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?
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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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