From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-krusty-motorsports.com Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #161 Reply-To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net Sender: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Errors-To: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Precedence: bulk diesel-benz-digest Sunday, June 27 1999 Volume 01 : Number 161 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles John Meister Digest Coordinator Contents: Leaking Injection Pump Re: Leaking Injection Pump Fritz in the headlines... :) Thieves have no taste! Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:45:01 EDT From: FBHUDSPETH-at-aol.com Subject: Leaking Injection Pump In addition to a 300SD, I have a BMW 524TD with a Bosch VE injection pump. It appears to be leaking through the "O" rings under a couple of plates on the right side of the pump. The plates are accessible only with the pump removed from the engine. The car is 15 years old and has almost 100K miles. It still performs as new at 33.7 MPG at a steady 65 mph. I have maintained the car meticulously since new. Does anyone know of a "chemical fix" that may rejuvenate the seals enough to stop the leaks (about one drip in 10-15 seconds) until the pump otherwise needs to be removed for service. If not, I am inclined to just "live" with the leaks... Thanks, Fred Hudspeth, PE ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:08:05 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: Re: Leaking Injection Pump It sounds like the diaphram in the pump has a leak or tear... time for a rebuild... :-( anything that would stop the leak would clog the injectors. I'd forgotten about the BMW TD. :) They actually used that motor in a motorhome. :) john On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 FBHUDSPETH-at-aol.com wrote: >-->In addition to a 300SD, I have a BMW 524TD with a Bosch VE injection pump. It >-->appears to be leaking through the "O" rings under a couple of plates on the >-->right side of the pump. The plates are accessible only with the pump removed >-->from the engine. >--> >-->The car is 15 years old and has almost 100K miles. It still performs as new >-->at 33.7 MPG at a steady 65 mph. I have maintained the car meticulously since >-->new. >--> >-->Does anyone know of a "chemical fix" that may rejuvenate the seals enough to >-->stop the leaks (about one drip in 10-15 seconds) until the pump otherwise >-->needs to be removed for service. If not, I am inclined to just "live" with >-->the leaks... >--> >-->Thanks, >--> >-->Fred Hudspeth, PE >--> ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- john-at-virtual-cafe.com **** Snohomish, Washington USA don't leave life without jesus, please... http://www.virtual-cafe.com/~john http://wagoneers.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:18:17 -0700 From: john Subject: Fritz in the headlines... :) Fritz never left my driveway... honest... :) "San Diego's 911 System Goes On Fritz" SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA -- Nine-one-one operators are... john http://digitalcity.netscape.com/sandiego/news/article.dci?article=243956 - ----------------------------------------------------- john-at-virtual-cafe.com http://www.wagoneers.com http://www.virtual-cafe.com/~john 77 Wagoneer (SJ) - 81 MB 300D (123) - 88 wagoneer (xj) jesus, don't leave life without him, please! Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... - ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 01:04:39 -0500 From: "Jon Filina" Subject: Thieves have no taste! The dieselheads amongst us will enjoy this.... For quite some time, I have been fueling up at a local Mobil station. This is one of those full service ones, with a self service island, that you don't see very much anymore. The owner drives a diesel pickup and sells quite a bit of diesel fuel. One of the younger "kids" working there is engaged. His future mother-in-law owned, until very recently, an early 80's 240D with an automatic transmission. The kid had quizzed me on many occasions concerning the characteristics of the car. He was certain the car was too loud, but no louder than mine. It had no power and that couldn't be normal. He finally came to realize that the 240D owned by his girfriend's mother was a typical example and that some people liked them for reasons he couldn't fathom. Well, it seems that this lady had a bad habit. She would regularly leave the car unlocked with the keys in the ignition. You can guess where this is going.... A few weeks ago, she left her office to go home and her 240D was gone...stolen..nowhere to be seen. She went through the motions of reporting a stolen car and replaced it with another (non MB...). Three days later she was leaving her office to go home and sitting in the parking lot was her 240D, with the keys in the ignition. It seems that the fine upstanding citizen who spirited away her car 3 days earlier liked it even less than she! Some thieves have no taste... Jon "I lock it and leave it so I can find it" Filina '81 240D 227,750 mi. "Mathilde" Locked 22 hrs. a day! ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #161 *********************************