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I wanted to tap the collective wisdom of the group.
Yesterday my 300td dropped off in traffic. just going down the road and it
acted like it lost fuel and chugged out.
I hadn't been driving it so I assumed it was plugged fuel filters, but I
swapped them out this morning but nothing.
Seems like there may be air in it. After pondering it a bit I'm now leaning
towards tank screen
Just got it towed home and tomorrows project is to flush and run some freash
fuel through the system.
In the light, the fuel almost looks black (oil black) in the inline filter
so.
ahhh super good stuff. thanks a million. I'll run down this list tomorrow .
I did notice one of the clamps on the inline fuel line was wore through and I
cut it off and re tightened it down, but now I'm suspicious of the rest of the
hoses...
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Hi all! I wanted to ask a quick question for the group mind before I started
google-digging.
I think it's been answered before here, or at least I have a vague memory of
the topic from a year or so back...
I have a '84 300d (turbo) and I have let her sit for the last two years. Last
week I
Sounds like it might be an exhaust
leak in the header pipe, or exhaust
manifold.
hue wong wrote:
Hi all! I wanted to ask a quick
question for the group mind before I started
google-digging.
I think it's been answered before here, or at least I
have a vague memory of the topic from
her as well.. I'll have to track those down.
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--- On Thu, 8/13/09, hue wong wong_...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: hue wong wong_...@yahoo.com
Subject: [MBZ] strange ticking noise in dash was Re: (no subject
Hi all!
So I'm doing the spring work on the fleet and have an
old 82 300d. Well the durned thing vibrates and
clanks a little more then I think it should.
I replaced the motor mounts last year (but did not
replace the little vibration damper) and it marginally
fixed the vibrations.
YMMV
Good luck and be safe,
Chuck
Phoenix AZ
On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:01 PM, hue wong wrote:
Hi all!
So I'm doing the spring work on the fleet and have
an
old 82 300d. Well the durned thing vibrates and
clanks a little more then I think it should.
I replaced
So, I've supsected my 300d has this problem and it's
the next repair I do (my car sounds like a panzer
tank sometimes, compaired to some of the other 300d
I've compaired it to..
I have not started the research on this procedure.
but, is it as simple as taking out the old injectors
and putting
that seems really straight forward. i might give that
a try over the upcomming weekend. Now I'm starting to
worry that I have bad rods! zoiks!
;-)
--- Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The best way to check the problem is to grab your 17
mm open end wrench and
crack #1 injector line, if the
Hi all!
I have always loved these older mercedes.
Does anyone have any idea how hard it might be to
round up parts (engine and tranny and I suspect other
type of suspension and such will be needed) or if
another type of engine would bolt in?
I tend to have trouble finding parts for my 71 280.
...
--- andrew strasfogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is connection (if any) between biodiesel and
changing timing chains??
On 4/20/06, Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/20/06, hue wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now it just sits sad really Anyone need
one
in seattle? I'm
or
something interesting... ;-)
--- Ed Booher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/20/06, hue wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now it just sits sad really Anyone need
one
in seattle? I'm stuck on these 300d's now (doing
the
biofuel (and changing timing chains!!)
Come on now, you know you
Weren't al these machines designed for the autobahn?
My 71 280sel does the exact same thing. Kinda a dog
till about 65-70 then it becomes a rocket... Those
v-8's really go. Frankly its the fasted (and most
stable) car I have ever driven and I ruteinely beat
the little rice grinders that try
Yup, that sounds about like it.
Hu should I be concerned there is a spare around?
I'm assuming the previous owner got it for a reason...
Zoiks!
--- Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Was just cleaning out the trunk and found a brand
new,
sealed in box (1 stock impulsformer) for a
SOmebody posted a link to a real good tutorial on
replacing the timing chainon a 300d...(all I remember
was that it was on a benz site and the poster had shot
the tutorial in his garage...)
I wanted to forward it on to a friend about to do the
same procedure and thought I bookmarked it... but
Ya that was it! thanks!
--- Mathieu J. Cama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://dieselgiant.com/replacetimingchain.htm
On Apr 18, 2006, at 6:26 PM, hue wong wrote:
SOmebody posted a link to a real good tutorial on
replacing the timing chainon a 300d...(all I
remember
Was just cleaning out the trunk and found a brand new,
sealed in box (1 stock impulsformer) for a 300d
Looks like a black gas can screw on cap with
electrical prongs.
