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Originally Posted by 955405
I have a 1977 mercedes 240D i just recently bought. i changed all the oil and all the filters. The car was running fine for the first several weeks. i started out to cincinnati Oh and topped off the tank at wal-mart. about 40 miles later i was getting a cloud of white smoke behind and had no power (out of the ordinary). I then changed the fuel filter think i had got water. A few hours later we had it towed home. Can somebody give me some advise i was told to check the timing on the injector pump and the cam but the owners manuel doesnt advise on this.
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White smoke can be burning coolant or lack of compression. Both could be head gasket related not sure if you drove it enough but u'd be losing coolant or mixing oil/coolant somewhere or should be. If u did get enough water in your fuel it could do the same thing too tho since there was water in your filter i'd start there first then check from there.