no more smoking at all, I drove it to work in tulsa today. The tranny
seems to be shifting fine at the moment as near as I can tell, so shall
see if it holds up. Will a 190E tranny fit in it also?
Marshall Booth wrote:
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Well I got all the pepto out of the tranny, just ended up draining the
pan and converter, filling it back up, unhooked one of the cooler lines
and just kept dumping fluid into it as the engine ran till I got clear
fluid. Was about 4 gallons or so of fluid. Then I drained it again,
dropped the pan and cleaned out all the junk(there was quite a bit of
crap in the bottom, was worried tranny is toast. New filter, filled it
back up and it seems to shift just fine, even a little on the stiff
side. This is the car that back when I bought it over a year ago it had
a BAD head gasket, was blowing massive clouds of smoke and sprayed oil
out the tail pipe. Luther can attest.
http://www.striplin.net/pics/190d/
Anyways, replaced the head gasket and it runs great. Then I noticed the
pepto problem. Anyways, today is the first time it has really been
driven since then. Drove it about a mile and it started getting up to
operating temp. Then I get MASSIVE amounts of smoke again. Drive
another mile or so home, check tranny fluid, etc and let it idle. I was
actually getting sparks out the tail pipe!! Took out for a couple more
miles, smoke clearing up. Guess it had a BUNCH of oil in the exhaust
still. Im surprised, that little thing is pretty peppy actually.
Now just need to get up to speed on these little things. There seems to
be some play in the front sway bar like the braket thing on each end is
not tight with the body, yet the bolt seems tight. Think its giving me
a clunk a little bit. Also seems pretty squirly on the road. Might
just take some getting used to I guess. Also, what the heck turns on
that cheap electric fan clutch deal? Mine doenst seem to kick on I
dong guess, it was idling and the temp climbed up higher than where I
think it should and the fan never kicked on.
Squirrelly on the road (it the front end steering connections are tight)
usually means either bad ball joints or MUCH more often rear end steer
caused by worn rear links.
Clunks can be caused by worn sway bar bushings (even MORE common in 124s).
It can take many HOURS of highway driving to get all of the oil out of
the exhaust system.
If there has been water in the transmission for a while, the friction
materials and some of the glued (attached with adhesives) parts have
usually been ruined and may let go without warning. I think I've heard
of the B-2 band letting go, but this may be incorrect.
Marshall
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