The color of the smoke would be a giveaway, but if you trust the long block to not be the problem, swap the #1 injector with a different injector and see if the problem changes cylinders after a while. If not, it's in the IP somewhere.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 06:20:19PM -0500, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: > OK, so I got this POS 87 300D in yesterday. Actually, its not a POS, > its a pretty nice car. Anyway, this is the car I had a ways back, when > I got it, running at idle it would fog up the neighborhood and could > just sit there and miss the whole time. It gradually started getting > better while I had it and ended up trading it off. It them ended up > with OK Don, and now I have it back. While OK Don had it, he had the > #14 head off and had it rebuilt. IIRC, when Don was doing this, seems > like he said the compression was OK but I dont remember. He also said > he did not note anything obvious in the bores of the bottom end with the > head off. So, head back on. It seems to be much better but today I > messed with it a little. When you first start it cold, it seems like #1 > is not firing at all at idle. When you get it off idle, it smooths > out. There is a little smoke associated with this. If you let it sit > there and idle for a while it will gradually start hitting on #1. If > you take it out and blow it out, you get crap blown out the back for a > minute or 2, then once its fully warmed up, it will sit there and idle > smooth as can be for as long as you want. Like I said, remembering when > he was posting about this, it seemed like everything was OK and could > never find a reason. I am wondering if it might be something in the > IP? That is about the only thing that has not been looked at as far as > I know. What I do know, this thing has tons of power, so I dont suspect > anything major but who knows. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
