I didn't realize that the Cheap Wagon Club has an application process and review board. Consider this my application for my 1983 300TD with 245,000 miles that I purchased for $500. I picked it up a week ago but don't have it running yet. I'm waiting on a reamer so I can get the new Bosch glow plugs in. I adjusted the valves and checked timing chain stretch (6 degrees) while waiting.

Hopefully it will start because I bought a new interior when it came up on eBay. I had posted that it needed every blue piece inside, and I'll be danged if I did not find an eBay auction with all the seats, door panels, two pillars, wheel well covers, and spare cover from a 69,000 mile donor.

I finished putting the new interior in today. See the before and after pics from when I first looked at it and today. The original carpets cleaned up well. The brown carpet in the before picture is actually fine dusty dirt embedded in the blue carpet. Hence the wagon shall be referred to as Dusty from here on out.

Funny story from this morning: I found a long length of vacuum hose hanging under the dash. I tracked it down and it terminated on what I learned here was the shutoff valve. All I can imagine is that the PO had to suck on the hose to get it to stop as the hoses on the key switch were intact but disconnected from the shutoff valve!?!?

Please let me know about approval for membership in the CWC. Thank you for your kind consideration of this matter.

Rob

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83 300TD, 260,000 miles, aka "Dusty"
6 vehicles, 2 cup holders (both in the dump truck)