like you can follow the lines all the way to the engine area.
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, Nate Rector
<tccservice111@...> wrote:
>
> well head towards engine on the 126 it dissapears into the unibody.
>
> Rich <rj_olaveson@...> wrote: I was under my car, '84
300D, last weekend. I think I saw what you
> are referring to. Just follow all the fuel lines forward. One of
> them stops and has a bell shaped thingy pointing down. I'm
assuming
> this is the air uptake for the vent. I think there was also a
check
> valve just aft of the bell thing.
>
> Rich
>
> --- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, Nate Rector
> <tccservice111@> wrote:
> >
> > Well I'd like to know where the tank bell valve is located on
the
> w123s and w126s.Last year I saw something under the car , rear of
> tank headed towards engine.Looked like small fuel lines (braided)
> with a splitter conector.Where it goes I don't know.maybe that is
> why Ma Benz says to fill the car to where the pump stops.I always
> fill to where I can see the fuel,for accurate fuel mileage checks.
> >
> > Rich <rj_olaveson@> wrote: Once, after filling my
> tank, I remembered that I forgot to put in my
> > startron, stanadyne, etc. I parked in my normal spot which is
> > sloped slightly down on the tank filler side, opened the cap and
> > fuel came out. It doesn't take much.
> >
> > The cap is not much higher than the top of the tank. Also in a
> long
> > left hand curve, you could get some seepage with a full tank.
> >
> > Rich
> >
> > --- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "ygmir111" <ygmir111@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > the only hesitation I'd have with a hole in the fuel cap is
> > sloshing........
> > > I did this on a Jeep and a dunebuggy I had. I found that at
> times,
> > fuel
> > > would slosh out.....and, if the tank was extremely full and a
> hot
> > day, it
> > > would actually leak........
> > > I'd recommend 'shielding' (like drill the hole behind some
part
> > that would
> > > not allow a direct line for splashing fuel to the hole) the
hole
> > if you
> > > drill the cap, or, find a high spot on the tank and put a tube
> > with a "p"
> > > trap configuration.
> > >
> > > Just some random thoughts.
> > > good luck,
> > > Henry
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Nate" <tccservice111@>
> > > To: <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:18 AM
> > > Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Two important questions
> > >
> > >
> > > One Nate (L.A.) said not to adjust E brake at the cable.Why
I've
> > done
> > > that and no problems.
> > > Two on the Schuman forum I read were they say if your fuel
tank
> is
> > > building vacumm thats bad.I don't no where the tank vent is
> (126).
> > > Can't I just drill a small hole in fuel cap? Done that on
> several
> > cars
> > > when charcoal canister goes bad.
> > > TN Nate
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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