Not wishing to count chickens before, etc., I am pleased to report that the 240d seems to be improving by the day.
I have driven it for about three hours in the last three days and it now idles with almost no smoke (and it smoked some even before #1 cylinder packed it in). It runs very nicely on the road, and the power is coming back. Best indicator, aside from the seat of my pants, is that I can now get into 4th without using up a mile of tarmac ;-). Other automatic 240d owners will understand what I mean.... HOWEVER, we aren't out of the woods yet as it's a complete tossup as to what it does, once you come to a stop. Sometimes it idles so close to perfect it's scary. Other times it's back to behaving like an unbalanced old Kenmore washer, chugga lugga chug chug cough splutter rock'n roll'n bounce. Keep your collective fingers crossed on this one. I figure my chances are about 50/50 to be back driving it within a week, OR to report I've blown it up on the next test drive. In any case, all of the list input on this one was hugely appreciated. -- "Mac" Steve MacSween Aylmer, Quebec (Canada) Mercedes: '82 300sd / '82 240d (x2) / '60 220s Volvo: '87 245 (waiting for OM616 transplant) SAAB: '83 900T (waiting for a miracle)
