Well, tax returns came around for me and I was able to blow a little and save a little (spent more than I should have). I bought a 99 Kawasaki Ninja 600 last week for $200 that I was able to drive after an hours worth of work and have summer fun, 98 e300dt for $550 and one of Hogweeds 300Ds. It's the blue mildewed 93 300d that he was going to swap the drivetrain into a wagon. It's a cool car, I contacted PennDot and can get an abandoned title for it and put it on the road after swapping the interior and clean the ducts and fix the wiring.

I bought the '98 e300 with 135k for $550 with a supposed "dead" cylinder. The engine shook poorly and misfired and it coughed up white smoke everywhere. Ran a compression test and got high 300s almost all even, checked timing and was dead on, and last thing I thought was injectors (with the final issue being an IP, highly doubtful). Put new heat shields in and a good set of used injectors. No more issues. Had it cruising at 85mph today. It has a lot of rust and I thought of using it for parts, but I just ordered klokkerholm arch repair panels and a driver side rocker skin and am gonna keep the car and repair the rust myself. Only thing is I ran the vin on autocheck and found the mileage was reported at 260k miles last year, so I believe i bought a car with a swapped cluster and mileage fraud, but it doesn't really matter for $550 and the $5 it cost me for heat shields.

So where do you go from now when you know you have a problem?

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Only diesels in this driveway.
2005 E320 CDI 243k Black/Black
2008 Chevy 3500HD Duramax 340k
2004 Chevy 2500HD Duramax 220k