Hello Wilton; I'm back !
It seems that from a stone cold overnight wait, it's about 5 seconds from the
time the engine starts until oil pressure is shown on the dash gauge. During
that time the engine makes little metallic tapping and clicking noises.
From a 1 hr rest period and a
New at diesels? They all rattle and bang when cold. Turn up the radio.
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Peter Arnold
Windsor, CT
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From: Robert Bigham edward_baldh...@earthlink.net
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:24:32 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re:
102 engine is a gasser...
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:08:02 + (UTC)
From: pm7...@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Will the real expert on oiling system of Engine 102
please stand up? Time lag
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Just started my '87 300D for first time today; 28 hours since I shut it down
yesterday; 'best I could tell, it took about 4 seconds for oil pressure to
go to 3 bar after start and at idle. I'll try that and the '91 350SDL again
tomorrow. 'Think this has been mentioned before - if your oil
Do the noises go away as soon as the pressure comes up?
When you first described the problem I figured it was just normal, my 240D
seems slow but on my car its more like 2-3 seconds with no real scary noises, 5
seconds with noises is wrong.
I don't have any 102 engine experience per-say and
I had an M110 powered car that made noises like that once. I got my
stethoscope out to see where the noise was coming from, and revved it a
little bit to make the noise louder. Suddenly the motor stopped dead
from 2,000 rpm and a few pounds of aluminum chunks fell onto the ground
under the
Hi, All.
When I picked up my '85 190E, there was the distinct possibility that
the very worn chain would fly off the worn sprocket with unhappy
results. The oil pressure took almost 20 secs. to peg the gauge.
Newchain and sprocket, cleaned out the Tensioner. and it ran very
well, with 2-3
BTW, remind me what car this is. I'll try to look up some stuff.
Oh, BTW, again, I'm NOT an OIL system EXPERT.
Wilton
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Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:24 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Will the
