Wouldn't white smoke indicate coolant leaking into the exhaust?
Head gasket or a crack in the head that is leaking into the cylinders?
I assume he checked compression later after it was towed home and cooled
off.
Maybe the leakage only occurs when it is hot?
RB
On 03/02/2017 11:26 AM, MG via Mercedes 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
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