I'll never get used to the gasoline stink when I fill up, but now that I'm down to a half tank, I notice that car suddenly reeks of exhaust. Yes, I already pulled the broken mainfold and leaking gasket and replaced them with new gaskets and a new (unbroken manifold). I see no evidence of leakage around the exhaust manifold, or at the downpipe (also a new gasket).

What I have been doing is playing with the idle and mixture settings trying to get the car to run sooth again. I think it's fairly lean now (1.5 cranks down from the topmost mixture setting) and so I'm wondering if this sudden stink of exhaust has to do with a too lean mixture (seems unlikley, but what do I know?)

The body does have a few holes, most of which have been patched. If anything, there are far fewer holes and gaps than when I first brought the car home, and I almost never smelled exhaust then, so I'm wonder how else I could have caused the rapid derioration. We were driving with the windows down at it was terrible. When I stopped it caught up to us and it was also terrible.

I know that it could be a busted exhaust pipe, or a bad seal at teh manifold, but both were checked earlier, and nothing unusual was found.

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1967 P220 Amazon, 1972 145S, 1976 245 DL, 1983 245 DL, 1986 745 GLE, 1990 745 GL, 1995 945....
You mean to tell me that Volvo makes cars that are *NOT* Wagons?!?