no stop engine

[clatterbox]

unable to stop engine MB250TD 1989I have to stall it.
Lot of elderly rubber joints in vacumn lines

 

[A J HALL]

Stopping diesel

You can stop the engine by pressing the stop lever on top of the fuel injection pump, it has a red "stop" written on it.
I would check all your rubber connections, not forgetting the ones behind your dash that control the headlamp levels.
I had a similar problem, turned out to be the vacuum pipe that runs along the bulkhead under the bonnet had perished!
You can check if the pipes under the bonnet are OK. by disconnecting where they come through the bulhead, near the brake sevo, and sucking. This should operate the stop lever on the fuel injector pump.

 

[TimN]

1989 isn't elderly for a rubber joint. Unless there has been a spillage of brake fluid, oil or some other nasty. More likely that a joint has not been returned properly after some work or that a diaphram has split somewhere. Think back. Have you done any work recently. The same thing happened to me on a 240TD after I had taken a headlight out and forgotten to reconnect the headlamp height adjuster vacuum tube.

 

[230K]

Hi

Check around the battery the pipe seems to rot when it comes in contact with acid, or at least my wifes car did the pipe running to ign goes past battery.

230K

 

[bundy]

hi.
slip a piece of pipe on to the vac unit on top of the pump & give it a suck if the engine stops its the vac unit. it will save a lot of guess work!!

cheers ted