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Originally Posted by Mxfrank
Anything is doable, depends on how much work you want to do. Where is it leaking? It's pretty common for these pumps to leak from the delivery valve seals (where the five high pressure lines attach). Doing these seals requires a special tool to remove the splined valve holders, but is otherwise straightforward. Unless you've worked on another Mercedes IP, you won't have the tool in your kit.
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The delivery valve seals do leak. That's is on my to-do list as well. That's a job myself, but removing the pump to reseal it is out of my capability. I simply don't have $400 to buy the A-B timing tool from MB or see the point to spend that $$$. It's leaking the driver side and leaking oil.
I'm not opposed to doing hard work at all, just $400 tools are up to the folks who have it. It started running poorly again today, I didn't see the algae that's in the tank, the pre-filter is black again. I'm going to remove the tank, clean it, replace all the filters and rubber lines and run some Diesel-Kleen the the steel lines from dumping it in the tank. Purge again, new filters again etc.
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Only diesels in this driveway.
2005 E320 CDI 243k Black/Black
2008 Chevy 3500HD Duramax 340k
2004 Chevy 2500HD Duramax 220k