Pics don't look too bad to me. I replaced the rod at 180k. That car is now at 225k. I needed to get the car back in service and was tired of screwing around with it so I put the heavier rod back in without matching it's weight to the others. There is no way to reduce it's weight without taking off good metal. I only replaced the rod and a couple head bolts that were out of spec. I recall that one or two of the valve lifters looked worn on one side and replaced those too. Probably did not have to do that.
I know everyone has their list of what should be replaced when doing a job like this (which I ignored) and I probably pissed off the engine-gods for not balancing the rods, but the truth is this engine is flawed from the start and no one but Mercedes knows how to rebuild them right. You could spend 5K replacing all the wear parts and you would still have a defective engine. My advice is to cut your losses, replace the bent rod, get the car back together and enjoy driving it. And no, it is not yet burning oil or making funky noises or blowby. When it dies for real I'll be replacing it with a 606.962 from a W210 E300. This is the car that I run on 100% WVO during the summer. I thin it with diesel or kerosene in the winter. They can take a lot of abuse :-) -Dave Walton On 12/1/09, Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: > Hey dave, > > Did you check out those pics I posted after I pulled my #1 rod/piston? Did > your look similar when you did it. So you just replaced the 1 rod, how many > miles have you put on it since? > > -- > Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK > 95 E300, 92 500SEL, 92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 350SDL, 91 300D, 89 > 560SEL, 87 300SDL x2, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 85 190D, 84 190D, 84 300D euro > manny, 76 240D, 76 300D, http://www.okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________ 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