Kaleb, I do not have direct experience with this engine, but I can say that from the years of diesel experience I have (and gas, for that matter as well,) that the numbers you posted are all within 10% of each other, meaning that more likely than not there is no rod, piston or bottom end problem. For that matter, I'm willing to bet you just have a leaky head gasket between a pair of the cylinders and coolant is seeping into one of them.
Might only happen when it's cold, possibly. I don't think there is anything significant going on here in my opinion. You'll get the full story when the head is pulled, but I still wouldn't expect a major failure IMHO. Dan --- On Sun, 8/16/09, Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: > From: Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> > Subject: [MBZ] do I have bent rods? > To: davesl...@okiebenz.com, "mercedes Mailing List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Date: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 5:16 PM > Quick backstory for those who might > have forgotten. 92 300SD, been using oil for a while, > no big smoke but you can smell it from time to time. > Started using cooling maybe 6 months or more ago. Been > getting worse to the point it uses about as much coolant or > more than oil. Probably have to top it off once every > couple of weeks. About the same with the oil. > Anyway, Top radiator hose does not seem to get real hard > like some of them do, as was discussed before. There > is also quite a bit of oil seeping out from somewhere near > the front passenger side, above the alternator area. > Hard to tell where its coming from. So today, I pulled > the manifold to do compression check. Seems like some > oil in the #1, #2, and slight bit toward #3 area of drivers > side head. Here are the numbers > > #1 410 > #2 430 > #3 420 > #4 450 > #5 440 > #6 415 > > Also, the number 1 glow plug had a little bit of a white > crust on the tip (see pic) maybe its burned > coolant? So, I am probably going to have to pul the > head. First of all, would a compression check even > turn up bent rods? If so, can you tell anything from > my numbers? #1 and #6 are the lowest, but dont seem > real low to me, still seems like good numbers. > > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK > 95 E300, 92 500SEL, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 91 > 300E, 89 560SEL, 87 300SDL x2, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 85 190D, > 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 > 300D, http://www.okiebenz.com > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: 603glowplug.JPG > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 158798 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: > <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090816/d76f053b/attachment.jpe> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
