Steve, You can pull the head, pull the lower pan, ream #1 cyl ridge ring, pop out #1 and repair the ring/replace the piston/whatever, and put it back in w/o taking the engine out of the car.
More than likely the sleeve is within spec, and you can fix the car for very few bux. Rings are cheap. Ring and piston is somewhere around $100 as I recall. Now #4 is a bit more difficult (c: Richard --- Steve MacSween <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, everyone, I sort of dropped off the face of the earth but now > I'm > back.... Nice to 'see' you all again (huh?). > > Okay, way back months ago I was talking about the 240d I picked up > from > Mike, and the fact that I sorta lost one cylinder without warning, > one > morning (excuse the rhyme). Number 1 cylinder showed 15 lbs > compression, but > came way up when I squirted in some oil. This thing as 300k on it, so > it > does not owe anyone a whole lot. But it ran great last fall when I > was > driving it, albeit was smoking a bit and using oil. > > When the weather cleared I put in a lot of time on it. Adjusted the > valves > and tried every snake-oil remedy I could think of, hoping I had a > stuck > ring, maybe carbon buildup. Yeah I was reaching. > > In any case, I eventually had it running on about half a crankcase > full of > Marvel Mystery oil, with Marvel in the fuel as well. Turned the idle > up way > high and literally ran it for days on end, trying to see if I could > lose the > smaking and hard miss. > > And lo and behold it was just about back after about 3 days. If you > left it > on high idle, after an hour or so the exhaust cleared up and it ran > smooth > with just the odd pop-pop-pop (soft miss). HOWEVER, if you took it > out on > the road, tho it would perform okay and not smoke while driving, once > you > came back to idle the hard miss was back for about 20 minutes. > > So then I changed the oil and had to park it for a week. Came back, > and it > was back to square #1. Smokes WORSE than it ever did, now is hard to > start > (started great before I did that oil change and parked it). DOH. > > Took it to a reliable, old-time German independent. He says ring has > come > unseated, forget it, no T-shirt, put a fork in it, etc. Says it's now > zero > compression on #1. He can't believe I was driving it. > > I am a stubborn bastid. I saw that car run ok and drove it. I don't > want to > give up. > > I want to tow it back to my storage lot and try a 1/2 oil 1/2 varsol > "oil > change" as one last shot. Maybe let some Pepsi soak down there too. > > THoughts? TIA > > -- > Mac > '82 300sd > '82 240d (x2) > '60 220s > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.striplin.net > 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://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
