Thanks guys

I’m glad it’s done now, and yea when I seen the state of the gasket I knew it needed changing, I could see it was all buckled behind the manifold.

I did the job from above Glenn, but as it’s down the back visibility was crap so I used an old wing mirror glass to help see what I was doing 🤣 If I’d of snapped a stud this job would of been a nightmare, and a few of them where really quite tight.

Access was good compared to some jobs, there’s enough room to swing a flex head 3/4” ratchet without too much fuss, and Volvo has moved everything so every bolt is accessible which is nice.

I should of really pulled the turbo right off and cleaned everywhere up, but I was running out of time I just removed the battery tray and slid the new gasket in from the side, I slid the gasket round a little to hopefully clear any carbon or muck that may have been present, and it’s sealed fine at the moment.

The noise was only on cold start, it would subside and it would disappear within 30 seconds so I only had a slight leak, the quiet start is bliss though 🤣