Out of curiousity, does anyone know what a
impulsformer does? (heres hoping its something
really cool like it opens
So we just pulled the new timing chian from rusty
through following the procedure outlined in the
book(s) and darned it, it seems one link short.
Now I'm all freaked out. Did I somehow miss a
sprocket in there? could it be the chain tensioner
pushing to hard? I'm completly at loss as to what
What? None of these cheap damb manuals mentioned this
in the procedures [EMAIL PROTECTED] it!
So if I take the tensioner out and re-thread the
chain, all will be well? how do I make sure everthing
ins lined up? and not fear that I have one link of on
a sprocket somewhere?
--- Jim
well damb!
So what would be your advice if this was tried with
the tensioner in.
I suspect I've done a doosy on this! lord
Trial by fire, will make me a desiel mechanic yet!
zoiks!
--- Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hue wong wrote:
So we just pulled the new timing
Chilton!!! I curse you!!! ( just looked and both
my manuals are chiltons)
Rat bastards That step is missing in both
books!!
--- Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What? None of these cheap damb manuals mentioned
this
in the procedures [EMAIL PROTECTED] it!
chains and
somebody told you not to cheap out and the get the
cheapest you could find? The same is true with
manuals...
-Curt
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:18:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: hue wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Timing chain troubles on 300d
To: Mercedes Discussion List
I ordered up the parts from rusty this morning
Once I heard he sponcered the list and that the part
will be brand new from rusty... it was a no brainer..
Should have it by the first of next week and will swap
that timing chain out and suspect the car will run a
little better
I've read
Hi all!
I have some questions for the collective group if I
may, as I try and understand the diesel timing chain
and how it corresponds to the engine tune.
Im exactly at 5% stretch on my timing chain in my
82 300t with a stock turbo 617.
From what I have been gathering from the various
that pretty much kills the engine... and thisis
the one thing you want to keepup on on these old
engines...
Thanks for your advice!
--- Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hue wong wrote:
Hi all!
Just had a chance to chek the reading and it looks
like it's exactly 5 degrees off
So, Look slike I would do this if I had access to the
tool The tool is like 189.00 and the timiming
chain is only 63.00 so geee. can't justify buying
the tool..
If, it's like an old bike chain, no problem, but it
looks like this big double chain may be a bit more and
need the tool?
Hi all!
Just had a chance to chek the reading and it looks
like it's exactly 5 degrees off.
(if the mesurement is: the mark on the cam guide
collar and top notch on the bearing tower at 3' oclock
are aligned and are supposed to match/lineup with the
top post/nub/zero degrees on the bottom
So I am into my engine with the spring overhaul and am
suspicious now of my timing chain. Seems to have
about 1/4'-ish inch of travel when I push my thumb
against it in the middle of the two timing gears (it
does srping back nicely)
Anyhow, none of the three mcparts manuals I have, go
into the
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From: hue wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 6:14 PM
Subject: [MBZ] 300td timing chain issues
Where are you located Hue? Perhaps one of the more
mechanicaly inclined
listers is close by and can lend some insight and
maybe a hand.
Rick Knoble
'85
So, I'm in the process of a big tune up on my 82 3oot.
Today i started the vavles. I had assumed thath the
majority of the panzer like clancking that the engine
puts out, was vavle slap! But alas, once I got in
there, everything looked super swell... Tight timing
chain, no hard ware on the
as a clacking is the sound a
loose chain makes. This
can be a bad tensioner, or a worn chain, but usually
is both, working
together. The clack is the chain bouncing on the
chain case or rails.
At 01:28 AM 3/31/2006, you wrote:
On Mar 30, 2006, at 8:02 PM, hue wong wrote:
SO
under tension just between
the top and bottem timing sprocets...but it springs
right back...
Soon as I get the valves set, I'll check the streach
on that thing!
thanks for the advice!
--- Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hue wong wrote:
Hey thanks loren!
I thought
a
loose chain makes. This
can be a bad tensioner, or a worn chain, but
usually
is both, working
together. The clack is the chain bouncing on
the
chain case or rails.
At 01:28 AM 3/31/2006, you wrote:
On Mar 30, 2006, at 8:02 PM, hue wong wrote:
SO now I
So I need a bunch of parts and tools and such for the
spring maintence on the desiel. I've heard mention of
this mysterious rusty who has all parts...
Does anyone have his website? I'd like to place an
order...
Thanks all!
__
Do You Yahoo!?
So I just looked on ebay and a pair of bent 14mm box ,
valve adjustment, wrenches were going for $$$65.00...
Zoiks! I say!!! Seems high...
