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Overheated - what might I have damaged? 900 1993

posted by  roger on  Mon Feb 24 17:59 CST 2014
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I had a catastrophic heater core failure in my 1993 940 Turbo Wagon. (~222k miles.) I thought it was just a tiny leak, and was heading home (4 miles), when the windows steamed up very quickly. Temp gauge was fine, then less than a mile later (at ~40mph) the temp gauge was pegged out at the top, so I shut it down and got towed home. As I've been working on the heater core, there is a LOT of coolant inside the car. (Carpets saturated, inside heater housing is covered...)

I am trying to decide what I need to look for when I next get it running. If you overheat a B230FT, what tends to break? I am contemplating pulling the head to check for warping. Would that tend to happen? Head gasket failure? What would you look for?

Thanks!

Roger

2005 XC90 4.4l V8 79k
1995 850T 265k
1993 940T 222k
1987 245 300k+ sold and still going





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