How about installing a water pressure gauge?
I believe you can get such a thing for outboard motors.
It could be tapped into the temperature sensor hole if nothing else.
Or maybe some form of flow meter? Something that would indicate if
pressure changed or flow was different when the
Folks
about the overheating 240d
did you ever do a citric acid cleanse?
they all have a lot of crud in the cooling system
then i'd replace radiator and then water pump assuming the thermostat tests
good in boiling water
thanks,
xx rick
Rick Hawkins
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Curt didn't have much love for it at the end and I'm starting to lose my love
for it. I think Dwight will, however, always love it:)
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On Feb 19, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
If this fix does indeed solve the problem it
Dwight got rid of it at the perfect time, while it was still doing well but
starting to show its age.I fell out of love with it and fell in love with the
Jetta. The tinworm is making me love the Jetta less...
-Curt
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To: Andrew
Maybe Andrew should be the next victim?:)
Didn't you do a bunch of rust repairs on the Jetta?
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On Feb 19, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Dwight got rid of it at the perfect time, while it was still doing well but
starting to
I've been steadily repairing the missing rockers but the radiator replacement
debacle last month showed me that the front clip is also badly rotted. The
driver's side frame horn that holds up the engine is also missing a chunk. In
the spring I need to pull the whole front clip off the car and
I am curious about the lack of flow in the rad.
If the thermostat works (and I believe it has been changed at least
once) and the water pump is intact and working, then why would there be
no flow?
It has been suggested that the block passages are blocked. Is there only
one sort of passage that
Hi Randy,
I'm with you on the chunk thats floating around causing this catastrophe, its
the only thing that I can think of that would make an intermittent problem. The
thermostat has been replaced at least twice, Dimitri and I both did it and I
find the idea that we had 3 bad thermostats
Let me know if I could be of any help with the rust.
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On Feb 19, 2015, at 2:28 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I've been steadily repairing the missing rockers but the radiator replacement
debacle last month showed me that the front clip is
Does your friend have access to the XP machine, or is this the same machine
and he blew it away to install Windows 7? If he has access to the old XP
instance, iTunes knows itself based on the XML files in the directories.
Copy the old iTunes directory, in its entirety, to the Windows 7 machine.
Do the authorities inspect and test where you are?
Could you clean them all out and use the o2 simulators to avoid the
issue, or is that going to produce other legal type problems?
RB
On 18/02/2015 5:50 PM, clay via Mercedes wrote:
This thing has four cats. A pair upstream off each
WeldingQ 2015?
Having a group over to work on it would help a lot in the motivation
department. I need to get right on it this year or the car is a goner. I should
have done more last year but got lazy.
-Curt
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To: Curt Raymond
On 18/02/2015 8:13 PM, Robert Koziak via Mercedes wrote:
Hi All,
My daughter's 2011 Mercedes C300 (35K) has a check engine light with a Code
P410 (Secondary Air Injection System Malfunction). Any help on the best
logical approach to finding the issue would be greatly appreciated. Fixes
Sounds very exciting! Let's do it!
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On Feb 19, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
WeldingQ 2015?
Having a group over to work on it would help a lot in the motivation
department. I need to get right on it this year or the car is a
My 1985 CA version 300TD has a revered catalytic (trap) ozidizer, which I
pet every night before going to bed.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Do the authorities inspect and test where you are?
Could you clean them all out and use the
Has anyone considered that this beast has an erratic temperature sensor?
I'd check for hot spots the next time it goes haywire again. If there are
none, my vote is for a delinquent sensor.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
How about
DImitri, is this the same car you drove to and from DC?
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Yes and i might even make an offer for it. It was a 'rust free'southern car
my brother in NC got in Athens GA. i had planned to 'restore' it but
Yes and i might even make an offer for it. It was a 'rust free'southern car
my brother in NC got in Athens GA. i had planned to 'restore' it but upon
closer inspection that didn't seem feasible, so I fell in love with a 300CD.
On Feb 19, 2015 2:14 PM, dseretakis--- via Mercedes
Nope, white 240D I gave him last November.
-Curt
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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Overheating 240D more info
I'm onboard with a blocked cooling passage. Get your guy to open the
block drain (which hasn't been done at least since I got the car)
and blow the crud out...
