it never fails--i'm at the junkyard and find a diesel w123, and some genius has undone the hard lines to the injectors, and bent them about 100+ degrees in the wrong direction. others sawzall or bolt cutter the oil cooler lines off cause they don't have a wrench wide enough, and yet others attempt to disassemble the top part of the injection pump only to find out they didn't know what they were doing in the first place. dozens of vacuum pumps never get removed due to 8" of grease coating the bolts so thickly that that one bolt on the bottom of it just won't come off using traditional methods, and then there's the tachometer amplifier with the caps busted off becuase they never thought to unscrew it.

yeah, it's pretty safe to say, if you don't have a clue about how to dismantle parts, you're somehow magnetically attracted to diesel benzes at the jy. i guess they figure, hey, if I can't have it, i'll ruin it for someone else. or: jee, it's one of those diesel benzes i keep seeing through the cloud of smoke in front of me on the streets--i wonder how i can get back at them for blowing a hole in the ozone layer--i know, i'll take a hammer to the threading of the oil cooler. ha! take that you tree-hugging diesel owners

and that's just the engine. don't get me started on the interiors these gorillas get their hands on.

i dunno, what's the lamest attempt at disassembly (aka sabotage) you've seen at the JY?

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