Thanks Trish :)
I've been reading about your engine woes :( I think I joined right before that happened...so sorry that happened!
And this is VERY good to know about the flush kit, I'd already decided to return it, and your story is the nail in the coffin (on halloween.)
~Caitlin in Santa Fe
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, Trish Dougherty <purrfectharmonyfarm@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Caitlin (and Betty White)
>
> Welcome to the group. I just joined too. I finally bought my '81 300D in
> Sept. I'm dead on the sidelines now since I threw a rod. Found out
> *someone*not me! smashed into something hard enough to put a crease
> across the oil
> pan, thus causing a leak at the drain plug! Sigh.
>
> Anyhow, you asked: > Coolant flush and fill (my new mechanic, also a 300SD
> owner, strongly recommended that asap) is getting more pressing as our
> temps are dropping. I've got Zerex ready to go, and I bought one of those
> $4 "kits" (mostly for the instructions on the back) but now I realize they
> want you to cut on of your lines and leave their plastic piece installed
> all the time. Doesn't that restrict the flow? Or would it be fine? How else
> would I do it? Any video or photo instructions?
>
> I know from past, painful, expensive experience that is a BAD, BAD, BAD way
> to go. It was sweltering hot that July day here in TX. We were headed
> uphill, just a few miles from home when that stupid cap from the kit blew
> off. By the time we were able to get off the freeway the engine was shot.
> Then began the nightmare of getting a motor. Ugh. The truck was never the
> same again.
>
> .
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Trish Dougherty
> PurrFect Harmony Farm
> Ennis, TX
> http:/purrfectharmonyfarm.intuitwebsites.com
>
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