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Old 12-12-2001, 12:41 AM
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Decided to keep my MB, updated problem list.

I had a friend help me out and we fixed the heater (somewhat), so its at least usable in the cold weather. Im extremely glad i can keep her now, I didn't want to have to sell her anyway. The only major thing left to fix is the suspension. I took her to a mechanic and he said the shocks are cracked and leaking. I dont know what this means but i assume it means new shocks. Im gonna have to pull those out of a junkyard cause 220 bucks each new is just too much. I may just replace the accumulators and add new hydraulic fluid to fix the problem temporarily.

The heater blows out how air from the passenger side only now, driver side blows out luke warm air (never cold tho thankfully). Any ideas on that?

Last thing: To get the dash and cabin lights (the ones that light up the climate control panel, shift lights, etc) all refuse to go on until I bang on the dash a few times. Once they go on they stay on tho. Very strange.

Thanks for all the help guys, I'll post a pic later tomorrow.

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Old 12-12-2001, 07:26 AM
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Anthony,

What year and model are you working on?

Have a great day,
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Old 12-12-2001, 11:09 AM
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Anthony

What did you do to your system to get it to heat up? I am working on my servo right now but need a temporary fix until I get a rebuilt servo.

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Old 12-12-2001, 02:27 PM
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Oops

Sorry thought I listed it on this thread: 1980 300TD wagon

Our fix was to open up the little servo/vacuum box on inside of hood on passenger side behind headlight, and manually go underneath the little circuit board thing with all the contact points on it and push the valve (??) spring down to make the heater come on. We also removed the little servo arm that moves around and connects the settings cause it was broken in 3 peices.

Thats it, I didnt really fix the servo I just caused it to think it was working.
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Old 12-12-2001, 02:41 PM
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Thanks for the info.
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Old 12-12-2001, 03:08 PM
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Anthony,

There are several 300D's and TD's in the salvage yard in Grand Prairie. There is one particular silver wagon that I remember...seems to me the suspension looked as though it was sitting fairly even. It's a 79 or 80, non turbo. Has some decent navy leather interior parts to it. It was in the $1 admission U-Pullit yard on Jefferson, right next to Alamo Import Salvage. Let me know and I'll look again this weekend while I'm out there. Drudging through the salvage yard is a favorite passtime (I know...help is cheap).
Good Luck!
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Old 12-12-2001, 03:20 PM
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Yeah thanks

I need to rip those shocks off if they are still good, but the biggest problem I forsee is HOW to go about that in a junkyard? Should I just bring jacks and jack it up and rip them off or what.

Tony
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Old 12-12-2001, 06:28 PM
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Most of the cars in this yard are set up on stands, etc. If you ask, I think for a small fee they will put it up on stands if it's not.

I know of another car that is a Euro 280TE. I don't remember how it was sitting. BUT, it had a great pair of Euro lamps.
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Old 12-13-2001, 09:50 PM
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Tony:

Sounds like you at least won't freeze! Do go diving in the junkyard for the servo and for the struts -- vastly cheaper than new! Just have a care with getting the struts out -- make SURE the car is well supported so you don't get squashed. One of the yards here doesn't weld the rims they use to put the cars on and I won't go there as a result!

Check the vaccuum system for the AC, too -- if it won't hold vaccuum (green hard plastic lines in the engine compartment), it won't work even with a good servo.

Good luck!

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