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Oil smell smells like it is burning oil last oil change was 3 months ago

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Common causes of smelling "burning" oil are:

  1. a leak in the valve cover gasket. When oil leaks from the valve cover gasket, it will often burn off on the manifold.
  2. a blown oil seal causing oil to burn off on the exhaust system
  3. check your exhaust for "blue smoke" a sign that the engine is actually burning oil. Just guessing here but a 16 year old Volvo is bound to have quite a few miles on it.
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Clean all of your crankcase breather system from your black box on your crankcase up and over to your EGR valve must be clean .

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