Re: [MBZ] Problems with our '93 300D
The difference being that with a plugged fuel filter the power wouldn't suddenly return to you... -Curt On Monday, March 8, 2021, 11:48:03 AM EST, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: Happened to me a couple times in my '83 300TD - lost power going up hills. It was due to a clogged main fuel filter. Once that was changed all was well again. On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 11:07 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: I actually had something similar happen with every MB I owned, most especially with my '85 190D. I thought I was in real trouble, engine lost all power on a long hill. I started to pull over, then a huge cloud of smoke and suddenly all the power was back and then some, it ran like a new car... I put a bunch of Power Service grey bottle in every MB I owned soon after getting it. The stuff smells a lot like Diesel Purge and seems to work similarly. -Curt On Monday, March 8, 2021, 10:44:03 AM EST, Larry Turner via Mercedes wrote: Don't know if you got any answers, but my '91 300D did the same thing a few times. After discussing it here, I ended up believing I had carbon buildup in the cylinders and put some liquid "fixer" in that was said to break the carbon up. My wife had just started a job where she was driving 100 mi RT each day to work and those lengthy drives fully warmed the engine and broke the carbon up. After a week or two of the daily drives we never had another problem. We had only owned the car for a week or two when this started - it was exactly as you described - we would back out of the driveway and be enveloped in a cloud of white smoke. The car lost power then things cleared up and he problem went away. BTW, My 91 300D only had 99k miles when I bought it in '06 so it was seldom driven far and did not warm up properly. HTH... Wish I could remember te liquid I used but it's been too long, sorry. But a Net Search will likely provide many hits... Good luck! On 2/7/2021 6:24 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > On the 35 mile trip to church this morning, we were driving at 75 mph when > suddenly the engine started running rough and a big cloud of white smoke > came out of the exahust (right into the front of the semi which was > tailgating us). After a couple of seconds the engine started running > normally and the smoke stopped. I checked the oil pressure (pegged) and > the temperature (85 C) and saw and heard everything was OK, so I kept on > driving. > > Leaving church, we had a little problem backing up, which I attributed to > the rear wheel parking brakes acting up as they have done in the past. > > We went to the nearby supermarket and everything seemed normal. I found > there was a long line to get into the building (yes, again!), so we left > and drove east. We got off the Interstate at Edgewood and stopped at the > supermarket there. Interestingly, there was no line at all and not even > someone watching the front door. I got some of the items we needed, went > back to the car, put them into the trunk, and proceeded to leave -- > except the car would not move backward. It was OK going forward, however. > > I left the engine idling and checked the transmission fluid level. It > seemed to be high, though I am not satisfied I'm getting the right level > indication when I check ATF levels. I did check the level a couple of > months ago and recall it was OK then. > > After getting some help pushing the car out of the parking space (up a > slight incline) we were on our way toward the Interstate onramp. We > accelerated up the ramp and got on the roadway just as the engine ran > rough for a few seconds and then ran normally. I looked back and saw a > large cloud of a little white, but mostly black smoke. > > The car ran fine the rest of the way home (15 miles), shifting through > all of the forward gears as it was supposed to. I was even able to get it > positioned so it would roll backwards down the incline from our front gate > to our building, so it's ready to go tomorrow -- we need to drive to our > dentist (56 miles) to have the recurrent infection in Shirley's jaw > looked at. > > So, does anyone have any idea what's going on with the car? > Any idea if we will be OK driving to Albuquerque tomorrow? > > Thank you for your help! > > > Craig > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/
Re: [MBZ] Problems with our '93 300D
Happened to me a couple times in my '83 300TD - lost power going up hills. It was due to a clogged main fuel filter. Once that was changed all was well again. On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 11:07 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I actually had something similar happen with every MB I owned, most > especially with my '85 190D. I thought I was in real trouble, engine lost > all power on a long hill. I started to pull over, then a huge cloud of > smoke and suddenly all the power was back and then some, it ran like a new > car... > I put a bunch of Power Service grey bottle in every MB I owned soon after > getting it. The stuff smells a lot like Diesel Purge and seems to work > similarly. > -Curt > > On Monday, March 8, 2021, 10:44:03 AM EST, Larry Turner via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Don't know if you got any answers, but my '91 300D did the same thing a > few times. After discussing it here, I ended up believing I had carbon > buildup in the cylinders and put some liquid "fixer" in that was said to > break the carbon up. My wife had just started a job where she was > driving 100 mi RT each day to work and those lengthy drives fully warmed > the engine and broke the carbon up. After a week or two of the daily > drives we never had another problem. We had only owned the car for a > week or two when this started - it was exactly as you described - we > would back out of the driveway and be enveloped in a cloud of white > smoke. The car lost power then things cleared up and he problem went > away. BTW, My 91 300D only had 99k miles when I bought it in '06 so it > was