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B230FT water hose early failure warning

posted by  Aye Roll on  Mon Oct 25 11:37 CST 2004
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Another example of "oil and rubber don't mix!"

Oil leaks contribute to early failures of top waterpump seals, belts, radiator hoses, and timing belts, the last of which has catastrophic effects for owners of 16-valve 740 and 940 models, all 960s, 850s, 70, 80 and 90 series Volvos.

Those of us with the regular 8-valve motors are still subject to failure, but not bankruptcy from oil-weakened timing belts.

Oil attacks the rubber parts, making them swell and split. If you see hoses that are bulging around the clamps, fix the oil leaks and replace the hoses before something worse happens.
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: '87 244DL/M47- 234K, '82 245T/M46-182K, '89 244DL/AW70- 212K Not too distant past: 86 244DL 215K, 87 244DL 239K, 88 744GLE 233K, 88 244GL 147K, 91 244 183K






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