It seems like so often some of these projects that are supposed to take a few hours end up taking a day. Or two. Or three. Today I adjusted my valves in a about an hour - getting pretty good at it. And then R&R'd the starter in about ninety minutes (nice to have the NA 617 sometimes). Tested all of my glow plugs in about forty five minutes, and found just one that wasn't working. It's amazing when things go as planned (quicker than planned actually)!

BTW - the reman starter I bought from a big box auto parts store 9 years ago never did seem quite right. It always seemed to struggle and turn really slowly. I bought a real-deal Bosch reman (the turbo version) last year and never got around to putting in until today. What a difference! I've been having trouble with cold starts these past couple of weeks but got home tonight and gave it a go just to see - it's 1:00 am and about 30 degrees. Fired right up after just a quick glow. I'm talking instantly fired, this starter just has so much more oomph. Wish I would have replaced it years ago!

Tomorrow I'm going to run a couple cans of diesel purge, change the fuel filters and put in some fresh synthetic 5W-40 and my cold starting struggles will be a thing of the past!

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1981 300D - {172,000}
1971 220D {Sold to TomJ}

It is nice to hear of some things going right for once!

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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!

^ Agreed.

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You'll love the 5W-40 synthetic. My buddy who owns a shop traded me a oil change for my 300D for a old fridge, and he put in rotella T6 and it starts (even in cold weather) extremely well.

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Current:
*1984 300D ~200K,1989 MR2 250K, 2012 Ford Fusion 4.5K (fiance's car to replace the uber-unsafe cavalier)
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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