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ECC vents stop blowing upon acceleration. S90-V90

Well, i've already posted this under 700/900 but its as much a S90 question as a 900. S90 should be in the same 700/900 category!

Volvo 960 -96

I have read the FAQ about this problem. But I was hoping if others with the same problem can share their experience how they fixed it, or how they have tried. And what other tips there may be out there. Any help, or ideas how to get it fixed! And winter is coming up, I guess its gonna take quite a while to defrost the windshield when there is leaking out air from everywhere.

I don't know if its releated to this but when I accelerate (quite hard) I can hear a strange pulsating sound (sounds like blowing air). If that could be somekind of leak. Old-steam Locomotive sound almost. I don't know how the engine should sound so its hard to know.

Please help, I just bought this car and i'm quite newbie on it.
And the damn carsalesman who sold it never got it fixed when he had the car in for 4,5 weeks for repairs. I'm gonna fix it myself now, damnit. :(

Thanks!








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    ECC vents stop blowing upon acceleration. S90-V90

    You have it seems a vacume leak in one of the servoes that controls the air going through your climate control system. The servo that is on the driver side has two vacume lines running to it can be acessed by takeing the plastic
    panel out from under the sterring wheel and from the side of the console.
    It's one piece,there are a couple of servo's there under the cover to the left side of the console. The one that has two lines running to it is probally the culprit. You can look in the faq section and find out how to replace it, probally a 6 to 10 hour job or do what I did and pull one of the lines from the servo, attach a piece of tubing to the servo that you just pulled the line from and apply vacume to it. If it won't hold vacume that is the line that you work on. You cover the vacume port on the servo with a vacume cup, then on the vacume line running to it stick a golf tee or a machine bolt or what ever to keep vacume from escaping from that line. Most of the problems your describing comes from the servo that I've referenced. I belive that you would be looking for the orange vacume line going into that servo. I've ran mine like this for two years now and has worked fine, not as good as new but better than every time I got on the gas the air went some were else.
    Good Luck
    Poolman








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      ECC vents stop blowing upon acceleration. S90-V90

      hm, thanks for the tip! I'm somewhat worried though, its my first car with srs airbag and sips. What should I look out for when tinkeling with areas like that so I don't get killed while doing repairs? ;D

      I've heard of some that say I just unplug the battery for like 20 minutes and it should be clear of danger. Or? Is there some "safe" that should be applied? I looked through something about a safesprint for the sips in Volvo Vadis.

      By the way, do you know of any cheap homeequipment vacuum-pumps? I don't feel like buying a huge vacuumpump for hundreds of $$$. Preferably mailorder from somewhere in europe, or even better - Sweden. (Guess where I live!)

      Thanks again for your time!

      And all you other guys, if you have pictures of repeairs of just pictures of your car, engine or other things. Please, share! It can always come in handy when planning some work!
      I store all my car releated pictures at
      http://tammer.ath.cx/~farbrorn/archive/Mek/








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      ECC vents stop blowing upon acceleration. S90-V90

      Before you do that replace the check valve. It's a 10 min job and it fixed the problem for me.

      It's under the hood near the firewall
      --
      1991 740 B230F 135K miles








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        ECC vents stop blowing upon acceleration. S90-V90

        The check valve? You mean that little black and white plastic part? The size of a big toe? :) Near the cruise control unit?







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