Don’t bother with a diesel purge, your highway drive was better for it than any purge!
Valve adjustment is critical. On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:51 PM Donald Snook via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Jim wrote: > > “Even my W115 200D would maintain 85mph floored on the flats. > Eventually. If your 240D can't do that, it's not dialed in right. The > Albatross (240D) had real problems at first, but that's because > somebody dicked with the throttle linkages to the point where it > would not reach full throttle. Probably not even half.” > > Jaime wrote: > > “I agree, if you had it floored most of the time something is wrong. > While they’re not fast, they should easily get up to highway speed to the > point that you have to back off unless you encounter a steep hill. Keeping > the pedal down will bring you to 85-90mph pretty easily. > Start with linkage, and all the maintenance stuff of course” > > Ok. Good thoughts. I’ll start with the linkage to see anything obvious. > > In terms of maintenance, I figured I would start with stuff I can do like > Fuel filters. I have a diesel purge kit too. > > I am thinking I should probably have the valves adjusted/checked. I > noticed when it starts up, it runs a little rough until I give it more > fuel. It smooths out. It also has quite a bit of whitish gray smoke. My > old worn out 82 300D with 400K miles would blow out black smoke. > > I’m wondering about the glow plugs too. Isn’t there a way to check them > with a multimeter? I remember changing the plugs on my 617. I thought I > would start with the hardest one. It turned out the one right in the middle > was the hardest. With rough running and white smoke and low power, couldn’t > that be a bad glow plug? > > Donald H. Snook > > > _______________________________________ > 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 > > -- Jaime Kopchinski http://www.jaimekop.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
