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

I just hit the gas once.

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Personally, I would go with new pistons/lines in all five cylinders. A little more expensive but that is just the way I do things.

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Jim

At 300,000 miles your car is nearly worthless to anyone except you. With a dead engine it is nothing more than scrap material.

So, you need to decide what you're going to do with this car. If you plan on keeping it, then spend the most you can afford to put it back in proper working order. If you plan on keeping for a short term and then sell it, then spend the least possible.

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John Shellenberg
1998 C230 "Black Betty" 240K

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... and if you decide to keep it, compare the cost of rebuilding to the costs of good used engine and a crate engine. As I understand, very few hands in the world are capable of putting together an MB bottom end properly. I have to think that a proper rebuild is around 75% of the cost of a 200K mile 2.5. Maybe Metric Motors has a long block for you.

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