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Mercedes Benz 230 SL 1963 - Fuel pump repairs #

Posted by Andrew Windle on August 17, 2013, 9:15 pm

Year of Manufacture *: 1963

Hi people I'm after a recommendation for a fuel injection specialist to check / repair the above vehicles under bonnet fuel pump.

Haven't had anything to do with this vehicle I'm just trying to help a friend out who runs a body shop and has restored it for his customer. I stuck my head under the bonnet the other day and it looks like a diesel pump. The customer says its not fueling on cylinder 3 and has a misfire.

Once again its a 1963, Merc 230sl, 6 cylinder and he says its the early type fuel pump I can get some numbers off it but it wont be till Monday.

Many thanks Andrew

Re: Mercedes 230sl fuel pump

Posted by Kevin Apps <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=UKAT2589' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 17, 2013, 9:41 pm, in reply to "Mercedes 230sl fuel pump"
Kevin Apps

Andrew

Lot of info here

http://www.sl113.org/wiki/Fuel/Start

its been a while since i worked on one.

A few thing you could try first.

Kev.

Re: Mercedes 230sl fuel pump

Posted by Andrew Windle on August 17, 2013, 10:33 pm, in reply to "Re: Mercedes 230sl fuel pump"
Edited by board administrator August 19, 2013, 1:41 pm

Hi Kev many thanks for that I did a google search and found the same thing. It reads like its a right work of art inside.

I'm trying to keep out of it to be honest, I have enough work on at the moment to keep me busy luckily. I was just after a recommendation for a good fuel injection specialist that my mate can send it off to so he can get it reconditioned. I know that before it was in for restoration the last owner had been "playing" with it so I thought the best route would be let someone who knows what they are doing sort it out (a little knowledge is dangerous and all that).

But thanks again Kev

Re: Mercedes Benz 230 SL 1963 - Fuel pump repairs #

Posted by Peter Warman <iframe src='https://members4.boardhost.com/ukautotalk/info/user=Peter+Warman' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2013, 2:11 pm, in reply to "Mercedes Benz 230 SL 1963 - Fuel pump repairs #"
Peter Warman

Hi Andrew

I bought a 1964 one of these back in the 70's to restore. Ours had been standing about 4 years and was only firing on a few cylinders when we got it going

From memory we just stripped on the bench, cleaned and put back together, was just stuck up with dried old fuel gunk

Give it a go if your brave enough

, just a straight forward mechanical pump, nothing sinister, just make sure its timed up before removal

Peter

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