After compression testing my cylinders, I found I was loosing compression on one of the right side cylinders. UGH. and to top it off I had white smoke coming out of my exhaust with the continual loss of coolant. The culprit...yep, you got it, blown head gasket!
I spent weeks doing research, found a service manual, got the parts I needed, and a bunch of new tools, then went to work. I took about 80 hours of work (keep in mind, I'm a non-mechanic, with absolutely no experience working on cars doing this project. so the average car guru could cut that time in half). According to the service manual this job takes around 20 or so hours of labor for a benz certified mechanic.
Anyways, I was able to pull if off, and get my car back together again. Good news is it's running!
To make sure I could actually put my car back together I filmed the entire process and wanted to share the video to possibly help someone else out in the future if they decide to take on this task.
Hope it helps. It's only 58min...not too bad for a complete head gasket replacement!:
I spent weeks doing research, found a service manual, got the parts I needed, and a bunch of new tools, then went to work. I took about 80 hours of work (keep in mind, I'm a non-mechanic, with absolutely no experience working on cars doing this project. so the average car guru could cut that time in half). According to the service manual this job takes around 20 or so hours of labor for a benz certified mechanic.
Anyways, I was able to pull if off, and get my car back together again. Good news is it's running!
To make sure I could actually put my car back together I filmed the entire process and wanted to share the video to possibly help someone else out in the future if they decide to take on this task.
Hope it helps. It's only 58min...not too bad for a complete head gasket replacement!: