Im looking at buying a 92 960 car is extremely clean straight 1 owner car, just needs a head gasket has 194k on it, anything i should be aware of, how easy is the HG on the 2.9L? also is it worth 600$?

 

anyone have any advice?

 

anyone have any idea of what im getting myself into? lol plus about what kinda mileage do they get?

 

does it run at all?? The timing belt is a big item that needs to be replaced every 70k. If it broke, it's going to have more problems than just a blown headgasket. Some these early year 960s also had a problem with porous blocks, which lead to blown headgaskets. Get as much service info as you can, and if it does in fact just need a headgasket it will be a great car. I have a 93 with 212,000miles on it and I just got back from a 3,500 mile trip which I averaged between 22mpg (worst) and almost 27mpg (best)

 

luckily the timing belt didnt break and just the headgasket went, the car has 194k on it but i know it has a lot of life left it, and with being as clean as it is and being a 1 owner car i figured I'd save it, otherwise the junkyard wouldve just parted it out.

 

for $600 go for it then. If you do the work yourself, it shouldn't be too much to take care of the headgasket

 

'92 960 Needs the timing belt replaced every 50k. https://www.customers.volvocars.com/...intenance.html

 

When I replaced my TB, it came with the reccommended interval of 30k miles. Also, you might want to have a head shop check out your head and make sure it's not warped or cracked. The shop I used charged me 200. New headbolts, spring for them. The bolts are a torque-to-yield and once used, they are stretched. One tool you will need is a degree indicator. The headbolts get turned a given amount of degrees for the final tightening. I just replace all my valves in mine in Feb. and then two weeks later drove it 1,000 miles without any issues.

 

also is there like a cam balancer or something, i found something that looked like a harmonic balancer but looks like the bolt pattern of the cam