Since fuses are cheap, I replaced them all. One that was fairly new fell apart soon after it was removed. Unfortunately, I had already removed all of them and am not sure which circuit it came from.

The distributor cap had been recently replaced but I checked it too.

So far it is running fine. I have not had much chance to drive it and am limiting my daughter to daylight driving with that car till it proves itself.

Once again, this board rocks!! Thanks guys.

I would lift the distributor cap and look for condensation under the cap - better yet change the distributor cap even if it's a cheapy from the auto store or wal-mart. Check the coil wire connections and make sure they're tight - perhaps pull one terminal at a time and wire brush a little then reinstall. If it was running good, then rough, it could be gas but I'd suspect electrical first as in getting fire to the plugs especially if it was damp outside at the time.

I have replaced the inline fuse behind the battery....that was the fix last summer. I'll try the other suggestions as soon as I'm able to get it home, probably Thursday evening.

Thanks

Please check and clean the # 4 and 6 fuses or any others that might be suspicious. These little things can cause more trouble than anything. The second thing is usually the fuel pump relay. Inside passenger side, behind glovebox. Remove box and look for white relay. Jump #30 and 87 on the relay connector to bypass it and turn the pump on. If your car has less than 1/2 a tank of gas then you might try filling it up and see if that works. If so then you have a bad prepump in the tank. Also famous for going out. They also have a small hose connecting the prepump to the metal line coming out of the tank. It seems to develop holes and will not work properly. Other than that the last thing that I can think of is the Flywheel sensor. Not lilkly but still they do go out..Max
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That would have to be alot of bad gas. I've seen volvos sit for 5yrs with less that 1/4tank and with some starting fluid fire right up, ran a little rough but ran.
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A fuel pump can be intermittent or die altogether, there is no one set way. It happens so rarely though, compared to problems like the fuel pump relay, the wiring for its power under the hood and 25A fuse, you'll want to investigate the simpler, less expensive possibilities first. You want to be the one to avoid the usual approach to do it yourself service, that of guessing and replacing the part Harry replaced to fix a similar issue, especially with something like a fuel pump. The odds in a 240 volvo favor electrical.