Originally Posted by tami

We took Stella ('87 300TD wagon) to central Florida this weekend. On the way, she blew yet another fuel injection line. Of course, this having happened before, we have indeed purchased the whole set of injection lines, but for some reason didn't think to bring them along.

In any case, we're in the middle of Crackerville, FL, with no resources and a broken ferrule. So we trip over to the local NAPA which of course has nothing we can use except for some JB Weld, which husband duly applies to the situation, along with a bit of hose over the break.

Needless to say, this fix didn't work, albeit the bit of hose did keep the fuel from pissing all over everything in the engine compartment. Directed the leak down over the injection pump block, as it were.

Bottom line: we drove Miz Stella for some 500 miles on five of six cylinders, messy but survivable.

We offer thanks to this list, for there was a post suggesting that it is possible to do what we had to do to get home. (Except we didn't plug off the injection pump end, figuring that would be hard on the pump.) Y'all who argued with the fella in that original post, well, there it is.

Lesson: Whether it's broken or not, fix it ("aw Jay, don't install all the damn things, they ain't broken..." she said with confidence.)

A country Merc can survive...