Inside a damaged engine

[Parrot of Doom]

http://dieselgiant.com/mercedes617eng

Fascinating page there on a damaged Mercedes diesel engine Some other good links on that site as well.

[eliot]

Drop of our favorite elixar and she would be as good as new..

[leorest]

eliot said:

Drop of our favorite elixar and she would be as good as new..

You beat me to it.

[stigproducts]

"Oh my someone was not doing their diesel purge on a regular basis."

What is a diesel purge?

[Parrot of Doom]

Its something the US chaps like to do, every few thousand miles they'll replace their fuel filter with a little contraption, and fill it with a cleaning solution. They run the engine for a minute or two on this solution, it runs through the engine and gets rid of some of the crap that builds up inside.

I don't think its quite so popular over here as we have cleaning additives in the diesel we buy, but its still a pretty good idea. I've been toying with the idea of buying some, and pouring it into my fuel filter to see whats what.

[aldi]

Thanks for the linky, very interesting!

Re. diesel purge, I did read a couple of times that mineral ATF was quite good to use in this capacity. I did try filling a new filter with it once and it didn't seem to make anything worse, this was on a fairly well used rover L series diesel. ('94 218sld)

[jimmystratos]

eliot said:

Drop of our favorite elixar and she would be as good as new..

[rich 36]

jimmystratos said:

eliot said:

Drop of our favorite elixar and she would be as good as new..

'Hello Dr Snake here, can I have my lawyer again please'

[sospan]

How about the additives like Redex or similar to "clean" a diesel?
Any views?
I know that there are additives in common or garden diesel and petrol but will a higher concentration that these give be of any benefit as an occasional treatment?

[chuntington101]

sospan said:

How about the additives like Redex or similar to "clean" a diesel?
Any views?
I know that there are additives in common or garden diesel and petrol but will a higher concentration that these give be of any benefit as an occasional treatment?

a mate used too much in his diesel once and it made the car really really slugish. people used to think he had stalled when pulling off! lol

its the only bad thing i have heard about rebex in diesels.

thanks CHris.

[That Daddy]

what worries me about that engine is it is showing signs of sludge something diesels are not even prone to,one to many late or missed oil changes in my opinion not even a merc engine will put up with that whats the mileage?if only it had SNAKE oil in it would have been good for another 200k,he,he...excess blow by on the pistons will cause that condition (piston failure) also not always injector failure or spray pattern/clogging.