Sincere thanks to all of you who shared your experiences and offered advice on this issue; especially Mike Canfield who sent me a replacement bolt. After some delays and struggles we got the new bolt in. This was accomplished with the aid of a 7X16 lathe, a beer can, some crazy glue and some shorter than standard M42 drill bits.
I plan to do a write-up with some photos in order to help any unfortunate future victims of the broken crankshaft bolt. Greg From: Greg Fiorentino [mailto:gf...@dslnorthwest.net] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 9:39 AM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: 240D Mystery Bolt???? Hi All: My son was driving his 3-pedal 1980 240D ( with about 300K mi.) yesterday when the car began to run warm. Suddenly he heard a loud PLINK, and something falling out of the engine compartment. Then the engine overheated and he began to lose coolant. The following very large (18mm thread) broken 10.9 bolt with 3 thick washers was recovered: http://my.opera.com/gfior/albums/show.dml?id=14664462 Aside from running very hot the engine seems to run normally. Does any of you have an idea what happened and where this bolt came from? He will be driving SWMBO's TDI Jetta until we sort this out. TIA, Greg _______________________________________ 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
