How about idle speed on the engine? Is that a bit low? Or is there no difference with more revs?

Checked your shifter bushings?

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1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

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Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Zero difference in the idle speed. Shifter bushings were just replaced but it did it prior to that. Its a very intermittent thing.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Perhaps it is dirt somewhere and some more fluid changes will help.

If you want to do something that is more active I'd say you probably need to start measuring fluid pressures and comparing your findings with the data in the ATSG manuals / FSM (If you can get hold of transmission chapters in English I'd be interested to know about that - I've got a German copy of the FSM with the transmission chapters though if you need some help)

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Another full fluid and filter change is scheduled at about 2500 miles. Chasing it with gauges ect is gonna be hard due to it being so intermittent.

Thanks for the FSM offer. I havent yet looked at the manual I have here.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

CCU is now up and running. Double checking my fuses solved it. I was actually glad to see an 8 amp fuse blown. The location was supposed to have a 16 amp in it.

When in doubt about fuse locations you can always refer to the numbers actually on the fuse block and match those to the fuse road map page inside the fuse cover.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

TnBob, did you get this car from KY?

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Past: 1998 Chevy Cavalier ,2005 Saab 9-3 2.0T, 1996 Mazda Protege, 1974 Porsche 914 2.0, 1997 Land Rover Discovery 4.0L/5Speed, 1995 Jeep Wrangler

Nope, she came out of the Cleveland, Ga area.

Getting better and more true MB every day.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Rather productive couple of days.
CCU now running. Havent checked the AC yet nor the heat.
Radio and now the antenna both work.
My rheostat for the dash lights needs more work. Gonna have to disassemble it this time. At least my dash lights finally fired as did all the bulbs in the CCU area.
Got both the roof drains cleaned out. The tree muck was virtually impacted in there.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

A bit of the bad

Illogical as it sounds I have a roughly 2" deeply rusted spot in behind the passenger seat where that passengers left foot would be. Almost like they had a shoe full of water everytime they got in and spent their time grinding their shoe on the floor.

Confirmed bad left rear door vacuum module and probably the right front at least too. Very smooth passenger door lock but no actuator. Probably the rod is loose.
Seems like there was a fair share of vacuum issues in the past OR ... the mechanic had no idea what the vacuum system was doing and he was just chasing.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

I'd expect that to be water collecting in the sills / rockers / longerons and rusting through the spot weld joint underneath. Other than the underseal MB didn't protect that joint (as far as I can make out). Pull out a rubber bung on the sills close to the rusted spot and take a look inside.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I will do that but the existing hole is next to the drive shaft hump. Its not next to the door.

Found out today on a 60 or so mile run I reeeally need a cup holder.

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1985 300D 198K sold
1982 300D 202K
1989 300E 125K
1992 940T

"If you dont have time to do it safely, you dont have time to do it"

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."