Do you remember if your piston had wear to the front side like mine
did? Did your cylinder have the hone marks worn off the front side, or
do you remember? Im probably just going to replace the rod, piston, put
it back together and see what happens. My other plan is to replace all
6 rods, and if something happens down the road, I will at least have 6
rods I can put in another engine if I need to. 3rd option is to see if
that spare motor I have is any good.
dave walton wrote:
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?
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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
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