Chaosrob 1999 v70R 601 save, Going to need a lot of parts, lot of help and do a lot of reading.. Topic is solved

[chaosrob]

I believe it may have went down due to a fuel pump but of course there could be a lot more wrong with it as well. I really want to clean it out and make more clean before getting overly involved with diving into all the mechanicals

Who would just leave a decent R wagon out in a field? Unless it quit and they didn't have the money to pay to fix it.

[chaosrob]

So far everything powers up and works, hatch pop, power windows, door locks. The ignition tumbler will oft spin until it catches and is goofy to remove the key so I assume that will need replaced so if any of you could point me to the best replacement I would appreciate it. The window switches have some peeling although they work and my right passenger interior panel fell apart when removing due to exposure with the broken window. If anyone has an interior door panel in good condition and dark grey I would be a buyer

[scot850]

For your spinning key. Try some WD-40 in the key barrel. It could be sticking key sliders. Once it has dried, try using some graphite powder on the key to see if that helps them move. I had to replace a really worn key on one car and that also fixed the issue as the key edges were so worn the key did not recognise the shape.

Neil

[abscate]

You can run without the tumbler but the key has to be near the grey antenna ring to start a 1999 - and this was the first year where the coding backs dont work

New key tumbler from Volvo is $500+

[chaosrob]

Thank you, I will

For your spinning key. Try some WD-40 in the key barrel. It could be sticking key sliders. Once it has dried, try using some graphite powder on the key to see if that helps them move. I had to replace a really worn key on one car and that also fixed the issue as the key edges were so worn the key did not recognise the shape.

Neil

[chaosrob]

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You can run without the tumbler but the key has to be near the grey antenna ring to start a 1999 - and this was the first year where the coding backs dont work

New key tumbler from Volvo is $500+

[chaosrob]

Well decided to take the "easy" route and cut an access hole in the floor to change the pump, talk about opening pandoras box....

Apparently at some point preciously an attempt was made to change this pump. Both of the quick connect fittings on the pump were broken and the entire cover was filled with epoxy and silicone lol. The tank was full of wonderful orange gas and they broke the cap and secured it with a big worm clamp around the outside. the float was completely rusted off the cartridge and the steel lines looked like they were raised from the titanic.

No way around it now the tank has to come completely out to be cleaned. Not looking forward to this job, it is going to stall for a bit since my 71 judge is currently on my lift and nowhere near ready to come off.

Are the fuel lines still available or are they disco?

[chaosrob]

Stupid question but will for quick disconnect fittings work on the Volvo pump?

[abscate]

You have to make up new lines in NiCopp, which is not hard. You do need to roughen the NiCopp ,to get a good clamp force on rubber hose to make it stick

[chaosrob]

Moved cars around to get it on the lift. Current status is soaking all bolts for the subframe in kroil before attempting to remove