Supplies for old Volvo Penta Engines

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Morning All,

Apart from ebay and costal rides, can anyone recommend a company for picking up old model VP parts, plus odd parts like flame arrestors? These days with Diesels and fuel injection such parts are as rare as rocking horse crap!

Also, another question if I may.
On a car you have an air filter (petrol engine), on a boat you have a flame arrestor..why??.is it because you are more likely to get more crap in the air on a car from road dirt etc...where as, on a boat it's deemed to be less?

Happy New Year,

Simon.
 
Boat engines have air filters too don't they /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif I thought flame arresters were only fitted to really old petrol engines, where there was a danger of a backfire setting fire to the air filter, not really needed on modern engines anymore which run on good fuel supplies and usualy are tuned more reliably.
 
A car engine is not sat in a sealed bathtub with the potential for explosive vapours to build up.
A blowback through the carb on a boat could ignite these vapours.

This is not a good thing!

The flame arrester works by taking enough heat from the flame that it can not pass from the carb through to the engine compartment.
You can get boat air filters for those trips through the Gobi desert where dust may become a problem, but they must be marine certified. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
K&N do them.

As for old VP parts, Mercruiser used the same GM based engines in many of their applications.
Many times the only difference being one is painted red, the other is painted black.

It would help to know what engine we are talking about and what parts you need..
inline 4, V6, V8?
 
It is a really old petrol engine and yep...when you get a hick up whilst starting her up without the flame arrestor on you do get quite a nice flame thrower effect /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I only left it off once /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Engine is an AQ115 also known as the B20 that they fitted to volvo 140 cars.

My main reason for convincing myself that all the restore work on my Dad's old boat was worth it was because I thought, as the engine had been off for a rebuild and sat in a workshop for many years that at least that part of it would be hassle free...hmm...little did I know....with that said...I don't think anything is too horrendous...just lots of odd jobs to do and bits to replace...Still, interesting little project and keeps me off the streets

/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

I'm starting to realise that parts aren't so easy to find.
 
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