[MBZ] **wiring harness on the W140 Diesel **

[Marshall Booth]

Peter Frederick wrote:
> PIddling about at low speed carbons things up pretty badly on a 601, 
> and a full throttle run will blow out all the loose stuff, pretty 
> spectacular if it's been a while.  Most of it is probably loose soot in 
> the exhaust.
> 
> My personal "tonic" these days is some contaminated fuel I add a quart 
> or so of per tank -- one of my colleague's wife filled her car up with 
> diesel fuel a couple years ago, so he was stuck with the ten gallons or 
> so of gasoline with diesel in it.  Not enough to prevent the car from 
> running (poorly!), and it burns in the lawn mowers, but not well 
> (carbon fouls the plugs, smokes).  A bit in a full tank of fuel and the 
> 300D just purrs!

The one benefit of filling your diesel's tank with a few gallons of 
gasoline is that it sure cleans out the fuel system and injection pump!!

Not good to do it often, but a shot every few years is likely to do some 
good and is unlikely to cause much harm.

Personally, I prefer a qt of conventional 10W-30 oil.

Marshall
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	  Marshall Booth (who doesn't respond to unsigned questions)
       "der Dieseling Doktor" mbooth at pitt.edu
'87 300TD 182Kmi, '85 190D 2.0 161Kmi, '87 190D 2.5 turbo 237kmi, '84 
190D 2.2 229Kmi (retired)