Slight hesitation upon initial acceleration 2003 V70 Topic is solved

[jonesg]

vida for a deep dive.

[unggthat]

Yup...I ordered an SSD hard drive with it all loaded to put into my laptop. Waiting to get that all loaded and then we'll see how it all rolls. I already have the DICE. We'll hope I don't need to get a used engine in there...that's a lot of work.

[unggthat]

It's fixed! I'm a bit of an idiot. Either I set the new timing belt off one tooth on the crank or it was like that when I got it...not sure. I did a leakdown test and got under 4% leakage on the first two cylinders, after only 130psi compression. That told me it was almost surely timing. So I dug it apart and saw that the crank was off.

What amazes me is that it ran so well. Obviously, not REALLY well. It had little power and trouble starting, but otherwise seemed ok. And no check engine lights. Got the timing reset, it fired right up, and has loads of power (well, as much as a NA V70 ever has).

Thanks everyone for following and giving advice. Glad this is finally over!