90 740Ti hodgepodge.


I finished putting on my new P/S bracket and anti-roll bar endlinks.

While the belt was off the P/S pump, the lack of pressure on the front seal let it drain the P/S system almost completely.
I filled the reservoir, drained the P/S pump, but not too thoroughly, and went to get an hour of sleep before I headed for the airport.
My Timing belt is aproaching 75,00 miles.
Lately, when I ran the car and had my head under the hood, I heard an inconsistent ratling noise like a screw banging onto a metal plate. I was thinking maybe the A/C condenser was not well lubricated from lack of use, but maybe it was the belt tensioner?


About 1.5 miles from my house, I had a problem. I never exceeded 2200 rpm, and the pump made very little noise.
I was accelerating slowly at about 40 when I head a sort of whoshing, whizzing sound and several things happened:
-Poer loss
-Tach dropped to about 200 rpm
-car started slowing down
I cut the engine, dropped to neutral, and pulled over.
I found no check engine lights on, started it with no problems. It idled fine.
I tried to limp it home to my brother's car, and the car would not move. The tach dropped to ~200 rpm when I put it in gear.
I figured what the hell and pulled the AMM cable to try "limp-home" mode.
Same result, but now I have a CEL on.

So, having to get to the airport, I hitched a ride from a friend nearby and got my other car.

I think the timing belt slipped several teeth. I don't have any timing light or way to check it and I won't be back in town until wednesday afternoon.

Does anyone else have a different suggestion?
I'm not going to get into timing by myself because don't want to bother or to buy or make a timing light. I am also not going to be in town. I trust a couple mechanics who did the belt last time to do it, but any direction I could add would be helpful because they are not Volvo mechanics per se.


A Very frustrated Will

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1990 740 Turbo, on its way to stock specs, maybe beyond