Beat to hell you say?

- BOTH fuel filters
- glow plugs

See how it goes from there. The glow plug light (squiggly line on the bottom right corner of the cluster) should come on and stay on for a few seconds before you turn the key to start - this gives the glow plugs time to heat up.

Do yourself the favor - the subforum "Diesel Discussion" right under tech help is a better area to post diesel related questions. There's a search feature to use as well which will answer just about any question you could ever think of when it comes to an old MB diesel.

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Allen Kroliczek
Oak Grove Autosport | Oak Grove Autosport
01 G500, 82 300TD, quite a few more.....