Peter Merle wrote:
Agreed , that is still an outstanding thing I have to do. I might do a
leakdown evaluation my making a home made tool.
BTW OM617 non turbo heads - do the crack and if so is there a common
place where they do , are there any typical symptoms?
Cracked heads ARE possible, but VERY rare. There will be at least 10-20
blown head gaskets (and blown head gaskets are rare as well) to every
cracked head.
Marshall
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Marshall Booth (who doesn't respond to unsigned questions)
"der Dieseling Doktor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'87 300TD 182Kmi, '85 190D 2.0 161Kmi, '87 190D 2.5 turbo 237kmi, '84
190D 2.2 229Kmi (retired)