92 300D 2.5 engine rebuild 300,000

[NickMendoza]

Smokes all the time. On freeway it smoked the entire Northbound lane. Lucky I did not get pulled over.

Well this is the outcome: One piston has lost the rings. The tech has given me options:

1. Reuse all pistons except the bad one. Re-sleeve the bad one. Put a used piston in the redone cyl. All pistions would have new rings. Only if pistons looked ok.

He said that the head may be cracked. The machine shop said: They need to look at it before they can tell me. I did not know that these heads from a 5 cyl. had problems.

All internal parts will be replaced. He also rec. a new line to the turbo (oil).

The turbo will be done at turbo city.

2. Use all new pistons. More $, is it worth it?

Thank you

Nick