Questions and Answers

I've got a 81 300D. The transmission vacuum shifting valve went bad & it started shifting hard & going back & forth between gears. I replaced it with a good valve off my 'spare parts' car. The transmission started shifting like perfect again. However, after maybe a month the car is shifting hard again. I suspect something on the car is killing this valve.

1991 300TE 124 body Question,Found black ,very thin liquid or thin oil under driverside rear wheel,It's not brake fluid or hydra. oil from suspension, seems to be comming from the subframe mount. Question is do these contain oil inside the rubber? Any help with this greatly app.. The wife's baby don't cha know.

i have a 84 300D and the floor is rusted out.. i was wondering if the 126 chassis has the same floor design. Since I wanted to cut it out and replace it, and the only floor I will have access to is from a 126 chassis. Thanks!

Hi guys, I don't plan to take this forum off on a marine tangent but I have just bought a small 1985 motor sailer powered by a marinised Mercedes OM636 which appears to have had very little professional service, ever. Sticking to the similarity of the engine to all the older four cylinder diesel Mercs I am confident that the Fast Start Glow Plug conversion is an immediate requirement as she is a very slow, and then lumpy, starter. My question then is, what special tools (if any) are required to remove and decarbonise the precombustion chambers? Obviously I will have injectors serviced etc but what other matters should I be looking at whilst picking out the black bits? Which of the manuals you have produced will be the most help to me in getting this engine back up to spec?