I agree - plus, isn't there a mesh screen over the oil pump intake like the
older engines? I rebuilt the engine in my 69 280SE and know it was on that
oil pump and I equally positive there's one on my 616 oil pump.
The other worry is the ball bearings getting trapped in the area of the
front TC gear on the crank. (this from memory of 10+ years so the details
are foggy).
Good luck -
LarryT
91 300D
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From: <pm7...@comcast.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:03 AM
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] New addition to the fleet: 1995 Mercedes
If the only concern was some bearings and debris in the pan, I'd let
sleeping dogs lie. Metal stuff resting in the bottom of an oil pan will
stay there, unless there is a sudden and severe gravity reversal.
I've disassembled lots of engines/trannys/pumps/etc and found
wrenches/sockets/dowel pins/cotterpins . They just stay there and wait to
be set free at some time in the future.
--
Peter Arnold
Windsor, CT
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From: "ned kleinhenz" <ned.kleinh...@gmail.com>
To: "Mercedes List" <Mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:56:17 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [MBZ] New addition to the fleet: 1995 Mercedes
Max:
Sorry, but I did the ball bearing-ectomy 2-1/2 years ago, many of the
details are becoming vague.
All of these schemes to avoid pulling the engine are kind of like watching
a
teenager do more work to avoid a job than it would take to just do the
job.
To pull the engine/trans, I bought an engine hoist from Harbor Freight.
That is the only tool I remember buying that I didn't already need for
this
job. A large piece of the job is replacing the pump drive gear/cam.
It seems like it took all my evenings for a week or so to prepare
everything
for the pull.
Then I pulled the engine, did all my work to it, and put it back into the
chassis on a long Saturday.
By Sunday of the following week, I started the engine up again.
A lot of the time between putting the engine back in and starting it up
was
spent fooling around with the injection pump and timing gear/cam.
Ned
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