[diesel_mercedes] Furl Tank and Air Cleaner

 

O.K. ;

I got up early this morning and went to look at the parts car Bill kindly hooked me up with , it turns out to be owned by a young man who's deep into the "  !!! FREE FUEL FOREVER !! B.S. , he's going to part out his nasty old 300D he recently ran into the ground .

He works someplace where he gets free unfiltered , unwashed veggie oil , they bottle it from bulk and sell it , he's able to get the spillage .

The filler neck of the car was full of rust and globs of semi solid mustard looking goo ~ at first he told me he ran it straight because it's new , not waste oil but as I looked over the car and spotted the clogged clear intake screen , he claimed he filters it down to .05 Microns although there was no filtering setup anywhere in sight .



Oh well , he's young and hopefully will learn , he's recently bought another , far nicer 300D and will soon be cruising it .


The air cleaner too was dented so I headed off to walk the nearby local Pick-A-Part yards and found a pristine air cleaner on a W126 ,happily paid $35 for it then headed over to another Ecology Self Service yard that was bought up by LKQ , they're closing it down and crushing everything in it , someone needs to get the anti - trust folks to take a look here as they're also buying up auto part chain stores to corner the market .


I spotted a regular Junk yard that had Mercedes parts and stopped in , they had a nice clean 1984 300CD they sold me the fuel tank out of so now I have some good parts for both my Coupe and SWMBO's 240D ,


It's 94° F here to - day and sunny , I decided to let the old 240 run , on the flat with the AC all the way up it ran up to 80 MPH @ 1/2 throttle heated up to 90° F and was still slowly accelerating when I encountered traffic and had to slow back down again .


Whew , I'm bushed , home with SWMBO and out of a nice cold shower .


-Nate

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[diesel_mercedes] Furl Filters

 



Yes Bogy ;

I forget the name but any Marine Supply Haus or Bio/Veggie fuel place will have them in stock .

I got mine off a dead veggie oil car in the junkyard for $10 , the new clear bowl and filter element plus other misc. co$t me about $35 making this a wise and co$t effective add on .

Any time you see water droplets in the pre filter , you're very next stop should be to buy and pour in the fuel tank an entire bottle of Power Service' DIESEL 911 without delay ~ don't do it after work , don't wait until the weekend , DO IT NOW because a tiny bit of water can blow the tips out of your injector$........


Get some water dispersant in there P.D.Q. then worry about the new filter .
-Nate
        Bogy   wrote :

Does anyone sell sediment bowls anymore.
I was sure I saw water in the supply line leading to the prefilter as well as the junk in it.
 
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Software eventually works"
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[diesel_mercedes] Engine RPM Vs. Speed

 



Which ones Max ? .

-Nate
        Max   wrote :

What kind of RPM's do these things at 60, 70mph? max

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:43 PM, vwnate1@... [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


One step forward , three steps back I guess .


I got off work to - night and headed home to try and do home work on diesel throttle linkages , it was still hot & humid so I sat down , began to read and passed out .


SWMBO called me before sundown , I awoke and grabbed my tools , headed out to the street where my faithful old Mercedes 300CD awaited me in the shade , popped the hood and took off the vertical link between the injection pump and the monkey-motion madness  , played with the monkey motion stuff a while and noticed there was some serious slop in it all , I lengthened the vertical rod by 10 MM or so , cleaned the ball joints (the lower one was dry , oops) lubed them and re assembled , still not what I wanted  but clearly better .


Then I turned the plastic adjuster on the T.V. cable to the tranny a few times , turned it _in_ to shorten it as I disliked the down shifting @ freeway speeds .


Fed & watered my dogs (they're junkyard pups so when my hands are dirty , they get more & better belly rubs)  , cleaned up and drove to see SWMBO ~ it accelerates batter now and doesn't down shift @ 60 MPH unless i give it over 1/2 throttle so I know I'm on the right track here .


It still doesn't accelerate with the WHOOSH ! like it did when I bought it and the engine and turbo were both shot , I want that back again and will pursue this until I learn the secret <magical> adjustments necessary ~ it's always in those devilish details I follow every little thing I can find and after every one asks how come my old beat up klunkers out run everyone else .


I can and will do this ! .


I had little trouble getting it up to 90 MPH on the I-210 freeway , it just doesn't feel right as the RPM's reach and pass 2,000 ~ that's where the turbo spools fully up and it *should* come alive .


Stay tuned , more to come .


Oh yes : the step back part : SWMBO drove the European Spec. wagon into the garage with the hatch open and bent the crap out of the TD only trim piece.... .


-Nate




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[diesel_mercedes] Diesel Fuel Water Separator

 


DAHL was the brand I was thinking of ~

I searched and found this but there's gotta be many more far cheaper .

Dahl Diesel Fuel Filter Water Separator

 




-Nate

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Re: [diesel_mercedes] Better ~

 

What kind of RPM's do these things at 60, 70mph? max

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:43 PM, vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


One step forward , three steps back I guess .


I got off work to - night and headed home to try and do home work on diesel throttle linkages , it was still hot & humid so I sat down , began to read and passed out .


SWMBO called me before sundown , I awoke and grabbed my tools , headed out to the street where my faithful old Mercedes 300CD awaited me in the shade , popped the hood and took off the vertical link between the injection pump and the monkey-motion madness  , played with the monkey motion stuff a while and noticed there was some serious slop in it all , I lengthened the vertical rod by 10 MM or so , cleaned the ball joints (the lower one was dry , oops) lubed them and re assembled , still not what I wanted  but clearly better .


Then I turned the plastic adjuster on the T.V. cable to the tranny a few times , turned it _in_ to shorten it as I disliked the down shifting @ freeway speeds .


Fed & watered my dogs (they're junkyard pups so when my hands are dirty , they get more & better belly rubs)  , cleaned up and drove to see SWMBO ~ it accelerates batter now and doesn't down shift @ 60 MPH unless i give it over 1/2 throttle so I know I'm on the right track here .


It still doesn't accelerate with the WHOOSH ! like it did when I bought it and the engine and turbo were both shot , I want that back again and will pursue this until I learn the secret <magical> adjustments necessary ~ it's always in those devilish details I follow every little thing I can find and after every one asks how come my old beat up klunkers out run everyone else .


I can and will do this ! .


I had little trouble getting it up to 90 MPH on the I-210 freeway , it just doesn't feel right as the RPM's reach and pass 2,000 ~ that's where the turbo spools fully up and it *should* come alive .


Stay tuned , more to come .


Oh yes : the step back part : SWMBO drove the European Spec. wagon into the garage with the hatch open and bent the crap out of the TD only trim piece.... .


-Nate




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[diesel_mercedes] fuel Sediment bowls

 

Gas sediment bowls on eBay; sorted with lowest price first. Scroll down.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=gas+sediment+bowl&_sop=15

 

Diesel sediment bowl search:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=gas+sediment+bowl&_sop=15&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xdiesel+sediment+bowl.TRS1&_nkw=diesel+sediment+bowl&_sacat=0

 

Bill in Oregon

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Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 10:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: this is why you want that prefilter on the lift pump INPUT

 

Does anyone sell sediment bowls anymore.

I was sure I saw water in the supply line leading to the prefilter as well as the junk in it.

 

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Software eventually works"
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