Still lovin the old girl.....trying to keep her marching on. On the whole its going alright.
This is a bit of a budget runner so you'll have to excuse me for my tightness.lol
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Did some research and looked at all the ebay intercoolers piping and such like and ended up going with an isuzu npr intercooler.
very much the same size as a standard volvo one but with better flow and efficiency.
I know its a second hand truck intercooler but they were a well recieved upgrade in years gone by.
I did flush it out before offering it up....went on well even using standard volvo piping and car is certainly more responsive but just need to finish it properly before i put more pics on.
Now the bad bit...
Did another oil change....mmm car has 240k mls on her and think she's been neglected abit. just don't know how bad the oil sludge may be after all these years, have run an oil flush through each time hoping it will be helping.
Getting a bit of positive crankcase pressure again and i've gone through the pcv system so ordered an engine compression gauge kit so i can see what the damage is.....
Possibly with the miles it could be rings or head but i'm gonna give it a go and replace /service any parts on this engine rather then swap another lump in.....gotta learn somehow as i've not gone any deeper than valve stem seals on a mk3 escort or rings and pistons on my bikes 20 odd years ago.lol
I'll post up the readings when the bits get here,i cant do a leak down test as no compressor but i believe if one cylinder reads low ( 15% or more ????) if a put a smidgen of oil in there doesn't it seal the ring enough to raise psi on a retest..if it doesn't then its the head..yes
I've got 10w40 synthetic in but thought i could even get away with another oil flush and 15w40 maybe if the readings aren't too low and that may help...or is that being too tight???
I told you i was a noob.....
OOOOh if anyone has an A or V cam from a b2** 8v n/a then i may be interested.....
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