1998 Volvo V70 misfiring in cylinder 3 no compression

[E Showell]

I have been down this road before. My unsolicited advice would be find a good used engine and swap in by a shop. Expensive, but not a whole lot more than a head job if a shop is going to do the labor on that.

[Soldiersax]

Those numbers are almost identical to mine. 98 s70 with approx 190k miles. No compression on 3, 30 dry, 40 wet looks like it’s a burnt valve now. The shop the other day didn’t say anything about a blown head gasket, but after the compression test, it smokes like hell. Runs very choppy as well. Shop only wanted to change all the fuel injectors because they said 1 and 2 were leaking (which they’re not) and they said valve cover seal bad, but it’s not. I was getting ready to change the pcv system because it’s probably been clogged forever, so I bought the kit to do the job. Not sure if it’s worth it now

[E Showell]

Definitely not worth doing the PCV now. Two realistic choices:1) viking funeral; 2) engine swap.