Yes indeed I rebuilt the engine myself 5 years ago. I was meticulous and used OEM parts throughout. Used dino oil for the first two changes 500, 5000 km then switched to Mobil 1 . It never ran low in oil. Running in was carefully done follwing recommended practice.
Peter 2008/10/26 Curt Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The one with high iron levels, did you do the rebuild yourself? Sounds like > a bad job was done and the rings are breaking down... > > When I first got my 190D oil analysis showed high iron levels and would > force an oil change at ~8000 miles. Over the next 20,000 miles or so the > iron levels reduced at each change so that now after ~75,000 miles of > ownership iron levels are normal at 15,000 mile oil changes and I'm > pondering 20,000... During the time of high iron levels the car started fine > and had normal power. I theorized the car was carboned up and had sludge > from the previous owner using cheap oil... > > -Curt > > Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:04:15 +0200 > From: "Peter Merle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [MBZ] Oil analysis problem > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Sent oil samples from my 5 300D 's to the lab ( 3 x W123's , 1x 300GD ( > OM617 ) and 1xW124 ) and got satisfatcory results from 3 off them . The one > W123 ( the only one running Mobil 1 ) had high levels of Copper and Iron ( > 29 and 71 ppm ) after 2000 km. Sodium, Siicon, Al , Cr , particulates, soot > are all low . Lab suggested the oil pump is worn and I should test oil > pressure . Well the oil pump had done only 60000 km and oil pressures are > good. The engine is loosing compression and oil consumption has increaseed > since engine rebuild a few years ago so something is not right. Any ideas > anyone? > > Am going to change oil to delo 400 and then see what the results are. > > Regarding the other car with poor results - I had just bought it - has been > running on WVO for 30000 km - well its oil had high levels of iron ( 93 ppm > ) as well as particlates - diagonis by lab was that oil filter was being > bypassed ie filter blocked. is this a problem with WVO ? Does the stuff get > into the engine oil and block the filter? > > Peter > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
