Cooked B200FT Wentworth Estate 86k

[Steve 940]

Normally I like my better half’s cooking, but this morning she borrowed the car to drop some furniture to her sisters some 15 miles away.

Just had call, and stranded 1 mile from home, car had cut out….. on getting there, even from 10 yards away there was a very distinct ‘cooked engine’ smell.🙁🙁. One very empty expansion tank, and signs of a major leak somewhere on the left front side as water sitting on main chassis rail

On having a ‘full and frank’ discussion about what had happened, 😀😀she said an orange light appeared on dash, heater went cold then some odd noises around 10 mins later, 10 mins later!! Well the light was orange not red was the response. On checking, it was the lambda light.

Oh well, now what to do?? as I have rather foolishly grown fond of the old thing since joining Volvo ownership a few years ago.

1. Source a replacement engine, and fit myself. Gulp, have no prior experience on doing these. Always a bit of a lottery I suppose, as all spare engines will probably be described as good runners.

2. Get my garage to do a swap for me.

3. Cut my losses and look for a 245/745

4. Just forget all about this messing around with motors of a certain age.

Any guidance or suggestions most welcome, and any pointers of how to assess if the actual engine has managed to dodge a bullet and survived also most welcome.

Cheers
Steve


PS just poured some water in to see if an obvious leak source, and almost immediately a lot of water coming from bottom hose/ outlet. As it’s a new rad probably not even a year old, I had to shut the bonnet and walk away🙁🙁