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I am having a meltdown here all the usual suspects are rounded up. My 1986 300SDL (that I have spent more time working on than driving no kidding) is a great car has me perplexed. It started and ran fine one day the next started and idled fine but gives me about 100RPM increase when I push the throttle with foot or under the hood so all the linkage is moving the way it should.
Hi,
I am again successfully confused by the website, so need to be unconfused once more:
On your website under the item "Heavy Duty Monark Ultimate Hand Primer Pump" I have read the following sentence: <...works great with SVO WVO fuels> therefore I bought the pump.
Then once I received it, the instruction booklet that came with it said: <...Its only disadvantage, it will not work well with bio-diesel and it may not work at all with waste vegetable oil SVO/WVO...>> but the problem, that is what I want to use with eventually.
Hello
It's been nearly a year since I sold my last Mercedes (1981 240D - my fourth diesel Benz since 1996) to pay for my honeymoon.
Anywho, it's project time again, and I'm picking up a 1971 220D this weekend that will need a LOT of love. It's a southern car that has been up here in the northeast for about ten years (only driven here the first five). It's got rust (looks fixable to me so far) and is definitely a long term project, but I couldn't pass up a running 4-speed manual W115 diesel at the price.
For no reason at all I have no throttle response it will get up to about 1000 RPM and hit a wall. It wasn't like that yesterday. I have new injector nozzels balanced clean hard lines new filters (pre-filter is the aluminum filter I got here) diesel purged. the only thing I did was install a trans vac.
1984 300sd: Need to know vacuum spec. readings other than the'ol 20-23"
from the main vacuum hose.
Does anyone know the readings to:
transmission modulator value= 15-20"?
shutoff valve value= NEED THIS ONE
door actuator value
ignition switch
door check valve at firewall
Are the readings all suppose to be the same? 20-23 in of vacuum
I have Kent's books but do not see vacuum readings at the different branches of different systems aforementioned.
Thanks, Rafe.
while working on another issue under the hood, i noticed oil dripping from the bottom of my turbo's boost pressure control valve housing. i have determined that the oil is not coming from anywhere else higher on the block. the turbo spools up fine, but the garage floor is getting wet. do i have to rebuild the turbo or is there a simpler fix?
my '82 300D stumbles when starting in hot or cold weather. i replaced the glow plugs and reamed the pre-chambers. they had minimal carbon build-up. i checked engine (1 degree stretch) and IP timing (24 degress BTDC) and they are both ok. compression is 24+ bar across all cylinders with 96k original miles on the clock. injector release pressure is low (1750 psi) and i plan to replace the nozzles and bump the pop pressures to 1950 psi. could the low pop pressures be the root cause for the stumble starts, or is there something else i need to check?
I am putting in my new balanced injectors and injection pump stub shaft o-rings. I took off the crossover pipe to gain access to the third injector and just give me more room to put hard lines back in after cleaning them off course. I found that there is an oily gunk in the cross over pipe and the intake should I be worried about my turbo? I do have a small oil leak from the turbo (the only oil leak on the car) are the doughnuts bad turbo getting bad ect. Should I take the intake off and clean it and get a new intake gasket soon?
Kent, thanks a lot for all the manuals and advice you've handed out. We now have 3 300d's that run well and were broken or barely ran when we bought them.
Now to the annoying stuff...there's a noise my '85 300d is
making. It wines, especially before it's warmed up all the way, when I'm
going less than about 45mph and loudest at around 35mph sustained speed. It
also will go away entirely if I stomp on the gas and when the car shifts
and the rpm's change which makes me think it has something to do with the
Wow! Times like these I feel really alone in rural N.W. Indiana!! I went to change the radio (cassette) to a more modern am/fm/cd Blaupunkt Saturday night. Speaker wires were the hangup and I was told I need a floating ground adapter...? I thought each speaker had both wires coming to the radio and I could connect them as such to each corresponding lead from the new radio. The "experts" said I'd fry the radio and wanted to sell me this "floating ground adapter" for $40. I didn't buy it...I re-installed the former Becker original and had to re-splice the brown ground wire as I was all set to splice and connect ASAP.