# Older Volvo floods--the fix!

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/older-volvo-floods-the-fix/39183>\
**Category:** The Show\
**Tags:** start, volvo, 740\
**Created:** [November 8, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/older-volvo-floods-the-fix/39183 "2009-11-08T04:15:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ckuttner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@ckuttner](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ckuttner)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/older-volvo-floods-the-fix/39183/1 "2009-11-08T04:15:51Z")

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Sometime back, you guys were talking with a fellow who had an older Volvo which would start fine, then die after about a minute. You were advising him against putting in a lot of money on a fix for the problem.  
  
 Well…I have an '88 Volvo 740 Turbo Wagon and it ALWAYS dies about a minute after I start it in cold weather, the engine flooded. My Volvo factory-trained mechanic couldn’t solve it in a month of fiddling with it (I was able to leave it with him because I bought a Honda Civic Hybrid so I could reliably get to work). (and he didn’t even charge me much for his time!)  
  
 I finally came up with my own fix: I pulled out the fuse that powers the fuel injection system, restarted, and let the engine use up the gas that had flooded it. Then I replaced the fuse and, with a little nursing, was able to get the engine to run.  
  
 I then got fancy and put in a rocker switch to turn on and off the power from the switch. Voila! Flooding sort of fixed and car useable!

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**Author:** ![euryale1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@euryale1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/euryale1)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/older-volvo-floods-the-fix/39183/2 "2009-11-08T04:31:22Z")

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Nice patch. But with a car this age do you want a fix? Its probably a cold start injector. Old school way to rich the fuel injection.

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**Author:** ![ckuttner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@ckuttner](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ckuttner)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 5:31am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/older-volvo-floods-the-fix/39183/3 "2009-11-08T05:31:03Z")

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Make it MORE rich? Won’t that make it flood worse?