1. Drove away with block heater, battery warmer and lube oil heater all plugged in was a long extention cord so got pretty far down the road before heard ZAP.
2. Lowered my hydralic jack with fully removing the jack stand went right through rocker panel
3. Drove 200 miles with the lube oil fill cap off, some how it was right where I left it but the hood pad was a mess as well as rest of engine only dropped about 1/2 pint or so.
4. Some others but I foreget.

Best way I have found to turn engine is use the main crankshaft pulley inside there is a 27MM (?) bolt. Turn clock wise and always remove when done.

Regards Tom Scordato

my uncle did something like that once. he was messing with something just behind the wheel, laying on the ground with only his arm under the truck, and it popped out of gear and ran over his arm. it was in a gravel driveway, and luckily didnt break his arm at all. it went completely numb for 10 minutes but other than that, just a few pebble scratches. My brother was working on a 74 Maverick when the old bumper jack fell and the entire car came down on him. Only had one front tire on it at the time, and my older brother and i just grabbed the car at the wheel well and picked it straight up. Had to take my brother to the hospital because the body bolt, which extended through the body mount/bushing and frame by an inch or so, went into his chest. He was stabbed by a body bolt on a freaking Maverick. what luck.

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1980 300D

LOL TOM!

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1981 300D 147k
1998 VW Jetta Tdi 320k
2001 Dodge Ram 2500 141k
1979 300D 234k (sold)
1984 300D "Astor" 262k(sold)
Mercedes How-To and Repair Pictorials
I love the smell of diesel smoke in my hair

Brake light on the dash came on in my 82 300TD at around the same time I noticed my rear brake light blew out real bad. I thought hhmmm maybe it did something to the electronics in the dash. Well I've been really busy selling school buses for the past few monthes and I drove with the light on for around 6 weeks. Was looking at the schematics the other day as I'm starting to work on the car and noticed that the emergency brake puts the light on, hmmm must be a flaky switch, nope brake is 1/2 way down. Drive down road, put car in Neutral and apply emergency brake, nada. all gone.

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Currently driving a very clean 1985 300SD from the West Coast.

Was replacing the turbocharger in the 83 300D because it had gone bad. Got everything in place and Started the car. Oil GUSHED out. Turned out that I had caused a stress fracture in the turbo oil supply line from the oil filter to the top of the turbo. Repaired the break by cutting the tube and covering with some high pressure (although rubber) fuel line. Worked really well. Meant to replace it, but it seemed to be going well. Drove the car about 10000 miles with that repair. When my mechanic heard about it, he had a baby. That tube is under very high pressure, and was basically a bomb waiting to go off, draining the engine of oil in seconds. Given that I used the car for some long distance in the desert in the summer driving, I could have easily been stranded in the middle of nowhere in extreme summer heat.

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Der Panzermann und Fraulein Fahrvergnuegen

1991 420SEL 201K "The Big Blue One"
1985 300DT 205K chassis/285K engine nee California emissions "Goldbug"
1983 300TDT 255K "The Womble"
1983 300 DT 214K "Sea Sprite"-Rear-ended a truck
1983 300SD 285K "The Donor" Gave his life so that others can live
1980 500SL Euro 105K "Der Panzer"

Slightly related confession: once upon coming home in my 82 300d I was distracted from my usual shutoff routine, leaned over to look for something I'd dropped on the floor and took my foot off the brake before putting it in park. Something suddenly felt "not quite right" then BANG, rammed the rear end of my 58 Studebaker, which was in neutral, sending it rolling into the back side of the garage into the shelf where I have all my expensive tools.

Leaving me sitting in the car thinking, "I have just been severely punished for being a dumbass."

Sometimes you get lucky, nothing was damaged.

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1983 CD
1958 Studebaker Packard (being resuscitated)