V70 II T5 Inlet Manifold Removal

[chrism]

Precopster,
You got me doubting that part number I threw out there. You're right - I looked back at my receipt from February 2013 and sure enough it says P/N 30731007. Description is "7A66NIPPLE". I installed it on my wife's 2.5T S80 but it seems I recall the parts counter guy saying it was actually an XC90 part at the time.

[V70IIT5]

Thanks for the advice. I have only managed to spend 15 minutes on the car today so I put the manifold back on the engine. It looked to me like the advice on removing the alternator and powersteering pump was good. How many nuts or bolts attach the throttle as a matter of interest? I wonder what a garage would charge to do all this!! It would cost more than the car is worth, just for an oil breather maintenance procedure! Every engine has its quirks, not as bad as an Alfa 916 GTV 3.0 alternator job I suppose - subrame off!!

[V70IIT5]

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[chrism]

I can't recall if the throttle body is fastened with nuts or bolts, but I know there are four of them in a perfectly square pattern. 10mm hex to remove them. Once that's out of the way and the manifold is out of there you're pretty much home. At that point you can decide if you want to remove more stuff, but I didn't find it necessary.

Did you find it difficult to remove the end manifold bolt next to the thermostat?

[precopster]

Yep 4 10mm bolts pointing skyward for the throttle. If I hadn't just put together the head on my 2001 V70 T5 all this would have been a fuzzy blurr!!

I always just LOOSEN the bottom row of bolts because the manifold is slotted on the bottom row and remove the top row of course. That elusive corner bolt is best dealt with a 1/4 inch extension with a universal joint for the 10mm socket.

[V70IIT5]

I don't know what the fuss is about with the bottom left corner bolt of the intake manifold, I used a narrow drive with an extension, and I undid the bolt but was careful not to remove it.

[V70IIT5]

I'm just worried that the oil drain to the sump is blocked in the block itself. I don't have time to take the sump off and clean the channel. How common is it that this drain in the block becomes completely clogged?

I figure mine isn't that bad yet. It has blown oil down to the PCV valve, through the turbo and the pipework to the intake after the intercooler, but not much at that far point. Running cold there is no smoke at the dipstick, just when its warmed up. The oil had coated the sleave inside & out of the air pipe from the turbo to the intercooler, it was dripping and a film had coated the rear bulhead, subrame and block.

The other thing, anticipating having to remove sludge from the block oil drain, I am going to use a car vacuum and screwdriver to try and avoid any dropping into the fresh oil in the sump. I figure if it does drop down though it will most likely sit at the bottom of the sump rather than get sucked up by the strainer.

Any educated advice would be appreciated. I wonder what the symtoms are when the oil drain is 100% blocked as opposed to my situation?

[precopster]

Thin wire wrapped into multiple strands poked down the block ports does the job. More important to clean the ports than to worry about contaminating clean oil which can be drained in a jiffy.

Clean PCV ports means you don't blow seals out, especially the rear main seal which is more than 14 hours of work to repair.

[V70IIT5]

Would anyone have the torque setting for the banjo bolt please? Thanks

[abscate]

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