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From: Galena Il
2011 ML350 Bluetec 169900 miles
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Hey all, I’ve been really satisfied and impressed with my 2011 ML350 blueTEC. I bought it used with 70000 miles a few years ago and have had very little problems so far. I’m concerned about so many issues I’m reading about the OM642 ( gotta try to remember that number). I’m irrationally attached to this wonderful hunk of metal. I’m going to sick with it. Glad to find such a great number of other addicts and fans of all things MB
Well I may have done this poor engine in while changing my oil and filter a few days ago.. I’ve extracted the oil more than a few times and also performed the same on my turned in diesel VW jetta. I use the Topsider blue metal can extractor, and I like it. Simple easy satisfying. I ordered the Mann fleece filters (3 of them) from silver star MB and didn’t realize till I extracted most of the oil that they sent me the filters for the gasoline ML. They overnighted me the correct ones the day after New Years though and I completed the change. Here is the problem, When I warmed up the engine to get flow through the extractor tubes proper, I didn’t let the oil get warm enough (cold Chicago area) and I noticed the oil was going slower than usual and I feared it may only get slower and possibly stop incomplete. So I did the unimaginable. Since I hadn’t extracted much at that point and it wasn’t low to begin with, I felt confident I could put everything back together and warm her up and finish. Well, if you remember, I took out the filter and after it stopped dripping I put into a small container I had sitting by which has oily sawdust in it. Soooo, I’m slowly starting to panic a little at this point thinking about little tiny ports and other things that could get clogged if anything gets into the engine. I make the best effort to clean the filter and housing and put it back in place. I start the engine let it run for maybe two minutes and then begin the process again. This time the oil is flowing fine everything is going normal except knowing I’ll have to complain about this wrong filter matter and wait with my ML stuck in the driveway till fedex arrives two days later. The oil extracted fine and I waited for delivery.
All the three days I waited, I stressed over the possibility that I may have contributed to clogging the damn engine and wanted to blame the wrong delivery but I know I’m to blame. So the filters come I go ahead and wait for the warmer weather coming the next day and I install the “correct” filter and pour a few qts of oil in and check, and a few more for the full 9qts. Whenever I change the oil in this vehicle I check the level for a few days after I change it but with this horror story going on I checked it after a short trip I had to make. Now when I put the full 9 qts in, I made sure as always to go slow and make sure I’m not overfilling and that I made sure of. But when I checked the oil after this 20 mile trip. It was just barely reaching the minimum mark! Damn! So I drive home and want to kick my *** and feel completely stuck. I drive it a short distance later. Check again and same results So now being destructo boy that I can be, I figure why don’t I put some real pressure on whatever is lodged maybe it will blast through. I never gun my vehicles, and I didn’t push her to more than 3500rpm uphill but it seemed like sufficient force. I checked the motor and it was a better reading... Until I checked it twice today and it is even just slightly lower than the earlier low reading.
It’s being starved and it all seems futile at this point. I’m wondering if anyone has any suggestions (pressure tests to determine or that moly additive cleaner???). I’m really feeling this is it. On the only positives, it runs fine Powers fine and no indicator dummy lights. Help
Well I may have done this poor engine in while changing my oil and filter a few days ago.. I’ve extracted the oil more than a few times and also performed the same on my turned in diesel VW jetta. I use the Topsider blue metal can extractor, and I like it. Simple easy satisfying. I ordered the Mann fleece filters (3 of them) from silver star MB and didn’t realize till I extracted most of the oil that they sent me the filters for the gasoline ML. They overnighted me the correct ones the day after New Years though and I completed the change. Here is the problem, When I warmed up the engine to get flow through the extractor tubes proper, I didn’t let the oil get warm enough (cold Chicago area) and I noticed the oil was going slower than usual and I feared it may only get slower and possibly stop incomplete. So I did the unimaginable. Since I hadn’t extracted much at that point and it wasn’t low to begin with, I felt confident I could put everything back together and warm her up and finish. Well, if you remember, I took out the filter and after it stopped dripping I put into a small container I had sitting by which has oily sawdust in it. Soooo, I’m slowly starting to panic a little at this point thinking about little tiny ports and other things that could get clogged if anything gets into the engine. I make the best effort to clean the filter and housing and put it back in place. I start the engine let it run for maybe two minutes and then begin the process again. This time the oil is flowing fine everything is going normal except knowing I’ll have to complain about this wrong filter matter and wait with my ML stuck in the driveway till fedex arrives two days later. The oil extracted fine and I waited for delivery.
All the three days I waited, I stressed over the possibility that I may have contributed to clogging the damn engine and wanted to blame the wrong delivery but I know I’m to blame. So the filters come I go ahead and wait for the warmer weather coming the next day and I install the “correct” filter and pour a few qts of oil in and check, and a few more for the full 9qts. Whenever I change the oil in this vehicle I check the level for a few days after I change it but with this horror story going on I checked it after a short trip I had to make. Now when I put the full 9 qts in, I made sure as always to go slow and make sure I’m not overfilling and that I made sure of. But when I checked the oil after this 20 mile trip. It was just barely reaching the minimum mark! Damn! So I drive home and want to kick my *** and feel completely stuck. I drive it a short distance later. Check again and same results So now being destructo boy that I can be, I figure why don’t I put some real pressure on whatever is lodged maybe it will blast through. I never gun my vehicles, and I didn’t push her to more than 3500rpm uphill but it seemed like sufficient force. I checked the motor and it was a better reading... Until I checked it twice today and it is even just slightly lower than the earlier low reading.
It’s being starved and it all seems futile at this point. I’m wondering if anyone has any suggestions (pressure tests to determine or that moly additive cleaner???). I’m really feeling this is it. On the only positives, it runs fine Powers fine and no indicator dummy lights. Help
