Thread: Can blow by be fixed by honing and new rings on 245K mile motor?
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Old 09-12-2007, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by truckinik View Post
You can, but if you're taking the head off, you may as well put in new seals, seats, grind the valves, put in new retainers, and throw pistons and bearings at the thing...It won't be very expensive and it will be like new afterwards...

Nick

Not very expensive is not a term I would use in describing all the work above.

Most likely most of the above will not be needed, but if you take the head off you should definately have a professional machinist check them for conformance to mercedes specs for usable parts.

Tom W
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