-Curt
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Haven't been following this thread, so this question may already have been
asked:
Did you change the primary fuel filter? Primary AND secondary? I'm thinking of
water or debris in the gas.
Gerry
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Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
You know that is a
Car overheats sometimes. Can go for days or hundreds of miles and be fine then
it'll decide to overheat. Everything that I can think of except for coolant
passage blockage somewhere or head bolts bottomed out or crack in head has been
ruled out.
But head issues unlikely in my opinion as car
I'm onboard with a blocked cooling passage. Get your guy to open the block
drain (which hasn't been done at least since I got the car) and blow the crud
out...
-Curt
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:04:29 -0500 dseretakis--- via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I never tested with IR thermometer.
I did not block tstat open. The last major thing I did was change that
leaking short hose as I was convinced the problem stemmed from there. I
was obviously wrong.
Hey, those are fighting words.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
This thing has four cats. A pair upstream off each manifold, then a pair
downstream in the middle of the car
clay
4 cats? You should drown at least 2 of them!
Not without a third party piece of software that will let you pull it off
without invoking iTunes.
At least that's what I recall about situations like this. You can't use the
iPod to transfer the music library. Google this, however, as someone may have
found a way around it.
Dan
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So my Indy just called. He replaced broken fan and fan shroud. Tested water
pump which checked out ok. Drove car, let it idle for over an hour and it
didn't overheat. He is calling it fixed and he may very well be right.
But I don't believe it could be that easy. I'm up in Maine for a few days
If this fix does indeed solve the problem it will be like a death in the
family. We all have come to love the 240D with the quirky personality.
;)..
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:04:29 -0500 dseretakis--- via Mercedes
How disappointing.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Nope, white 240D I gave him last November.
-Curt
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I replaced the turbo but it's all good now.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
My 1985 CA version 300TD has a revered catalytic (trap) ozidizer, which I
pet every night before going to bed.
I thought that football already killed your
No this car was given to me by Curt in November. Prior to that, Dwight owned it.
The car is a bit of a slut;)
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On Feb 19, 2015, at 4:14 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
DImitri, is this the same car you drove to and from DC?
On Thu, Feb
On 19/02/2015 4:02 PM, dseretakis--- via Mercedes wrote:
I'm not disappointed that my China blue 240D is not overheating!
China blue is undergoing some major rust repair surgery. Things are at a
standstill due to brutal winter though.
Which obviously proves there is something odd going on
When its overheating the coolant is boiling out the radiator cap. It really is
overheating, that is not in doubt, the question is why?
-Curt
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To: Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca; Mercedes Discussion List
mercedes@okiebenz.com
My 1985 CA version 300TD has a revered catalytic (trap) ozidizer, which I
pet every night before going to bed.
I thought that football already killed your turbo a year or so ago.
Didn't you have trouble with the turbo on that car?
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Citric acid flush was not done.
The radiator is good.
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On Feb 19, 2015, at 3:23 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Folks
about the overheating 240d
did you ever do a citric acid cleanse?
they all have a lot of crud in the cooling
Yikes that sounds complicated. I'm far from an engineer. To be honest, I'm not
much of a mechanic either. My enthusiasm lies in the rust repair arena!
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On Feb 19, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
How about installing a water
well that's the simplest and cheapest thing … i would have done that first and
would do that now if the problem is not solved
thanks,
xx rick
Rick Hawkins
On Feb 19, 2015, at 4:53 PM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote:
Citric acid flush was not done.
The radiator is good.
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I'm not disappointed that my China blue 240D is not overheating!
China blue is undergoing some major rust repair surgery. Things are at a
standstill due to brutal winter though.
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On Feb 19, 2015, at 4:35 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
The songs he got from iTunes will be living in the cloud and able to be sucked
down to the new computer. The MP3 files he ripped are going to go missing and
need to be ripped again. If he has the old drive, he could transfer the
library to the new machine, or the last back up of the ipod
Thanks, I'll dig into the archive...
May go by the knackers Saturday, see if a good used blower is to be had.
Rich, up for a trip to the knackers?
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
On February 19, 2015 9:35:20 PM EST, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
W126
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 23:07:10 -0500 Max Dillon via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
May go by the knackers Saturday, see if a good used blower is to be
had.
