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1985 euro Mercedes Diesel wagon 300TD with 3rd row seat

Looks nice!

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1968 230 W110 +3.5 M116 & 4-Speed Manual
1985 300TDT S123
1985 500SEC C126

One of dieselkrauts many many I see

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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!

My favorite color! too bad its not in my budget or I would replace my '79 wagon.
I wonder if he upgraded the transmission, or does it use the weakie '85 tranny?

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'95 E320 Wagon my favorite road car. '99 E300D wolf in sheeps body, '87 300D Sportline suspension, '79 300TD w/ 617.952 engine at 367,750 and counting!

Having just down-shifted to 123-ville with this project, tell me about the 85 "weakie"... thanks. With only 128K on it I hope this will be for 'future reference' only!

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Scott in MD/DC
94 E320 Wagon
"Money can't replace it, no memory can erase it
and I know I'm never gonna find another one to compare"-LW
85 TDT project (stay tuned)
W201, W202, W126 and lotsa VWs

Euro version only got the 722.4xx transmission in the non turbo models.......85 euro turbo wagons got a 722.3xx with a better torque converter and valve body.

The 85 with the 722.4xx with turbo engine was ONLY in california

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Wie lange wird Ihr Auto leben?

OK, well the premiere transmission guy on the West coast was Peter Schmidt, who later sold his firm that was established at the request of the Motherlode Benz HQ in Stuttgart, now MZF transmissions. Seems the dealers on the West coast needed a German transmission specialty shop local to the Bay Area, that would be in the late 60's or early 70's. I recall stories about small trans shops not being able to fix Mercedes transmissions simply because they were not factory trained and were gouging too I suppose so along came Peter at the right time. He saw my '85 and told me how many of those weakie transmissions made him rich when they failed. Fortunately my trans never had hiccup.
Peter showed me how to set up the linkage driven vac modulator valve on mine.

I guess I didn't differentiate the 85 tranny in my car as being specific to Calif. but it was not a CA version, it came from Erie PA and lacked the CA Trap Oxidizer as well as the big Air filter cannister up front, making it the so called Federal version.


Also note the '85's used a lower differential ratio, I think it is 2.86 the standard turbodiesels had something like 3.07 and that is a huge plus in the long distance drivers, maybe not a desirable thing if your climbing steep hills with a full load though.

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'95 E320 Wagon my favorite road car. '99 E300D wolf in sheeps body, '87 300D Sportline suspension, '79 300TD w/ 617.952 engine at 367,750 and counting!

I had a 85 300dt in 2004 that had 63k miles. As I thumbed thru service records I found a receipt for the tranny being replaced at MB dealer under warranty. So I guess they were weak

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Current stable......
17' Rogue SV 70k
11’ Saab 9-5 NG 94k
10’ e550 4matic 185k

sold
02' e320 210k
00' e430 167k
01' e320 171k (regret sale)
91' 300d 2.5t 300k (sold to ecoofidaho)
79' 240d 177k (old yellow my avatar)
87' 300d 169k (junk but fast)
85' 300tdt 261k (RBM parts delivery)
85' 300dt 68k (one owner cream puff)
82' 240d 250k
84' 300dt 198k (sold to diesel don)
91' 190e 2.3 61k
88' 260e 140k

Nice looking TD, too bad it resides on the left coast....