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i was just told my transmission was shot in my '84 300TD. I'm wondering if anyone here has replaced a tranny in their benz? Mine has about 250K miles on it and I'm having a hard time justifying the expenditure. If anyone has any experience with this I'd love to hear about it - or any advice for that matter. Thanks.
Our 1979 300D runs great at speed. We just installed Kent's boost pump kit and it really does help starting and idling and did help a little on power too. I was hoping it would also solve our shifting problem as well but it did not. From a dead stop, the car will always start rolling in second gear (which as everyone knows makes it painfully slow) even if I mash the pedal down. It will do this even if I shift into neutral while stopped then shift to drive just before moving.
We've already done the following to this car: recent valve adjustment, timing chain replaced (has good timing now), recent diesel purge, new filters, fuel lines and fuel strainer, adjusted kickdown rod from throttle to transmission (which did improve the shifting above 20mph to earlier shifts for more power).
After driving at highway speed for about an hour and 15 mins, the rearend starts knocking. I can stop the car for at least 5 mins, the knocking goes away until i drive another hour. Then the process starts all over again. Anyone have any ideas?
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So my 240 has low oil pressure at hot idle. Kent's "Diesel Performance Tuning and Repair" says that this is caused by either worn oil pump gears or crank bearings.
I am currently unemployed so I'd like to try to fix this without a mechanic, but I love my car and I don't want to risk f*cking something up royally and ruining it. Would this be the kind of thing I would be able to do myself? I can already do basic stuff like changing oil and I've installed the glow plug relay manual override so I have some pretty basic experience.
