Thanks Dan. I will give it a looking at. Sounds like where the drips were coming from.
clay On Jan 11, 2014, at 3:47 AM, Dan Penoff wrote: > No monovalve on the W140. It's got a contraption called a "duovalve". > > It's located on the driver's side inner fender under a cover just aft of the > SLS reservoir. Like the monovalve, it's expensive to replace and, for the > most part, can't be rebuilt. > > There are rebuild kits still sold in Germany, but not here, There's a guy > over on Benworld who rebuilds them for $250 using kits he gets through a > relative in the Fatherland. > > Dan > > > > On Jan 11, 2014, at 12:33 AM, clay wrote: > >> The w140 is making coolant disappear. >> >> #1 boy drove the car after the fan bearings failed and the engine got too >> hot. There was steam under the hood. When the car went to the indy for >> repair, leakage of coolant was noted, but no viable explanation or >> investigation took place. >> >> The car has been back on the road for about a month, and last week the low >> coolant light came on. I had him check level, which was low. He wanted to >> fill up with coolant, but I advised water and added about a gallon with >> about 12 oz of G-05. I figured the indy had not topped off the tank, and it >> was steam lost. Told the boy to keep an eye on it and check his fluids >> every day. Put a gallon of water in his trunk, for emergency use. Over the >> past week he has used all the fluid. >> >> SO, I worried it might be head gasket, but though better that it could be >> hose failure to the monovalve. I have tried to get data on just where to >> look for said hose or clamp failure, but no luck from EPC and other interweb >> sites. Anybody know where I should look on the actual car for hose at >> firewall? Car is 92 300SE, M104 engine. It really blows ICE COLD. >> >> >> clay >> >> 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored chap >> 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green >> 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran >> 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV >> POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://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 > > > _______________________________________ > http://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 _______________________________________ http://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
