Hello all,

IM andy. I recently got a 1983 TDT from my neighbor. Anyway, Its got a few issues that im curious about. First off I LOVE the car, it gets great miledge and I drive 70 miles round trip every day so I put the miles on it. Anyway the first thing Im curious about is.....

Sometimes, about 1/2 the time, when I shut the car off with the key it will keep running for about 30 seconds then shut off. If I lock the doors while the keys out and its still running, it will stay on for even longer. I read that there may be a vacuum leak somewhere in the system due to the fact that the cars a vacuum line night mare, but I'm just curious to see what U guys think.

Second of all, it tends to run very hot especially up long hills, I live in southern california and even though its winter here its still a bit toasty mid day. When I go up a certain hill on the way to and from work the car gets very hot, like almost to the 120 mark, and sometimes itll get there on flat surfaces. I changed the oil, filters, fuel filters and flushed and changed the coolant as some routine maintenance a few weeks ago but it didnt seem to remedy the problem, and last night I replaced the fan and fan clutch with an electric fan on a thermostat, and it helped a bit but the car still got hot as can be. Today I was told my a local mercedes shop to bridge the wires from the fan on the front of the condenser and it turned on, and the car ran alot cooler, but I'm still worried. I MAY have messed up the mixture of coolant to water, but I'm curious if that would effect it that much. Its prolly like 70% coolant to 30% water, I'm thinking thats a problem, but I still think somethign else is up.

I fixed the dash light problem by soldering the trace on the back of the dash, as I read it in the forums here.

1 last thing.... I cleaned and re-greased the sunroof tracks as well as I could, but its weird, when its hot the roof opens and closes perfectly, but when its cold it takes forever until it gets to the last 6 inches then closes fast. I think it could be the grease is thinner during the day when its hot and thicker at night, but I still think it should close at all times,

ANyway, it sounds weird, but I'm a ford diesel technician but with this car im like uhhhh, lol. I know how it worls and what not I just don't quite yet know the little things that make these cars problems unique.

THanks for reading, and If you have any info please shoot it my way.
Thank you....

Andy.