Hello all. If this has been talked to death I sincerely apologize.
I sold my 1979 300D a few months back, I bought a 1968 230 for a project. My daily driver is a 2004 Yukon and I absolutely 100% hate it. So I am tempted to buy an older mercedes to daily drive. I love the late model W126.
I found 1991 350sdl. It's super clean with 145k miles, interior is perfect, everything works. Doesn't burn any oil, no blow by at idle on the fill cap. I got the owner to send me a picture of the head and it has a #20 on it. I read somewhere on here that #20 and #22 were never supplied on a production 126, they were offered as replacment heads.
If thats true maybe the engine has been replaced or rebuilt or at least the head swapped? He also gave me the vin so i called the dealer about service history looking to see if the engine had been replaced, and service history stopped in 1994, at 50k miles. Mainly contained just oil changes and other odds and ends for the body.
I could probably get it for 3800. I drive 60 miles a day for work, and it would probably be the family's drive out of town car also.
I like the 1990 and 1991 with the updated interior, and I want a diesel. I'm mechanically inclined, I did a head job on my 300d with the om617. I always stay ontop of maintenance also. I would ask the owner to send me a picture of the engine serial number but I don't know where to tell him it is if he doesn't know.
What do yall think? Should I get it?