paul hayward
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Been hearing alot about black death?
What is it?
....sounds expensive!
What is it?

how do I remove the solenoid
...and people buy diesel cars?
Diesel costs more, smells awful, and you have problems like this.....I am far from convinced.
I'm about to do mine now as 2 are leaking. Once I remove the leak off pipe and electrical plug how do I remove the solenoid.not wanting to force anything and break at present. Spent a couple of day soaking and scraping the crap from around the injectors
Richard Moakes said:Diesel costs more, smells awful, and you have problems like this.....I am far from convinced.
(Thanks you)
My only problem was the bolt & clamp I bought from MB were different so I had to re use the old ones.
Aside from the mechanical questions, if diesel costs 5% more than petrol, but yields 25% more mpg...what's the problem?
Nope, that's on top of the rocker cover........ Nothing has been touch on that car in the picture, that's how it drove in.......
The wordly wise mechanics will know this, but even though not exactly the same it does happen to petrol engins as well.
Unknown why or how but my step bro lost a very nice low milage escort petrol car because of it.
After running bad a few days then stopped dead, i towed him home and after finding nothing wrong took the rocker cover off to check the timing belt hadn't slipped and was shocked at what i saw. The whole valve area had carbonised in to one sticky oily mass.
Spent ages stripping and decoking, cleaning etc, but it was terminal and the engine eventually siezed completely.
Perhaps a blocked breather or faulty egr. We'll never know.