z31jaime

Ok so I've been working on the wifes 850 (NA)   for the last few weekends and can't figure out whats going on.  Day 1 showed up with a leaking radiator and overheating... so I replaced the radiator...

 

car still overhearts...

 

so I replace the thermostat....

 

car starts boiling coolant out of the cap....

 

Replace cap...

 

still boiling over....

 

removed tank and find that the little nipple on the top (that bleeds into the pipe for the thermostat) was clogged up....

 

Replaced with NEW tank... 

 

car ran fine in my drive way for 45min.  no overheating.    Drove it all night no problems.  Next morning work up and did about an hours drive on it, only to get home to...... you guessed it... empty coolant tank and overheating... 

 

so I figured maybe it finally opened up the thermostat and chugged all the water in blew all the air out... so I fill it up, let the car sit in my driveway again for 30min.... no over heating.  Take it for a spin and I get 3 blocks and its overheating....

 

 

Now its not Pagging out on the red, its just climbing past the normal spot and gets to right at the red line.  Never above it.  If I'm driving its fine, I assume the wind cools the motor, but if I sit at a light to long it climbs up... 

 

In the driveway I know the fan is on and keeps the car at temp.  But I'm wondering if as I'm driving I might be shorting something in the fan as I cant tell if its on or not...

 

Not mixing water in the oil... not smoking... did a compression test and everything is even all across.  No missfire nothing.  car runs fine. 

 

Honestly the under hood temps on my wagon feel hotter than this motor when I pull up (but the wagon is turbo).  but what would be causing it to loose fluids?  NO visable leaks.  Heatercore is bypassed. 

 

TL:DR

car was overheating, Replaced all the cooling system parts, ran fine for a few hours, then started to overheat again. And is boiling fluid over.  No signs of headgasket failure.  No leaks.   WTF would cause it to overheat when driving, but not when sitting in my driveway? 

 

 

OK, well I've searched online to try to find fabric to match the new seats in my wagon, but I can't seem to find anything even close to it.  I'm sure it could be some crazy custom fabric Volvo had made for the seats but I would assume you could get it some how should an upholstery shop need to recondition the seats....  

 

I called Volvo and they wanted to sell me new seats, I don't need seats because my seats are in great shape  I need the fabric because I want to do the headliner and door inserts to match the seats....

 

OK on with the photos of this elusive fabric....

 

 

I got these seats out of a 99+ v70 base.  

 

this pic is fresh out the Junk yard... its looks much better after I cleaned it.

 

 

I would mine if the pattern was slightly a different size as long as the color was correct.   Any help would be great guys. 

so, i remember long ago seeing a thread about how to install a power passenger seat into a volvo that didn't have it but I couldn't find it in the search?

What I want to do is install c70 seates into my 850... but they are both powered... leaving me with the problem of how do I get the passenger side one to move?

Anyone have a link to that thread or can point me in the correct direction?

So someone posted a link to this site on the motor dress up thread and I was looking at this....

http://www.partsforv...roducts_id=6249

Anyone have it?

anyone know if you can run c70 seats in an 850? I did a quick search and only found about swapping x70 seats into 850's but nothing specific about the C70...

I assume the convertables would be different because of the seat belt situation but what about hard tops?

any info would be greatly appreciated. thanks.