[Shop-talk] Volvo Engine Swap

[Patton Dickson]

depends if the engine is an interference engine or not.  In an interference
engine a broken timing belt can cause the valves to hit the pistons causing
massive damage.

I know some Volvos are, I don't know if the S80 motor is

Patton - Plano

On Jul 15, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Shannah Miller <shannahquilts at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Jim Stone <jandkstone99 at msn.com> wrote:
>
>> it only being the head/valves?  I was under the impression that a broken
>> timing belt was likely to trash the entire engine.  If the odds are that
>> rebuilding/replacing the head is enough, then I would want my brother to
know
>> that before dumping the car cheaply, even if I was going to be the
beneficiary
>> of that dumping.
>>
> Just one data point: I had the timing (I think it was a chain) go out
> in a 1969 Mustang, and it did not trash the entire engine.  We just
> had to replace the chain, and my friend drove it SF to LA later that
> weekend,