The Benz Dr. was kind enough to rebuild my 230SL head last year and I assembled everything back together as prescribed in the torque requirements section. Now that a year has passed, would it be wise to re-torque the head for safety's sake?
The reason I bring this up is that the temperature guage read higher than it ever has (the 4th dot), and I'm a little concerned that the head gasket may be challanged with the hot weather, etc.
What do you all think? I did note that the coolant was a little low in the fill tank, too. Engine performance has been great. Hans at H&R did a FI rebuild and the engine runs real smoothe. However, here in KS, the weather has been high temps and high humidity. Not a good combination for effective heat transfer through the radiator. Yes, everything is clean in the cooling system and the high temperature guage situation only reveals itself at 4500 rpm on the interstate (at about 75+ mph)sustained speed.
If retorque is recommended, what should be the procedure? Thanks to all.
I see John in NC is selling his 230 on eBay. Tell all interested parties that it is a car that could be a real bargain for what he's done to it.