Volvo diesel, more thoughts....

[Eyvind Spangen]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 07:38:36 -0700, you wrote:

>Not only was it a big mistake putting that rough engine in a passenger car,
>Volvo
>has made it a throw away car by making the parts, at least here in the US,
>either unavailable or priced so high that people will junk the car rather
>than do the engine.
>We did a valve job on one a couple of years ago and spent 3 months looking
>for a rebuildable core head, finding one after looking at several, and still
>having to replace everything but the head itself and the camshaft, this on a
>head with 80K miles on it.  The original head with 60K on it was not
>rebuildable.  Volvo used parts guys say there's a long waiting list for
>engine parts on these suckers.  Looks like VAG had the last laugh here.

All parts that aren't specific to the number of cylinders, are the
same as the 4-cyl 1.5/1.6 VW diesel found in old VWs.. Pistons, piston
rings, valve assembly etc. are the same. The cylinder heads have a bad
habit of cracking, then you're in trouble.. A new I5 diesel cylinder
head runs about $1500.. :-(

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Regards,
ES