Snapped camshaft at idle.

[petercz]

I don't know why, but I suspect the crank pulley came loose

[petercz]

Yeah "new" engine

[jbg]

That engine looks great, very clean!

[Nevadan]

Nice and clean, it looks great!

[RedArrow]

Originally Posted by Nevadan

I called Kaia at Mercedes Source and she said they couldn't get the Monark nozzles anymore. I didn't push her too hard but I found a Chinese source, Pyder Power, for the Bosch equivalent to the Monark nozzle. The stock Bosch DNO SD 293 nozzle part number is 0434 250 103. The Bosch number for the Monark nozzle 039 305 138 is 0434 250 138.

The Pyder Power nozzles are shown here: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Fuel-...507090947.html

They also have the stock 0434 250 103 nozzles available.

I'm going to order 15 nozzles (4 for my 1.6, 5 for my 2.0, and 6 for my 2.4) for $105 including shipping and see how they work. The price is worth the risk and once I get them installed I'll post here.

I do have a good homemade pop tester with a 12" gauge face! I'll post a picture of it here after I do some work this weekend. To get my D24T running I just pulled all the nozzles apart, cleaned them and adjusted the pressure to 2000 - 2200 psi. It wasn't exact but I cleaned up the peeing/leaking nozzles. They don't have perfect spray patterns but they all do spray now and will be good enough until I get the above nozzles.

Nevadan, after all this time (and miles), how would you rate those cheap nozzles? Were they crap or functioning as they should?

[Nevadan]

The nozzles I ended up getting turned out to be Bosch original equipment. They were stamped "made in France". That may or may not be the actual site of manufacture but that's what was on them.

I have put about 15,000 miles on the car (it's not my main vehicle) and it runs excellently.

J.D.

[RedArrow]

Great. And they have 920 of them in stock now. Weird.