We took Stella ('87 300TD wagon) to central Florida this weekend. On the way, she blew yet another fuel injection line. Of course, this having happened before, we have indeed purchased the whole set of injection lines, but for some reason didn't think to bring them along.

In any case, we're in the middle of Crackerville, FL, with no resources and a broken ferrule. So we trip over to the local NAPA which of course has nothing we can use except for some JB Weld, which husband duly applies to the situation, along with a bit of hose over the break.

Needless to say, this fix didn't work, albeit the bit of hose did keep the fuel from pissing all over everything in the engine compartment. Directed the leak down over the injection pump block, as it were.

Bottom line: we drove Miz Stella for some 500 miles on five of six cylinders, messy but survivable.

We offer thanks to this list, for there was a post suggesting that it is possible to do what we had to do to get home. (Except we didn't plug off the injection pump end, figuring that would be hard on the pump.) Y'all who argued with the fella in that original post, well, there it is.

Lesson: Whether it's broken or not, fix it ("aw Jay, don't install all the damn things, they ain't broken..." she said with confidence.)

A country Merc can survive...

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1987 300TD Turbo Wagon "Ti Blanc Stella!"
Carpe cervisium.
"If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell." -- William Tecumseh Sherman

yep, I've been to Crackerville before.............parts are a problem........

On my old SDL I had a fuel line crack while I'm in Charlotte (30 miles from home). It would take a day or two to get a new one in. I go over to my favorite local indy, we bend over the end of the leaking line a few times to impede flow, then stuff the end in an empty plastic 1qt oil container. I drove it home then back to work 2 days later on 5 cylinders.

Chuck

Yup, I tried the JB Weld fix on Linda's old 87 300TD.
I'd say it lasted maybe one pulse. Maybe two.

Learned about all the different line mounts and spacers at the same time....

Jim

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14 E250 BlueTEC black. 45k miles
95 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 66k miles
94 E320 Cabriolet Emerald green 152k miles
85 300TD 4 spd man, euro bumpers and lights, 15" Pentas dark blue 274k miles

Yeah you can get away with a lot.

A few years back my dentist drove his S430 back from VT on 7 cylinders, one of the coil packs died. Not a big deal simple swap, they only cost like $90. Except that it took out $3,000 worth of catalytic converters which MB covered under warranty.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

That's one way to make a 602

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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

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I've driven a Caterpillar with one dry hole, never tried it with a Benz. Seems it'd be okay, provided there's enough coolant flow to keep the head at a fairly even temperature.

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- Jeff