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Originally Posted by Merkey
Thanks GVB and LGB,
LGB:
I looked all over for the missing pipe... nothing to see.
The engine ran fine without the filter in place, did not misfire that I could see.
Yes, is was very clean in there... I will lube the linkage at the weekend... and clean the engine and bay a little more.... not clean enough for me yet!
The miss was less noticable today at idle, but I could feel it at 1500 rpm as I moved the car into position slowly on my sloped driveway.
The gearbox also seems slow to engage in D, and is a little harsh shifting sometimes.
Could that mean a vac leak somewhere?
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This weekend I will look and see where the small tube is in my car. The interesting thing is that from year to year (and even w/in the same production run) Benz makes small changes in the engine plumbing/hardware. So maybe you don't have that small tube.
The slow-to-engage trany could be due to low trans fluid. It could be a modulator (by now I am out of my league).
The harsh shift could be bad flex disks, bad tranny mounts or a vacuum leak. Do a search here under flex disks.
The erratic "economy gauge" (nothing but a fancy vacuum gauge as you probably already know
) is interesting. The one in my 300TE has always been off and erratic. In my 420SEL it was to the left at idle, climbed to the red side under acceleration and then settled back as I cruised along. But the gauge in the 300TE has never been that normal.
Wonder if there is a connection here?
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1990 300CE "Sam Spade"
1991 300CE "Beowulf" RIP (06.1991 - 10.10.2007)
1998 E320 "Orson"
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