I think I just ruined my engine

Bit Shadenfreudy...
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I can't believe no one has pointed and laughed........but then when I did it I felt like a complete idiot bu all I had to do was reset the ignition timing. via the distributor and then every so often the timing would slip and be 180 degrees out.

Oh and I have never ever started a car with no oil in the engine, and I may have just rebuilt it and wondered why it sounded funny.

Shit outcome Neil, nothing like first hand experience of a mistake to make sure it never happens again. So, I guess the advice we always had to park in gear came with a caveat. It might fuck your engine, but it won't go rolling down the hill taking out a hundred grand of car and or human life! You seem quite clued up about Volvo parts, but if there's anything specific you need, pm me. I know someone who used to run a Volvo garage in Pisti-land (Wantage). He may have a heads up?

Shit outcome Neil, nothing like first hand experience of a mistake to make sure it never happens again. So, I guess the advice we always had to park in gear came with a caveat. It might fuck your engine, but it won't go rolling down the hill taking out a hundred grand of car and or human life! You seem quite clued up about Volvo parts, but if there's anything specific you need, pm me. I know someone who used to run a Volvo garage in Pisti-land (Wantage). He may have a heads up?

Motorlux of wantage?

The very same :-) Excpt I don't think it was called Motorlux back in the day.

friend of mine had to rebuild the top of his engine as the exhaust valves slipped and bent on the pistons. he did the work himself (with his dad) and all the parts came to around £400. that was for 8 exhaust valves, and various gaskets. bought direct from the vauxhall dealer. i think he said inlet valves cost half the exhaust valves.
just a heads up on cost.
tl;dr might not be TOO bad if it is only the inlet valves

best of luck

Cars cost a lot of money! Just got the V70 back from a 100k service where they replace the cambelt etc, and some muppet veered across our lane taking out the NS wing mirror, and it's body coloured sleeve is lying on the A303 somewhere in Somerset. 400 quid, too small to claim insurance but a hole in the wallet nonetheless.

The very same :-) Excpt I don't think it was called Motorlux back in the day.

It was in 88 i thing, when we started our volvo fleet purchase. Wonder if he know who crashed my car at its first service?

It was in 88 i thing, when we started our volvo fleet purchase. Wonder if he know who crashed my car at its first service?

That doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement! I'll have to ask him.

Cars cost a lot of money! Just got the V70 back from a 100k service where they replace the cambelt etc, and some muppet veered across our lane taking out the NS wing mirror, and it's body coloured sleeve is lying on the A303 somewhere in Somerset. 400 quid, too small to claim insurance but a hole in the wallet nonetheless.

400 wow did you get a reach round after being butt flucked

How about second hand?

Some twunt did do my passenger mirror today on my parked car.

That doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement! I'll have to ask him.

White volvo estate, 740 base, it was crashed on testing after a service. Got a new better car and higher model kept the old one too.

400 wow did you get a reach round after being butt flucked

How about second hand?

Some twunt did do my passenger mirror today on my parked car.

you can pick up passenger wing mirrors on ebay pretty cheap. i think its because drivers ones get knocked off more often (oncoming traffic clipping them)

£400 is crazy money for a wing mirror. i think i replaced mine for £15

nb. this was an old peugeot to be fair

Drunk thinking head on, when it fired did it sound like it back fired through the inlet or the exhaust ?

Shit outcome Neil, nothing like first hand experience of a mistake to make sure it never happens again. So, I guess the advice we always had to park in gear came with a caveat. It might fuck your engine, but it won't go rolling down the hill taking out a hundred grand of car and or human life! You seem quite clued up about Volvo parts, but if there's anything specific you need, pm me. I know someone who used to run a Volvo garage in Pisti-land (Wantage). He may have a heads up?

Inlet valves are £20 each new from Volvo, I need 10- so getting a second hand 20 Valve head would be a big help.

If your chap (or anyone else) has a lead on a head with the hydraulic lifters (NOT the solid lifters) then please give me a shout.

I'd prefer a naturally aspirated motor as the cams have a touch more lift.

Hopefully the car will live again by the end of the month!

you can pick up passenger wing mirrors on ebay pretty cheap. i think its because drivers ones get knocked off more often (oncoming traffic clipping them)

£400 is crazy money for a wing mirror. i think i replaced mine for £15

nb. this was an old peugeot to be fair

I remember replacing my peugeot 309 mirror on my first car, after spending hours scrambling around a scrapyard (do they still let you do that? climb on and over all the old stacked up cars?) I found one, 15 quid, then as soon as i fitted it I knocked the other one off when i gave a parked car too much room and clipped the oncoming traffic.

I replaced my girlfriend's mirror. It's black, and the other is blue, but you can only see both from straight on, so it doesn't matter.

Angry cams ftw

The engineer just phoned me up to play the sound of my engine revving at me.

Hurrah!

He's going to stick another years MOT on it as it's 3 weeks away from needing that done as well, so two birds and all that.

Now I just need to get to Leicester to pick the car up, and drive it home with one foot.

Anyone near Leicester fancy driving my car back to London?

What exactly happened to it then.
Was it a snapped cam belt?

Nope, the cams were timed perfectly in relation to each other.

However:

When the engine span backward it compressed the hydraulic tensioner that keeps the cam-belt taught.

Upon starting the engine the crank span without engaging the cam-belt enough to spin it in time, so effectively the timing was advanced approximately 25% when the tensioner brought the belt back up to operating tension.

Hence 17 of my valves hit the pistons.

Second hand turbo head from a scrapper, valves out, back-cut, lapped into the existing head, re-timed and fired up.

I am a happy man.

good shit

Have you learnt your lesson?

Any experiments should be done with a hire car.

Volvo is back, parked outside.

Ran beautifully all the way back down the M1, boost turned down to 1 bar and still pulling hard when needed.

The Alp Wagon returns!

Oh thank God for that. I'd been worried sick.

Bump for an excellent read.

I would not have been as calm during this. Whenever my old Audi was off the road (it was held together with duct tape and zip ties so this was quite often) I could think of nothing else until I'd fixed it. Unfortunately I insisted on always doing the work myself as cheaply as possible so this was always a lot longer than it ever needed to be.