when you are working for grill badges, every little bit helps

Charlie

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there were three HP ratings on the OM616...

1) Not much power
2) Even less power
3) Not nearly enough power!! 240D w/auto

Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 4-Spd 388k DD 150mph spedo 3:58 Diff

We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works

I'm a bit anal about the mileage thing, not so much for the badges, but for maintenance aspect.

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70's Southern Pacific #5608 Fairmont A-4 MOW car

13 VW JSW 2.0 TDI 193K, Tuned with DPF and EGR Delete.

99 W210 E300 Turbo Diesel, chipped, DPF/Converter Delete. Still needs EGR Delete, 232K

90 Dodge D250 5.9 Cummins/5 speed. 400K

Gone and still missed...1982 w123 300D, 1991 w124 300D

I'd be concerned about opening a can of worms. I understand fixing the broken part but ... ahhh lost my train of thought.. Let us know how it turns out. post some pictures..

Bob

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92 300D 2.5L OM602 OBK #59

Ok, here's the update...

I followed the DieselGiant Pictorial and Writeup. Excellent thing to have and follow...Now for the trip meter still would stop at x.9. I kept watching an could not see what was going on. All the big and side gears were turning, butwiththe Speedo out of the cluster, I could here it ratcheting when I spun the brass gear by hand. When I turned the speedo upside down, it worked fine. I pressed in on the three return springs the press on the trip meter wheels, and it would work fine. I then saw what was ratcheting...then entire trip meter assembly. I almost made a secondary spring assembly that would give more pressure to keep the gears meshed, but I knew something was not right...out comes the speedo Jimmy brought me...wow it's reset arm was much harder to press than the one I was working on. A closer look revealed there is a spring that goes between the trip reset arm and the fram of the speedo assembly. I made a spring work from a defunct ball point pen, and not the trip meter does not skip a beat.

Sorry. no pics taken. I may take pics tomorrow...

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RRGrassi


70's Southern Pacific #5608 Fairmont A-4 MOW car

13 VW JSW 2.0 TDI 193K, Tuned with DPF and EGR Delete.

99 W210 E300 Turbo Diesel, chipped, DPF/Converter Delete. Still needs EGR Delete, 232K

90 Dodge D250 5.9 Cummins/5 speed. 400K

Gone and still missed...1982 w123 300D, 1991 w124 300D

"Defunct ball point pen spring" cool "Magivor" solution

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

Thanks!!! The spring was a different type than I have seen before. Is was tightly compressed in the center, and was stiff, unlike the typical ball point pen spring.

I did take some pics. Here is the steps on what I did...

1. Removed the cluster and speedometer like in DieselGiants wrtie up
2. Found the potmetal gear slipping, but when I slid gear on the shaft, the gear quit slipping. I also used an allen wrench instead of a drill bit to hold the odo number wheels.
3. Found that someone else had tried to fix the problem by scoring the shaft. I scored it some more, and used thick set super glue. As the glue set, spund the shaft fowards and backwards, just in case the glue got between the brass gear, housing and pot metal gear.
4. Cleaned the light prisms and painted the lighting area w/Testors gloss white. Mixed up some orange paint and painted the instrument needles.
5. Put it all back together and took a test spin on I-30 to Greenville. This was at 5:00 pm. Saturday afternoon.
6. Trip odo still stopping at xxx.9...
7. Got pulled over on the way back home. 80 in a 70. State trooper was in a good mood and just gave me a written warning.
8. Got home, repulled the cluster with lighting from a drop light.
9. Pulled speedo out yet again. This time watched everything about the trip odo. Tightening up the finger springs did nothing.
10. Pulled out the '85 speedo and noticed the spring that was missing on the current speedo.
11. Fashioned up the "MacGuyver" spring.
12. Tested it all by hand again.
13. Installed the cluster this morning...replaced seat belt warning light bulb, took it for another test spin, this time without State Trooper intervention...it worked!!!!!!

Now there is a new problem I'll make a new post for that one.

The spring in the forefront is the one that was missing from the trip odo reset arm.

The painted needles are not the proper orange, but will do until I get the proper paint.

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70's Southern Pacific #5608 Fairmont A-4 MOW car

13 VW JSW 2.0 TDI 193K, Tuned with DPF and EGR Delete.

99 W210 E300 Turbo Diesel, chipped, DPF/Converter Delete. Still needs EGR Delete, 232K

90 Dodge D250 5.9 Cummins/5 speed. 400K

Gone and still missed...1982 w123 300D, 1991 w124 300D

I also was thinking of cleaning up my numbers, especialy the tenth of mile tripometer white band with black numerals. I was thinking of trying some rubbing alchohol on a Q-Tip on a small area. Has anyone attempted this?

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85 300D 75K Anthracite Grey 0-60 in 13 seconds **For Sale**
84 300D 333K Black (The Velveteen Rabbit) 0-60 in 14 seconds
00 Toyota Sienna 208K (Sold)
15 Subaru Outback 43K
11 Subaru Outback 67K
98 Ford Taurus 100K (Gertie - Was Grandma's - drove it to church and shopping - really) Daughter's car now.
30 Model A Ford 2 Door Sedan (Sold) 0-60 in . . . Never reached 60

Isopropyl alcohol using a q-tip cleaned mine very well.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll give it a try.

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85 300D 75K Anthracite Grey 0-60 in 13 seconds **For Sale**
84 300D 333K Black (The Velveteen Rabbit) 0-60 in 14 seconds
00 Toyota Sienna 208K (Sold)
15 Subaru Outback 43K
11 Subaru Outback 67K
98 Ford Taurus 100K (Gertie - Was Grandma's - drove it to church and shopping - really) Daughter's car now.
30 Model A Ford 2 Door Sedan (Sold) 0-60 in . . . Never reached 60