We will see how bad it is, I tend to hate thowing variables into something thats "working", but maybe I'll pick some of that molassis.

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Currently driving a very clean 1985 300SD from the West Coast.

FWIW... I bought a easy starting smooth idling 85 D with a knock... pulled the pan... TONS OF METAL

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

What did you end up doing to it?

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Currently driving a very clean 1985 300SD from the West Coast.

An interesting collection of thoughts........

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

... haven't decided for sure yet. I suppose I will pull the head, and save it for my SD and put a donor motor in there and sell it.
when I say metal in there... I mean the oil pickup was CRAMMED with flakes of bearing metal shavings.
lesson is DO NOT DRIVE A CAR WITH BAD OR OLD COOLER LINES!!!

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

Going 60-65 for six hours with an engine knock if I suspected it might be a rod is questionable. I would rather take 12 hours useing secondary roads and keep the speed down. I sure hope he makes it.
Sounds about 50-50 to me. Again for peace of mind I would seriously consider disabiling that cylinder for the trip home. If there was enough power left to drive in a reasonable fashion that is. We will know how the trip went soon enough and maybe the knock was just a bad injector.

"Captain, she's going to fly apart!!"

"Fly her apart then"!!!!!!!!!


Anyone??????

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Just needs to make it home. Could be a long weekend. Worse case I'll have to leave it somewhere (dealership via AAA) then go get it with my shorty bus which would take about $350 in fuel.

It'll make it. Wonder if there was any metal in the oil when he changed it, or what caused the problem to begin with? Neglect....

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Currently driving a very clean 1985 300SD from the West Coast.

I have a engine in the stable that had a piston knock, and oil leak that both went away after an oil change..... go figure that one out??? I am not sure I trust it, but it runs great, and no longer makes that "ting-ting-ting" noise when it idles.. and that was just an oil change.... good luck on the way home.

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46 WDX Power Wagon

84 300TDT daily driver

Was it Sulu on the Excelsior? I believe it was "THEN FLY HER APART"

Sulu manages not to fly the ship apart and reached the Enterprise in time to assist. Sulu brought up the rear during the battle, if I remember correctly.

Set your phasers for STUNNING! FABULOUS!

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

no, you were right jimmy...

Skip to 8:43 into the clip

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T7S_oUeMx04&feature=related

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

Man, I hope the body is real clean and hasn't been in any accidents. Some of the lines look a little off in the pictures.....

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Currently driving a very clean 1985 300SD from the West Coast.

Always nice to know there are other Star Trek nerds in the house.......

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

snow,
if you decide to pass on this car, please let me know. I'm about 1.5 + hours from brooklyn and have a twin to it. I'd love to have another. Especially at that price. you can em me direct and I'll give you my cell. If you're gonna hit a ferry on the way home, I'm about an hour from the Pt Jeff ferry. It's probably faster for you to just go north on the BQE to the Whitestone Bridge and get on 95 N. Good luck. Nice find. Mike

All the treckies are getting in on this now. Strange as warp speed is not involved. Just weak impulse drive at best combined with a knock.
Perhaps we can get an opinion from Mr. Scott the engineer other than it's bound to blow captain. Or we canna go on like this much longer captain.