Well, this sucks. Couldn't get the SD started this morning, it's been getting progressively worse over a few days, have GP's on order even though only one tests bad with the meter, but the this morning it just won't start. Run it through a few GP cycles, can hear the relay clicking off, no go, double check the fuse, rebleed it for grins while it's jumped to another car recharging, no go, start to wonder if something happened to the compression, for the hell of it I pull the brown shutoff vac line out of the main vac line, and it starts!

Check under the dash, and sure enough there's oil at the switch, so looks like
I'll be replacing the shutoff, but has anybody heard of it failing in a way that keeps it from starting? Went to the ******** site, is it also called a shutoff solenoid or am I looking at the wrong part?

While doing searches I see a number of people talking about oil coming from failing vac pump, but I'm confused how oil could be going out the line against the incoming air that's pumping into that thing?

To top it off while opening the hood to use the shutoff lever I break the stinkin' lever off! For now if I wedge it just right it'll pull the cable, but sure didn't need that on top of the other problems

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So far...'76 240 D (sold)
'84 300SD (sold)
'85 300D (sold)
'83 300SD (p.o.s. waiting on tranny swap)
'82 300SD (could be the keeper)