Mercedes w140 changing cam oil tube and valve cover gasket 1995 s500 tapping noise fixed 

Thank you so much for the fill in. I'm sure I'm close with what I did and happy with results.

Thank you

Thank you. Let me know if I can help out in the future.

@@petescarport will do👍🏼 just ordered oil cam tubes, will do the same what you did, even the same side, I was just looking at the valve cover gasket as well, but don’t know exactly how they call it - left side or the right side? That’s the side that you did🤷🏼‍♂️

@@lawrenceK90s so that can be confusing. It’s based on when your sitting in car so drivers side is left side. Hope this helps.

@@petescarport thank you👍🏼I work on semi trucks, we use only driver or passanger side😁

Thanks. Let me know if you need any help

Thank you

Great. Glad it helped

Just grabbed a set from Ebay actually with new o-rings. Glad I got them at a fair price too!

Same on mine me and my brother said let's just order another set but your correct next time I start car noise was gone.

Yo Manny thanks again. I had been looking on ebay and just wasn't ready to drop $200-300 at the time. Have too many projects right now but wanted to get the w140 back on road asap.

Should be fine. I’ve seen people go 20k miles with a loud tap and than change out the tubes and be ok. Don’t recommend going anymore but you should be totally fine

Yes fix it. Very cheap and you can easily get 300k or more miles

@@petescarport thanks sir

Absolutely. Please let me know if you need any help. Let's keep these cars going.

So 204k is a lot for any car but a well maintained s500 can go for a very long time. If the ticking noise goes away that is normal but doesn’t mean the issue isn’t there. Mine would come and go and I think that’s due to oil covering the area that’s making noise. The main things I would look at are suspension. Rear shocks are hydraulic unless changed out. New hydraulic shocks are very expensive. I would take it down some bumpy roads and then on the highway. I would also try and get it for closer to $2k if you feel comfortable with the car. Also how is condition of interior and do the soft close doors work and locks work?

@@petescarport interior was 9/10 small rip on the drivers seat . Little stains on the floor .all the wood trim was perfect no cracks

It did have a check engine light on

I feel I definitely Could have bought it for 2k

@@MsXfusion check engine is usually fine. Mine has it for o2 sensor. At that age a lot of emissions stuff goes bad or needs cleaned like egr. If it has any other light be cautious. Could be a major repair or a simple broken wire.

Unfortunately my sending unit went bad right before this. So I need to change that and make sure

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The s500 has 16. They sell them as a set as well

Shouldn’t take more than 3hrs taking your time. I’m sure a shop could do it in 1hr

You can listen and should be able to hear it clearly. But most people just change out all the cam tubes on both sides to get rid of future issues

Where you at? Also do you have a tap now?

@@petescarport I'm in Orlando and yes

Let's do it. I won't change much but would need you to get parts and I can do it pretty quick depending on how many need to be done or if you want to do them all plus timing guides

@@petescarport ok great Pete thanks so much your channel is amazing I will contact you directly

It's going to be on auction but I would sell it now for $3500

Oh yes. It's a mess.

Thank you once again. I would have done them but plan to change out the tubes at same time and wanted to start driving car. I think I will order them on fcpeuro since they are factory ones and they offer lifetime warranty.