I don't have the ability to heat and bend my own, so
does anyone know of a better deal out there?
Thanks in advance!
Hi all!
So I've got an 82 300td and I've put in about zero
maintence in the two years I have had it. Just bought
it and drove it off the lot.
Since then, i've noticed that it has progressively
gotten louder. Some 300t's I see go down the road
just purrr. Mine sounds like an old panzer
Wow, I just read through the PDF that Marchel sent out
and it very much looks like the special wrenchs and
valve collar holder will be in order.
Whewww! I love the list. I could have gotten into
this and been totaly ill-prepared and had it become a
project rather then simple maintenence...!!!
Yes, I have the same problem. It looks like it was a
forced fit type of connection. mine comes loose and
blows oil all over. After a few days go by, I swear
it pumps out a quart or so (cumilitive)
not to sure how to as it looks like its a small 2
inch nipple on the air filter houseing that
Yes! And don't do what I did last fall... and only
change the front mounts. Now I have to crawl back
under and get the rear transmtion mounts, this week...
When one is bad, it means that the rest are
weeks/months away from going bad... the rubber/poly in
the mounts all rots at the same rate!
Trying to find parts for my 71 280sel that was popped
in the front end, need to replace the front grill and
one headlight bucket...
After months of searching, finaly found a 71 280se
grill, but in doing a little research I see this is
for the 108 chassie and the 280sel is the 113.?.
Does anyone
Check the moter mounts! This made a HUGE difference
in my 300td and the synmptoms sound aobu thte same...
--- Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
check the delivery valves.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
About 3 weeks ago, my 91 300D 2.5 turbo started
idling rough. It
came on kind
Just caught up onthe list! zoiks I have on of these
(I think it's factory) riding around in t e back of my
trunk (300td) It came with the car and I've never put
it on!
--- Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks,
I finally found a hitch for my 300TD 1982. BUT it
turns out to
I remember this popped up a few weeks ago, but I
missed it and can't find it in the archives...
So when my 300td fires up, the oil pressure gauge pegs
at the 3 setting on the gauge (milibar???) Then it
doesn't go down when I let off the gas and let the
motor idle
I seem to think that it
the technical term for this is NORMAL.
On 8/27/05, hue wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I remember this popped up a few weeks ago, but I
missed it and can't find it in the archives...
So when my 300td fires up, the oil pressure gauge
pegs
at the 3 setting on the gauge (milibar
, then right before I put it in to
storage about six months ago, it started going all the
way to the 3 on the gauge(Full) and never backing
down, even when I pull up to stop signs and take the
load of the engine...
--- Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hue wong wrote:
I remember
point...
I'm going to flush all the oil out tomorrow and change
the filters and see if that fixes the problem!
Thanks for the help!
--- Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hue wong wrote:
Normal? really? It usta bounce around right nice
before I put the car in storage Now
yet...)
Thanks!
--- Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hue wong wrote:
So to clarify as I didn't quite say it right
When I say warms up... I mean HOT, like after
about
50-60 miles. and even then it would not always
drop down after that
I seem
yet...)
Thanks!
--- Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hue wong wrote:
So to clarify as I didn't quite say it right
When I say warms up... I mean HOT, like after
about
50-60 miles. and even then it would not always
drop down after that
I seem
So a week or so ago I posted about the oil leak I was
having on my 300td...
Someone replayed to check the oil drain tube out of
the bottom of the air cleaner.
Seems there is some sort of oil return drain tube that
runs from the bottom of the air cleaner to the top of
the oil pan...
There is a
So I have an oil leak on my 84 300d Turbo.
I feared it was the turbo, but after taking a hard
look It looks like its either the valve cover gasket
or the head gasket on that side...
Anyone know if these motors have problems either way
with these gaskets? I hope it's just the valve cover
(cheap
Ho, just for reference... Didn't they do a factory
recall on these cars becuase of the tranny? I thought
I read that somewhere...
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was supposed to see a guy yesterday about a 1985
300 SD. His car is in great shape cosmetically, but
the transmission was going
Hu what?? My lord! Up here in Seattle, you can
pick up 300ts all day long from $500-$4500 For
12k I'll drive them down to LA all day long!
--- Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
just goes to show, but a little bit of shine on one,
grease the tires
and you too can get
Ho andrew!@
yup, I have similar problems on mine! While I still
don't have it toaly fixed (mine won't start after it
gets warmed up!
I did notice a HUGE imporvment when I swapped out all
the fuel lines and the vacume lines in the engine...
After working on my 300d, I curse these 4.5 sels...
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