Introducing Gunther, my new 72 220D

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I made a post when I was going to look at the car but thought I'd start out with a proper one and keep it as a running documentation of the work I'm doing.

Details

72 220D 4 Speed Stick with unknown miles. OM615 swapped out for an OM616.

Car spent its whole life in Texas and then was bought and driven to Philadelphia in 2012.

I've put about 250 miles on it since purchasing it last Wednesday. Runs really well!

Items I've done to it:

Had new oil cooler hose made and replaced

Changed motor oil & filter

Changed primary fuel filter

Buffed the paint

ToDo List

Diesel Purge

New fuel tank (currently the primary fuel filter keeps filling up with rust )

Change the power steering hoses

Get a matching tobacco rear seat

Take care of the rust spots in the rear floor boards (not too bad yet)

Adjust steering box

Fix trans leak, thinking new shift selector seals will help this?

Full detail

tires (stole these from my 82 240D)

Figure out why neither air conditioning nor heater blow will come on

Figure out transmission mount.. currently its bolted on one side.. when I bolt the other side up I get terrible vibrations at a certain rpm throughout the cabin. When I got the car it had no mount connected at all and ran fine

On to the pics!


Here are the photos from the add when I purchased him






And after I got him home




Quick cutting compound sesh