Originally Posted by Chad300tdt (Post 1676975)

The hard lines at the top of the pic are rotted right after the bracket. I circled the rot in red.

Originally Posted by kerry (Post 1677086)

Those lines are a dealer item. I have a vague recollection of a forum member cutting and splicing those lines but the union fittings were hard to find since they are metric. If you search the forum deeply enough, you should find that thread. It shouldn't harm the system to keep driving it with a leak.

Originally Posted by cscmc1 (Post 1571873)

Yes, I am indeed being cautious. The car has been nothing short of dead-reliable to me, but as with any 20+ year old car, there is always that learning curve. I bought the car and had it trailered to IL, just to be safe. It was a good move, as one of the SLS lines started leaking a few weeks after it arrived, which would have been catastrophic if it had happened on the road. I replaced the line and went on tinkering and fixing the little things that I could find to fix. I suspect the car would make it to just about anywhere, but I am not willing to guarantee that, of course.

I'll take some under-the-hood pics, but it's certainly not what I'd call pretty. It looks like a typical semi-high-mileage Benz diesel that has not been detailed. It could benefit greatly from a good steam cleaning.

Thanks for your interest, by the way; where are you from?

Originally Posted by kerry (Post 1677099)

I've used epoxy in lots of applications and been very happy with it including on the hot water radiators in my house. The pressures in that system are very high and I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell of JB Weld holding up to those pressures unless it were backed up with hose clamps etc. I don't think the effort is worth it.

Originally Posted by Johnhef (Post 1677344)

I went though this not that long ago on the silver and blue wagon Dee8go has now- I had ordered the lines with the full intention of replacing the entire pieces (both feed and return were leaking in the exact same spot as yours). the part numbers supercede from 123 to 124 #'s and the 124 lines come with plastic fittings on the ends- basically its not just plug and play, other parts will need to be upgraded too to match up to the new lines, plus the lines come curled up, you have to straighten them out as best as you can then put the bends in place yourself without kinking the lines, its not as easy or fun as it sounds ;)

after messing around for a few hours with the new lines and realizing what else was going to need to be done to make them work, the owner and I decided just to remove the SLS from the car.