Curt, Your oil cooler has sprung a high pressure leak. The oil cooler is bolted to the driver side of the radiator & that's why you see oil on the hood. You need to replace the cooler before the hole opens up more. A good used one makes a great replacement since they rarely fail. Maybe Kaleb has one laying around at a reasonable price?
By the way, this had nothing to do with your Mobil-1. Thanks, Tom Hargrave 256-656-1924 www.kegkits.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curt Raymond Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 8:51 PM To: Diesel List Subject: [MBZ] Hmmm, missing oil. So during the 7,000 miles I had the first dose of Mobil 1 in I had to add less than 1 quart of oil and that was when I took a sample for analysis. Then the other day I notice some wierd oil on the hood just above the headlight on the drivers side. I popped the hood but couldn't see any oil other than the usual amount pretty much everywhere. Then yesterday driving into the Berkshires the low oil light came on. Well thats interesting but the car doesn't leak oil (see above) so I didn't pay it much mind and it went out. This morning returning from the Berkshires the light came back on and persisted. We stopped for breakfast and after eating I checked and it was down a quart. I topped up but the question remains where the hell did the oil go? Furthermore how did the mystery oil get on the hood? I couldn't see any oil lines there or anything obvious... One possible solution: Its I-90 from Springfield into the Berkshires, gotta be some of the biggest, longest hills in MA. In fact we passed the highest point on I-90 this side of South Dakota. At one point yesterday I saw the temp gauge rise above its normal position for the first time since I got the car. It usually sits just above 80C so that you can just see the top of the 8 above the needle, probably 85-90C its hard to be precise on that gauge. Yesterday it rose to the point I could see all of the 8 under the needle. At which point I realized this was an excellent Italian Tuneup oportunity and put the hammer down. We'd been crusing at about 70mph so I took it up to about 80mph and immediately ran out of hill..... -Curt '85 190D "Dory" 244kmi --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs.Try it free. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com 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://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