seldom driven far and did not warm up properly. HTH... > > Wish I could remember te liquid I used but it's been too long, > sorry. But a Net Search will likely provide many hits... > > Good luck! > > On 2/7/2021 6:24 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > > On the 35 mile trip to church this morning, we were driving at 75 mph > when > > suddenly the engine started running rough and a big cloud of white smoke > > came out of the exahust (right into the front of the semi which was > > tailgating us). After a couple of seconds the engine started running > > normally and the smoke stopped. I checked the oil pressure (pegged) and > > the temperature (85 C) and saw and heard everything was OK, so I kept on > > driving. > > > > Leaving church, we had a little problem backing up, which I attributed to > > the rear wheel parking brakes acting up as they have done in the past. > > > > We went to the nearby supermarket and everything seemed normal. I found > > there was a long line to get into the building (yes, again!), so we left > > and drove east. We got off the Interstate at Edgewood and stopped at the > > supermarket there. Interestingly, there was no line at all and not even > > someone watching the front door. I got some of the items we needed, went > > back to the car, put them into the trunk, and proceeded to leave -- > > except the car would not move backward. It was OK going forward, however. > > > > I left the engine idling and checked the transmission fluid level. It > > seemed to be high, though I am not satisfied I'm getting the right level > > indication when I check ATF levels. I did check the level a couple of > > months ago and recall it was OK then. > > > > After getting some help pushing the car out of the parking space (up a > > slight incline) we were on our way toward the Interstate onramp. We > > accelerated up the ramp and got on the roadway just as the engine ran > > rough for a few seconds and then ran normally. I looked back and saw a > > large cloud of a little white, but mostly black smoke. > > > > The car ran fine the rest of the way home (15 miles), shifting through > > all of the forward gears as it was supposed to. I was even able to get it > > positioned so it would roll backwards down the incline from our front > gate > > to our building, so it's ready to go tomorrow -- we need to drive to our > > dentist (56 miles) to have the recurrent infection in Shirley's jaw > > looked at. > > > > So, does anyone have any idea what's going on with the car? > > Any idea if we will be OK driving to Albuquerque tomorrow? > > > > Thank you for your help! > > > > > > Craig > > > > ___ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search l
Re: [MBZ] Problems with our '93 300D
I actually had something similar happen with every MB I owned, most especially with my '85 190D. I thought I was in real trouble, engine lost all power on a long hill. I started to pull over, then a huge cloud of smoke and suddenly all the power was back and then some, it ran like a new car... I put a bunch of Power Service grey bottle in every MB I owned soon after getting it. The stuff smells a lot like Diesel Purge and seems to work similarly. -Curt On Monday, March 8, 2021, 10:44:03 AM EST, Larry Turner via Mercedes wrote: Don't know if you got any answers, but my '91 300D did the same thing a few times. After discussing it here, I ended up believing I had carbon buildup in the cylinders and put some liquid "fixer" in that was said to break the carbon up. My wife had just started a job where she was driving 100 mi RT each day to work and those lengthy drives fully warmed the engine and broke the carbon up. After a week or two of the daily drives we never had another problem. We had only owned the car for a week or two when this started - it was exactly as you described - we would back out of the driveway and be enveloped in a cloud of white smoke. The car lost power then things cleared up and he problem went away. BTW, My 91 300D only had 99k miles when I bought it in '06 so it was seldom driven far and did not warm up properly. HTH... Wish I could remember te liquid I used but it's been too long, sorry. But a Net Search will likely provide many hits... Good luck! On 2/7/2021 6:24 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > On the 35 mile trip to church this morning, we were driving at 75 mph when > suddenly the engine started running rough and a big cloud of white smoke > came out of the exahust (right into the front of the semi which was > tailgating us). After a couple of seconds the engine started running > normally and the smoke stopped. I checked the oil pressure (pegged) and > the temperature (85 C) and saw and heard everything was OK, so I kept on > driving. > > Leaving church, we had a little problem backing up, which I attributed to > the rear wheel parking brakes acting up as they have done in the past. > > We went to the nearby supermarket and everything seemed normal. I found > there was a long line to get into the building (yes, again!), so we left > and drove east. We got off the Interstate at Edgewood and stopped at the > supermarket there. Interestingly, there was no line at all and not even > someone watching the front door. I got some of the items we needed, went > back to the car, put them into the trunk, and proceeded to leave -- > except the car would not move backward. It was OK going forward, however. > > I left the engine idling and checked the transmission fluid level. It > seemed to be high, though I am not satisfied I'm getting the right level > indication when I check ATF levels. I did check the level a couple of > months ago and recall it was OK then. > > After getting some help pushing the car out of the parking space (up a > slight incline) we were on our way toward the Interstate onramp. We > accelerated up the ramp and got on the roadway just as the engine ran > rough for a few seconds and then ran normally. I looked back and saw a > large cloud of a little white, but mostly black smoke. > > The car ran fine the rest of the way home (15 miles), shifting through > all of the forward gears as it was supposed to. I was even able to get it > positioned so it would roll backwards down the incline from our front gate > to our building, so it's ready to go tomorrow -- we need to drive to our > dentist (56 miles) to have the recurrent infection in Shirley's jaw > looked at. > > So, does anyone have any idea what's going on with the car? > Any idea if we will be OK driving to Albuquerque tomorrow? > > Thank you for your help! > > > Craig > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Problems with our '93 300D
