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Leaking blocks, t-belts

posted by  someone claiming to be Sammy on  Mon Sep 26 09:19 CST 2005 [RELATED]

Volvo was aware of a few complaints with the earlier 960 6 cyl blocks and I've met a few techs at school who claimed to see those but I really don't think that it was all that common. I've never seen one. It was also something that couldn't be ignored as they wouldn't hold coolant and couldn't just be patched. I think that by now, those blocks have all been replaced.
Volvo's attitude on those were when they were seen leaking (under warranty which they were then), replace the blocks. No recall.

If any early 960 6s had t-belt failures, it'd be because of their very short belt life intervals which were probably ignored by many. The '93 960 had a 30K t-belt replacement interval.

As for Tom, one's best to ignore anything that guy ever wrote here as he wasn't exactly a good source of info IMO.






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