rolfy
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- W203 C180 Kompressor Coupe (57 reg)
Hi All
Playing whack-a-rat with problems on the old jalopy.
Now we've cured the blocked cat it goes like stink. but the next niggle to pop up is reluctant starting in the morning.
Usually it starts first time, except when left overnight. It fires up, dies, and then takes a fair bit of cranking before bursting into life. After that it will keep going fine and start first time all day. This morning (-3C) I thought I was going to kill the battery.
The obvious culprit is air in the fuel line from knackered O rings on the plastic pipes (I'll check that tonight) but I read somewhere that some W203 cars had a pump in the fuel tank that runs from Position 2 on the ignition. If this is the case, should I be able to hear it, and how could I check that mine is a car with a pump? Apparently it is if the oil filler cap is nearer the windscreen than the radiator? (mine is).
We'll get to the speed-dependent "wub, wub, wub" noise from the offside rear (that according to my Indy isn't a bearing) later!
All advice, speculation etc welcome.
Playing whack-a-rat with problems on the old jalopy.
Now we've cured the blocked cat it goes like stink. but the next niggle to pop up is reluctant starting in the morning.
Usually it starts first time, except when left overnight. It fires up, dies, and then takes a fair bit of cranking before bursting into life. After that it will keep going fine and start first time all day. This morning (-3C) I thought I was going to kill the battery.
The obvious culprit is air in the fuel line from knackered O rings on the plastic pipes (I'll check that tonight) but I read somewhere that some W203 cars had a pump in the fuel tank that runs from Position 2 on the ignition. If this is the case, should I be able to hear it, and how could I check that mine is a car with a pump? Apparently it is if the oil filler cap is nearer the windscreen than the radiator? (mine is).
We'll get to the speed-dependent "wub, wub, wub" noise from the offside rear (that according to my Indy isn't a bearing) later!
All advice, speculation etc welcome.
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