Find a local Bosch shop, pay them about $20 or so per injector to test and set the opening pressures.
I know a guy in Columbia SC that does an excellent job. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On January 26, 2017 5:41:15 PM EST, Larry Turner via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >Hi Max, > I've never had my injectors serviced - what's involved? I hope >replacement is not the only solution? >Larry >Engine 602-962 > >On 01/26/2017 3:34 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: >> The copper washers are one-time-use, so yes if you remove a DV, you >need a >> new copper washer. If you feel lucky, you could try softening them >by >> heating with a torch until they are glowing orange, then allowing >them to >> cool, and cleaning them off REALLY well before installing them. >> >> Injector sudden failure: easily caused if the shop was not clean and >> careful and allowed some contamination into the DV or the injector >line. >> That contamination then traveled to the injector nozzle and may be >causing >> a blockage or holding the nozzle open so it pees a stream instead of >> generating a fine mist. >> >> (I'm beginning to suspect that is what is causing the miss and >nailing that >> I've got going on with The White Whale, my 124.193 '87 wagon) >> >> ------------- >> Max >> Charleston SC >> >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Larry Turner via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >>> Max & Curley, >>> >>> I can see why you would say an Injector might be bad, and I might >tend to >>> agree, except it ran great before the shop replaced the o-rings. >After I >>> replaced the GPs (and found the short I created) it started smoothly >and >>> instantly every time. According to the shop and the invoice, they >only >>> replaced the o-rings. When I took the DV's off I found a couple >o-rings >>> broken. Also I may not have lubricated the new o-rings properly >with oil >>> (I used kero) - could that be causing my problems? >>> >>> I think I'll do the DVs one more time (with new o-rings) and put >that >>> possibility out of my head. I'll do them one at a time as Curley >just >>> explained. >>> >>> Sound like a plan? Should I replace the copper washers again as >well? >>> >>> LarryT >>> >>> >>> >>> On 01/26/2017 2:42 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: >>> >>>> Larry, >>>> >>>> Did you also replace the copper washers for each delivery valve? >If not, >>>> you need to do that for all of them. >>>> >>>> If you did, then I'll bet you've got a bad injector. Use the >method Curly >>>> described to isolate, and then you can try opening up and cleaning >that >>>> injector nozzle, maybe clear some junk that the shop allowed to >>>> contaminate >>>> the injector line. If you are getting close to 100k miles on the >>>> injectors, it's probably time for new. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------- >>>> Max >>>> Charleston SC >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com > >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
