Hello all you Volvo forumities I need your help,
The car attempted to turn over which then became a just a clicking noise. I think it might be a blown gasket and will open her up today to see but I wanted to see if anyone might have had this problem and can confirm this or give me a few other things to search for?

 

Sounds like a severely blown head gasket or cracked head/ block. Engine might be hydrolocked, or worse, bearing seizure. Take all the plugs out before doing anything else, make sure the battery is charged, then try cranking the engine. If it cranks fine (should turn faster than normal since there'll be no compression) then you have a head gasket/ cracked head/ cracked block issue. Make sure you put rags over the plug holes before cranking, because if the engine is hydrolocked, it will blow coolant/ oil/ whatever other fluids out of the holes and all over the place. If the engine still won't turn, it's locked up mechanically, and you can save yourself the trouble of removing the head, unless you want to search for what caused the problem... which was probably oil dilution due to a blown head gasket or cracked block/ head. Any of these may have been caused by the overheating (though they COULD be a cause OF overheating.) An Overheating engine is serious business- don't continue to drive the car until the cause is fixed.

Good luck!