Hahahahahahahahaha, sorry, 240d, lost power, sounded funny. Anyway, sounds like a blown head gasket to me
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 3, 2017, at 11:26 AM, MG via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > A friend has an 82 300D which suddenly lost power while going down the road > at 55-60. Blew white smoke and died. Supposedly no odd noises. Won't start > lots of white smoke coming out the tailpipe that smells like unburned diesel. > He did a compression check and says it's OK. I forgot to ask what exactly it > is. He has replaced all the fuel filters and bled the injectors. Get fuel > with no bubbles when the lines are opened while trying to start. Says the > fuse on the glow plugs is good. > > What gets me is the sudden loss of power running down the road. > Only thing I can think of is the timing chain but I would think that that > would mess up the valves and effect the compression. Can the injection pump > jump timing by itself without the valves timing jumping? > > Any clues? > > Manfred > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
