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1994 Volvo 850 Turbo Wagon

Help, Advice and DIY Tutorials on Volvo's P80 platform cars -- Volvo's 1990s "bread and butter" cars -- powered by the ubiquitous and durable Volvo inline 5-cylinder engine.

1992 - 1997 850, including 850 R, 850 T-5R, 850 T-5, 850 GLT
1997 - 2000 S70, S70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70, V70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70-XC
1997 - 2004 C70

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Vortice55
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Re: 1994 Volvo 850 Turbo Wagon

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Sveedy wrote: 28 Feb 2023, 06:34 Probably need more history / info to figure out the no start. Nothing to do with your hoses.
What started all of this ? Was the car running before ? What have you tinkered with ?

The car was running like a champ she gave me like 30,000 to 40,000 miles starting at 186,000.

So far I've replaced the CV axles, sway bars, shocks and struts, fuel filter, spark plugs, fuel injectors, new intake gasket, and I think that is it.

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So I checked we have fuel in the rail.
Fuel complete.
Next spark then air.

A weird note full of oil but the whole top of the engine under the oil cap is bone dry.

I tried starting her but she revs and the whole engine shakes in a forward jolting motion, shakes the car.

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So when you say "revs", do you mean that the engine catches and starts, but immediately goes to high RPM's ?
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1996 850 Turbo GLH ( Goes Like Hell )
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No, like just goes vrmmm thmp vrmmm thump vrmm thmp

It doesn't turn over though

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Okay, if it was running before you did the intake manifold gasket, then it is probably something related to that process.
Might start with basics; full battery charge, plug wires in right order etc. Obviously hard to tell from your description, but kind of sounds like an ignition issue.
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