Damn that car has a lot of blowby...oil is ALL OVER the place...
Gotta clean that up really good.

Your shifter looks just like mine...mutilated.
Now its time to get some pictures of the undercarriage for us to assess the rust situation.

the fuel line is leaking under the drivers area looks clean to me but ther

ya thats my fault the oil every were
need a diagram of what position the gears are in and something showing the lincages cause its jamed in 1st gear

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ok well we took out the battery that came with the car it was dryed out so we put water in it umm its in the portch see if we can rescue it


the guy who gave us this car had left the car charging all winter boiled the batery if we can't rescue this battery how much would this batty caust to get another one just like it curious or does canadian tire or wall mart have one that would do the tric less then 100$ is what were looking for not including taxes

also this guy had taken a pry bar to the trunk almost got it fixed now but i am sure his father and law woulda killed him for do that to the car
looking more closly you can tell that the origonal owner was doing the nesary rust mainince to this car the guy who gave us it did nuthing but changed the injectors and the brakes

last nite we orderd a haynes manual for the car should be here in a week or so it says untill then could some one help us out with giveing us somthing that tells us how the lincages work on this car for the shifter pics ect so we can get it fix so we can go get it safteed

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Look for a Group 49 battery, available at AutoZone for about 75 bucks-

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(Currently Benzless)
1985 F-250 6.9l 170K
2009 SCION XB 36.5K
2003 LS430 78K
2012 Kubota B 2320

auto zone we don't have that were i am
i am in canada we have part source subcerty of canadian tire
never herd of group 49 bateries

would one of these work?

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group 49 is a size designation that several makers have chosen to build to fit the Mercedes battery tray. it's longer and skinnier than most other batteries, and it needs the cold cranking amps needed to get a diesel started.

Or, don't listen to me and go waste your time measuring other batteries to see if they will fit.

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Nate Stanley
(Currently Benzless)
1985 F-250 6.9l 170K
2009 SCION XB 36.5K
2003 LS430 78K
2012 Kubota B 2320

Temporarily a car battery that fits and doesn't stress the cables can be put in until you have funds to get the right one.

My 240D has a odd sized battery in it for the time being until I can afford the right one or someone wants to buy one for it. It works okay but if it gets cold or the engine doesn't decide the start off quickly...you will need that extra juice from the right sized battery...

Canadian tire does not list or supply type 49 batteries as you have found out. But the napa auto parts chain in canada does have two type 49 available. A cheapie? for a little over a hundred canadian and a better one for about 150 canadian. The prices and conversation took place about a year ago with napa. If you know anyone travelling south of the border a good 1000 amp battery is available from autozone made by a good battery supplier for them. Have heard prices as low as 50 american on this item but may have increased to 75 as one poster mentioned. Prices change unfortunatly but the autozone battery is a good one made by johnson controls i believe. You may get something else to fit but the type 49 is a very low profile battery. I have never seen another battery type anything close in size with any real capacity but I might have missed it. While waiting for your haynes manual if you can get the car safely high enough to get underneath comforatably a visual inspection of the linkage may be of some help. I guess it's even possible a shift rod may have come off or got bent. Also you may be able to remove one shift rod at a time from the transmission linkage and try to move the tramsmission arm. That should allow you to separate the fault into the transmission or the linkage at least. With the linkage arm off you should be able to move the linkage to find out if it is jammed if the transmission arm moves. Also I am quite sorry as thought you were really just kidding around earlier. The best of luck with the car. Go slow and safely as you work at it and remember you can quite often find the problem by looking and using your hands to move things once you have decided what should move and if it does or does not that is an important clue.

we fixed the fuel line leak today also sprayed the engin off.

does it look normal in there? cause the lincages arnt bent what is the buton thingy do is that for the revers cause the revers lights are on constantly can see a hole were it goes into ..... could this be the cause of the problem???

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I'm still not buying the poor spelling thing, but just in case:

http://www.iespell.com/

It is a great spell checker that works with Int. Expl.
You just right-click after you type, and it will point you to your corrections. Of course, that would "ruin the bit".

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'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

For Batteries, I've had good luck with these Korean made batteries that a local battery shop carries. The nice part is that they are totally sealed, so no leaking at the vent caps at the top...

ok well we got a new bat that we already had in it atm 500 aph for now just so we can move it forward

any idea from my pic on the shifter

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vin 123 123 10 155044

in the shifter. just put some oil in there. the levers below are subject to rust damage. so see if anything is siezed up there.

tom w

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I'm not buying the poor grammar thing either. OTOH it is a source of laughter.

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1985 300-D turbo
1959 Harley Panhead chopper
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All liberals are mattoids but not all mattoids are liberal.

in the yard looks good there lol and it fits

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