No, never really had any issues before.
On 6/6/2020 3:20 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote:
Did you raise the front of the car before starting the filling process? It
always seemed to help me ....
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:34 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Nope
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On Jun 6, 2020, at 2:22 PM, Frederick Moir via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
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.
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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.
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