Water pump or belt turning it the wrong way? YMMV Fred.
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 3:15 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > After I sent this I went back to the car and there was no pressure on the > hose at all after sitting about 10 minutes. I slowly loosened cap and fluid > started coming out again. I quickly tightened it. I then loosed then upper > hose again and slowing let the pressure off. No water came out and felt > like there was no water at all in the upper hose. After all the pressure > was off removed the hose and there was no water in it. Started loosening > the reservoir cap and water started flowing out of the upper hose. > Tightened it and the flow stopped. I filled a little more water in thru the > hose, probably less than a cup and it was full, put hose back on radiator. > Pulled cap level was fine in the radiator. Started it back up and let it > run for a couple of minutes. Hose was not hard but also did not feel like > there was any water in it again while running. Normally they feel squishy > with water in the hose but it just felt empty. I shut it down and will mess > with it some more in the morning. I wonder if suddenly the thermostat stuck > closed or something, or what the deal might be. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jun 6, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: > > > > I swapped out the radiator the other day and today filled it with > coolant/distilled water. I fill from the reservoir until full then I pull > the upper hose off the radiator then fill it into the hose until fill then > reattached. I then started it up and ran it for probably 10-15 minutes. > Temp rose steady till it hit the normal operating temp on the gauge. I then > took it out for a test. As soon as I pulled onto the street temp started > climbing. I immediately pulled back into the shop. Nearest I can figure is > I thought I got it full from the top hose but must not have. I could not > feel any water in the hose when squeezing it. I then loosened the cap a > little and it had quite a bit of pressure enough to where fluid started > coming out. I ran it for a few minutes on high heat before doing this. > After releasing enough pressure I pulled the upper hose in again and it was > dry. Filled in a whole gallon of distilled water in there and topped off > the reservoir. Started it back up and it did not start getting hot but > after a few minutes with the cap left off coolant started rising up and > flowing out of the tank. Shut it back off, pull the upper hose again and it > still appears to be dry. I filled in some more water and also filled in the > reservoir until it was flowing out of the top outlet of the radiator. > Reconnected hose and put cap back on then started it up. I ran it for about > 5-10 minutes and temp was fine, but upper hose seemed stiff. I don’t recall > it being stiff before while running. Temp was still good so I shut hood to > take it out. Got back in the car and temp was now up to about half way > between the line above 80 and the next line next to red. Too warm for me. > Shut it down. Upper hose is rock hard. > > > > I suspect the worse but will let it set until tomorrow and see what it > does. I guess I didn’t get the the engine filled the first time so it was > running with no coolant circulating and didn’t show up on temp gauge. Quite > disappointing and all my fault if really blown. > > > > Now I’m going to crawl under the 240d and start pulling the slave > cylinder and master. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > _______________________________________ > 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 > > -- Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred _______________________________________ 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
