OK I am having some real funky issues with my 73 280SEL 4.5. The car has
never run right. When I first bought the car, the timing was way out and the
car ran bad and would pop. My Dallas mechanic addressed this and changed the
timing chain. The car then ran well for a while but now appears to
I am by no means a gasser expert, but the problem where it doesn't start
after it has been sitting sounds like there is a fuel leak or a check
valve that is letting fuel flow back into the fuel tank.
No clue on the other stuff...
Best of luck
John
'79 300SD
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Ali Al-Abbasi
Have you changed the thermo time switch and trigger points?
On 6/24/05, John Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am by no means a gasser expert, but the problem where it doesn't start
after it has been sitting sounds like there is a fuel leak or a check
valve that is letting fuel flow back into
Ho andrew!@
yup, I have similar problems on mine! While I still
don't have it toaly fixed (mine won't start after it
gets warmed up!
I did notice a HUGE imporvment when I swapped out all
the fuel lines and the vacume lines in the engine...
After working on my 300d, I curse these 4.5 sels...
Check the coil wire. I've found that some wire sets have a carbon core in
this wire and that won't work on these cars. Fuel pressure and trigger
points fouled out come to mind as possible problems.
Make sure the vacuum line going to the manifold pressure sensor is not
leaking - this will cause
