What did you do to your Volvo today? Topic is solved

[volvolugnut]

How lovely! Nearly $760 in parts and over 2 weeks of hard work nearly in the crapper. What did I do to my GT today? Blew a head gasket. Why? Because i used a semi-generic coolant thermostat. Going to buy a new thermostat and baby this car. Going to save my money to buy a post-88 740 wagon, 94-95 940, or 03-05 Honda civic before I go blowing money on a head rebuild. I still like the car. Going to keep it. As a matter of fact, Im going to record a feature and walk through video tomorrow.

Sorry to hear you have had another automotive misfortune. I am normally very cautious of cars that have obviously been abused. There may be other damage you can't see. Years ago, I bought a 940 from a local salvage yard that I thought I could get running. I did not know when I purchased, but it also had a bad head gasket. I later sold it for parts.

volvolugnut

[CIK7]

Sorry to hear you have had another automotive misfortune. I am normally very cautious of cars that have obviously been abused. There may be other damage you can't see. Years ago, I bought a 940 from a local salvage yard that I thought I could get running. I did not know when I purchased, but it also had a bad head gasket. I later sold it for parts.

volvolugnut

Im sorry to hear that. It hurts to encounter that.

[bmdubya1198]

Assuming it was overheated, I would just bring the head right to the machine shop and have it resurfaced and checked over thoroughly. Assume it's warped and needs to be skimmed. I've made the mistake of skipping that step... not fun to have to pull it all apart again!
Typically driving at 50 mph, the fan will not come on. It's idling in traffic that get the engine really hot. I'm assuming the previous owner probably overheated it and just didn't care.

[FLXC90]

Nope, that’s just a vent.

At least I’m pretty sure it is... it does look like there is a piece of hose on it for some reason.

does that vent line connect to the filler neck?

[bmdubya1198]

does that vent line connect to the filler neck?

No, it just remains open.

[Cookeh]

I sort of knew that a 30k mi pa commute would kill this car, and it seems to be doing just that. Days after addressing two dead fuel pumps, I got a clunk from N/S/F suspension (either a control arm or drop link probably, not worried about that really), but then something more sinister appeared.
A quarter of the way into my commute home last night the car developed a horrible screeching noise that is present at all speeds and increases in frequency with engine speed. The noise vanishes the second any pressure is put on the clutch pedal (doesn't need to be depressed, even 'taking up the slack' is enough to stop it).
What is this likely to be? Throwout bearing? But then my understanding of a throwout bearing would mean it should shriek when the clutch is depressed? DMF? But there is no rattle or vibrations. Clutch plate? Doesn't slip, I'd have noticed by now with all the beautiful vowel-hiding Welsh hills.

[abscate]

Perhaps a pilot bearing in the flywheel? Should be trackable with a hose pipe in your ear at idle.

Who needs vowels when there is typoglycemia!

“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe”

[Chuck W]

Probably the t/o bearing is taking a dump. There is no pilot bearing on these things, so it's not that.

T/O bearings tend to quiet down when under pressure.

It's there or something with a finger on the pressure plate or on the clutch fork itself that has caused the T/O bearing to shift a bit.

Regardless...the trans needs to be dropped.

[abscate]

Good time to call that UKguy who does driveway clutch Swaps in four hours

Why can’t we have nice things like that ??

[volvolugnut]

Who needs vowels when there is typoglycemia!

“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe”

You the King of Oxford Commas should be ashamed for posting such nonsense. Soon we will have total garbage postings like those other sites. Perhaps even texting bad language!





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