View Single Post
  #1  
Old 12-09-2013, 04:23 AM
2.5Turbo's Avatar
2.5Turbo 2.5Turbo is offline
602 648 113 A630
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Tacoma, WA
Posts: 900
602 prechamber leak

Was working on getting the blower to go faster than minimum speed today and had a look over the rest of the engine compartment. I noticed a bit of black stuff that looked like it was coming out of the prechamber collar ring. It was very hard and brittle; looked like melted plastic. It also looked like somebody oversprayed some black spray paint onto the underside of the intake above the injector. I chipped off the black stuff for further inspection and couldn't figure out what it was.

Drove the car around town a bit after and noticed a new sound. Took a look and found compression making its way out in the same area. I have a bunch of spare injector heat shields laying around so I decided to pull the injector and check what's going on in there. The seat and threads were a bit dirty so I cleaned it with a little diesel and a chunk of shop towel. Proper torque applied and got everything hooked back up. Leak unchanged.

Here's a youtube video where you can hear the leak around #2. In the last part I squirt some degreaser on the injector and you can clearly see compression making its way out. The cylinder still fires OK. Hope the prechamber seats aren't shot...
__________________
Dale

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...MG_2277sig.jpg

1990 300D 2.5 Turbo -155k
2000 E430 - 103k
2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee Ecodiesel 4x4 - 11k
2014 VW Passat TDI SE - 7k Bro's Diesel
2006 E320 CDI - 128k Pop's Benz


Pre-glow - A moment of silence in honor of Rudolph Diesel
Reply With Quote