[W126 Coupe] My 500 SEC smoke when car down a inclined street

[Ronny Geenen]

Christophe:

Comment ca va. Je suis des Pays Bas, but I live in California. Just go the 
website www.mbcoupes.com and sign up.
I think everybody will welcome you.

Ronny Geenen
1987 560 SEC
Glendora, California
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From: <cbcad at free.fr>
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Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 11:21 AM
Subject: [W126 Coupe] My 500 SEC smoke when car down a inclined street


> Hello to mbcoupe,
> I'm Christophe from France and I own a 1987 500SEC in France. This car 
> runs
> great but since some month when I drive it on a inclined road (when car 
> goes
> down), some oil is burned in exhaust system and it smokes a lot of at rear
> exhaust pipe ! When you drive it on a horizontal road, all is good. It's 
> the
> same thing if the car is parked with front down when I start it, it smoke 
> a lot
> for few minutes.
> All engine runs good but I don't know if oil goes directly to exhaust 
> manifold,
> or intake manifold and is burned as gas, or maybe a valve problem, or 
> maybe a
> anti-pollution system fault, etc....
> Someone can help me because I'm very sorry to see my MB coupe like that.
> I hope it's not a big problem, next week I'll change oil and oil filter to 
> see
> if it change something.
> Please can you advise me.
> Sincerely
> Christophe
>
> PS: How can I join the members's car list ?
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