Good morning-bought a 1993 940 wagon a week ago-183K-all service records since 69K by local shop (Hurless Bross-BMW/Volvo a regional specialist for years here).

let it idle several mornings ago at startup for maybe 10 minutes-temp in low 60s-drove away. Large oil spot on the driveway on return. Checked underneath-nothing.

Yesterday-oil lamp flickered on way home-reduced speed and idled into driveway. No oil on dipstick...some oil sprayon crankshaft pulley and wet on bottom of timing belt cover-observed drip from bottom of seal cover at the end of the crankshaft after pulling splash cover.

Timing belt/front oil seals were done at 154K 2 years ago-seller put 10K on car in last 6 months-chain oil service place did oil change a week ago-filter is tight on block.

Shop is booked 2 plus weeks into the future-bought as a back up to our 02 VW Passat 6-cyl AWD-can wait but puzzled now.

Anyone?

Thanks for the opportunity to post-looks like a great group-PS-other vehicle is a 1954 Chevy p/u restorod-have some experience but all sbc stuff!

 

Sounds like the front seals might have failed.
You need to pull the front timing covers to check for sure.


P.S. moving this post to the proper section.

 

Any time you have an oil leak on the Volvo 4 cyl, especially if from more than one site, be sure to have the flame trap cleaned/replaced. When it plugs, the blowby pressure builds up in the crankcase and forces oil from whatever weak spot it can find. The camshaft seals are a real common spot for pressure to escape, and the oil goes with it.

 

Yep, replace all flame trap components first. My turbo will leak like an Exxon tanker when they're blocked.

Regards, Andrew.