He got a better deal than I would have sold it to you for.
-D
> On Feb 6, 2021, at 4:45 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> wrote:
>
> Far from it, nice straight rust free body and just under 300k miles, so I
> can probably drive this car for another 10 to 15 years. It does need a new
> paint job, and the transmission is slow to shift into reverse, but I can
> live with those issues.
>
> A few days ago my daughter started talking about getting her learner's
> permit to start driving when she turns 15, which is coming right up later
> this year. Wow that is happening fast! I've got my old blue '95 E300
> still taking a spot in the drive, was going to sell that, but now I'm
> thinking that will be her first car.
> -------------
> Max
> Charleston SC
>
>
>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 4:35 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like Poos sold you a POS.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Feb 6, 2021, at 1:51 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I bought this '95 E300 from Dan a couple years ago, and it had a fuel
>> leak
>>> at the fuel filter holder when I picked it up. There are five different
>>> hoses that connect to this assembly, all use o-rings to make the seal,
>> and
>>> one at the top center was leaking. It was a slow leak, Dan thought maybe
>>> the filter holder assembly itself had a defect, so he'd already
>> purchased a
>>> new assembly and it came with the car.
>>>
>>> I bought a thicker o-ring, installed that, and it seemed to solve the
>>> problem. Until it didn't. A few weeks ago I noticed the smell of diesel
>>> fuel wafting from under the hood ("Say, is that diesel fuel I smell?"
>> said
>>> somebody's girlfriend on Kaleb's website as she smiles into the
>> camera). A
>>> couple days later it had turned into a gusher, and I had not even been
>>> driving the car. Big pool of diesel under the front bumper.
>>>
>>> The leak had returned with a vengeance. Engine running, the middle hose
>>> connection would pulse in and out. OK, time to swap in that new assembly
>>> and some new o-rings, right?
>>>
>>> I scrounged around for about 30 minutes until I finally found my stash of
>>> spare o-rings for the OM606 non-turbo fuel system, and then removed all
>> the
>>> fuel lines from the filter holder. Loosened the center bolt / valve
>>> assembly (that holds the big main filter in place) and then removed the
>>> bolts that mount the fuel filter holder in place on the head. Lifted out
>>> the filter and holder, and finished removing the filter on the workbench
>> so
>>> I could hold it upright and not spill anymore fuel. Replaced all the
>>> O-rings, and then got out a new fuel filter and noticed something odd as
>> I
>>> compared it with the old. Old filter, with the MB star mark, has the
>>> center rubber seal just glued to the top of the filter, and it was in two
>>> pieces, floating around the top of the filter and obviously not sealing
>>> anything. New filter (Mahle) has a steel lip folded over the center
>> rubber
>>> seal, keeping it in place.
>>>
>>> I suspect that the failure of that center rubber seal meant that the
>> filter
>>> wasn't filtering anything, and so the pressure of the flow from the lift
>>> pump was going directly to the outlet line and that was too much for the
>>> o-ring to seal. I think if I had just replaced the big filter, the leak
>>> would have been solved.
>>>
>>> Put it all back together and fired up the engine, leak is gone.
>>> -------------
>>> Max
>>> Charleston SC
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