500E Head Gasket Failure

[ngenius1]

Hi all.
After 2 years of knowing this was looming, ive finally had the head gaskets done on my car.
The symptoms were slight loss of water now and then , but not enough to cause concern.
It had not been used much since December, and i believe this long period of inactivity allowed the water to seep into the cylinder.
My car starts up on low voltage, on this occasion my partner calls to say the car is on fire !
I shut it down remotely and view the video, a lot of white smoke !
So drove to the garage which it did perfectly after burning of the water/oil mix in the cylinder.
They did not believe it was an issue with the head gaskets as there was no visible oil water mix
Sorry for the long raant, will post some pics

 

[ngenius1]

 

[gsxr]

Yikes. Is that photo of the engine oil? What year 500E?

 

[daantjie]

Oof the dreaded caramel milkshake of death

 

[ngenius1]

More pics

 

[ngenius1]

Yikes. Is that photo of the engine oil? What year 500E?

Yes, thats the milkshake that came out of it !
1992

 

[ngenius1]

Pics

 

[ngenius1]

only issues during the process were 2 snapped bolts, one of the oiler tubes broke at the o ring point.
one of Cam sprocket adjusters needed replacing.

 

[gsxr]

What bolts snapped?

And, what was wrong with the cam adjuster?

 

[ngenius1]

one on the inlet manifold, one on the cam cover i believe.
Cam adjuster was warn, he said it wasnt springing/return properly

 

[ngenius1]

pics

 

[ngenius1]

Pics

 

[emerydc8]

While the intake manifold is off you might want to consider replacing the donut seals that mate the top and bottom parts of the intake manifold, or maybe he already has. I can’t tell if they’re new from the pic.

 

[ngenius1]

All seals and gaskets have been changed .

 

[ArauzMotoring]

Wow that’s rough… Hope you’ll get to enjoy it for years to come after such a big service!