Oh wow that was my 2k post I guess I never shut up.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Congratulations.....just be around for the next 2K after you find 18 psi of boost...

I agree- I'm pulling all 5 of mine and sending them to a local injection shop. The PO replaced 2 w/rebuilds and it's amazing how good it runs on the hiway and how bad it idles,smokes,SHAKES,SHAKES, and SHAKES at idle-like the dang thing is possessed or something

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1982 300DT 190K (Diesel Purge + synthetic oil=smoothness at last!!!)
2004 Ford E-350 6.0 L PSD 227K
2006 Dodge Ram 3500 SRW HO Cummins 4X4 48RE 42K (brute force tow vehicle)
2005 Scion xB wife's rolling pop can
1993 GMC Sierra C3500 6.2 142K

Installed rebuilt injectors today. Supplied heat shields had smaller holes than the ones I removed – is that significant? Engine doesn’t run well – nothing happens when I crack #2, will put one of the old ones back in tomorrow. Pretty disappointed. Managed to break a vacuum connection *%##*! Noticed a few cam lobes were pretty rough – this cam has been replaced once – how big an issue is this??

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89 300E
79 240D
72 Westy
63 Bug sunroof
85 Jeep CJ7
86 Chevy 6.2l diesel PU

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius

Crash9,
I think you may have found the source of your problem; the cam lobes.
The 240s as well as some non-turbo 300s had non-hardened cams and rockers in the beginning of the production years. Then, Mercedes realized it's better to have them all hardened, 240 and 300 models alike, sometime in the early eighties. You might benefit from installing a set of the modern hardened rockers and cam with cam towers, as they are different as well.
Good luck, Adam