E300 fuel problems, I need to talk to him tomorrow

[nick_russo]

First thank all of you that post and answer. Your wealth of knowledge has helped me become very familiar with my newly acquired 1996 e300. Now the problem…

The car stalled and died shortly after I purchased it. I changed the prefilter, o ring and fuel filter with no luck. I took it apart and reinstalled them and bam, it ran, for 2 miles anyway then it stalled. It started back up so I drove it home.

Since then I changed the shutoff valve and o ring, all the plastic fuel lines and the k 40 relay. No luck so I had it towed to an independent Mercedes tech.

They got it running but you could see the air flowing through the lines and it would stall quickly. They called me this evening and said it was the fuel delivery computer; the part is $1,200.00 and has to be coded to my specific car.

I’m not so sure about this and it would seem to me that I have an air leek which is the problem (don’t know where) and not a computer error (would it put out a code) but I’m not a Mercedes tech and I couldn’t get my lawnmower started because the rear bagger wasn’t latched down (I found out it has a sensor).

Any input?