Please help me i had a 960 that blew the rear main seal. Now I have a 2001 v70 t5 with 60000 miles and I need to know where the flame trap is so I can check and make sure its clear. Thanks Volvored

As noted, there is no flame trap. However, there will a nipple / valve where the tube from the crankcase and oil separator connect to the air intake. That is where the fumes get sucked through and back into the combustion process. Unlikely that your separator box is plugged at such low mileage, but cleaning the valve is most critical every 30k or so. It has a very small hole that gets plugged, and that backs up the whole system (all of this is in the pre-01 turbo's, but I'm pretty sure it must be replicated in the '01 on but I haven't explored ours yet). On the older version, this valve is almost hidden down at the end of the air intake tube from air box to turbo inlet (has a couple of small tubes and an electrical connection on it). If nothing else, go to that air intake tube, and follow it all the way to the intake at the turbo itself. should be along there somewhere, maybe even more accessible if Volvo bothered to help maintenance when they re-did the routings of some of those tubes.
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Mike Sullivan '07 XC70, '95 855T (100k), '95 855 NA (148k). Past Volvo's: '85 744 (256k), '86 245 (165k), '86 245 (195k), '88 745 (208k), '91 745 (196k), '93 965 (147k) , '98 V70XC (98k).

When you find the heated vacuum nipple (it's heated to keep the oil in a gaseous state in colder weather from what I understand), take the hose off and ream it out real good. If you can use a pipe cleaner with a bristle built into it, all the better. I've heard of those with older models where it was so hard that they had to dril it out.
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1998 S70 T5 Emarald Green Metallic (125K), 2004 V70 2.5T Ruby Red (45K), Previous Owner of Black '94 850 Turbo Wagon (Sold at 140K and miss her). My cars have been running so well lately they've got me worried.

There is no flame trap on your car. There is however an oil trap/separator which is part of the pcv or breather hose system under the intake manifold.
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1998 S70 T5 Emarald Green Metallic (125K), 2004 V70 2.5T Ruby Red (45K), Previous Owner of Black '94 850 Turbo Wagon (Sold at 140K and miss her). My cars have been running so well lately they've got me worried.

Yup, as madeinjapan said, you have an etm car. First, call for the recall and get the computer update, (recalll#501) if your in the US. Next, warm your engine up really well and take out the oil dipstick and then take off the oil fill cap-if no smoke billows out you'll be ok and probably won't have to do the oil seperator. If you want to do it www.fcpgroton.com has the cheapest oem kits around, you'll need a intake manifold gaSKET as well since it has to be removed for complete pcv replacement. Good luck!