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Mystery dash smoke - '77 300D
Encountered following symptoms in 1977 300D with 180K:
1. Starting attempt number 1: smoke comes out driver side dash speaker grill and no crank. Inspect, wait 10 minutes, attempt start again - no smoke, starts fine. 2. Starting attempt number 2: after stop over at a store 30 minutes later, same smoke and no crank on first attempt. Wait again and try cranking = no smoke, but slow cranking this time, but does start. 3. No subsequent attempts to start. Smoke had nondescript smell - not quite like electrical, but not oil (pressure gauge connection nearby) or coolant smell. I'm suspecting the ignition switch, but, as I've learned over decades of trial and error, it's a good idea to do a little research first. Any thoughts?
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Erlend 1981 300D 202K daily driver |
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Smokey in here!!!
I have taken apart many ignitions to retrieve the vacuum shut off valve. And when I find the keys in the junk cars, I get the ignition and the locks too.
In some of the older Mercedes, as yours, oil does get sucked up into the vacuum lines of the car. Bad elements, or vacuum leaks. What ever. I can remember a couple of times when attempting to unplug the electrical from the back of the lock cylinder, that my hand was covered in motor oil. I would suspect, that as the diaphram in the vacuum pump on the front of the engine failed, oil in the vacuum pump would be sucked into the system and make it's way to the shut off valve. My first Mercedes was a 1980 300CD. This diaphram failure actually happened to me. As the shutoff valve wore down over the years, oil made it's way into the lock cylinder. Oil is probably in other vacuum pods as well. Just open up a vac pod closest to the engine to find out. I started with the one at the driver's leg area. So if the smoke is indeed coming from the ignition, the smell is a combination of electrical and burned oil. |
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It just so happens I own a '77 300D, too! Edit: Fished the sesame seed out from beneath the S key, and inserted a bunch of missing s's... Esses? Sesses? (Shakes head) It's early, guys. I need more coffee.
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- K.C.Adams '77 300D Euro Delivery OM617 turbo / 4-speed swap 404 Milanbraun Metallic / 134 Dattel MB-Tex Current status: * Undergoing body work My '77 300D progress thread Last edited by KAdams4458; 03-03-2009 at 01:47 PM. Reason: There seems to be a sesame seed stuck under my S-key. Or would that be an eame eed? |
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77 300D dash smoke update
I've been posting for my son who owns this 300D. He has removed the access cover and confirmed that there is oil seeping at the ignition switch.
Is this a sure indication of vacuum pump oil leaking through to the vacuum system? Does that require replacement/rebuild of pump AND somehow clean out vacuum lines? Thanks - getting really helpful advice here!
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I caught my vacuum pump just when it started to act up, so oil in the lines was minimal, and confined to areas under the hood.
As I understand it, a slightly failed shut-off valve can still work, but also introduce some oil in to the ignition switch vacuum lines. I haven't seen it personally, nor do I know how common it is. I've only read references to it here and there.
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- K.C.Adams '77 300D Euro Delivery OM617 turbo / 4-speed swap 404 Milanbraun Metallic / 134 Dattel MB-Tex Current status: * Undergoing body work My '77 300D progress thread |
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I think I'm a little concered at the direction this is taking... Smoke is one thing, but it won't happen just from oil in and around the ignition switch. Something has to get hot enough to make it smoke, and that would be an electrical fault. The switch gets a little warm in use, but certainly shouldn't be causing smoke.
The oil at switch could, in this case, just be leftover from an old issue that a previous owner had. Only now, maybe the ignition switch is failing, getting too hot, and cooking that old oil a little. Yes?
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- K.C.Adams '77 300D Euro Delivery OM617 turbo / 4-speed swap 404 Milanbraun Metallic / 134 Dattel MB-Tex Current status: * Undergoing body work My '77 300D progress thread |
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sounds like something behind the dash got fried like a wire,rely etc.
Oil can be leaking in the ignition or the burden tube but that wouldnt explain why there was smoke, For it to smoke there would have to be serious heat to change states.
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1986 300SDL, 211K,Dealership serviced its whole life 1991 190E 2.6(120k) 1983 300D(300k) 1977 300D(211k) |
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Relay for the glow plugs is up under the driver's kick panel. My money is on some kind of short in the relay.
if it is the relay, don't bother with replacing with the loop style relay, just get a pencil plug upgrade kit which I think includes a new relay and change out the old system to a pencil plug system.
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1977 300d 70k--sold 08 1985 300TD 185k+ 1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03 1985 409d 65k--sold 06 1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car 1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11 1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper 1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4 1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13 |
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- K.C.Adams '77 300D Euro Delivery OM617 turbo / 4-speed swap 404 Milanbraun Metallic / 134 Dattel MB-Tex Current status: * Undergoing body work My '77 300D progress thread |
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