Well, the tranny was still going strong at about 180 K Kil if memory serves to be correct. The motor gave up a head gasket (again in the winter) and it was too expensive to have a shop fix it so we bought another car and let it sit until spring and then I fixed it. The motor was clean and showed little or no wear inside (I'm pretty anal about oil changes). It had 2 broken head bolts and that is why it blew the headgasket. It had always been somewhat suspect as it constantly lost coolant but I just watched it and waited for it to show me where. It finally did at Xmas time. The car was a year old and had about 40 K kil when I got it and I drove it fairly hard and then dumped it on my wife. The body was losing paint pretty bad by the time we sold it but it really wasn't too bad. Struts were the worst expense except for the head gasket. It had a water pump, brakes and a battery over about 10 years but then it really did not get a lot of miles. 180 K Kil is only about 112 K miles.
Randy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of tom savage Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:37 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Early engine replacement - was Columbus CL 240D R A Bennell wrote: > My wife ripped a bit of a hole into the bottom of the tranny oilpan on an 86 > Taurus that we had a while back. She ran over a curb that was hidden in some > snow and snagged the oil drain plug that I had thoughtfully installed myself > to make changing the tranny oil cleaner and easier. Unfortunately, that > little bung was about the lowest thing on the car. She didn't realize it and > drove it home. Next morning we had this pool of red on the garage floor. > Didn't hurt the tranny - just cost a used tranny oilpan and some new oil. I > was even able to drive it to a local tranny shop as it was winter and cold > out. That is impressive. I don't think I've ever heard of a Taurus transmission that didn't destruct. ;) Tom _______________________________________ http://www.striplin.net For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net
