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Have welder

Stop by sometime and
we can fix that control arm.


RichC

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

I had what I thought was an amazing occurrence tonight. Me, wife, 11 y.o. daughter and her friend were going to the movie this evening. My wife actually said "Why don't we take one of your Mercedes?".
I was shocked! Few spouses hate these old Mercedes more than my concubinal apparatus. She asked if "the blue one" had a good heater. I said sure, almost 150 degrees out of the vents. She says "good, that will be a better car to take in case somebody is vandalizing cars at the movie theater"!
I knew something was up when she wanted to take a Mercedes.....

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Jimmy L.
'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

LOL

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
Cluster Needles Paint
New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

My wife wanted to ride in the 300TD down to Northern VA last week because she has noticed fewer people tailgate it than her Subaru. There is nothing like the smell of diesel exhaust to get people to keep a reasonable following distance.

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1984 300TD

First off (concubinal apparatus) LMAO.

So seriously she doesn't like to ride in your fleet of MB's ?

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Eric in Plano,Tx
85 300D 277K overall miles
65K on WVO (2 tank)
Rebuilt Transmission at 245k miles.

96 CE LT1
94 Nissian Hardbody
96 F250 XLT PowerStroke (also runs on WVO)

No, she is not amused any time her life has to cross paths with the "Fleet".
Maybe in the future when I end up with a W124 it won't be so bad.
And as I've said before, is it really that bad to have cars the wife doesn't like to be in????

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Jimmy L.
'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

Jimmy

Loved the entire story...just finished actually. I read aloud the part about taking the car by the nursing home...the family loved it. Thanks for sharing the good and the bad...the post was fantastic. I think I've enjoyed this post more than any others so far!

Great work!

Andy

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'95 E300D 313k miles
http://www.ourfullhouse.com

How did you get at the 2 top transmission to motor bolts. When I pulled mine I couldn't get em so I pulled out the whole lot at an extreme angle. I managed to smash a few items in the bay because of this.

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Stroked 2L-TE powered S123. Now there's a thought.
'lieber tot als schwung verlieren'
Ölpreis-Schock: Diesel-Fahrer haben keinen Kostenvorteil mehr

MAN 26.463 DFLS Tipper truck and Dog--Daily driver.... Traded in
Toyota LJ78--Wifes car.... Traded in
MB 300TD--My baby.... still alive
Toyota HJ60 Sahara--unfinished project.... scrapped
MB 300D x2--Spare parts
WV Jetta 2.0L TDi Pumpe Düse
Peugeot 307 Touring 2.0L HDi common rail
Now working at Weatherford

Thank you very much Andy for the kind words. I can't hardly express how nice the folks were that I bought China from. And when you work with older folks I think it really shows a "heart for service". She was genuinely moved by seeing China running, and that was before I polished her up. That is the main reason I am keeping China and selling my much nicer 240. I am emotionally attached.


The are really easy on a 240D. They are one cylinder farther away from the firewall than a 300D.....

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Jimmy L.
'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

Gather all extension bars you manage to find (I had at least 2.5 feet) and use one universal joint, this will do the trick.
First, the 13mm socket (or is it another size? Don't remember right now), then a 10" extension bar so you'll clear the transmission bell, then the u-joint and rest of the extensions.. until you clear the transmission.

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Tomas, Sweden
1966 Mercedes Benz 230S with OM617.912, automatic. Disk brakes from W108
1983 Mercedes Benz 300TD grey, OM617.912 and 5-speed manual
1983 Mercedes Benz 300TD blue 7-seater, OM617.912 and 5-speed manual

Well, the lovely concubinal apparatus and I were going to go see the new Star Trek movie yesterday evening. It had been raining and her car was clean, so I recommended we take China. That is generally OK as her and my youngest daughter don't mind China at all.
Well, we got in the car, closed the door, went to fasten our seatbelts while the glow plugs were doing there thing, looked at each other, I turned off the ignition, removed the keys and we bailed out of the car.
Officer, we have a dead body somewhere!!! Holy buckets!!!!!
There were a few mouse droppings on the carpet and in the console carpet area.
So, we take the white wagon to the movies and saw one AWESOME Star Trek movie!!
Fast forward to today. I pulled China up to the garage and removed all the carpet which I sprayed off with the hose and set out to dry. I removed the passenger side kick panel and there was a wad of foam made into kind of a nest. Cleaned that out. Then I decided to remove the blower fan.