Don't know if you got any answers, but my '91 300D did the same thing a few times. After discussing it here, I ended up believing I had carbon buildup in the cylinders and put some liquid "fixer" in that was said to break the carbon up. My wife had just started a job where she was driving 100 mi RT each day to work and those lengthy drives fully warmed the engine and broke the carbon up. After a week or two of the daily drives we never had another problem. We had only owned the car for a week or two when this started - it was exactly as you described - we would back out of the driveway and be enveloped in a cloud of white smoke. The car lost power then things cleared up and he problem went away. BTW, My 91 300D only had 99k miles when I bought it in '06 so it was seldom driven far and did not warm up properly. HTH... Wish I could remember te liquid I used but it's been too long, sorry. But a Net Search will likely provide many hits... Good luck! On 2/7/2021 6:24 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: On the 35 mile trip to church this morning, we were driving at 75 mph when suddenly the engine started running rough and a big cloud of white smoke came out of the exahust (right into the front of the semi which was tailgating us). After a couple of seconds the engine started running normally and the smoke stopped. I checked the oil pressure (pegged) and the temperature (85 C) and saw and heard everything was OK, so I kept on driving. Leaving church, we had a little problem backing up, which I attributed to the rear wheel parking brakes acting up as they have done in the past. We went to the nearby supermarket and everything seemed normal. I found there was a long line to get into the building (yes, again!), so we left and drove east. We got off the Interstate at Edgewood and stopped at the supermarket there. Interestingly, there was no line at all and not even someone watching the front door. I got some of the items we needed, went back to the car, put them into the trunk, and proceeded to leave -- except the car would not move backward. It was OK going forward, however. I left the engine idling and checked the transmission fluid level. It seemed to be high, though I am not satisfied I'm getting the right level indication when I check ATF levels. I did check the level a couple of months ago and recall it was OK then. After getting some help pushing the car out of the parking space (up a slight incline) we were on our way toward the Interstate onramp. We accelerated up the ramp and got on the roadway just as the engine ran rough for a few seconds and then ran normally. I looked back and saw a large cloud of a little white, but mostly black smoke. The car ran fine the rest of the way home (15 miles), shifting through all of the forward gears as it was supposed to. I was even able to get it positioned so it would roll backwards down the incline from our front gate to our building, so it's ready to go tomorrow -- we need to drive to our dentist (56 miles) to have the recurrent infection in Shirley's jaw looked at. So, does anyone have any idea what's going on with the car? Any idea if we will be OK driving to Albuquerque tomorrow? Thank you for your help! Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Problems with our '93 300D
On the 35 mile trip to church this morning, we were driving at 75 mph when suddenly the engine started running rough and a big cloud of white smoke came out of the exahust (right into the front of the semi which was tailgating us). After a couple of seconds the engine started running normally and the smoke stopped. I checked the oil pressure (pegged) and the temperature (85 C) and saw and heard everything was OK, so I kept on driving. Leaving church, we had a little problem backing up, which I attributed to the rear wheel parking brakes acting up as they have done in the past. We went to the nearby supermarket and everything seemed normal. I found there was a long line to get into the building (yes, again!), so we left and drove east. We got off the Interstate at Edgewood and stopped at the supermarket there. Interestingly, there was no line at all and not even someone watching the front door. I got some of the items we needed, went back to the car, put them into the trunk, and proceeded to leave -- except the car would not move backward. It was OK going forward, however. I left the engine idling and checked the transmission fluid level. It seemed to be high, though I am not satisfied I'm getting the right level indication when I check ATF levels. I did check the level a couple of months ago and recall it was OK then. After getting some help pushing the car out of the parking space (up a slight incline) we were on our way toward the Interstate onramp. We accelerated up the ramp and got on the roadway just as the engine ran rough for a few seconds and then ran normally. I looked back and saw a large cloud of a little white, but mostly black smoke. The car ran fine the rest of the way home (15 miles), shifting through all of the forward gears as it was supposed to. I was even able to get it positioned so it would roll backwards down the incline from our front gate to our building, so it's ready to go tomorrow -- we need to drive to our dentist (56 miles) to have the recurrent infection in Shirley's jaw looked at. So, does anyone have any idea what's going on with the car? Any idea if we will be OK driving to Albuquerque tomorrow? Thank you for your help! Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
