Hello!
I posted a sad story here a few weeks ago (now lost in the ether) regarding my old Volvo 850 and a compression loss problem on one cylinder. I was in two minds whether to scrap it fearing a piston ring had gone.
I couldn't let it go without doing a postmortem, so have managed to take head off and have good news... it was a burnt exhaust valve - so I should be able to fix it.
The bad news is that I managed to crack the cylinder head around the ends of one of the cams when I took it apart... so I'll need a new head.
Someone replied to me original thread who mentioned they had contacts in a scrap yard in Widnes (or Wigan). Can't remember who it was. Anyway it's an 850 2435cc 20V (B5254S) engine. If anyone knows a good Volvo scrap contact in or around Warrington please let me know.
Cheers
C
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