I have the same concerns here - I can not find anyone that can, or wants to work on this car - especially when it comes to something like timing the injection pump. I have never had it done and I know this is hard to believe, but I don't know if it's ever been done on this car until I just did it a few days ago.

I do think the engine is in pretty good shape and I know (from PO records) the oil was meticulously changed - I also have real good compression across all 5 cylinders.

Interestingly, I checked the timing chain stretch again last night and noticed only 3-4 degrees this time - again using the lining up cam marks method - which is really tricky getting the marks to line up just perfect. This has led to my trying to measure cam timing using the 2mm method (see my recent thread - really frustrating as I can't figure it out!).

ryan

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1984 300D
1972 250
1986 560SL
1991 300CE