Yep, 8+ years ago, when I went to Winston-Salem to check out a for-sale,
"showroom" '87 300D (82 kmi), friend with me laughed at me and continues
even now to enjoy telling our other friends about how I got down and sniffed
the exhaust while making my decision to buy it. It's at 127 kmi now and
still has no burned-engine-oil odor from exhaust.
'Learned my lesson from '81 300D (125 kmi) that I bought from 90-year-old
friend 4 years earlier - it burned a quart per 100 miles. 'Day after I
bought it, I changed oil and filters; inside of oil filter canister,
cartridge, etc., was DRY - yes, DRY, very black but DRY; air filter in place
was some "off-the-shelf" POS an inch too short for the canister - i. e., NO
air filtering. (Friend drove the car 2 or 3 times a day down long dirt
lane/path (lotsa fine dust) to his tank (liquid/fuels tank) manufacturing
plant.) PO friend had paid local quick change crooks for many years to
change oil and filters every 3 kmi. Oil filter had not been touched in many
years.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Haley" <m...@voyager.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2012 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 1973 Mercedes ?s smoke, valve seals, vacuum pump, sunroof
Tim C wrote:
Until I saw white smoke I found it easy to think oil smoke was white -
the
"blue" has just a tinge of darkness. Once you have seen both it is
easier
to tell, but it's hard to verify over email.
Once you know what oil smoke smells like, it's easy to tell if you're
standing back there.
Mitch.
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