Timeline for Have a feeling Mercedes V8 W164 Engine is Running Really Hot
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| Jun 19, 2020 at 21:46 | comment | added | sawreals | @paulster don't believe I hosed heads. The other metal component that I sprayed a bit was the ignition coil housing. Which does not appear to have warped at all after I just took a look. | |
| Jun 19, 2020 at 21:21 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2♦ | @SolarMike - While heads don't shatter, warping one (or two) is as expensive a proposition as destroying the ceramic matrix in a cat, if not moreso ... now ... consider doing both at the same time. Might as well throw the car away and get a different one. | |
| Jun 19, 2020 at 21:13 | comment | added | sawreals | do you think it'll be fine if I just did it once? I was worried and believed to smell something burning. No engine lights came up so I assume it is fine. However, I do also live up in Canada and this past winter temperatures went down to around -44C (much much colder than that of the cold water which was probably around 20C from the hose that was left in the sun. \ | |
| Jun 19, 2020 at 20:53 | comment | added | Solar Mike | @Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 but the cats have a ceramic matrix which can shatter through thermal shock, water chucked on heads less so... | |
| Jun 19, 2020 at 20:50 | comment | added | Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2♦ | Not only the exhaust components, but what about heads and other metal parts on the engine itself warping ... very not good thing to do. | |
| Jun 19, 2020 at 20:41 | history | answered | Solar Mike | CC BY-SA 4.0 |