Re: What did you do to your Sprinter today.
Before I begin with what I did to my Sprinter today, I would like to thank everyone who spends the time to create all of the detailed write-ups on this site, you have saved me money and taught me alot. This is my first diesel engine but I have been working on vehicles my whole life. I use the Sprinter for expediting.
I have a 2005 Freightliner 2500 and was getting a vibration between 40 and 50 mph, from reading here everything pointed to the driveshaft, I got under there and to me everything looked good except for where the driveshaft connected to the transmission, seemed like there was too much motion there. I jacked up the rear end, turned off the ESP and put it in gear, and even just sitting there idling that part of the driveshaft moved too much. After looking at the parts breakdown for the transmisison, I noticed that there was a locknut that held the output flange on the shaft, looking at that, it seemed that there should be no play in that part. As soon as I took the 4 bolts out of there and moved the driveshaft away, what was left of that locknut fell out, threads were gone, and was worn away on the outside. The output flange came right off and seemed like it was in good shape, as were the threads on the shaft. The local Dodge dealer didnt have that part in stock, but the local MB dealer did thankfully. Once I put it all back together, it is smooth as can be, glad it was only an $11 nut, and not have to buy an $800 driveshaft.
Next up on my list is to fix my Espar heater, replace all of the metal tubes that run down to the heater, new circulating pump and wire it so I can have heat when I am sitting.