I recently purchased a W116 280SE. On arrival, it wasn’t running too well, and the symptoms pointed to the car not getting enough fuel. A few weeks ago, I drained all the fuel in the tank and checked the main fuel filter and strainer. After doing all this, the fuel filter and strainer were all that bad. They certainly didn’t look bad enough to make the car run the way it did.
I figured I would be doing a fuel volume and pressure test next. Before I got to that though, it seemed to make sense to install a new […]
