The turbo was rebuilt about 4000 miles ago.
Looking back, it seems like my car was dogging for awhile.
I noticed that the turbo on hills was only good for a narrow "power
band," whereas now it has more power at lower rpms.
If the only MB diesel you've driven is your own, then it's hard to tell
what's wrong. I drove an Indy shop's 'shop car' and noticed it was much
more peppy. If it's the original turbo w/ a few 100k than it might be
clogged up.
There's a video on turbos at Mercedes source:
https://mercedessource.com/node/8013
Rob
Garden Grove, CA
==
On 1/8/14, 3:19 AM, diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Re: Road trip w/ rebuilt turbo
> Posted by: "Barton Fiske - gmail"barton.fiske@gmail.com bartonfiske
> Date: Tue Jan 7, 2014 1:40 pm ((PST))
>
> How many miles were on your turbo?
>
> Since there's no boost gauge on these things (like my Saab 99 :^) - is there any easy way to measure/determine how functional/useful my turbo is? Over the last 3 mos, I've started to hear a turbo whine on spool up when I don't recall hearing that when we first put it back on the road. Sylvia is still dog slow from 0-30 until she gets going, but has all the power (I think) it should have otherwise? Wondering how to assess the current state of affairs...
>
> thx,
>
> -Barton
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