Diesel RVs: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Head experts...your insight please

On 1/9/2011 9:38 AM, bgiovan wrote:

I’m actually going to be 47 this year. My wife, she still wants to kill me.

Ben near Detroit

From: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com [mailto:diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of BStromsoe
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 8:27 PM
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Head experts...your insight please

Well Ben. I am not an expert but in 1958 I did tear apart a lot of heads and rebuilt them. I was 18, worked in an auto parts machine shop with an old German (mustard gassed in the Argonne in 1918) who was the master of his trade. Now I do not know why a bright young lad such as you would not want to send that head out for rebuild (and the block too). Unless you have a death wish, rebuilding these things yourself is something to undertake only as a PROJECT and could be detrimental to your marriage. On the other hand, if you have the time, and the money, and the interest, and the friends, I think it could be a great project for you. I would tear it down, steam clean everything, send it out for a hot dip, if it were a chevy v8 I would magnaflux it, are the pistons and rings in good shape (looks like a little oil seepage around the pistons). At my advanced age of 103, I would order a rebuilt head and use yours as a core. At your youthful age of 35, I might consider rebuilding it myself. If I were your wife, you would be sleeping on the couch for 12 months.

brian from la verne, ca

From: bgiovan <bgiovan@cavtel.net>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 4:11:26 PM
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Head experts...your insight please

Well got the head off the donor car today (recall needing to R&R the head on a 1979 W116 300SD). First time doing this so...

If the experts would care to gander at the photos and give me their feedback, I'd be ever so grateful!

http://picasaweb.google.com/116318077355015592300/300SDHeadTurboRedux#

Ben near Detroit