Diesel RVs: 02/01/17

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This morning I noticed some fungus crud in the clear plastic intake screen so I removed it, blew it out then washed it with Ether, sparkly clean I re installed it then ran errands all day long, in the afternoon I picked up my new case of K100D (photo) and put it in the trunk .

Around 5:30PM my Son and I were running another errand and twice when I re started the engine it stalled after a few seconds of rough idling so af Supper I decided to read the label and dump one entire quart bottle into the nearly empty tank , 25 miles later the loping at idle was pronounced even in neutral so I popped the hood and Lo ! the clear intake screen had crud in it again, proving that close to empty tank is when the most debris / dirt / fungus / Leprechauns will get sucked into the engine *:( sad

I quickly removed, blew clean and flushed it yet again, it looks like to - morrowI'll have to fill it up again, I'm hoping to run it dry, I have two gallons of nice clean Bio-Diesel in the trunk .

-Nate

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OOPS !

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I never drink when I'm driving ~ too many people I know died that way when I was younger .

I've been thinking about this and I bet all it needs is new rear coils and a nice pair of Bilsetein HD shocks .

-Nate
Al asked :

Please clarify your statement. Was it you or the car that was loaded to the gills, or both?

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:01 PM, vwnate1@... [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Monroe used to sell coil over shocks, those worked very well but lost their damping ability some what after 40,000 miles or 6 years....

Or , look up the coil spring P/N for a TD (Wagon) and fit those .

I vaguely remember one fellow here saying he fitted W116 (early 300SD) rear springs to his W123 Sedan to increase load carrying .

Or, maybe Tom @ he M-B Classic Center can order you in some rear springs for a 240DL, this being the Taxi version not sold in North America.....

Plenty of ways to go here, I'm betting a pair of Junk yard 300D springs are going to be slightly stiffer .

Me, I like a really firm ride but them I drive my old Mercedes' hellbent for leather most of the time, often loaded to the gills .

-Nate
Fred wrote :

Any of you guys ever do anything in the way of increasing the springs.

We mainly use it (82 240d) to go to town once a month. hour drive And I
don't like drag-assing back with a full load.

If it was a Ford I'd just go in the catalog and get something a little
heavier and a little taller (maybe), but I don't have access to that
kind of data.

Napa seems to be pretty useless with mercedes.

Any ideas or info appreciated.

Fred

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Al Boucher