Curt, you certainly can run the engine without a thermostat for the purposing of cleaning the system. As mentioned, its in the manual. You should never try to drive the car normally without a thermostat, however.
Jaime On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Is there more to it where they tell you not to restart a warm 61x engine > with the thermostat removed or something? > I hate to revive a really old argument (like from my first days on the > list 9 or so years ago) but you can't run a 61x engine any amount of time > with the thermostat removed or the car will overheat. Double action > thermostat and all that. > > The interesting thing I found was that I could get maybe a half hour of > driving if I started with a cold engine and went but if the engine was warm > and restarted it would overheat quickly... > > -Curt > > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:48:04 -0600 > From: Rick Knoble <rickkno...@hotmail.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Cooling System Flush > Message-ID: <bay403-eas128e002630293905068b805dd...@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Nov 25, 2012, at 8:44 PM, "Alex Chamberlain" <apchamberl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Where does the special tool, aka thermostat modified with shell casing, > > come into it? > > > With OM61x engines it doesn't. According to the TFM in PDF 20-015 page 1 > heading A sub 2 "remove coolant thermostat (20-110)". > > With OM60x engines it does. In the same number PDF for OM602 (w124) on > page 1 under Coolant thermostat it says "remove and install forcibly-opened > thermostat part no. 000 589 74 63 00 (step 1) > > I may be presumptuous, but I assume the engineers at MB know way more > about this stuff than I do. I included reference material, so no one thinks > I pulled these facts from thin air. > > Rick > When in doubt RTFM. > > _______________________________________ > 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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Jaime Kopchinski http://www.jaimekop.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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
