[Shop-talk] Volvo Engine Swap

[Shannah Miller]

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Jim Stone <jandkstone99 at msn.com> wrote:

> it only being the head/valves?  I was under the impression that a broken
> timing belt was likely to trash the entire engine.  If the odds are that
> rebuilding/replacing the head is enough, then I would want my brother to know
> that before dumping the car cheaply, even if I was going to be the beneficiary
> of that dumping.
>
Just one data point: I had the timing (I think it was a chain) go out
in a 1969 Mustang, and it did not trash the entire engine.  We just
had to replace the chain, and my friend drove it SF to LA later that
weekend, with no problems.

Shannah