It sure doesn’t look good. This morning I checked reservoir and it was at the mark, pulled upper hose and had water there. Started it up and let it idle with some revs up and down without the cap on. Reached 80 after a while and never had any bubbles in the tank. Looked good. Put cap back on, revved it up and down some more and seemed fine. Temp holding fine. Took it out for a drive. On the road it seemed to be doing fine. When I got out to the highway a mile down the road I did a couple of full throttle accelerations. Suddenly temp started shooting is getting close to the red. I turned AC off an turned heat on high and temp dropped back down. After it did I turned ac back on and drove normal. Didn’t take long before temp started creeping back up. Crap. Got it home and popped the hood. Upper hose is rock hard. Damn it. This is unbelievable.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2020, at 3:33 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > No, never really had any issues before. > >> On 6/6/2020 3:20 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: >> Did you raise the front of the car before starting the filling process? It >> always seemed to help me .... >> >> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:34 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >>> Nope >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Jun 6, 2020, at 2:22 PM, Frederick Moir via Mercedes < >>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>> Water pump or belt turning it the wrong way? >>>> YMMV >>>> Fred. >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 3:15 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < >>>>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> After I sent this I went back to the car and there was no pressure on >>> the >>>>> hose at all after sitting about 10 minutes. I slowly loosened cap and >>> fluid >>>>> started coming out again. I quickly tightened it. I then loosed then >>> upper >>>>> hose again and slowing let the pressure off. No water came out and felt >>>>> like there was no water at all in the upper hose. After all the pressure >>>>> was off removed the hose and there was no water in it. Started loosening >>>>> the reservoir cap and water started flowing out of the upper hose. >>>>> Tightened it and the flow stopped. I filled a little more water in thru >>> the >>>>> hose, probably less than a cup and it was full, put hose back on >>> radiator. >>>>> Pulled cap level was fine in the radiator. Started it back up and let it >>>>> run for a couple of minutes. Hose was not hard but also did not feel >>> like >>>>> there was any water in it again while running. Normally they feel >>> squishy >>>>> with water in the hose but it just felt empty. I shut it down and will >>> mess >>>>> with it some more in the morning. I wonder if suddenly the thermostat >>> stuck >>>>> closed or something, or what the deal might be. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>>> On Jun 6, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> >>> wrote: >>>>>> I swapped out the radiator the other day and today filled it with >>>>> coolant/distilled water. I fill from the reservoir until full then I >>> pull >>>>> the upper hose off the radiator then fill it into the hose until fill >>> then >>>>> reattached. I then started it up and ran it for probably 10-15 minutes. >>>>> Temp rose steady till it hit the normal operating temp on the gauge. I >>> then >>>>> took it out for a test. As soon as I pulled onto the street temp started >>>>> climbing. I immediately pulled back into the shop. Nearest I can figure >>> is >>>>> I thought I got it full from the top hose but must not have. I could not >>>>> feel any water in the hose when squeezing it. I then loosened the cap a >>>>> little and it had quite a bit of pressure enough to where fluid started >>>>> coming out. I ran it for a few minutes on high heat before doing this. >>>>> After releasing enough pressure I pulled the upper hose in again and it >>> was >>>>> dry. Filled in a whole gallon of distilled water in there and topped off >>>>> the reservoir. Started it back up and it did not start getting hot but >>>>> after a few minutes with the cap left off coolant started rising up and >>>>> flowing out of the tank. Shut it back off, pull the upper hose again >>> and it >>>>> still appears to be dry. I filled in some more water and also filled in >>> the >>>>> reservoir until it was flowing out of the top outlet of the radiator. >>>>> Reconnected hose and put cap back on then started it up. I ran it for >>> about >>>>> 5-10 minutes and temp was fine, but upper hose seemed stiff. I don’t >>> recall >>>>> it being stiff before while running. Temp was still good so I shut hood >>> to >>>>> take it out. Got back in the car and temp was now up to about half way >>>>> between the line above 80 and the next line next to red. Too warm for >>> me. >>>>> Shut it down. Upper hose is rock hard. >>>>>> I suspect the worse but will let it set until tomorrow and see what it >>>>> does. I guess I didn’t get the the engine filled the first time so it >>> was >>>>> running with no coolant circulating and didn’t show up on temp gauge. >>> Quite >>>>> disappointing and all my fault if really blown. >>>>>> Now I’m going to crawl under the 240d and start pulling the slave >>>>> cylinder and master. >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________ >>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> Fred Moir >>>> Lynn MA >>>> Diesel preferred >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> 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 > _______________________________________ 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
