The local radiator shop gave me a clean bill of health on the radiator after cleaning it up good. I have gone ahead and replaced the water pump and will be putting new glow plugs and performing the valve adj tomorrow. I have most of the fuel out of the tank and it was clean enough that I just dumped it into the 300D. I will finish cleaning up the fuel system tomorrow and pour 5 gallons of fresh fuel in there along with some new filters. I will try to find the leak at the manual pump and resolve it tomorrow prior to removing all of the fuel. For right now the fuel injectors are out and the cylinders/pistons are "soaking" in Marvel Mystery Oil and a little bit of ATF. Will probably let them soak again tomorrow night after adjusting the valves.
Anybody want to provide an explanation on why this car has a "butterfly" in the intake air system where the 300D does not have one? Any secret to "setting" this butterfly up in relation to the gas pedal movement? I was under the impression that diesels did not have "butterflies" in the air intake system.
So far - I have yet to find any reason why this car should not run. I will keep ya'll posted
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