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Yeah I've heard /seem them splay open and get stuck or come out in pieces. Was more preventative maintenance and a while I I had access to them it was easy to change deal

Glows came out complete and didn't look caked in carbon shit so I doubt something fell in/off them

Haven't touched the pump at all timing wise. Only 1/3 a turn on the alda or boost aneroid but that's just more fuel under boost which is isn't seeing at idle. The injector lines can only fit one way. I also kept 1 2 & 3 clipped together. 4 I labelled but again it only fits in one place.

On a less confusing happier note the cls wheels fit and seem to clear everything The black amg wheels aren't the right offset(et48 or something from memory) and I don't really like them Cls wheels are the same 18x8.5 but are et18 Much better /more flush now. Will swap the wheels over next week and get new tyres

It was running really smooth and felt evenly down on power if that makes sense. It wasn't bucking or misfiring

I'm trying to work out how it'd bend a valve from sitting for a week while injectors get serviced

The musso has decided since I removed its external egr it'll create its own internal egr No 1 seems to be both intaking and exhausting Pulled valve cover off to see what's going on and just got more confused Far right lobe is no 1 exh. Then no 1 intake and so on It looks like the engine bucks when the exhaust lobe on no 1 hits the lifter. My first thought was the exhaust valve isn't opening and the combustion is still happening and escaping when intake valve opens. But then the chuff out of the intake seems to happen after the intake valve is closed. Could both lifters be pumping up or not draining and fucking with the valve timing? Has a valve shit the bed and bent? But if I had a bent valve surely there would be more mechanical sadness noises The valve is a bit grubby but from what I can see there is no cracks. It also holds fluid when it's closed and I fill it My alix Borescope wasn't much good for looking either

Yeah only intake off, injectors out. Cleaned intake and reassembled everything Swapped injector 1 & 2 and fault still on one so not the injector No diesel compression tester

Retorqued the injectors and swapped cyl 1 & 2 around as cyl 1 was doing a whole lot of nothing. It's still doing a whole lot of nothing I thiyht maybe some schmutz had got into the intake port but doesn't appear to be the case. It appears cylinder 1 is not doing combustion stuff. 2&3 have a slight change when injector lines are cracked 4&5 seem to be doing most of the work /doing what they should I'm getting pretty fast at taking the injector lines and intake off this bloody thing Will fire it up again in the morning and see if any compression is escaping out the intake valves or the lifters aren't doing lifter things. Seems weird that it was running fairly smoothly and now it's being dumb after having injectors serviced. I'm wondering if cyl 1 is being a dick and blowing stuff back into the intake which is affecting 2&3 The intake valve on 1 seems to be sealed (cam lobe up) I put a bit of fuel in and it didn't immediately leak out

Scored some wheels for the wagon off trademe, 18s but better offset than what I have so I'll test fit and if they don't rub I'll run them. The sellers name and address seemed familiar and I realised it was the same guy who @Raizer bought his au from so it's a small world etc.

Rain stopped luckily but was windy as battled with the new injector clips but got them in and everything reassembled. I also had the correct size fuel hose to replace the vacuum hose on the injector return Cranked it for ages until to got the air out It's got a 4/5 race cam Early merc injector torque spec is double the later models, I was cautious and went for the lower spec but looks like the injectors are leaking a bit of compression so will pull everything apart and re torque them and try again

Wof sorted on wagon which is nice. Went on a barry Mercedes diesel journey. Genuine Mercedes crossover/boost tube gasket Part number if anyone cares (not many musso left and even fewer weirdos who want to fix them) Correct looking injector heat shields And a new oil pressure switch to replace the one that's leaking oil internally Now to install it all in the rain

Injectors arrived New heatshields are wrong but others are on the courier and should be here tomorrow Torqued the glow plugs Put the intake on, realised I forgot the throttle linkage. Took it off and reinstalled it My egr butchery blank removed and better one in its place Cleaned the last of the schmutz out of the boost tube And sat it in place I gave the alda (boost aneroid) 1/3 of a turn so hopefully it gets a bit more fuel quicker as boost comes on. Cbf pulling the back off the pump to tweak the rest, it'll also need to run so I can make sure that it returns to idle after tweaking it. Gave it a oil change too but we all know what that looks like. Hopefully after all this work and a bit of money it'll end up being regularly slow not Fucking slow

Some idiot owner butchered the tube so now that nice plug won't fit. Will keep a eye out for another tube. Injectors for the musso are ready, will hopefully receive them this week and can get it all back together before Easter

Collected some camber & castor adjustment bolts today. Never felt more out of place or judged for walking into a business ha Everything ready to go in After a bit of a battle new lower control arm, new castor /front lower arm and new balljoint. Unsure which one wof man failed but the one in the castor arm was fucked and the other one wasn't much better.