For those who followed my blown head gasket saga, I want to provide an update since the miracle alternative medicine I took last time.
A brief recap. I acquired this 1994 W124 with just over 100,000 miles four years ago with known oil in coolant problem for $1500. Since then, I stupidly or steadfastly refused to replace the head gasket (doing the right thing?) but chose to remove the oil every several weeks and sustained several near death cooling system failures for about 40,000 miles. A few months ago, the symptom became so bad, it was no longer just oil in coolant (never huge amount) but the coolant now in the mixture, causing extremely rough idling, poor engine performance, and disappearance of coolant every 10 miles when the coolant light came on. it still started every single time.
Recognizing the doom's day had eventually arrived, I took a greyhound night bus overnight to Baltimore to bring back a 1995 E320 with 108,000 miles. The one with blown head gasket would be either a part car or a project car. Before ditching it for good, I threw in this magic bottle of Preston head gasket repair with Kevlar fibers. Within two minutes, the engine ran like new again, smooth and powerful.
Now, two months after the magic bottle and over 500 miles later, the engine is perfect (I drove both cars alternatively). Even more amazingly, I checked out the coolant condition today, first time after the magic bottle, in two months. NO OIL!!! I could not believe it so I did my old way of pushing in a piece of cloth from the coolant reservoir into the hose all the way down to the radiator bottom. After I pulled out the cloth, NO OIL!!! Unlike in the past, the cloth would be soaked with slimy and oily residues, now I got nothing.
Can this alternative medicine cure this head gasket cancer? Every day this engine is alive is a blessing and I will take it.
Now, my new theory about this oil in coolant issue. I know oil getting into coolant, then exhaust getting into coolant, then coolant gets into mixture, but never coolant into engine oil. For exhaust, mixture, and coolant passage, it must be the head gasket located between the combustion chamber and water jacket. For the oil into coolant, it could be the head gasket between the coolant pocket near the oil pocket at the back of the engine, as claimed by the W124 Bible.
The interesting question, how could this magic kevlar bottle cured both at the same time?
Could it be always one passage all along?
Whatever the answer is, I take this new NO OIL condition as a blessing and everyday is a gain even if it does not last.
jftu105
A brief recap. I acquired this 1994 W124 with just over 100,000 miles four years ago with known oil in coolant problem for $1500. Since then, I stupidly or steadfastly refused to replace the head gasket (doing the right thing?) but chose to remove the oil every several weeks and sustained several near death cooling system failures for about 40,000 miles. A few months ago, the symptom became so bad, it was no longer just oil in coolant (never huge amount) but the coolant now in the mixture, causing extremely rough idling, poor engine performance, and disappearance of coolant every 10 miles when the coolant light came on. it still started every single time.
Recognizing the doom's day had eventually arrived, I took a greyhound night bus overnight to Baltimore to bring back a 1995 E320 with 108,000 miles. The one with blown head gasket would be either a part car or a project car. Before ditching it for good, I threw in this magic bottle of Preston head gasket repair with Kevlar fibers. Within two minutes, the engine ran like new again, smooth and powerful.
Now, two months after the magic bottle and over 500 miles later, the engine is perfect (I drove both cars alternatively). Even more amazingly, I checked out the coolant condition today, first time after the magic bottle, in two months. NO OIL!!! I could not believe it so I did my old way of pushing in a piece of cloth from the coolant reservoir into the hose all the way down to the radiator bottom. After I pulled out the cloth, NO OIL!!! Unlike in the past, the cloth would be soaked with slimy and oily residues, now I got nothing.
Can this alternative medicine cure this head gasket cancer? Every day this engine is alive is a blessing and I will take it.
Now, my new theory about this oil in coolant issue. I know oil getting into coolant, then exhaust getting into coolant, then coolant gets into mixture, but never coolant into engine oil. For exhaust, mixture, and coolant passage, it must be the head gasket located between the combustion chamber and water jacket. For the oil into coolant, it could be the head gasket between the coolant pocket near the oil pocket at the back of the engine, as claimed by the W124 Bible.
The interesting question, how could this magic kevlar bottle cured both at the same time?
Could it be always one passage all along?
Whatever the answer is, I take this new NO OIL condition as a blessing and everyday is a gain even if it does not last.
jftu105