Nope, it ran real good too. If I had it now I'd totally put a head gasket into
it. Unfortunately at the time I didn't have the space or know-how to work on
it. I could do better now.
-Curt
From: "dsereta...@yahoo.com" <dsereta...@yahoo.com>
To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List
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Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fwd: Overheating 240D more info
Funny stuff! Did you have cafe au lait oil?
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> On Mar 2, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> wrote:
>
> Well yeah but I realized what had happened. I pulled the glow plugs and
> cranked it to get the water out. Put 'em back in and it ran. If I left the
> cap loose it wasn't a problem.
> -Curt
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> To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 1:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fwd: Overheating 240D more info
>
> You didn't end up hydro locking the engine?
>
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>> On Mar 2, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>
>> The engine got repeatedly overheated. A couple times by the previous owner,
>> once or twice by me, until the head gasket couldn't handle it anymore...
>> That one was actually the best kind of head gasket failure, it just consumed
>> some coolant and if you left the cap tight while the engine was off it would
>> fill the cylinders with coolant. We drove it a few months like that until it
>> needed injector return lines and I decided it wasn't worth it...
>> -Curt
>>
>> From: "dsereta...@yahoo.com" <dsereta...@yahoo.com>
>> To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List
>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>> Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 1:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fwd: Overheating 240D more info
>>
>> How did the stuff ruin the head gasket?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Mar 2, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
>>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've never had it plug a radiator which is annoying because the time I used
>>> it I was trying to plug a hole in a radiator. The previous owner of my MB
>>> wagon had used it for the same reason with the same failed results.
>>> In both cases it plugged thermostats. Then it becomes the gift that keeps
>>> on giving because its dammed hard to get the stuff back out... My '88 GMC I
>>> became super adept at replacing thermostats. In the end I could do it in 10
>>> minutes and lose only a cup of coolant. I always traveled with a spare.
>>> Then when I got home I'd flush the cooling system AGAIN. I must have
>>> flushed the system 20 times in the 4 years I drove it after adding the
>>> stuff.My wagon I managed to do a better flush because I got all the stuff
>>> out and never clogged another thermostat but the damage was already done,
>>> the head gasket was toast. The car wasn't worth paying somebody to replace
>>> it and I didn't have the facilities, tools, knowledge or friends at that
>>> time to fix it myself...
>>> -Curt
>>> From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>>> To: dsereta...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 12:20 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fwd: Overheating 240D more info
>>>
>>>>> On 01/03/2015 4:55 PM, dseretakis--- via Mercedes wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> From: dsereta...@yahoo.com
>>>>> Date: March 1, 2015 at 4:48:56 PM EST
>>>>> To: G Mann <g2ma...@gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Overheating 240D more info
>>>>>
>>>>> If I discover a head leak I will pour some of that leak sealer in the
>>>>> coolant system.
>>>
>>> And, in so doing will ruin the heater core and the radiator . . .
>>>
>>> RB
>>>
>>>
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