1982 300D - valve adj, diesel purge, atf change, brake fluid change for another "MB diesel nut". Made a new friend this week who lives close by. He emailed me when he saw a car I had on ebay. Put him onto this site but I get the impression he stays pretty busy. Anyway, he brought his car over last night and took the 300TD home. I told him to come over this morning anytime after 8 am and we would go over the car real good. The complaint was "no power on hills" and after driving the car I was amazed at the lack of power it would barely make it up hills. After the valve adj and diesel purge it was still bad so I installed new fuel filters and "eureka" it was like driving a different car. He thought the engine had low compression but it was absolutely filthy fuel filters. Anyway we did the brake and atf fluid changes and he was set. The rear brake pads need to be replaced and we pretty much made a list of the items that need to be taken car of.
I pocketed some grocery money
(we go through some food around this house) and I enjoyed going over the car with the owner.