Achtung - Das schweinhund baby benz thread

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G'day Folks,

This thread started life on the tech help section of the forum but has now been moved to the new long term projects section.

I bought the car as a daily driver but things ended up going a bit wrong for my 1992 W201 190E 1.8

It is chassis type 201.018 (not sold in the US of A) but lots of it will look pretty similar to 2.3 litre M102 owners and there are of course lots of euro goodies on it.

It has a M102.910 engine – fuel injection (hence the E in 190E) which on paper produces more power than the older M102 2 litre carb engines in the W123. It should produce 82kW and 154Nm not dreadful with the weight of the car being 1170 kg. This engine has the duplex chain (not the more temperamental simplex ones which were made earlier) which is a plus despite its piddly size for a Mercedes.

It isn't a super fast sexy car but it isn't too bad – 60 mph at 3000 rpm and illegal speeds above 4000 rpm (I guess) in top gear which is 4th...

...faster than a non turbo W123 300D which is what I'm used to.

Here are some pictures











Since buying the car I have done quite a bit of work on it. Some of the work done has prompted the following spin off threads that might be of interest.

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/344307-w201-differential-refresh-thread.html

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/341253-717-412-5-speed-manual-gearbox-refresh.html

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/352107-w201-annular-axle-re-boot-much-easier-than-w123-homokinetic-axles.html

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/345799-w201-steering-box-refresh-adjust.html

If anyone thinks other content in the thread is worth assembling into separate threads please let me know. These long build threads are nice to follow and read but they aren't necessarily the best way of showing how to do small jobs within the bigger whole.