Yep.. I usually watch it muted, while listening to something different that is only audio. You can learn a lot just be seeing how it comes apart.

What we are called are dinosaurs most techs specialized very few do it all and finding one who knows the old stuff is harder the schools just teach current technology mostly dealer Tech's

Maybe so, but a well paid technician specializes in a couple of brands. The all makes and models shop just isn't as efficient.

You just described me. I don't care what car it is, I just need to know what the inputs or outputs area and I can draw my test method for the validation and final reporting.

​@@johnz8210 some truth in that but those good customers are hard to get in certain low income areas.

@@scientist100 I agree, every location is different. What thrives in one area will not survive in another.

It was designed together with Porche in the late 1980's. That time Porche had financial difficulties and had to sell it's "secrets" by consulting other companies like Seat (VAG) and Volvo. Result was this Volvo modular engine 4/5/6 cylinders, manufactured from 1991 to 2016. No wonder that after 20 years the engine in this car is very reliable and has good performance too. Fuel consumption is the weak point of Volvos, but it is also due weight of the car (safety). My V70 with this engine (B5244T3) gets as low as 30 MPG at steady 60 MPH. Weaknesses are the random auxiliaries, like valve which grenated this engine. Mangeti Mareilli throttle body etc.

@@jannepo They had them in one of the VW cargo vans the one in a fleet of different vehicles it was the one always at the dealership with No 5 cylinder problems (The rest of the fleet were majority Toyota Hi Aces.)Specifically designed by Toyota from alterations the company wanted & got as they bought hundreds of thousands of them.

It was also used in the Ford Focus XR5 turbo

@@paulsz6194 Nice info

Was that the cam hubs? If so my mechanic knew to check and replace those but they are very expensive at $300 each.

@@zzoinks Yes. Only the exhaust was bad on mine, I could definitely feel a lot of play inward and outward. It was pricey but it solved the oul leak problem.

I think this and other non R engines have solid steel valves?

Sodium valves are a normal valve but the valve stem has a 1mm bore inside and sodium powder is inside. When the temp is high enough the sodium liquefies and becomes sloshing coolant to take heat from valve up into the stem where it can be conducted to guides which are in coolant cooled part of head. Hardened valves on turbo engines often fail to look like a cutting torch cut.

Ka-pow!

Replace the whole engine because of an alternator bolt?

@@paulsz6194 Yes indeed.

@@paulsz6194 Figure it out yet?

@@brianw8963 no, I guess that’s got me stumped.

@@paulsz6194 It was a while back and I don’t recall exactly which bolt it was, but it worked out and relieved the timing belt of its duty. Must have taken a while and hard to believe it didn’t make some noise, but it had about half of the bolt head eroded away.

If it was my vehicle I would have the head checked (at an engineering shop ) & replace all the valves not much more work with the right tools.If a head gasket has gone on one of mine I do this as a routine part of replacing the gasket .My logic is while you're there why not.

@@LesReeves I think Ivan has the right gauge on this, give it some life, make it drivable for the customer, ship it. Yalls cars back there don't have a long shelf life

Don't worry, not my first rodeo ;)

I did the S60, 2014 I believe and those turbo bolts in the back were the hardest to reach, very bad design if you ask me. Mine was a chain driven and not belt.

@scientist100 Yeah that one's a little more difficult. But imagine an inline 6, transverse, two turbos and all the intercooler piping. That's the T6 S80. Freaking nightmare. Turbo bolts are always a pain. Just too much cold hot cycles.

A lot of things are easy when you've done a few... 😅

@rkan2 Lol. Idk I just did turbos on a 2018 Fird Expidition. And that sucked! Next time I'm taking the cab off first.

6 years according to a woman who never changed the oil in her Kia Rio.

@@marshmower KIA will honor 10 years powertrain. If you'd try to change oil..on time. oh nvr mind.

It truly is a testament to the engineering. Even the brands I hate on like Ford, dodge and this euro trash.

