Smoking BENZ wagon and I do mean smoking. This has been a reliable great car for me and my family. The problem started last May when I ran out of fuel at 5 o'clock in the morning on my way to work. Well I was on final written warning for time and attendance, I had a gas can but the closest station didn't have diesel. So like a idiot I got a coupled bucks worth of regular unleaded GASOLINE. Well it started right back up and seemed to be raring to go, for some strange reason I felt that if I drove like a bat out of hell not only would I be on time to work but it would do less damage to the engine.

Got to work on time all seemed to be OK. At lunch I borrowed a co worker's car went and bought a new gas can filled it up with diesel. Then drained the fuel tank's contents into the old gas can (smelled like a combo of diesel and gas) put the straight diesel into the tank. It started right up and ran w/o issue for about a week then all of a sudden from no where it starts smoking like a chimney. Not just a little bit of gray or black smoke but large amounts of white thick sticks in the air smoke. Well I figured it was caused by the fuel and when I called around and explained when it was doing and what I had foolishly fueled it with just prior to it smoking almost every repair shop suggested rebuilding the engine at a cost out of my budget.

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How about putting the details of your car in your signature.
Maybe you need to learn from your mistakes; set the alarm 1/2 hr earlier & dont run a diesel near empty.
I would get a second opinion on the motor. if the damage was done by the petrol, you would have seen it straight away. My guess is its something to do with maybe the driving like a bat out of hell too much lately.

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1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

likely the pistons have scored the cylinders from lack of lube...
you could try to remove each injector, squirt a tad of atf in each hole, then let it sit an hour or so, then spin the motor over to clear the cylinders, then put the injectors back in, with new heat shields, then pull the fuel filter and replace it with a new one full of diesel fuel, and bleed the system if it's a 61x if it's a 60x motor, all you can do is crank...
anyway, once you have the filter back in, put the injector lines tight at the IP, but loose at the injectors, and then crank until all the lines are bubble free, and tighten them up. start the car and report back.

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My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Next time just stop at a grocery store and get a couple of gallons of vegetable oil instead of gasoline.
White smoke can sometimes indicate a failed headgasket. Might also be a failed turbo pumping oil into the engine.

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

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