it is a 1987, just had it a week or so, i finally found the shop that has worked on it for the past 7 years at least, the car has 293,000 and i am not driving it at all becuase they shop said they have not changed the timing chain, so first we are doing timing chain
they printed out all the records on the car for me , it has had a new vacuum pump- i think it is called- in the past 30,000
mostly it seemed like little stuff, links breaking, plastic pieces replaced, etc
they previous owner had it in the shop every 5000 for oil change etc and it seems if something was breaking, broken the shop would fix it
but as far as preventative stuff etc

it has some leaks on the bottom of the engine , not sure what yet
we have not had time to look it over good at all, have had 2 other major car projects that are just now getting finished
we should be pretty focused on the mercedes starting tomorrow so i will have more info

car runs pretty good overall, saw on the records it had 4 new shocks not long ago

brakes are going to need doing soon and records show previous owner ran pads down too low and it will need rotors and calipers rebuilt this next time, seems to brake great right now, but i plan to do all that when those need doing

climate control fan off button does not seem to work right, so vacumm leak there
trans is not shifting right all the time, acts weird to me, cannot describe it but since it is intermittent, etc prob vacuum and could be coming from the climate control leak
hence my reasoning for wanting to replace all vacuum lines and fittings in the entire car

will do a diesel purge and also the alda cleaning thing

after that will consider injectors

overall this car seems much cheaper than buying parts etc for my ford 7.3 diesel and i tend to keep my cars up in very good shape and go with the preventative stuff and stay ahead of issues

so i plan to get the timing chain done first, then replace all the vacuum stuff, also do the flex disc if it looks at all like it needs it

then onto checking all suspension, steering, rubber mounts all in the suspension etc and replace all that as needed


it is a nice car and i think with a little more upkeep and some new parts will be a very nice car