@@bertblue9683 Volvo short of their current platforms, you know so like P3 this P2 platform, and before I think get an exclusion to the “Euro trash” branding. Because I mean look at it Volvo didn’t even throw a check engine light when ivan started it and ran into the garage and it has a freaking hole in it valve, and running almost as if I didn’t care I mean yeah it may not have been considered drivable, but the computer was figuring the math out without bitching. That’s not Euro trash. Euro trash wouldn’t even bother. It was just a bitch and lock you out. Euro trash like a Mercedes or BMW for example but you never finish looking through the list of check engine codes that this would spawn and generate.

95% of the cars that Ivan works on would be crushed in Germany as they would never pass what is called the TUV inspection. In Japan it is illegal to have a car over 5 years old as they send their older vehicles to the 3rd world.

The pry points under preload was the first method I tried per service info...might have worked if I had those special giant spreading pliers 😅

Why did those hundreds of Volvo engines need rebuilds?

@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics Broken timing belts mostly. But some burnt valves and blown head gaskets.

@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics You could try a pair of pry bars with the tips facing away from each other. Usually worked well for me.

​@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics probably because frugal older people people bought the volvo and were short tripping the cars, always carbon up everything thing..sometimes its the type of people attracted to certain cars

The 4 cylinders are failing left and right in those engines, only exhaust though.

​@@scientist100that's a 5 cylinder not a 4. No big deal though.

Thant is because hardly anybody has seen the inside of a volvo 5 cyl before. I work on them, and since 1993, when the white block engines came out. I've had the head off exactly ONE. It was because he ran it with a failed water pump till the timing belt stripped and bent every valve. Well, I think 3 or 4 weren't, but by that time, all get replaced. A very tough and well engineered engine using top quality components. Common as dirt in Seattle area, and the Northwest in general. And please, people, notice I said NOTHING about the plastic used in the interior, so don't go on about "well MY volvo had broken plastic from day one. " We all know the plastic didn't live a long and healthy life. I'm not sure anyone even knows the upper limit of life on a well cared for white block engine. It will easily outlive the Toyota (Asin Warner) tranny. That is good engineering. I've got red block customers with well over 500kmi on their 240's, and the later cars were hands down more durable.

@@607perkins Yep, not a common engine.

Nope my first Volvo invasive surgery 🙂

Said that at the begining.

@@LesReeves Well! I never!

Your definition of a really nice automobile is very different from mine. I believe in burying the dead not letting them live in ever more misery. Ivan needs to find a really nice car crushing operation near State College and use it far more often. Don’t they have any Toyota dealers in Pennsylvania? We had them in Pittsburgh.

@@satamanschmidt3428 To each his own.

@@satamanschmidt3428 The last four vehicles in Ivan's previous two video's were a rusted out Nissan Xterra, a rusted out 94 Ford Ranger, a KIA with a blown engine at 40K miles (only mentioned), and a Mazda 6 in limp mode but only needed a knock sensor once that was figured out. The Volvo looks like it might be a runner for a very long time and that's what I call a "really nice car" and worth putting some time, effort and money in. Those list above not so much in my opinion.🙂🤪 🤢

I'm thinking of good vibrations. So far the forecast is for sunshine 🙂🌻🙂 and clear 🔆 days 🌄 ahead. Is it a bird ? Is it a plane? No it's a 5 cylinder Volvo.

@@savagebob911 True!

Torquing a lot of head bolts recently 🤣

spark plug clamps?

I don't know what they're called but they screw into the head and hold the cam cover down while you loosen all the bolts. It's the thing that was on the diagram you pulled up which showed the pliers for separating the cam cover. I don't really know what tool is called

WOW that's insane 😂. Glad it turned out alrighty

Just Mobil1 full synthetic :)

I agree, these valve covers can crack if you don't follow the correct procedure. Undoing the bolts a little at a time until all the pressure is released minimises the risk but is quite time consuming.

And only 100hp 😅

@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics less 😅

There were like 40 valve cover bolts 😂

It's actually the pcv banjo bolt he's referring to. He showed it in his second video involving this particular car

Unlikely might actually crack the cover it is an alloy that stuff doesn't take the heat well.

He gets to go on little trips with his wife when he goes all over the country .The wife loves horses so they make them working holidays.