Thanks Fred, I'm glad to hear it.
Any breakdown you can drive home from is not that bad a breakdown. So almost 7
hours after leaving home we're back, we got all the way to north Haverhill,
about 150 miles round trip.
Couple interesting things on the ride home, we're definitely down on power,
hills we could accelerate up before we just held on, hills we held on before we
slow down on now, hills we slowed down on before we had to shift into 3rd on.
After dinner I thought we were home and dry but as we pulled onto the highway
the temp gauge started climbing again, I cranked the heat in the car and we got
some LOUD gurgling in the area of the heater core, when the gurgling stopped
the temp gauge dropped, it did that exactly the same as we started south.
Finally as we slowed down to come through town here I could here some valve
clatter. You know that valve noise when you haven't changed the oil often
enough? This car has been doing that first thing in the morning anyway but it
went away as the car warmed up but just now it was doing it ever so slightly
all the time.
Anyway I put the block heater on for tonight so the engine won't freeze with
mostly water in it, tomorrow I'll drain the water out. I don't intend to put
any coolant in since it'll have to come out for the headgasket anyway. I'll
have it towed to my Indy next week.
-Curt
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:13:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Frederick Moir <fredy4.s...@yahoo.com>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Uh oh...
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Hey, Curt.
Luke and/or Fred could come to you if need be.
Just ask.
?
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Diesel preferred.
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