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Old 12-14-2013, 03:34 PM
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A good day.

The worm turned a little today and work on the 300CD went surprisingly well.

While the garage was heating up I took it out for a road test from the turbo drain seal job. 30 miles of varied driving and not even a drip! Since it received a new lower pan (old one was dented from a previous owner), I gave it winter Rotella T6.

Cleaned the sunroof cable, tube, lubed with mb stuff. Works happy now even cold.

Spent a couple hours on the vacuum locks only to figure out I have inconsistent vacuum at the main (yellow) line. Figure it's likely got a break at the door bellow but I can't into it. Gave up for now. Frustrating as I'd go out with the mityvac at the firewall and it would test great, then 10 minutes later test again and no vacuum could be pulled at all.

Adjusted odometer to read what I estimate car's actual mileage is (kinda a guess but going on carfax what it got per year until odo stopped.).

Put a new Alda manifold vacuum line on and cleaned out the really cruddy banjo bolt. Old line had been broken and was sporting a rubber vac hose bandaid. Now it has a pretty MB hose again.

Hope everyone else had a fun MB day.

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Old 12-14-2013, 04:51 PM
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I thought that one was going bye bye.
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Old 12-14-2013, 06:11 PM
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It is. I'm working through my list of fixes before putting on fleabay.
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Old 12-14-2013, 08:00 PM
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It is. I'm working through my list of fixes before putting on fleabay.
If you include everything you have done on it, that will be one hell of a long read. Kudo's to you though for putting in the time and efforts. Who knows, if the purchaser gets it and is a first time 123 owner you may have brought someone new into the fold, and not turned them off for ever with a basket case that is misrepresented. GLWS

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Old 12-14-2013, 10:35 PM
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I had the same issue on vacuum locks....turned out that there was a copuler in the door bellow....when the door was open great vacuum....closed vacuum would go away.....there is also a check valve under the drivers side of the dash for the vacuum locks.....if someone pulled the yellow like through the firewall....they may have pulled it out of the check valve...
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Old 12-14-2013, 11:06 PM
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Cheers! Sometimes it just feels good to get a lot of little things done -- jobs that take a few hours at most but come with reward . I'm almost to this point on my 'SD. That car seems to spontaneously come to bits the longer it sits .
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Old 12-15-2013, 08:24 AM
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I will be replacing the heater hoses on mine today(Sunday)
I figure it can't hurt to replace 29 year old hoses.
I ordered all 8 thru pelican for $168 delivered (ouch).
But it makes me feel better.
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Old 12-15-2013, 09:04 AM
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Can't decide if I'm going to fix the a/c or not. It was blowing nice and cold until the compressor clutch went out. The flipper had tossed a used compressor on it and it didn't last long.

I *think* I'd probably get my $$s back from the job, it's about $200 in materials if I just stick 134 in it. Don't want to give up any of my R12 for a car I'm selling. There's an 85 at the picknpull that I can could grab the parallel from to help that out.

If I was keeping I'd do a sanden conversion, I've got 3 saab 9K part cars that all had working A/C with sanden systems, would just need Rollguy's mount and hose kit....but I don't think the average buyer would be willing to pay for a Sanden system until they've experienced a 134a converted R4 in the summertime for themselves

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