Well, I definitely found "a" culprit. I'm hoping it is "the" culprit.



The blower was making a funny noise when I tried it prior to removal, and I guess we know why.



I removed it, and some of the fur was stuck to the squirrel cage, which I cleaned off quite vigorously. Then of course I oiled the fan bushings. Habit.
Poor little guy.


Poor China!
Sheesh, now I just hope the smell dissipates quickly. WOW!!

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Jimmy L.
'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

Ewwwwwwwww. I can almost smell that from here.

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1987 300TD 309, xxx 2.8.2014 10,000 mile OCI


Be careful of the toes you step on today, as they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow. anonymous

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter won’t mind.” Dr. Seuss

Good to see a post, though this is not the topic I'd have wished for you to have to show us!! I am sorry. But I know the smell will get better. Spray a little cheap vodka around the car a few times and that'll take care of the last of the scent.

We've been there -- Ilse, our silver 300D that had the engine replacement that took foever, had a mouse make a whiz pool in one of the vents. Heat was really fragrant, and we had to replace the vebt tube.

Here in the woods, it's a standard hazard. We try to remember, when we're taking one of the fleet off line for a bit, to toss several dryer sheets around -- under the carpet, under the dash, under the hood, etc. It seems to work pretty well, at least for our country field mice.

The kangaroo rats, aka packrats, (who are too cute for words, darn it!) have earned our respect. They really do replace shiny things with other interesting bits and pieces, and they're surprisingly smart. We had some tenants for a few months early on -- free housing of a primitive sort (a house with power, but outdoor plumbing and much work needed -- it had sat vacant for decades) in exchange for work. There had been a nest, filled with shiny bits when they moved in, so we knew the kangaroo rats had been the only occupants for a while prior to these folks.

While we'd known the husband for some years as a great seasonal employee, his then-recent choice of concubinal apparatus was far more whiner than worker, which seemed to have a deleterious effect on his ability to get much done. She regalled us daily with how hard a worker she was and how much she'd done in their previous home in Washington state, but talk -- and stories of how she'd forgotten how backward/hot/unconfortable/uncivilized Texas was -- was about we got from her.

One night while watching TV, they heard something at the front door. Wifey got up and opened the door, expecting to see John or I, but no one was there. She shut the door and went back to the TV.

10 minutes later, same sound -- sort of a scratching. This time, when she opened the door, she looked down, and saw a kangaroo rat, on the porch, sitting up on his hind legs in the pose that gave them the name 'kangaroo,' staring up at her with those enormous eyes, flipping that tufted tail in the air like a question mark. She screamed and slammed the door.

Poor little guy probably wanted to get to his home (and his stuff! How like us all!!). Heck, he was probably born there. Later in the evening, she couldn't stand the suspense, and opened the door again. He was still there, and raced past her into the house. Wild woman with a broom chased him down and whacked him to death.

Next morning she announced that they were moving back to Washington state. We gave the rat an honorable burial, thanked his little spirit for our liberation from an untenable relationship, and have never had any problems with them -- that house currently serves as storage, including most of our spare MB parts and pieces, and they've left stuff alone. I don't think they consort with the field mice, so since the kangaroo rats have prior claim to the space -- and a very small and clean nest where it always was -- we seem to have good guards for our goodies. Even the cat and dog seem to have an understanding with them, since we get gifts of moles, voles, field mice, and the like, but never a kangaroo rat.

That's my story for the night. Little to do with Benzes, but what can I say? Sometimes one just rambles. Hope all is well in your world otherwise.

Sunny

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Anthracite 1980 300D -- 64k original miles with a new engine, on the road again!
Silver 300D -- second owner, Sunny's old baby, Ilse, 210 miles,
Having to thin the herd….
Silver 1983 300SD -- second owner, 325k miles
Gold 1981 300D -- well-traveled, solid little car
Beige 1984 300D -- 292k miles, grease machine, parting out
Seafoam green 1981 300SD -- 250k, windshield frame damage
too many assorted w123 & w126 cars, parts cars, and extras

Reminds me a bit of "Daylight" the Stallone movie of the 90s.

Safe to say he's dead, Jim.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

You might need a few more balance clips to offset that weight.