Re: Re: 1978 240D Slow Acceleration

That?s interesting as I haven?t used my car much this winter. With
the fuel just standing around, I guess it would tend to clog things.
Thanks for all your help.

"trader4" wrote:
On Mar 5, 12:02 pm, cognite tute <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
pespejo427 wrote:
My 1978 240D diesel has been giving me some acceleration
problems. I
recently had the two fuel filters replaced. Last night on
the way
home from work, every time I stopped for a red light, the
car would
accelerate slower and slower. I'm able to shift okay, but
there is
just no pick up. Any suggestions? The car has a little
over 200,000
miles on it.

I have a 81 240d. normal acc is over 22 sec to reach 60
mph.

Once the filling station put gas in the diesel tank.

The fuel system was cleaned out, all filters replaced, It
was quite
peppy, relatively speaking.

all courtesy of the ins co.

j.


I had a problem years ago where there was an intermittent loss
of
acceleration in my 300SD and it was the fuel tank screen
clogging that
TG pointed out. In my case, I think it came from the car
being used
so little at that time, that it took many months to go through
a tank
of fuel.

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