I'd be very careful of how you mod your CC to the U-tube. I've had one 240D runaway on me. (Actually my son, I wasn't there) All it took was about 30-40 seconds to make that engine toast.

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'05 E320 CDI - 86,000 miles
'86 300SDL - 360,000 miles
'85 300SD - 150,000 miles (sold)
'89 190D - 120,000 miles (sold)
'85 300SD - 317,000 miles (sold)
'98 ML320 - 270,000 miles (sold)
'75 300D - 170,000 miles (sold)
'83 Harley Davidson FLTC (Broken again) :-(
'61 Plymouth Valiant - 60k mikes
2004 Papillon (Oliver)
2005 Tzitzu (Griffon)
2009 Welsh Corgi (Buba)

Plasti-dip can be bought at Lowes or Home Depot. In the paint adhesive section.
Here is a picture of the unit in the car.

Dave

Compare this to the post I have above

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/attachments/mercedes-benz-used-parts-sale-wanted/22250-need-oil-seperator-1983-240d-oil-seperator1.jpg

Pasti-dip

http://www.plastidip.com/consumer/index.html

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1980 240D, owned 1990-1992
1982 300TD, owned 1992-1993
1986 300SDL, owned 1993-2004
1999 E300, owned 1999-2003
1982 300TD, 213,880mi, owned since Nov 18, 1991- Aug 4, 2010 SOLD
1988 560SL, 100,000mi, owned since 1995
1965 Mustang Fastback Mileage Unknown(My sons)
1983 240D, 176,000mi (My daughers) owned since 2004
2007 Honda Accord EX-L I4 auto, the new daily driver
1985 300D 264,000mi Son's new daily driver.(sold)
2008 Hyundai Tiberon. Daughters new car

mplafleur,
What was the cause of the runaway? RT

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93' Chevrolet C2500HD ExCab 6.5TD, Two-tone blue, 252K

Run away diesel, why does it happen?
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1985 300SD
1983 300D
2003 Volvo V70

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Almost two years later, any issues?

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SDL's have an oil seperator built into the valve cover itself. And a little extra emergency vent hole too.

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1984 300d 223k
1994 Jeep Cherokee 2.5L 88k

"She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've added some special modifications myself." -- Han Solo

"Would it help if I got out and pushed?" -- Princess Leia

IF its of ANY relevence, the CCV of my BMW, is directly from the cam-box to a point Just Before (Around 2") before the Turbo Inlet.....

BMW Made the thing that way......

No 'Oil Separators', Just a shaped 1" bore rubber pipe, from cam-box to a junction with the air-pipe at the turbo inlet......

As far as I know there is NO other Breather or vent for the crank-case on the BMW M51 engine....

An engine in good condition should have very little 'blow-by' gasses to expell oil anyway--Oil wont be 'sucked out' the crank-case by the Turbo!

If the engine has got to the point that blow-by is pressurising the crank-case, and expelling oil with the standard breather set up, then oil could be forced passed the rings and a run-away could occur...BUT thats because the engine is knackered anyway, its just not stopped kicking yet!

(And YES, I have suffered a 'Runaway' Diesel-A Land-Rover 2.5-But that is because the engine was stuffed anyway!--God THAT was FUN )

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W123, 1985 300TD Wagon, 256K,
-Most recent M.B. purchase, Cost-a-plenty, Gulps BioDiesel extravagantly, and I love it like an old dog.

W114, 1975 280E Custard Yellow,
-Great above decks needs chassis welding--Really will do it this year....

I removed my air filter housing years ago when the oil seporator housing went bad. in its place i installed a cone style filter directly on to the turbo housing. I love the setup you can hear the turbo spool...
the problem was there was no place for the CC to vent. so i installed a section of hose that poined strait to the ground. just like the vents on a 50s chevy...... (i know i'm gonna catch crap for that coment.) anyway. about 3 months ago i got really tierd of polishing up my MERCEDES-BENZ and having this mystical cloud of smoke come from under the car!!!! very trashy looking... so in an effort to clean up my image in routed my crank case gasses into my intake. i don't like this setup ether. i'd realy like ot have an oil seporator in the mix... so what do you guys suggest?

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I had a drop vent like yours and a cop stopped me at the airport curb where you unload passengers, said something about a fire in my engine? I said no its just a diesel (and hurried out of there!) I got tired of the smell too. Made a conversion like yours I presume (although not an SD)

You need a 240D oil/air separator. Like this, mounted in my '79 300TD w/ '85 turbo engine:

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That's what I am looking for. You got a part number, or other info that can help me find it?
Thanks

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1999 Prelude
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For all the OM60x people:


The valve cover has a built in oil seperater. I recently had a problem where it's filled with sludge, and not working.


Lets just say that the turbo dosnt like oil in the intake.

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Sludge!! Thats a big cavity! After 250k+ miles mine was perfectly clean, well except for a little oil residue that coats everything.

How long have you been stretching out those oil changes? I see your car has about 410k miles on it, thats probably all highway? The inside of that engine should be spotless.

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I'll have to go look at the top of the separator, you can see it in the picture but not well enuff to get the entire number. It is stock in an '84 240D.

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Sludge? Whoa, you have a problem I think!
Is the EGR letting crud get pulled into the intake?
How did your crossover look?
You should be running synthetic oil in the 603 what with hydraulic lifters. Synthetic oil won't leave any sludge.

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p/n is 616-010-00-62

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