Mitch,
Maybe me? My '95 E300 had a failed vacuum pump when I bought it, and I was
very concerned about bearings dumped into engine, but it had the upgraded pump
so nothing dumped. Took me over a year to get that all sorted: new vacuum
pump, injection pump timer, rebuilt all the delivery
your memory of such a minute detail!
Tony Wirtel
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] 1995 E300D Odessy
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Tony Wirtel wrote:
Mitch, just getting to this now after plowing through several days of
digests.
I'd need to go through the archives myself, but it may have been an 87
300sdl that I replaced the vacuum pump on. I've never owned a car with the
om606 motor, only 617, 602 and 603 cars.
But
Looks like Mercedes content is scarce lately, so I'll tell a story.
In the summer of 2013 a friend of work told me about his carpool partner who
had an old Mercedes diesel sitting in his driveway, unused, leaking fuel that
he was ready to get rid of since he was tired of doing work on it and he
Dave,
I'm also curious about the vacuum pump failure. I was under the impression
that by '95, the factory installed vacuum pump was the upgraded pump that
could not fail catastrophically and cause what happened to your engine.
Can you put more color on that?
-Max
Looks like Mercedes content is scarce lately,
That means:
1. Our MBs are performing as expected
or
2. The problems our MBs present are within our skills
or
3. some of us have problems to fix, but don't have time to start it
and seek the counsel of this august group of PhuDs, brain power and
Wow! good troubleshooting. I have wondered about an electric vacuum pump.
I beleive you are saying the vacuum pump was the culprit that caused
the problem. Was it a ball from the bearing?
If that is the case, the moral of the story is to get the OE vacuum
pumps replaced, or at least
'Sounds like an ATTABOY, anyway.
Wilton
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From: Dave dbl...@comcast.net
To: mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 2:26 PM
Subject: [MBZ] 1995 E300D Odessy
Looks like Mercedes content is scarce lately, so I'll tell a story.
In the summer
I beleive you are saying the vacuum pump was the culprit that caused
the problem. Was it a ball from the bearing?
If that is the case, the moral of the story is to get the OE vacuum
pumps replaced, or at least change the bearings every 200k miles or
so. I would think they could build a
DaveL wrote:
Looks like Mercedes content is scarce lately, so I'll tell a story.
Here's another one:
I was coming back empty handed from fishing when I noticed that the
A/C in my 08 Prius was not cooling like it should. It was about 4:00 p.m. so I
went by the dealer to see if they could top
May hafta throw in another Country Boy Tale soon. ;)
Wilton
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From: Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 1995 E300D Odessy
Looks like Mercedes content
Dave wrote:
Yes, the ball bearings failed and all of the balls and remainder of the cages
dropped into the chain.
I seem to recall reading in these lists, about ten years ago, that this was
fairly common in early OM606 engines. Didn't the exact same thing happen to Tony
Wirtel?
Attaboy indeed! Wilton is the official dispensor of OFFICIAL ATTABOYs!
You did well diagnosing and repairing the problem. You might try
Car-part.com to see if anyone who has an OM606 will sell you a used
new style vacuum pump on a budget. Many of them are realistic about
their prices.
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 18:26:48 + (UTC) Dave dbl...@comcast.net wrote:
Wife is actually pretty happy with it as the standby vehicle she was
driving was a 1989 Chev G20 van :-).
So we have something in common ... I also have an '89 G20 van (ours is a
Beauville).
Craig
E300D is sort of rare and more valuable. I had a giant issue getting the insco
to not screw me on value. They wanted to give me $4k, I wanted to be made
whole. The transaction took a few months, and they finally found a REAL
comparable after looking at six examples. Turned out the car is
Curly,
He needs the vacuum pump AND the injection pump timer, which together were
about $700 in 2009 when I did mine.
Used would be fine for both. I wonder if the timer is unique, I know the
vacuum pump is common to the earlier OM60x engines.
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
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