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June 2002
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Re: Leaking coolant but from the over flow?
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Tue, 28 June 2005 01:55
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Well there is abit of history with this diesel engine.
MY grampa buaght one of them fuckin musso's. You know those korean cars with supposedly Mercedes engines/drivelines(the merc engines are made in korea too! so is the garret turbo's they put on them). Anyway he was driving along and suddenly the engine overheated and stoped. Turns out he bent 4 of the 5 conrods (5 cylinder diesel) warped the head like a banana and overheated the crap out of it. (yep coolant got into the combustion chamber)
He sold the entire musso to me for $4000 (1998) Got the engine back from the mechanics in pieces (they chargted $2000 to even inspect the damamge, and another $13,000 to overhual the engine. At this point my grampa just whent out and buaght another 4wd. (patrol, shoulda got a landcruiser) and handed over the musso keys to me.
I discovered a leak in a radiator pipe, and a headgasket that was deteriated to the max.
I have put the engine back together myself with new parts. Including a new headgasket. And the head has been straightened, with new headbolts.
once back together and back in the musso, the thing wouldn't start for a week, had to pruge air out of the fuel lines, finally started it, made lots of bad noises, turns out my fuel timing was out, dam tricky to get right on these cars. And by then it's running real smooth. But the constant air spurting out of the overflow is still a problem. Already spent $3500 on another flamming korean made merc diesel engine (non turbo).
So i will take the thead off the old one and check to see if the gasket was leaking. I don't see how, unless the head is warped again, apparently once they are overheated the metal becomes too soft to hold it's shape.
Sorry for the long post. (Musso's wiegh 2500Kg and the diesel puts out 97HP and 250nm of torque LOL)
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