Coolant Recovery tank

[kallekula]

i bought a brand new Uro bottle years ago. Lasted about one week than a long of plastic cracked snd wather was spewing. Trying to avoid the Uro brsnd after that. Maybe quality has picked up?

[subzerocarfanatic]

I have an 8 second video to share but not sure how to upload it, not t he same as uploading images.
Ok, this is my first time uploading to YouTube and trying this so hope it woks, it is only 8 seconds because when i tried doing it before uploading to youtube it said the 16 second video file was too large

[ZionXIX]

I have an 8 second video to share but not sure how to upload it, not t he same as uploading images.

Upload to YouTube and share the link

[volvolugnut]

Are you filled with 50/50 coolant mix? Coolant has a high expansion factor - more than water. If you perhaps have more than 50/50 mix, it would need more room to expand. Is the cold (ambient) coolant level at the full level or higher or lower?
Do you have a direct way to measure top radiator hose temperature?
volvolugnut

[MoVolvos]

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The photo for the Rein part is even larger.

https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/volvo- ... 65-9445462

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...and they clearly have no gasket.

The black ring is the gasket.

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[foggydogg]

URO things are fine unless they touch:

Air, water, windshield washer fluid, coolant, power steering fluid, engine oil , ATF. Gear oil, differential oil, brake fluid, Haldex fluid, blinker fluid, grease, compressed air.

I left off vacuum.

"Blinker fluid" AKA free electrons covers my recent wrestling match with a URO turn signal/corner lamp for my '97 850. A good 45 minutes with a drawer full of tools, and my rusty Model Railroading-level skillset later and it finally went in place and worked.
Back on point, not sure what to make of the OPs comment about the cap seal; every one I've seen has that gasket, as depicted in the pic in the link. How else would this pressurised coolant system work?

[subzerocarfanatic]

What you guys are calling a gasket is just the center plastic part of the cap, am i missing something? Ahhh, now i see it at the base, yellow arrows, i will look.

[FLXC90]

But save the heartache, just pop for the OEM stuff, Whiteblocks DO NOT tolerate overheating. don't play Coolant Roulette, as Robert calls it. The plastic quality needs to be there, and the caps do degrade, even green OEM ones. If your old one is 20 years old, how long will a new OEM cap last, 20 years?

[subzerocarfanatic]

But save the heartache, just pop for the OEM stuff, Whiteblocks DO NOT tolerate overheating. don't play Coolant Roulette, as Robert calls it. The plastic quality needs to be there, and the caps do degrade, even green OEM ones. If your old one is 20 years old, how long will a new OEM cap last, 20 years?

I have learned a valuable lesson in restoring everything on this car, and what few things that were not OEM that I installed, I ended up going back and installing OEM, I don't wanna have to do major repairs like this again for a long time to come.
We have sunk probably $2500- $3000 in this car since last September, so almost a year now and we finally get to enjoy it, we just ordered a brand new top which will be a challenge to install but I think we are finally at the point now we can just start enjoying it and hopefully all the hard work and long hours working til midnight will pay off and be rewarding in the long run.
I now have a love for Volvo that I never had before, at least the older ones before the Chinese took them over.

[mecheng]

Volvo oem tank or nothing. It was $60 cdn at the dealer prob much cheaper in US, original tank lasted 210,000km and only had a small very slow leak not catastrophic like a cheap one