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Old 04-24-2019, 01:17 PM
Zulfiqar Zulfiqar is offline
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Originally Posted by tjts1 View Post
M112s and m113s have no oil pressure sensor or pressure switch. There is no way for the driver to know if they have an oil pressure problem. There's an O ring between the oil pickup to be and pump which is known to fail. Fortunately there is an easy retrofit.
Yes - that was the problem that I found when I removed the pan just to take a look to why the engine just decided to die - It was headed to the scrapyard anyway.

Benz should have put atleast a low pressure switch on the test port in front of the engine. Never would know why they didnt.
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