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Originally Posted by Ian21401
I suggest that the hose to the water pump rigid pipe could be relatively straight if the rigid pipe to the water pump was shortened so that it terminated under the exhaust manifold instead of behind the block under the distributor.
Using an excessive length of hose to the block stub could possibly work if space could be found to to bend it without kinking and without fouling anything else. The
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Good idea Ian but the one big problem would be having the rubber hose that close to the exhaust manifold. Bad design on Volvos part as they used something designed for LHD models and then created a hose to fit - if they created a "RHD return pipe" to live under the exhaust manifold and connect to the water pump inlet then a length of normal heater hose would do the job to link it to the matrix outlet.
Likewise if a piece of metal (copper?) pipe was created to link the output from the head to the right hand side of the engine/bulkhead area, a similar length of normal heater hose would do the job - an extended version of my "U" shape suggestion further up.