I had to make a trip from Houston to Beaumont yesterday with a return trip today. When I arrived in Beaumont, my '87 was running pretty rough. I thought maybe it was a little tired after running 85 the whoel way there. Well, this morning, I fired her up in the hotel parking lot and she was shaking like you wouldn't believe. I popped the hood and immediately noticed diesel spraying all over the place. It seems that the fourth injector line developed a pretty substantial crack. I drove over to the dealer to see about getting a new line...no luck. I called several outfits in Beaumont with no luck of finding my much needed part. I finally ended up going to AutoZone, buying some JB Weld and patching the hole. Diesel and JB Weld do not like each other. it managed to slow the flow rate, but was still spraying diesel all over the place. I ended up driving the car home as is. We won't discuss how much fuel is covering the engine compartment and underside of my car. None of the three dealers here in town have this part. My mechanic, MPH Automotive, did have one off of a parts car that they gave me so I wouldn't continue to stink up Houston with a leaky diesel.

Is this a common failure with these cars. I have never encountered this problem with any of the cars I have owned, but my mechanic didn't sound too surprised with my problem.

Mike

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Mike

'80 300D
'84 300D
'85 300D
'87 300D

Does your car have the holding brackets that secure the lines to each other? Also, did you see any possible 'rub' damage?
I hear without the clamps/brackets they can vibrate and eventually crack. Heck, they prolly could vibrate and crack over time with the brackets.

FYI, did you visit the thriving metropli of Evadale or Silsbee?

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Once you get home you should be able to use the JBWeld to fix the situation... the tricks, which I have mentioned many times ,cleanlyness and to use it to hold a brass patch to whatever you are wanting to fix... and leave the Epoxy at least an eighth of an inch thick and do not put any pressure on it for 24 hours... the stuff is still holding on my rusty tractor fuel tank 20 years later...
I think each fuel line should have two clamps on it.

I've had a crack develop on the IP end of line #6. My problem is not only do I not have the clips and what not, I DON'T EVEN HAVE THE RIGHT FUEL LINES .

Yes, the dealers over here didn't have it either, I had to order mine from house of imports and it took them a week to get it in.

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Jason

00 Subaru Legacy (fun wagon)
96 Nissan Sentra (disavowed)
82 300SD (garage queen, will run again hopefully)
87 300DT (Gone: 10/15/2010)