Curt. Not what you needed on a trip north. Though a little better than on the Maine Turnpike. Glad that you both made it home OK, don't worry about the valve noise, it'll buff right out. Ho Ho Ho! Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred.
>________________________________ > From: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> >To: Diesel List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 10:12 PM >Subject: Re: [MBZ] Uh oh... > >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 > > _______________________________________ 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
