|
|
|
|
|
#1
10-21-2007, 06:24 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Serious fuel leak on W210 solved
While driving around town yesterday I noticed an aroma in the car that wasn't pleasant. Upon my next startup I got a low battery warning. Hmmm, I thought, this could be interesting, low batt and fuel smell. When I got home, up went the hood and I had fuel everywhere, including the alternator. Upon inspection it seemed the leak was from under the cover for the injectors. "leaking return line" I hoped. Upon removal of the injector cover, ALL SIX injector wells were full of fuel
 So I got out a small syringe and some injector return line and sucked all the fuel I could out of each well. I started the car to look for the leak and found the plug on the last injector spurting fuel. What a relief A trip to NAPA in the trusty 124 and $1.09 later I had a new cap and the leak was stopped. If I had not been familiar enough with the car to investigate myself and took it to a stealership, I can only wonder what I would have paid for this repair Lesson learned: what at first may appear catastrophic many times is in fact quite minor.
__________________
 Muleears '07 E320 Bluetec 133K my DD '04 Jaguar XJ8 VDP, 34K '10 Hyundai Accent 60K Grocery Getter '02 VW Golf soon to be on the road again '97 E300 Diesel Son's DD '61 VERY tolerant wife Hampton Roads, VA USA Gone but not forgotten: '67 250S 95K '86 300SDL '87 300D Turbo, 364K! R.I.P. '98 E300 Turbodiesel, 213K '02 S420, 164K '01 Prius 138K 
|
|
#3
10-21-2007, 09:05 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
 
__________________
1998 W210 diesel (wiped out by a texter) Baum spring compressor "for rent"
|
|
#4
10-21-2007, 11:10 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I want to keep an eye on it for a while. Can the car be driven with the injector cover off? At least until the injector wells dry out?
On mine all of those wells were full and it was running along the low spot on the left side and out the EGR(?) pipe opening. It got on the fan, the alternator, exhaust manifold, water pump and over onto the bracket for the fuel filters. When I opened it up I wasn't sure where it was coming from. I got a spurt from the leak several times a second at idle, I can only imagine what it did at 60mph! Must have been a constant stream!
__________________
Muleears '07 E320 Bluetec 133K my DD '04 Jaguar XJ8 VDP, 34K '10 Hyundai Accent 60K Grocery Getter '02 VW Golf soon to be on the road again '97 E300 Diesel Son's DD '61 VERY tolerant wife Hampton Roads, VA USA Gone but not forgotten: '67 250S 95K '86 300SDL '87 300D Turbo, 364K! R.I.P. '98 E300 Turbodiesel, 213K '02 S420, 164K '01 Prius 138K Last edited by muleears; 10-21-2007 at 11:16 AM.
|
 |
| Bookmarks |
|
|
Linear Mode
