Howdy.

My girl's '87 300E had a fuel leak in the hose that comes out of the fuel filter and goes towards the engine. I replaced that with no difficulty. However, I have a few problems:

1. The car still starts very reluctantly after sitting overnight. I have used that STP water treatment, but no improvement. Once I get the car started, it runs fine, restarts fine after even half an hour, idles fine (maybe the mildest hiccup here and there at idle).

2. Before we figured out about the fuel leak, she had a hard time starting the car for about a week. We thought it was just water vapor in our humid, schozophrenic climate here in GA. So she killed the battery, got the car jumped, came back home, whereupon I replaced the battery, but now the brake warning lights are on all the time, which is weird because the brake components are all new. Also, the Eclipse CD player is malfunctioning, as in not working at all.

3. On a probably unrelated note, there is a squeal to my main belt and pronounced rattling from the area around the water pump. It's not a loud rattling, but it seems to rev up with the engine.

I didn't find any info on my particular problem with a reasonably thorough search, so I decided to just post with my specific issues.

Thanks!
Jimmy
'87 300E
'89 300E