Maybe so. I was thinking the smell of diesel might mask the smell of coolant.
Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A -------- Original message --------From: Curt Raymond via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Date: 2017-02-03 12:03 PM (GMT-06:00) To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Loss of power Unburnt diesel looks white or grey. Note how he noted that it smells like diesel. Coolant would smell sweet and you probably wouldn't get much of a cloud of it on cranking... -Curt From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Loss of power 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 > > _______________________________________ > _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ 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
