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This 240D is testing my patience!
Monday the alternator came loose and the battery ran down on the way to work. So I had to get a jump to get home.
Yesterday the accelerator linkage broke and I had to effect a field repair in order to get home. I made a slightly more permanent repair, as described here. Thinking everything was fine, I set out for work this morning only to have the clutch hydraulics give out halfway there. I was close to Mercedes Benz of Tampa, so I stopped in there. They wanted me to authorize $300 to replace the slave cylinder before they would even take it in to look at it. So I managed to drive it back home without the clutch, and will deal with it this weekend. So far I haven't been stranded, but it seems like this car is trying awfully hard!
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Rick,
Wait until it loses a valve and the piston and rod go thru the oil pan like mine did and you will really have something to cry about. P E H |
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You are just paying the car gods. Fix this stuff and most likely you will go awhile trouble free. Things like this always seem to happen in sets.
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The slave cylinder is a $50 part. Buy one and put it in yourself. A power bleeder works best to bleed it.
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Manual
Rick,
I'll give ya $50 for tha transmission or $75 for the whole car.
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Thanks for the kind offer Randy, but I believe Greg has offered $550 and Larry has offered $575. Of course that was before this recent bout of problems. They may want to recind their offers.
This seems to be my bad car week. The right front window regulator on the Jetta broke Wednesday, dropping the window into the door. My E300, with all the electronic gadgets and doodads, and the aluminum headed Diesel, has been the star player this week.
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Is that the stuff that grows a little shorter and a lot leafier than coastal?
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It grows much taller,,,except for max leaf value you should cut it much shorter than Coastal....like every 23 days....
Here is my breeder plot... it is waist high... |
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Yes, the Jetta is going in to have both windows done for free on Tuesday.
I went to the junkyard this morning and pulled the clutch master cylinder and slave cylinder from the 81 240D there. The master was in such poor shape I didn't even buy it. I bought the slave, but upon getting it home it really doesn't look that good. So I'll probably just order the parts from Fastlane.
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Fix it and keep it
Rick,
Just be glad you don't have a Ford Taurus. At the very least, when you fix the Mercedes, you know it's fixed for ten years unlike a Taurus which will be back in six months. A Taurus is what lead me to discover these old 123s and I never want another car!!! Ben
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