From what I picked up from the thread, you'll need the something that
drives the blower instead of another blower.
Craig
That's a tough nut to crack. Is there a correlation with ANYTHING that you
can think of (e.g., ambient temperatures, vehicle speed) or is it
completely random?
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I'm onboard with a blocked cooling passage.
At this point, I would say there are no strong correlations. Unless
my Indy can figure something out, I think I need to do a coolant has
test or oil analysis to rule out head leak.
Flushing block also should be done but the coolant and visible
coolant passages are squeaky clean.
If there
Unfortunately we have figured out the problem. It's the fuel pump.
Donald H. Snook
On Feb 19, 2015, at 9:32 AM, arche...@embarqmail.com
arche...@embarqmail.com wrote:
Haven't been following this thread, so this question may already have been
asked:
Did you change the primary fuel
At this point, I would say there are no strong correlations. Unless my Indy can
figure something out, I think I need to do a coolant has test or oil analysis
to rule out head leak.
Flushing block also should be done but the coolant and visible coolant passages
are squeaky clean.
Sent from my
A friend changed computers a while back. He went from XP to a Win 7 machine. He
wants to transfer the music from his iPod to the new PC. iTunes says the iPod
is synced with another iTunes on another PC and wants to wipe the iPod and
start over. Does anyone know of a work around? Is there any
This thing has four cats. A pair upstream off each manifold, then
a pair downstream in the middle of the car
clay
4 cats? You should drown at least 2 of them!
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I never tested with IR thermometer.
I did not block tstat open. The last major thing I did was change that leaking
short hose as I was convinced the problem stemmed from there. I was obviously
wrong.
My Indy modified the tstat making bottom plate smaller. Not sure what his
reasoning was but it
Dieselvolk,
1987 300TD, 338k miles, recently put back on the road after about a two year
time-out to replace the head.
The blower motor has become very weak recently. I noticed it was weak when I
started driving the car again last fall. A couple of times it didn't work at
all, but usually
Ok heres my take.
First off, I hate stuff like this, and I love it when its finally solved.
But getting there can be a horrible experience.
Anyway, I think you mentioned that on your last trip back south the car was
great until you stopped, then it started to warm up.
And the fix is apparently
I was going to say that you should perhaps check your temp gauge (thermometer)
but since you feel like crap (coolant boiling over) you probably do have an
overheating situation (fever):)
Get well.
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On Feb 19, 2015, at 8:45 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
Did someone on this list post a cheap solution for bypassing the blower
motor voltage regulator with a rheostat for manual control of the blower?
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Ja, read the archive from November
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OK, pretty sure I've isolated to the regulator. There is a three-pin
connector that comes out of the fan housing to a firewall connection on the
driver's side. Yellow, red and black wires, go to the voltage regulator
(N29 on the wiring diagram). Red is power from the 30A fuse on the drivers
The shroud wasn't missing it was broken, and it wasn't very broken, just
cracked in one corner near the top. Remember I drove it 25,000 miles like that.
Same with the fan.
Its also VERY cold here. In the last month we've gotten above freezing twice,
with any amount of airflow at all you ought
I used a simple ON/OFF toggle switch to operate blower in my 350SDL on a
weekend years ago.
Wilton
Meade Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Did someone on this list post a cheap solution for bypassing the blower
motor voltage regulator with a rheostat for manual control of
I replaced the turbo but it's all good now.
And you did not remove the football that killed it?
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Jaime wrote:
I hope all this makes sense... I'm running a fever now and feel like crap.
Be well soon.
Rick
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The trap gets a bad rap. My exhaust is as clear as my conscience.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I replaced the turbo but it's all good now.
And you did not remove the football that killed it?
This all gets very complicated. The shroud went in and out a few more times
since you last owned the car. Due to its already compromised condition, the
shroud broke further down as well. It was still in place and probably doing
something when the car overheated again after the trip from Maine.
W126 I cut off the harness from the dead porcupine, wired a toggle
switch into if, with terminals to hook up the motor. Yellow not
needed.
I drilled a hole in the bottom of the box where the porcupine had
been and put the toggle switch there.
I htink the 124 is similar.
When I was able
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