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Blown head gasket 200 1981

posted by  Ola on  Thu Mar 6 01:01 CST 2003
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Not too difficult, provided you have got the necessary tools and a manual of some sort, you need at least to know proper torques and sequences as well as a few other useful hints. You also would need a decent place to do the job, as it inevitably will take a day.

The job consists of course in lifting of the top including dismantling of all the stuff above, then it's an inspection which will show if it's just a qusestion of cleaning and fitting of new gasket or if the top will have to be machined at some workshop. On the older Volvo engines where everything was steel this was rarely necessary, but with aluminium one should expect that the top may require machining.

In brief; get the manual and a gasket kit, tools (torque wrench), read carefully before you start, install your self and you'll have an interesting job before you.






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