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Originally Posted by mercmad6.3
Smoking like that can also be caused by a blocked air filter . Try driving as short distance with it disconnected. The reason for excess smoke is too much fuel (worn injectors not atomizing correctly and dodgy fuel* ) and too little air (blocked air filter) . Diesels are simple to diagnose in general but you should get it done soon or you will ruin the bores from excess fueling .
The reason bosch use leather for the pump diaphragm is that they haven't found anything better.
i have filled with diesel in places where the fuel was the cause of the engine smoking and in fact one place has been prosecuted for "watering down the fuel" with waste turpentine!! .The toyota i was driving at the time suddenly started belching clouds of smoke and it didn't clear until I had used all the fuel and was running stuff from another place.
Your use of synthetic oils also explains the oil leaks. These engines were designed to use Mineral oils and the chemical make up of synthetics doesn't work with the type of seal design used in most early mercedes. Besides the manufacture of synthetics is bad for the environment.
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I can run the car without the air filter to see if it changes anything, but I have already cleaned it twice with diesel and changed the filter oil twice. The smoking seemed to happen right after I filled up with diesel in Idaho, but I have already gone through a couple tanks of fuel since.
The car was already leaking oil when I got it. Bits of sealant are peeling off of the lower half of the engine where it is leaking the worst. If it's necessary I will use seals that work with synthetics.
I am trying to avoid petroleum products whenever there is a synthetic alternative. If manufacturing synthetics is truly bad for the environment, I would imagine there are ways to manufacture it that aren't bad for the environment. Clearly, pumping out petroleum and burning it is bad for the environment. I have to be the change in the world I want to see because those with power are more concerned about about benefiting themselves than improving the world.
Also, it's much easier to clean up synthetic oil than petroleum oil.
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