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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Mercedes MR Injection System, failure in a cylinder bank

In this article, we will talk about the electronic management of the Mercedes MR engine and one of its most common failures.
In this PLD injection system (pump, pipe and injector), a failure in one of the cylinder banks is very common. This failure can be related to the control unit but, before reaching such conclusion, it is important to perform several checkings.

MR systems are installed in Mercedes trucks, in models Actros, Axor, Atego, Econic, Unimog, etc., in Buses and even in Off-Highway vehicles and stationary engines. The control unit of these systems manages the activation of the unit pumps from all the cylinders in two banks:
  • In 4-cylinder engines (inline engines OM 904/924 LA). Bank 1 is made up of unit pumps 1 and 2, and unit pumps 3 and 4 form bank 2. 

Inline 4-cylinder engine
  • In 6-cylinder engines, in the two variants installed by Mercedes (inline engines 0M 906/926 LA and V engines OM 501/541 LA), bank 1 is formed by unit pumps 1, 2 and 3 and bank 2 is formed by unit pumps 4, 5 and 6.  

Inline 6-cylinder engine


V 6-cylinder engine

  •       In V 8-cylinder engines (engines OM502/542 LA), bank 1 is made up of unit pumps 1, 3, 7 and 8 and bank 2 is formed by unit pumps 2, 4, 5 and 6.

V 8-cylinder engine

      When there is a failure in one of the cylinder banks, it is difficult to start the engine and the idle speed rate is unsteady. When this happens, the first step is to verify, with Jaltest diagnosis device, if there is an error related to one of the cylinder banks in the memory of the control unit. If so, the following steps are: 
o   With Jaltest, perform a compression test to confirm there are not mechanical problems in the affected cylinders.  
o   With the help of the wiring diagram provided by the diagnosis device, check the conditions of the electrical installation from the MR control unit to the damaged unit pumps.
o   Verify the resistance value of the coils from the affected pumps. In this case, Jaltest also provides additional information about the resistance values that such coils should have.

From our Technical Assistance Department in Cojali, and with the experience of its members, it has been confirmed that, if after following the steps described before, no failures have been found, the MR control unit has to be checked and repaired. 

MR control unit

Cojali has a highly qualified professional team in the Electronics department to deal with this kind of repairs in just 24 hours. Thanks to the reliability of such repair works, warranties of up to 1 year can be offered in the repair of this type of MR control units


Damián Muñoz
Technical Assistance Department


16 comments:

  1. Hie,Iam Godfrey and I'm experiencing the same problem on om906 engine,when i start the vehicle there is a misfire in bank one,cylinders 1,2,3 but after running for about 10 minutes cylinder 2 and 3 start to work abit reducing the misfire but cylinder one is dead from what I have seen I think it's the MR that has the fault

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  2. Does atego has star point for diagnosis, I can find were it was, I old help me out

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  3. What can be the cause of miss firing in the three injection unit

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  4. What can be the cause of miss firing in the three injection unit

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  5. My Atego 1823 is misfiring and has no power...what may be the cause?

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  6. Hi, I have a fault MR 0684,what is that?

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  7. Hi i have a v6 misfir8ng when starting up dine all the injectors and done a diagnostic test it tells me error4806 fuel solenoid on valvebank 1 short circuit what can i do

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  8. Hi Is this also applicable for Citaro OM906HLA? we have increase failure of MR fault code with 101 and 104. please advise

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  9. I same problem with Actros mp1, when the engine is warm its misfiring, please help me out.

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  10. When the engine is warm, misfiring starts, please what could be the problem?

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  13. I need c4 diagnosis full set original

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