It looks like my 99' V70 T5 (engine B5234T3) lost its ability to turn its wheels.
It was gradually going from bad to worse and finally the releasing of the clutch pedal resulted only in the grinding noise from the engine. At first depressing the clutch pedal and putting in the first gear resulted in a bit of shaking of the car. And then one day a total failure. I discounted the possibility of the transmission being bad since the oil that I drained was clear like new.
I took the engine out, separated the transmission from the engine and unscrewed the clutch pressure plate from the flywheel. I don't see anything dramatic there. The driven plate still has its groves visible so not much wear there at all. The pressure plate and diaphragm spring with no visible damage, slave cylinder moving back and forth.
While I am that deep in the engine I will replace the clutch with the LUK clutch rep kit (22-031) but I am not quite sure if this is the root cause.
Between the crank shaft and the transmission there also is a flywheel and in volvos we have so called dual mass flywheel with torque limiter to protect the clutch, etc. It is supposed to spin a bit if the engine torque is too high. Since this is a suspect I checked the dealer price for that - $775.39 - kind of high for something that I would want to replace just in case.
My question is - did anybody go though this and has any comments of advise to share.
thanks
-Peter
It was gradually going from bad to worse and finally the releasing of the clutch pedal resulted only in the grinding noise from the engine. At first depressing the clutch pedal and putting in the first gear resulted in a bit of shaking of the car. And then one day a total failure. I discounted the possibility of the transmission being bad since the oil that I drained was clear like new.
I took the engine out, separated the transmission from the engine and unscrewed the clutch pressure plate from the flywheel. I don't see anything dramatic there. The driven plate still has its groves visible so not much wear there at all. The pressure plate and diaphragm spring with no visible damage, slave cylinder moving back and forth.
While I am that deep in the engine I will replace the clutch with the LUK clutch rep kit (22-031) but I am not quite sure if this is the root cause.
Between the crank shaft and the transmission there also is a flywheel and in volvos we have so called dual mass flywheel with torque limiter to protect the clutch, etc. It is supposed to spin a bit if the engine torque is too high. Since this is a suspect I checked the dealer price for that - $775.39 - kind of high for something that I would want to replace just in case.
My question is - did anybody go though this and has any comments of advise to share.
thanks
-Peter
