Sounds like you're slowly working out the trapped air. Does the upper hose stay hard overnight?
Max Dillon Charleston SC Jun 7, 2020 12:49:30 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>: > It sure doesn’t look good. This morning I checked reservoir and it was at the > mark, pulled upper hose and had water there. Started it up and let it idle > with some revs up and down without the cap on. Reached 80 after a while and > never had any bubbles in the tank. Looked good. Put cap back on, revved it up > and down some more and seemed fine. Temp holding fine. Took it out for a > drive. On the road it seemed to be doing fine. When I got out to the highway > a mile down the road I did a couple of full throttle accelerations. Suddenly > temp started shooting is getting close to the red. I turned AC off an turned > heat on high and temp dropped back down. After it did I turned ac back on and > drove normal. Didn’t take long before temp started creeping back up. Crap. > Got it home and popped the hood. Upper hose is rock hard. Damn it. This is > unbelievable. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 6, 2020, at 3:33 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> 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 >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> 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 >>>> >> _______________________________________ >> 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 >> > _______________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
