faz2704
Member
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2006
- Messages
- 20
- Reaction score
- 0
- Location
- Oxford, England
- Website
- www.botleytaxis.co.uk
- Your Mercedes
- 1995 609D W668 OM364 recovery truck
Hello people,
I recently bought a lovely almost rust free 210 e300 diesel with only 94,000 miles by only 1 registered keeper. I usually work with old Japanese 4x4s and don't have too much experience with Merc diesels.
It has no apparent starting problem and starts without drama hot or cold.
Problems / symptoms:
1) the EDC light comes on every time I start it (clears with R button)
2) ONLY on cold start there is blue smoke from the exhaust for a few seconds which clears within 10 seconds at idle.
3) there is a knock / rattle from the top of the engine - most prominent at cold start and between 1000-1500 rpm.
4) 2 vacuum pipes are not connected to anything (from the accelerator thing on the passenger front wing)
5) Driving down the motorway the day I bought it I floored it to see what it does, around 2500 rpm I noticed it was jerking as if about to run out of diesel and there were puffs of blue smoke in the rear view mirror, drove it for 60 miles and this happened about 4/5 times, each time I felt loss of power with the jerking, I realised if I accelerate harder it would clear itself before repeating a few miles down the road. It would happily drive at 70mph (90mph on a private stretch) until the jerking episode again)
6) Blue smoke from PCV pipes (I think it is overdue an oil change..maybe?)
What have I done so far?
I have changed both fuel filters (filled with diesel treatment) new air filter, cleaned EGR and intake (not much gunk as this is a none turbo) I also added a valve / lifter cleaner into the oil (not changed oil yet).
I would be grateful if anyone can help address any of these problems as I want to sort it out and keep it for a while.
I recently bought a lovely almost rust free 210 e300 diesel with only 94,000 miles by only 1 registered keeper. I usually work with old Japanese 4x4s and don't have too much experience with Merc diesels.
It has no apparent starting problem and starts without drama hot or cold.
Problems / symptoms:
1) the EDC light comes on every time I start it (clears with R button)
2) ONLY on cold start there is blue smoke from the exhaust for a few seconds which clears within 10 seconds at idle.
3) there is a knock / rattle from the top of the engine - most prominent at cold start and between 1000-1500 rpm.
4) 2 vacuum pipes are not connected to anything (from the accelerator thing on the passenger front wing)
5) Driving down the motorway the day I bought it I floored it to see what it does, around 2500 rpm I noticed it was jerking as if about to run out of diesel and there were puffs of blue smoke in the rear view mirror, drove it for 60 miles and this happened about 4/5 times, each time I felt loss of power with the jerking, I realised if I accelerate harder it would clear itself before repeating a few miles down the road. It would happily drive at 70mph (90mph on a private stretch) until the jerking episode again)
6) Blue smoke from PCV pipes (I think it is overdue an oil change..maybe?)
What have I done so far?
I have changed both fuel filters (filled with diesel treatment) new air filter, cleaned EGR and intake (not much gunk as this is a none turbo) I also added a valve / lifter cleaner into the oil (not changed oil yet).
I would be grateful if anyone can help address any of these problems as I want to sort it out and keep it for a while.