Joe said... > But then the past couple of months it had no acceleration at all. Would > barely crawl along @ 40mph. At 1st I suspected a vacuum leak, but took it to a > trained MB mech, and he diagnosed it correctly as clogged fuel filters.
That's the first thing I checked. Filters seemed to be ok, but I figured it was time for a flush anyway. When I picked up the part from my indy I bought his last can of Lubro-Moly Diesel Purge. Even though it was running much better on the way home, I went ahead and replaced the fuel filters and ran a can of diesel purge through it. There was some gunk in the prefilter, but that may be the result of the biocide I ran through it a few months ago. I was worried about bugs growing in the fuel tank. Also added a half quart of Mobil1 ATF to the tranny. When I changed the tranny fluid and filters earlier this year, I switched to Mobil1 ATF. It's been a few months, and I think all the seals have reseated. Besides, I was paranoid about overfilling it, so now it's up to the low mark. Didn't have time to do much of a road test, so the commute in tomorrow morning will be the test. I'll combine it with an Italian tuneup...looking forward to the results. Royce Engler 1985 300TD Turbo 285K
