Hello mate, is the oil going into the antifreeze? If so it could be the head gasket. It would be worth using a compression tester to see if the piston rings are OK. Hope this helps a bit! Hi, I've just kept running it and keeping an eye on things. Oil seem to be fine, same for antifreeze. Fixed the...

Hello man, I am afraid I don't know what the extra hole in the gasket is for. Could the diaphragm of the pump be leaking and pumping your the oil into the petrol?? Good luck with it. Update: leak is minimal, if I put my finger on the bottom of the fuel pump I can feel and see 1-2 drops worth of oil...

The idle solenoid vibrated out of its place and went haywire due to bad ground connection. Fixed it but now the battery is showing 13.2-13.8 volts when the car has been turned off for a couple of hours, and it is hissing slightly. I checked the voltage when running and it fluctuates between 13.5-14....

Man I cannot get rid of this leaking fuel pump. New gaskets and rtv, no longer leaking from the spacer but now it is leaking ever so slightly at the bottom of the fuel pump itself. And everytime I check the oil it has gone down drastically even though there is no oil other than the tiny droplets fro...

Hello, it was in the engine bay. I've got a question for you. Do you know what this hole in the fuel pump spacer is meant for? I made some new gaskets and I saw some gaskets with a second hole below the fuel pump pivot, and some gaskets that do not have this. What is the purpose of the second hole?...

Looks the same as in my -79. I didn't get any tips or tricks from the manual or from any forum to help me remove my stereo. What you need to do is basically unscrew 3(?) screws from the left side of the radio and from the right side. The screws are holding a plastic plate in place near the feet of t...

Ok thank you for the info. I will roll with the mechanical one for a while then and see what I do. I took apart the pump and noticed that the spacer had a crack in it from someone torquing it too hard. Made some new gaskets out of a milk carton and put a ton of silicone gasket paste everywhere, it s...

Now that I am going through some old volvo forums I keep reading about "m46r". ANd I know that for volvos transmissions the R stands for rear, and it has the electric overdrive. I can only find people commenting about it on volvo 240 turbo and 740 turbo, is it some special gearbox they used? But it ...

Fuel pump is leaking and I'm thinking instead of just changing the gaskets or eventually the fuel pump. Why not put in an electrical one?
HOwever does anyone know if the one that Dai is selling is good enough to use without a regulator?

Just out of curiousity. WOuld these be possible to change with any other expansion tank? We have Biltema in Sweden that has tons of car parts for old Volvos, excluding 300 and 400 series. Would it be possible to just buy a 200 series expansion tank and install it?

Hi All, I'm totally new to this forum, a Volvo enthusiast, Volvo employee, classic car enthusiast, and a dutch guy living in Sweden, so what could be more fitting then owning a 340/360 :-) I'm hoping to buy one after a settled down and bought a house or apartment. I read on the swedish wikipedia pa...

Rough idling solved by just adjusting the carb again. Runs great. However I am unsure if I am doing it correctly or not. I twisted the idle mixture screw all the way in then backed out 2 turns with the idle at 1000rpm-ish. Then I just adjusted the mixture until the engine ran smooth and dropped arou...

Nice one. You are right suspect the idle solenoid. It's easy to check if it works reliably by disconnecting and reconnecting it with the ignition on and you should hear a click. I suspect though that it is fuel supply and air leaks in the hoses. You need to check all the rubber hoses and clips espe...

Man I think I am getting into this whole mechanic thing. Car battery started hissing as I was letting engine heat after cleaning the cooling system and etc. I remembered that the old battery did the same thing before it spewed acid (boiling battery). I changed that one because I thought it was old a...

I am so sorry to hear of all these issues. I am glad the car is better and hope that the new clutch cable sorts the problem. Any idea of the type of filming they were doing would be useful, e.g. street, country lanes, rolling road even maybe ? ? I have read that film work is essentially guaranteed ...