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Topic Started: Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:54 pm (540 Views)
Blue Peter
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Hi all I am a new member, I have owned a 1991 190E for three years, the first two years it spent in my garage under covers.I now use it regulaly and really enjoy driving it, however I have noticed a rumble from the diff and a whine at high speeds when I deaccelerate. will this cost me an arm and a leg to put right?

Also she sounds like a sewing machine for the first minute or so when starting from cold, am I correct in thinking these are the hydraulic tappits and is it a difficult job??

Thanks, Peter.
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shrekky
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first of all,hi and welcome to the site :) secondly,are you certain its the diff ? does it clunk when you are on and off the power ?......reason i ask this,is a couple of times i thought my diff was getting noisy and it turned out to be a rear wheel bearing :blink: £20 each from eurocarparts ;) ..............and as for the cold starting noise,yes it probably is the tappets,they are hydraulic,and sometimes flushing the oil system out can cure this,i used kerosene to flush the oil out,new filter and new oil,it does the trick, for a while anyway,sometimes............my car start to get noisy again when its due for a service :rolleyes: lol............the tappets are about a tenner each from the stealerships,and no its not a really hard job to do,a few members have done it :)
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Blue Peter
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Hi Shrekky,
Thanks for the reply, yes it does definately makes a clunk when it changes gear, but not all the time. By the way I didn't say that it is an automatic with 200k+ on the clock.
Cheers. BP.
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Gnasha
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mines auto matice and does whine and does clunk when going from drive to reverse. It is one of the weak links on these cars

Im looking at £375 for an overhauld from a company called eazi gears some where around Stockton apparently MB use them.

hope this helps
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Gnasha
Nov 20 2007, 06:45 PM
mines auto matice and does whine and does clunk when going from drive to reverse.

You have checked your flexdiscs havent you gnasha


Welcome to the forum Blue Peter, you will get good advice in here.
From what I gather although its annoying these cars can carry on for a long time even after the diffs start to whine.
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