Nate, a couple of years back I posted a pic of a fuel strainer that I have installed in my 300D, I should have bought more of them, they were $10, each, I put one in my bus, and another in the car. Try truck dealers for a fine mesh fuel strainer, you can clean the screen & it saves the heck out of your fuel filter. You might even install a truck filter, those toy ones that are stock are a bit of a joke, don't get me wrong, I loooove my Mercedes.
Tony
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Nate" <vwnate1@...> wrote:
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> Here we go again..... =8-( .
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> I was changing the oil & filter in my '84 300CD Sports Coupe and noticed the dreaded black chunks in my previously sparkly clean intake fuel screen.....
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> !DANGIT! .
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> So , I waited until to - day when I have less than 1/4 tank of fuel so it won't dribble all over when I remove it (the other plan would be to park facing uphill on a slope) , removed the screen and held it vertical as I tapped it , waited as the chunks of miniature coal settled out of the screen and into the intake nipple held firmly against my finger , waited some more , tapped it again , waited some more , eventually the chunks falling loose were *so* tiny they barely had sufficient weight to drift lazily downwards through the fuel so I blew it out backwards & called it good .
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> Now I have to go buy another jug of Startron by Starbrite & begin dosing it at each fillup.....
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> I only use branded fuels but I always have more dirty fuel problems than anyone I've ever met .
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> _SIGH_ .
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> -Nate
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