View Single Post
  #5  
Old 06-20-2005, 12:15 AM
Strife's Avatar
Strife Strife is offline
General Purpose Geek
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: KY USA
Posts: 2,238
Same thing happened to me. I was running 80 in summer and 70 in winter. Changed the water pump and thermostat, new MB fluid and went to 85-95 all the time. I played with the old thermostat in some hot water and determined that the old thermostat always stayed stuck open a little.

This is a "better" failure mode than locking shut (like my GM cars seemed to do)!!
__________________
86 560SL
With homebrew first gear start!
85 380SL
Daily Driver Project

http://juliepalooza.8m.com/sl/mercedes.htm
Reply With Quote