Serious Help needed!!!
got a 96 E300 Diesel (not turbo). It was started to give problems:
at idle it is OK. If I rev the engine I get plumes of white smoke from the exhaust. the engine seems to be mis-firing when it does this.
when driving the car jerks a lot, and gives off white smoke. it can be very rough. Drove onto motorway the other day too see if the problem was still present at higher speeds, and it was. at 60 it ket jerking all the time.
Took it to a merc specialist and he thought is was an EGR problem. But later changed his mind. (I cannot trust if he did anything to the EGR)
However he did point out that if he removed the vacuum from the EGR (assuming the EGR is the thing on the left of the engine as you are looking at the engine from the front) the problem went away. the reveing, white smoke and driving problem.
But I cannot run without the vacuum disconnected as the gears knock in and out while driving.
Mechanic said it was a big job, he might have to strip the manifold, it could be a air leak, or one of the vacuum pipes etc...
Anyone, please help, what it is wrong with it.
things i have done to the car:
replaced ignition barrel/switch.
new stainless steel exhaust, pipe runns from the cat all the way to the backbox with tail piece.
under car lighting (nice)
and recently (for my problem)
replaced : oil filter, oil, fuel fliter (main one and inline one) the air filter is clean so did not change that.
got a 96 E300 Diesel (not turbo). It was started to give problems:
at idle it is OK. If I rev the engine I get plumes of white smoke from the exhaust. the engine seems to be mis-firing when it does this.
when driving the car jerks a lot, and gives off white smoke. it can be very rough. Drove onto motorway the other day too see if the problem was still present at higher speeds, and it was. at 60 it ket jerking all the time.
Took it to a merc specialist and he thought is was an EGR problem. But later changed his mind. (I cannot trust if he did anything to the EGR)
However he did point out that if he removed the vacuum from the EGR (assuming the EGR is the thing on the left of the engine as you are looking at the engine from the front) the problem went away. the reveing, white smoke and driving problem.
But I cannot run without the vacuum disconnected as the gears knock in and out while driving.
Mechanic said it was a big job, he might have to strip the manifold, it could be a air leak, or one of the vacuum pipes etc...
Anyone, please help, what it is wrong with it.
things i have done to the car:
replaced ignition barrel/switch.
new stainless steel exhaust, pipe runns from the cat all the way to the backbox with tail piece.
under car lighting (nice)
and recently (for my problem)
replaced : oil filter, oil, fuel fliter (main one and inline one) the air filter is clean so did not change that.