Bleeding Air from Cooling System - 300SD Turbo?
Kent and Kaia, Thank you again for your help!
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Tranny Vacuum Dashpot Location for 1980 300D
I am a reletively new owner of a 1980 300D, and learning as I go.
I've recently been trouble shooting the lack of heat, which means the vacuum system.
I've got heat back, but the tranny feels like it is slipping as it shifts gears. I purchased a transmission daspot, but the car doesn't have one currently installed.
Should my 1980 300D have a dashpot? If so, where should it be installed?
Your help is appreciated.
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300D Power Loss?!? Uh oh!!!
On my drive in to work in my WVO-powered 1983 300D-T this morning, I had been driving on the freeway for just about 5 minutes or so and all of a sudden the car started losing power! I was worried that the transmission was giving for a moment, since that's been a "watch" item, but the revs didn't shoot up like a typical "flare". The guts just went away and the engine was not spooling up. But the engine didn't quite die... Nervously, I stomped the accelerator for a moment and it seemed to "fight through it" and the power charged back, and right then a curious thing happened... The fuse carrying the tachometer blew out right when the car came back to life as if there was a surge. Related? No?
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Replacing Entire Injector vs. Just the Nozzles
How does one know whether to replace the entire injector versus just replacing the nozzles?? Do the nozzles wear out before the springs and other internal components of the injectors? Any thoughts?
Thanks, Justin.
92 300D 2.5 L (daily driver)
85 300D 298k mi ("money pit")
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Recoding a Becker Grand Prix?????
Hi All,
I was working on a Heater motor problem and made the tragic mistake of unpluging the radio while attempting to pull the ACC unit. My MB Tech. Companion said my particular radio was equiped with an anti- theft device that scrambles the radio when unsuspecting dolts like myself disconect them. Has anybody got any advise as to how to restore the settings?
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Mike Waine
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1986 300e rear suspension stomping noise
1986 300e 5 spd.(Manual) car starts to sway and jumps on high speed. I thought that the rear shock was going bad so I bought the bilstien HD shocks for the rear and have it installed in a local repair shop close to my home.Its much stable on the freeway. But when I drive the car I hear stomping noise on left rear when driving on bumps or pot holes. It feels like the shocks are so stiff it sounds like dug dug dug dug it feels the rear is falling apart could it be the installation not installed correctly. The noise was not there before. what part is worned out to make this noise.
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What is a safe running temp for a 300cd non turbo?
It started out as running to cold, maybe 60 according to the gauge, so I replaced the t-stat with one rated at 176 (80centigrade) now the heater works much better and the car seems to have more power,but now the gauge is reading around 90. Is 90(centigrade) to hot?I know that modern gas powered cars usually run around 195 or more, but I just dont know what a 30 yr old diesel should be running at. are these cars prone to bad gauges or sending units(79 300cd)? I also noticed that my oil pressure has dropped at idle from 3 bars to 2.25, should I worry about this? any advice is much apprecieated!
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Wiper Speeds at Combination Switch are backwards
Re: '82 300SD (new car for me). The first wiper position on the combo switch gives fast wiper speed, the second normal speed, and the third does nothing at all. I think the proper order is intermittent, then normal, then fast. Everything else on combo switch works fine. Should I get a new switch? How to I remove it to troubleshoot and/or replace? Need instructions. Thanks!
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103 90' 300E hard to start, idled rough and would quit at stop signs. Frankly, What a piece!
I am posting my condensed experience on this subject to spare other 103 owners from going nuts/broke or both.
I bought this PIECE at a good price with the intention of reselling it. It had a "fresh smog certificate" and drove it 300+ miles, I loved and enjoyed the smoothness and I immediatly thought what a great grandmas car(I am a die hard mercedes diesel rattling cage fool: 74 240D 4sp).
Anyways the honeymoon stopped abruptly when the car started to show the above symptoms and all other signs of being possessed, I thoght the problem was not "BASIC" tune up related because it flew thru smog.
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Brrrr! 82 300SD Heater Motor goes kaput!
Hey gang!
Thanks to Kaia and Mercedessource, we completed our journey from Boulder, CO back to Portland, ME in our just-puchased-that-evening 1982 300SD. We made the trip back to Maine in 34 hours flat, averaging 25 mpg. Thanks to your book(s), we diagnosed a clogged ALDA line heading from the intake to the sensor and wala, bugs no longer hit our back windshield as we crossed Iowa.
The only thing, and only thing that really gave us trouble on the trip was, 3/4 way back, the heater motor just QUIT. The gentleman we bought the car from stated that he had replaced the 'control valves' - which I read as he replaced the push button array in the center console (which was confirmed by finding it half-bolted in).