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Your pistons might have hit your valves and bent them.
Hate to give you bad news like that but there's a good chance your head will need rebuilt.

That was probably a good tip on finding a waterheater. I've seen stacks of them in the appliance pile. They don't bury them like the garbage. They store them all in one place and someone picks them up and scraps them. I have seen several of them sitting out back of a local plumbers shop too so maybe...

I'm still thinking cold start lever because he said it was coming out the back of the pump, not the top.

No fill port on their tanks. ...so you have to stand over the tank with a fuel can and pour fuel into a hole. Try not to overflow it and try not to spill vegy into the back of your car. I plug my filter setup into the fill port. Turn on the pump and let it fill. When it's full, vegetable oil will co...

The sputters till warm sounds like timing. Maybe retarded.
When fuel shoots in too late, it doesn't all burn. Could be why you see some coming out the tailpipe.
I might be wrong because it's usually a whitish smoke when timing is retarded.

Sounds like it's the cold start lever.
I've been wondering if this 0-ring could be replaced with the injection pump on the car.

It's common to have a filter full of air. If the filter isn't clogged, fuel will pull through but air has a hard time being pulled through a diesel soaked paper element. As the filter becomes more clogged air will eventually get pulled through. That's why people with a clear line before their filter...

Is your leak around the control lever (lever the accel cable connects to)? On top of the pump? That's just an o-ring and you wouldn't have to remove the injection pump to do that one. You should get a seal kit because you'll have to pull the top of the pump and there is another odd shaped seal that ...

I was sending the return line back to the vegy line. Right before the fuel select solenoid that was right before the injection pump. This way the returning vegetable oil had to go through the fuel select solenoid to get back into the injection pump. If the fuel select solenoid was switched back to d...

Unheated between the filter and injection pump?

This Mercedes has been beating me down. Tank is in, lines are all the way to the engine bay. Some of the wiring is done. I had a hard time finding a 3 port fuel solenoid I trusted to handle the pressure at the front of the MB injection pump. The technology finally showed itself when I met the grease...

I havn't tried the vegy blends yet but check this site: http://biodiesel.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?a=frm&s=447609751&f=159605551 search through some of kugulsicher's posts. I probably spelled that wrong. He's on here too. Search our member list for his name and if it's spelled right search his post...

They will leak if you don't have a vacuum gauge on your fuel line, your filter clogs and the pump pulls more than 8 in hg. Which bring up the second point. They can't handle much psi but since the pump pulls fuel towards it, there is no pressure on them... unless you added a helper pump. I did get a...

Injection pump seals are something Jack doesn't carry.
He sent us to a bosch shop in OK.
If I was on my computer I'd send you a link.
I've posted it before, maybe you could find it with a search with me as the author.

I've heard the federal fuel tax is a sales tax so if you don't buy vegetable oil for fuel you don't have to worry about that tax. I'd like to see a fuel tax exempt status for vegetable oil based fuels but it looks like they are only giving that to the big biodiesel producers by discounting the road ...