Please help! E300 Diesel Fuel Leak.
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1995 E300D
Please help! E300 Diesel Fuel Leak.
Hello All,
I am the discouraged new owner of a 1995 E300 Diesel (606 engine) with 102K miles. I am writing on this forum since I share the same 606 diesel engine as many of the W210s. I barely have had the car a week when it started leaking diesel fuel. The mechanic has to take off the intake manifold (6 hours book time for the whole job) to get at the injectors and something about 6 washers or seals or something where the leak is coming frome. They said that they called a Mercedes dealer and they don't sell the washers or seals, etc alone and that you would have to by a $1500 rebuilt fuel pump. That is hard to believe. The shop ordered some washers or seals (6) from a generic diesel place hoping they will work? Is their a Mercedes part number for these? Where can you buy them? I still don't fully understand this situation, but this particular leak appears to be common to the E300 and 606 engine. I sure hope this is one of the biggest and most common issues and that the 606 engine is relatively trouble free from here. I owned two other diesels '83 300td and '80 300sd in the past.
Thanks you,
Edward
I am the discouraged new owner of a 1995 E300 Diesel (606 engine) with 102K miles. I am writing on this forum since I share the same 606 diesel engine as many of the W210s. I barely have had the car a week when it started leaking diesel fuel. The mechanic has to take off the intake manifold (6 hours book time for the whole job) to get at the injectors and something about 6 washers or seals or something where the leak is coming frome. They said that they called a Mercedes dealer and they don't sell the washers or seals, etc alone and that you would have to by a $1500 rebuilt fuel pump. That is hard to believe. The shop ordered some washers or seals (6) from a generic diesel place hoping they will work? Is their a Mercedes part number for these? Where can you buy them? I still don't fully understand this situation, but this particular leak appears to be common to the E300 and 606 engine. I sure hope this is one of the biggest and most common issues and that the 606 engine is relatively trouble free from here. I owned two other diesels '83 300td and '80 300sd in the past.
Thanks you,
Edward
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Where is the leak coming from?
I had a leak on th etop of my injection pump on my E300 and it turned out to be the copper washers underneath required replacement. Nothing oout of the ordinary supposedly.
It isn't that big of a job to get the manifold off. Mercedes has part numbers for everything.
Get your car out of that shop immediately if it's in there!
The total bill set me back a few hundred, and that was all due to labor mostly.
I had a leak on th etop of my injection pump on my E300 and it turned out to be the copper washers underneath required replacement. Nothing oout of the ordinary supposedly.
It isn't that big of a job to get the manifold off. Mercedes has part numbers for everything.
Get your car out of that shop immediately if it's in there!
The total bill set me back a few hundred, and that was all due to labor mostly.
