Normally it’s placed into the receiver…..

> On Jan 6, 2015, at 8:29 PM, dseretakis--- via Mercedes 
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> 
> Remind me where the shell is placed. Do I block open the top part of the 
> tstat?
> 
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>> On Jan 6, 2015, at 7:45 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes 
>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'd use the cathey trick to open the thermostat and see how it runs. Until 
>> that is done, it is not much use talking about it.
>> 
>> Dimitri, congrats on the good compression engine.   Test it with the .45 
>> shellint the thermostat, and report back.  I am still betting on a 
>> thermostat.   (ducking...Yes, I know it is new and has been replaced.)  A 
>> lot of thermostats are bad out of the box.
>> 
>> 
>>> The car is a very early 123 with what I presume is a very early style 
>>> thermostat housing. We should get Dimitri to get a picture of the 
>>> thermostat housing, its weird looking...
>>> Remember it didn't always do this and when its "overheating" its bubbling 
>>> the coolant back out the radiator so its not just a temp gauge variation. 
>>> My '84 190D temp gauge creeps up sometimes but always drops back down, that 
>>> one is a gauge gone mad. I've replaced the thermostat, the radiator, and 
>>> the temp sender but still the issue persists. Now I just ignore it although 
>>> a dose of water-wetter has helped stabilize it some.
>>> -Curt
>>>     From: fmiser via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
>>> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 6:58 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Compression good
>>> 
>>>> dseretakis--- wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I got Curt and Dwight's former 240D to start this am in 14 degree
>>>> temp. I put it through two 30 sec glow cycles and one 20 sec
>>>> crank and it fired up. Compression couldn't be that bad!
>>>> 
>>>> It still does it's weird temp fluctuation thing so I can only
>>>> drive it around town for now.
>>> 
>>> What style thermostat housing does this use?  'Cause I have had
>>> troubles with the newer style not always sensing the temperature
>>> correctly.  The "fix" is a 5 mm or so hole drilled in the
>>> thermostat to allow some flow even when cold "off".
>> 
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