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'87 B230FT - Starts now (for about 3 seconds) 700 1987

posted by  NavalGunner1125 on  Mon Jan 24 10:11 CST 2005
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Hi Norm,

Sure thing. This flooding issue has been amplified by a few external environmental factors (like -25 F temps)..

I'd like this to be a lesson for future reference on here. Could save someone else from pain. This is my first and only Volvo, I used to own and wrench on several E21 BMWs. They just don't cut it up here in the snow and ice. Great little cars though.

For some very odd reason I find myself having fun working on this beast. I'm leaving the plugs out of the head overnight to ventilate the cylinders and will do a retry in the mid morning tomorrow and post the outcome.
I am betting the Volvo guy in Concord, NH was right about the flooding.

I bought this 740 from the service manager at Merrimack Street Volvo in Manchester, NH a few years back in spring 2000 when I moved back from Australia. I want to try to get 300K out of it, I'm at 195K now. Thanks in advance.
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Rich George






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