RE: [diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement

 

Here is the Internet discussion of Mercedes and interference engines.

http://tinyurl.com/9bjahyz

 

From: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com [mailto:diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lost but making good time.
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Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement

 

 

Toyota is a 22R and it is an interference engine, I was wondering if the Mercedes is also.
Tony
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> What year Toyota and what is motor designation, the number and several
> letters on the air cleaner?? Bill in Oregon
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> Broke the timing chain on my Toyota motor home, bent a couple of valve
> stems. Are these interference engines?

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[diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement

 

Toyota is a 22R and it is an interference engine, I was wondering if the Mercedes is also.
Tony

--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, <corvallis@...> wrote:
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> What year Toyota and what is motor designation, the number and several
> letters on the air cleaner?? Bill in Oregon
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> From: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lost but making good
> time.
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:52 PM
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> Broke the timing chain on my Toyota motor home, bent a couple of valve
> stems. Are these interference engines?
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RE: [diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement

 

What year Toyota and what is motor designation, the number and several letters on the air cleaner??   Bill in Oregon

 

From: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com [mailto:diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Lost but making good time.
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To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement

 

Broke the timing chain on my Toyota motor home, bent a couple of valve stems. Are these interference engines?

 

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[diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement

 

Broke the timing chain on my Toyota motor home, bent a couple of valve stems. Are these interference engines?

--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "max_stemple" <jasperezra@...> wrote:
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> whos the other group? The lazy ones? If you keep driving, the chain will break. Max
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> --- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "oldsinner111" <tccservice111@> wrote:
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> > I hear two sides of this story,One groups says to change timing chain every 200,000 miles,and another group says it uneeded.
> > Wish I could do a poll to see how many change chains or not.I have 339,000 miles and wonder if I should.
> >
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Re: [diesel_mercedes] timing chain replacement

 

On some older MB models, particularly a V8, 100K is the safest bet for a chain replacement. It's sure cheap insurance.
 
Tom Hanson
Mercedes Benz Classic Center USA
MBUSA, LLC
thomas.hanson@mbusa.com
949 598-4842 direct
949 598-4870 fax
From: oldsinner111 <tccservice111@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 3:00 AM
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] timing chain replacement

 
I hear two sides of this story,One groups says to change timing chain every 200,000 miles,and another group says it uneeded.
Wish I could do a poll to see how many change chains or not.I have 339,000 miles and wonder if I should.



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[diesel_mercedes] Re: Black fuel.

 

The local FLAPS has Bosch glow plugs in stock - are they good?
The next nearest FLAPS is 100 miles away. So if my fuel work does not help, I can install them before swmbo leaves for a trip on Sunday.

--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Lost but making good time." <aldridgetony97@...> wrote:
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> She's getting a bit hard to start when it is below freezing (the car that is) so- Cleaned the fuel strainer that I put on a few days after we bought the car, and put in a new secondary filter, did not have one of those silly little primary filters so left it as was. The fuel in the strainer bowl, was kind of dark, so we got 'er all cleaned up.
> If that doesnt get her cranked up in the morning, I guess we will either go to Mazatlan or put in new glow plugs or both.
> Tony
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[diesel_mercedes] Black fuel.

 

She's getting a bit hard to start when it is below freezing (the car that is) so- Cleaned the fuel strainer that I put on a few days after we bought the car, and put in a new secondary filter, did not have one of those silly little primary filters so left it as was. The fuel in the strainer bowl, was kind of dark, so we got 'er all cleaned up.
If that doesnt get her cranked up in the morning, I guess we will either go to Mazatlan or put in new glow plugs or both.
Tony

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[diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement

 

whos the other group? The lazy ones? If you keep driving, the chain will break. Max

--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "oldsinner111" <tccservice111@...> wrote:
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> I hear two sides of this story,One groups says to change timing chain every 200,000 miles,and another group says it uneeded.
> Wish I could do a poll to see how many change chains or not.I have 339,000 miles and wonder if I should.
>

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[diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement

 

I changed one at ~150K miles on my 87 300D as I was told it was starting to "slap". Turned out the chain wasn't bad, but the "plasticy" supporting parts were disintegrating after 24 years.

--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "oldsinner111" <tccservice111@...> wrote:
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> I hear two sides of this story,One groups says to change timing chain every 200,000 miles,and another group says it uneeded.
> Wish I could do a poll to see how many change chains or not.I have 339,000 miles and wonder if I should.
>

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Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement

 

trouble is the way mine runs,it will be around another 10 years


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From: BStromsoe <bstromsoe@yahoo.com>
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement
To: "diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012, 9:19 AM

 
Next time you do a valve adjust see what kind of slop you have, if any. Personally, mine are at 200K and 300K without a change. But, I am thinking that this should be in their futures just as a "long term maintenance" item. Like my rubber muffler donuts (or any other car part) that wears out, if I am going to keep the car for another 10 or 20 years, why not change the chain as part of the process.

 
brian from laverne, ca
Mary (195K)  Martha (280K)
1983 w123 300d's

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[diesel_mercedes] Re: timing chain replacement

 

Next time you do a valve adjust see what kind of slop you have, if any. Personally, mine are at 200K and 300K without a change. But, I am thinking that this should be in their futures just as a "long term maintenance" item. Like my rubber muffler donuts (or any other car part) that wears out, if I am going to keep the car for another 10 or 20 years, why not change the chain as part of the process.

 
brian from laverne, ca
Mary (195K)  Martha (280K)
1983 w123 300d's

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[diesel_mercedes] Re: I learned humility early on

 

Reminds me of American Graffiti when Toad races in reverse LOL

Jim

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> It was a 1974 Saturday morning in the fall. I was up early and was reading the classifieds in the Asheville Citizen Times when my eyes fell upon a 190SL for that had sat in the garage for years. 800 bucks. It did not run, but it did crank and the old gas smell overpowered the wonderful leather seats aroma. 3 minutes later I was 30 minutes from that garage that housed my dream, 4 hours later the 190SL was on the back of a car hauler coming home to me.
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> A brilliant young mechanic friend of mine, who would much rather work on a Chevy, put carb kits into those Solex and I was up and running.
>
> I had been traveling in the sports car crowd there in town for a few years, but my old MGA relegated me to a status level toward the bottom rungs behind the Lotus, Porsche and the totally awesome Austin Healey 3000. But with this 190SL, faded paint and all, I moved from last to first!
>
> To make a good long story short, I was rounding town square one day in my SL. I spotted the Healey and it's driver (along with his snooty friends) leaned against his car. It was their first sight of my SL and I watched their faces fall as they knew I now had the upper rungs of that ladder now.
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> Just to make my entrance clear, I dropped the SL down from 2nd to 1st, gunned that engine and popped the clutch, right in front of them.
>
> The rear torsion bars and springs immediately were pulled from the rusted underbelly of my SL and jammed into the road. I could not pull forward and I was directly in front of the people I most wanted to one up. My only move was to back my 190 SL home, spring mounts dragging along as I went.
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> A few months later I was able to sell the SL to a kid out of Atlanta for about what I had in it. The entire underside of the car was a total rust out.
>
> But, my story lives in infamy to this day in that little town, my only escape from "Pride Commeth Before a Fall" was to move away. I did.
>
> Chip
> Houston
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[diesel_mercedes] timing chain replacement

 

I hear two sides of this story,One groups says to change timing chain every 200,000 miles,and another group says it uneeded.
Wish I could do a poll to see how many change chains or not.I have 339,000 miles and wonder if I should.

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