I'm going to see if the gearbox spare parts turn up by Wednesday - if they do it is game on - then I'll have two days to get 'er done. If not I'll put it back together again and take my chance with the tow truck.

In the mean time I'll fiddle with those pins again and see if I can get anywhere with out causing serious damage.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Well let down again - bloody parts suppliers. I doubt if the bits will get to me before Friday so I have no choice but to put everything back together again. Can't fix it with out parts...

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

That Dalai Lama fellow sounds pretty smart.

I voted "Something Else". Take alternate transport to England if you don't get the car done in time. I've seen a few Top Gear challenges in which James and Richard take a train or a ferry somewhere while racing Jeremy in a car. Jeremy usually gets there first, but the other blokes seem to have a more pleasant trip. Then when you have time, find another head without the corrosion issues or just swap in a diesel engine. Petrol engines are for motorbikes and sports cars.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

Check your email Stretch.
You can pull out the motor with tranny, but you need a engine lift with an lever on it.

Thanks for the info - I will be taking the engine out once I've got those bloody spares from Germany but even I do not wish to remove the engine more than once. I'll fix the gearbox - replace the differential and repair the head gasket when I get back from England.

I dug out my engine crane yesterday and I even found the load balancer so I should be able to do the gearbox and engine in one go. I see a lot of people manage to remove the cross member at the front of the chassis - I guess they are cutting them out. I don't think I'll be cutting the chassis to get the engine in and out.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I got the engine and everything back together today - I had to go and buy some cheap temporary parts because the ones I ordered still haven't turned up. Really I don't get it - all they have to do is pick up the part off of a shelf and put it in a box and write my name and address on it and give it to the courier. How hard can it be? They're a bunch of %%%%ing retards...

...I "did" Eurostar in February this year with my youngest daughter. I don't fancy my chances with three children on public transport. This head gasket has to hold - there's nothing else for it!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Meanwhile, in The Netherlands....

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Did you just pass my 740 at 200 kmh in a 300SD?????

1978 300SD 'Phil' - 1,315,853 Miles And Counting - 1, 317,885 as of 12/27/2012 - 1,333,000 as of 05/10/2013, 1,337,850 as of July 15, 2013, 1,339,000 as of August 13, 2013



100,000 miles since June 2005 Overhaul - Sold January 25th, 2014 After 1,344,246 Miles & 20 Years of Ownership

Don't you have anything like "Bar's Leaks" in the Netherlands? Some sort of silicon silicate solution to add to the cooling system to buy some time?

Oh - you have oil in coolant...not sure it will work that way...

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)

Now that's the way to do it!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Yeah that's what I was thinking.

I'm just going to take some tools with me so I can do a coolant flush and a change if it looks like it is getting out of hand. Water will probably find its way the other way at some point or other in which case I'll then do the leak stopper stuff. Self amalgamating tape will be traveling with me too.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

With this temperatures we have now, plain water will work aswell.
If your going to pull the engine, maybe i can help you with it.

The 190E 2.6 and the 190D 2.5 turbo has removable cross member

Oh that's why - I guess those 6 cylinder engines are a tad longer...

...penny has dropped...

I got the next best thing to water for the coolant system - cheapo coolant from the Gamma. Plain tap water might actually be better for the coolant system in this case!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Isn't Holland to England mostly by boat

But seriously, if you can get across the channel, presumably after that if you have a break down, public transportation or a rental car should not be too onerous.

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85 300D,72 350SL, 98 E320, Outback 2.5

Yep I have insurance - lots of it.

The boat is a pain in the arse so I'm doing the shortest distance => Calais to Dover. I could do Hook of Holland to Harwich but then you spend most of your life chugging along at 30 mph because they want to save fuel and sell you as much junk you don't need on board. The roads from Harwich to anywhere else in England are pretty bad. Which is another reason for taking the other route although Utrecht and Antwerp are dreadful places along the way to Northern France...

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

You're so good at taking things to bits I'd think the question was academic. Almost sounds like it was engineered to have to pull the engine to work on it.

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Codifex
1981 240D ChinaBlue (Got her running with a donor engine.)
1983 300DTurbo w/sunroof.
1984 300TD manual sunroof. (Electrical Gremlins)