Can my 300SD squeal tires? I can't even break traction on wet gravel. Should I got through that check and re-check stuff with timing and IP timing? has a 116/617 car ever even smelt burnt rubber???


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Squeal tires, probably not. Spin on wet pavement or sand/gravel, yes. I'd try an ALDA adjustment if you haven't yet done so. Read my last post (4 posts earlier, dated 9-10-2003) for more details. Wouldn't hurt to check if you car is getting 0-60 near factory spec, probably around 15-16 seconds for a 116? I assume you've got clean filters and properly adjusted valves...

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During the 1-2 shift my SD will break the rear tire lose if it is on anything less then perfect dry road. IE sand, water, snow ect. It is still a dog though.

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With a manny tranny, I can burn rubber off the line if I'm *really* aggressive with the clutch and rpms. I did it once during a stoplight race with an old early 90's Ford Powerjoke. (i won, BTW ) I'm most likely not to ever do it again. Waaaaay too rough on the clutch.

BTW the injection pumps are rather sensitive to fuel levels and any sort of restriction on the inlet side of the lift pump.

I can notice the difference (just slightly slower) when my tank is getting near empty as compared to full. Filters, lines, and good clean tight connections are important.

I]With a manny tranny, I can burn rubber off the line if I'm *really* aggressive with the clutch and rpms. I did it once during a stoplight race with an old early 90's Ford Powerjoke.[/I]

Hell, I used to lay rubber with my older sisters manual '81 Chevy Chevett, back in the days of my early (teenage) driving history. The sad part of the story is that after the tires got done squeeling, the engine bogged down to damn near a screaching halt, while still in 1st gear; the recipe was: mega rpms, puny torque and horsepower, a crazy teenage driver, and great clutch utilization.

hey , brandon, do you have any pics of your intercooled 81 SD?

w126 Body 300SD Water/Air Intercooler Project

One of the pictures is there with the steel piping (which I am using now)...

Still have some differnt angles to do on the IC and get some aluminium tubing/silicone boots but its workin great!!!

Man I wish I had found this forum months (and many dollars) ago. My ol 83 sd was about to go on the block, cause it was so mousy from a dead stop my two teenagers were embarrassed to ride with me in town, (twerps) because little ol ladies in 30 year old fourbangers would blow at me for being in the way! And to think, all it took was a few turns of a screwdriver to fix the blamed thing! That's all I done. I just backed the ALDA adjustment all the way out, and whizzbang, that ol gal went in ten minutes from doom-n-gloom to bloom-n-zoom! Blew me away! If I punch it real quick on a slightly uphill takeoff it will actually bark the tires a little bit!
I got no smoke by backing the screw all the way out, I'm running 90/10 svo/rug. I've been doing veg-oil for over nine years now, and after three years of doing the full biodiesel (oil/methoxide) conversion, I began trial and error testing with straight veg, and after many (over 50,000) miles of actual down-the-road driving with dozens of blends, I settled on this blend. It works just fine for me, cold weather and all (cycle gloplugs twice) I even gave my whole 80 gal reactor setup to the hippy chick up the road (in exchange for a bag of......um.......) well anyway, we're both happy with the deal !!! Be glad to share my (considerable) data with anyone interested in blends.
Oh, by the way, I have a 20 hp Kubota on a stand in the shop which I use as a test bed for these (sometimes bizarre) mix's, cause I can tear the thing down and reassemble it in 45 minutes (as opposed to three days for the MB!) I'm an ol gas mechanic and have been real weak on the MB diesel fuel system. Thanks for the info.

tell you the truth i tought the same thing,

i have a 1983 mb 300d turbo
and 1985 mb 300d turbo

and im thinking it might be more "peppy" because of the turbo, i think i can really hear the turbo in my 85 but in the 83 i cant, but i still feel both of them pretty well.

How about them E300 Turbodiesels, eh? I currently am driving one right now.

When you take a sharp angled turn, and the inside wheel steps out, that %^& ESP thing keeps you from going sideways. That's no fun.

Man, though...The 3.07 with overdrive is one soulful match for the turbo OM606:

The turbo OM606 has an electronic redline limiter so you can manually shift at 5 - 5.2K rpm in each gear without that sudden loss of power that you get in earlier mechanical IP calibrations. Normally it shifts at 4700 rpm or so, but I will hold 'er manually up to 5K in each gear when I desire for even quicker acceleration.

No ALDA to adjust, but short gearing makes up for the lag versus earlier OM60x.

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