Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnM.
I put roughly 1000 miles on the car and I wish I hadn't. It totally fubar'ed the cooling system from head to toe. After completing the HG, it took a new radiator, expansion tank, new hoses all around, 4 flushes, and about a years worth of wiping the excess oil out of the coolant expansion tank for the system to become clean again. A real pain. Remember that it's also gumming up your heater core, etc with oil. It's probably not good for the water pump either.
It's not a matter of the head bolts being loose, it's a break in the actual head gasket material which is allowing oil into the coolant passages.
Not sure what to tell ya.  |
Thanks for the input JohnM.
Good to know the extent. I knew the oil would rot the rubber but hadn't thought it that far through. I've got quite a pair of 300e(s) bawling at me for money to go their way.
This and my other 300E in another thread with the low idle issues("fixed") has some blue smoke at low RPM and idle from what appears to be the #6 cylinder (one only, fouled plug). This car could be straight traded for an '87 with 300K km and a bad interior. That would be the end of high dollar failed e-tests (cutoff date is 1988 in Canada), but oh that interior.
Decisions decisions