Three hearty cheers for Chris McCann!
Sent Gump's injectors his way and in a few weeks he had them back to
me looking SWEET! He set pop pressure within 50psi of each other, all
in the 1525-1550 range.
Spent today installing the injectors and delivering SWMBA to work
after she dropped the E300D off for brake service. Gump heads off for
a front end Tuesday, so I have to have her running.
Put the anti seize on each pretty injector and carefully spun them
home. Then popped the torque wrench to just right. I had cleaned up
the metal lines while they were off and got them on with some fudging
around because the clamp was loose and angles were wonky. Put fuel
lines back on, tighten up the caps on the tops and pumped fuel
through. No leaks. Put the key in and glow, then crank. No light
off because the battery was out of service for two months.
Put the charger on and go make some rain barrels out of garbage cans.
Doing my day of service as requested by our enlightened president.
Once the battery was ready, hopped in and cranked her until she lit.
Injector one is spilling copious amounts of fuel. Shut off and
scratch head. Figured out why you may as well just use all new
lines. Had broken two of the lines on removal, so had cut some new,
but line at #1 was shot and leaking. Fresh line, no leaking there and
light up again.
Huffing noise and smoke from the injector area, but no visible wet or
bubble that I can see. Get the claw foot out and snug up the end of
the hard lines all over. Still huffing and puffing. Close the hood
and take her around the block a few times to seat everything, just in
case. Get back and pop the hood. Still huffing and puffing. Lean
over for better look, hand on the dip stick, which snicks into place,
no more huffing.
Hard to tell right off if this has reduced the massive smoke out the
back. Will have to do more cold starts. The smoke is now more grey
than black or blue at cold idle. Have not gotten her good and hot to
see if that reduces smoking. Might need to redo the rings.
That is a job for another year. Will have to drive Gump for another
five years. In that time will redo the head, get her painted, replace
the leaking engine seal between crank and transmission, replace
cracked windscreen and get all new window seals.
clay
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