Kaleb, My experience is that if a car has a cracked head or blown head gasket you can tell by cranking the car up cold and checking for pressure in coolant system (squeeze upper hose). If upon start up you have pressure, then you have a blown head gasket or cracked head.
If coolant system does not build up pressure until the temperature gets up to 100+ degrees C then you have a over heating problem. Trampas -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kaleb C. Striplin Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:57 PM To: Mercedes mailing list Subject: [MBZ] its blown I would say Well I messed with the diesel secret car today a little, started up runs fine, does not get hot etc sitting there. When you start driving it, before you get 1/2 mile down the road it starts getting hot. Builds up ALOT of pressure in the coolant tank also. Actually, before I took off driving it was not hot, but I could hear what sounded like the radiator cap popping off pressure. Ran fine though other than that. -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 91 300D 2.5 Turbo, 90 420SEL, 89 560SEL, 87 420SEL, 87 300SDL, 85 380SE, 85 300D, 84 190D 2.2, 83 300TD, 81 300TD, 81 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 74 240D, 73 280SEL 4.5, 72 250C, 69 250 http://www.striplin.net _______________________________________ http://www.striplin.net For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net
