I stuck my nose under the hood with a maglite just to see what I could
find from the top...
There's an oily stain running down the plenum tube, dripping off onto the
crossmember and continuing down the hose connecting to the intercooler.
From what I can tell, the source seems to be from in
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I am a little leery of soapy water; I had a bad experience with a w126 where I
used soapy water on the bushings that attach the caster bushing bracket to the
chassis; the bushings slipped back out of the casting! The silicone spray I
was thinking of is the CRC 2094 stuff
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, January 10, 2007 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 99 E300D (w210.025) questions
I am a little leery of soapy water; I had a bad experience with a w126
where I used soapy water on the bushings that attach the caster bushing
bracket to the chassis; the bushings slipped back out of the casting
Thanks. I will try the water and see how it goes. I'm not sure there was a
recall on them, but Rusty mentioned the part number has been incremented three
times or so. I suspect that if the problem were in the metal section of the
lines that there would be much more oil involved (but you never
