny!
Not sure if he passed because he stopped posting about a year or so ago.

Nice guy, we always chatted at Carlisle as we are about the same age

[thedancingfiddle]

I've got about 255,000 miles on my 1995 850 NA wagon. Leaks oil like crazy out of the cam seals, but otherwise runs great! (and yes, I did do the PCV system a couple years ago)

- Cedar

[VolvoC70T5]

C70 T5 2001 automatic has just passed 477.000 kms last week....still working, but had to rebuild another head due to blown gasket and 2 cracks at each valve on head 6k ago....it is also remaped with [email protected] bar