Well to start with your in the right place. Here's a few things I've learned. Over the next few months you should:
Get a small wire brush or old tooth brush and some "contact cleaner" lots of cleaner ( consider buying stock in a contact cleaner company) start at the head lights and work back removing and cleaning every electical connection.
When you are finished go back to the head lights and start again. Because a:you missed some b: some of them are not clean enough and 3: it's like painting the golden gate bridge, by the time you're through it's time to start again.
Get some carberator cleaner (lots of carberator cleaner) clean everthing Throttle body, intake, iac valve,NOT THE AMM,and just keep cleaning.
Check for vacuume leaks, now check again, NO YOU DID NOT get them all,Check once more, maybe, but don't rule out the possibility of a vacuume leak.
Remove the phrase "That can't be the problem I already checked that" from you vocabulary.
Know that "New Part" does not always = good part.
if you are working on your Volvo and something is in the way TAKE IT OFF it'll save time and skin. it was probably designed that way.
If it "Stalls once first start in the morning then runs fine" consider this:it's a twenty year old car with enough miles on it to wear out two caviler's and a yugo, sometimes I have a little trouble getting started in the morning myself.
Just a few thoughts,
Bret
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rust free in west Texas

So true. And if you get to the point where actually you find a Volvo that you have replaced enough (all?) parts, wires and hoses......KEEP IT...because a) the car will be damn reliable and b) you'll never get the money back out of it :)

You have just moved into stage 2 of Volvo ownership.

PS Just replace ALL the vacumm hoses when you get an "oldie" it's easy and cheap and you can almost rule them out (but see Rule #4)...and I buy the stiff brass brushes by the gross for electricals.
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http://www.fidalgo.net/~brook4/oilslubesfilters.html

ahh but there are places other than hoses that can leak vacumm. so keep looking.
Bret
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rust free in west Texas

true enough....but at least the hoses look pretty.....;0
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So why didn't you write this BEFORE I tried to clean (then replace) my formerly perfectly good AMM?

Heh heh. That is so true.

But.. have you replaced all the vaccum hoses yet? Most of them (on my cars) seem to have an inner diameter of 3/16" or 5/32" (close enough), and rubber hose is cheap enough at about $0.40/ft. Or you could go all fancy for about $2.00/ft and get some Silicone hose that you'll probably never have to replace.

- alex

'85 244 Turbo
'84 245 Turbo

And replace the 25 amp fuseholder that those crazy Swedes thought would survive constant exposure just fine without being watertight.

Maybe you silicone the antenna mount area while you're at it as sometimes that leaks water onto the equally questionable fuseholders on the driver's kickpanel.

Don't forget to repair or replace the engine wiring harness that biodegrades just as the engine gets broken in.

Fantastic car designers, questionable electricians.

So what's the OLD Volvo you're talking about??
1986 is a NEW Volvo!!
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George Downs, The "original" Walrus3, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

As with me as well "it's not the years it's the miles"
Bret
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rust free in west Texas

...and every fall, say a few kind words to the blower motor. Praise it for having a nice full armature, nicely shaped brushes and beautiful symmetry in its bushings.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore