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Stupid engine question
The cylinder in the Volvo MD1 and MD2 engines is fairly big, and, in colder climates, raising the compression lever for a few strokes to get things going often helps. Otherwise your belts tend to scream or you just can''t roll it over. Push the starter button and move the lever down and she''ll fire. There''s an adjustment on the underside of the valve cover to make to assure the lever is doing something and not forcing the valve open while in the down position. The Volvo manual that''ll work is probably around $30.00. If setting the valves, make SURE the measurements in the manual are correct magnitude. I wasted several hours one day due to a Swedish engineer''s mis-placement of a decimal point (which is shown as commas in the manuals). Easy engine to rebuild - at least as far down as the transmission. I use the rubber rings that come with the Racor replacement filters for the dipstick ring. KW
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