Finally started the beast today after about 3 cranks of 20 sec each!
The clowd of smoke blacked out the sun!
I still have a leak in the accordion connector somewhere, can't really tell, but at least it's running now!
Another good thing is after driving to work today, the lifter knock dissapered ! Elf 5-40 syntetic really helped!!!
When I took it out for a drive with a good turbo, and let it rip, there was a huge clowd of smoke and when I driving back the same way I noticed literally a pile of black soot on the ground from the exaust! I guess something was plugged!

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1987 300D
2005 E320 CDI

;~)

If the flex pipe, or "bellows" is cracked, let me know, I might still have the one from the SDL. On the other hand, it might be a cheap part new.

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Gone to the dark side

- Jeff

Nice to hear about the valve clatter. Sounds like things are going well. I so want a W124 but have to wait until the Squash sells......


**edit**
BTW Chad, can you do anything with that top pic.....

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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