Need advice! Volvo truck draining my money one gallon at a time!!!

Discussion in 'Volvo Forum' started by ela, Mar 10, 2013.

  1. ela

    ela Light Load Member

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    My Volvo 670 ISX Cummins is driving me crazy. Antifreeze was leaking off the radiator. Put new radiator. Than next day leaking from coolant reservuar, replaced the reservuar and the thermostat. Two days later leaking from heater core, and new heater core was put. Today smoke came out of the dashboard all of a sudden, smelled like burning wire. The smoke stoped, still the nasty smell comes out from the fans. The fan (that is the one in the dash) is staying on, Had to remove the fuse to shut it. No fuses blown and I cant tell if the smell is from the coolant again or some wire. Coolant pressure tested and it eas fine, this done after the radiator was replaced. $8000 and 2 weeks off. Cant tell if there are fumes from the coolant, since I don't dare to keep the truck on, it might do more damage. Crazy!!!!!
    Anyone has any idea whats going on?
     
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  3. superpet39

    superpet39 Road Train Member

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    What year is the truck, how many miles?
     
  4. ela

    ela Light Load Member

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    2006, and has 700 000 on it. Heater and AC actually working, the fan stays on and the smell.
     
  5. mladen86

    mladen86 Medium Load Member

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    Don't know about coolant,but for fan staying on,i had same problem on my freightliner and it was ac high pressure switch that was bad,cost 40$,probably more for volvo
     
  6. Pablo-UA

    Pablo-UA Road Train Member

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    it is not all) get ready change EGR cooler and sleeper heater core.... dont ask me why.... LOL
     
  7. QUALITYTRUCK

    QUALITYTRUCK Road Train Member

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    if you had a leaking heater core,it is mounted above blower motor,it leaked into motor and damaged it (the burnt electrical smell)radiator was probably never leaking,leaking coolant surge tank (again mounted above)made it look like radiator leak,common mistake when you don't test with a pressure tester and just eyeball it.
     
  8. Pablo-UA

    Pablo-UA Road Train Member

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    add pressure limiting valve in heater lines. It is stock thing on trucks with volvo engine, but not with cummins. when you rev engine faster 1800 rpm pressure in heater core is about 3-4 BAR. that's why they leak
     
  9. ela

    ela Light Load Member

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    It turns out the leaking heatercore had damaged the blower. At least no more smell. I know how this happened. I never go any close to 1700 rpm. When I took it to the volvo delaer to put in the new radiator, I go inside the shop to check the truck, and they had left this heavy metal on the gas pedal, it was runing at least 1900 rpm, unattended, who knows for how long. Everything started leaking since that day.
     
  10. Annonymous

    Annonymous Light Load Member

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    If you're taking the truck to the same place over and over I bet you there raping your pocket and I would try another place because this place is killing you now this is if it's the same place you're going to over and over and over now if it's different people every time it maybe you're getting bad luck and every places effing you over or you just got a really bad luck truck and I would dump it or smash it into a guardrail and total that s*** collected the insurance and get another truck
     
  11. driverdriver

    driverdriver Road Train Member

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    I'm pretty sure he/ she got it figured out 5 years ago.
     
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