1982 stored 10 years hard to start
I'm trying to get a 300 d started that has been in storage in a garage for 10 years. It will crank but will not hit. I have replaced both fuel filters and primed it to the injectors. Still not starting. Any ideas?
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I'm trying to get a 300 d started that has been in storage in a garage for 10 years. It will crank but will not hit. I have replaced both fuel filters and primed it to the injectors. Still not starting. Any ideas?
1979 300D. Stored for 4 years won't start without the block heater when it is below 60 degrees. The oil was not changed during storage. Glow plugs appear to cycle. Does anybody have any ideas? I am looking at purchasing this car but want to avoid a big engine problem.
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1989 Mercedes benz 300SE the seatbelt light that looks like airplane buckle up symbol now blinks constantly this is really weird could someone help me?
I recently purchased an 82 300 td. When I am driving the rear end bounces up and down. it has fluid in the reservoir.
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On rare occasions when I turn the A/C on and select high fan speed the blower is very fast (read powerful) and the temperature is very cold......Great! On other occasions in fact most of the time when the A/C temp is selected and the high speed fan switch is selected the fan is slow and the temperature is warm to cool. Yet at other times if I switch off the engine before switching off the A/C for example when refueling and then turn the engine back on the fan blows H-O-T.
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).
hi all,
how important is proper alignment?
my 300 sd is pulling fairly hard to the right and i'm wondering if it is worth it, or how soon, i should have it aligned. what problems can be caused by poor alignment? i live in the country and drive on a pretty poor road every time i go anywhere, will it become misaligned very quickly?
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.