Hello all. I am new to this forum, rather new to diesels, but not new to turbos or working on my own cars.
Long story short, I just picked up a 87 300d with a few problems and I want to get it all straightened out.
First question is, where would I find the maintenance schedule to get this car up to date?
Odometer doesn't work and it stopped at 148k and the previous owner insists it is around 200k.
Next thing. Replacing glow plugs since a few of them are weak and I am also going to need to replace intake gaskets due to a little oil coming out of intake runners #1 & #2 down at the head. While I am all that way in there I was going to clean the intake real well, clean and pop test the injectors ( making whatever adjustments are necessary) reem the GP holes and adjust the alda (or whatever it is called). My goal for this rig is to tune it up mildly to get better performance ( to maybe include a slightly larger turbo), so when I have my injectors apart should I also get different nozzles? If so, what kind?
One last problem. Pretty much the vacuum is non existent. The car shuts down pretty quick, but I can pull just about any vac line from any place and I don't have vacuum. The brakes work just fine but the trans shifts hard sometimes. Heater controls stay on defrost. Looking for a vacuum schematic that will help me find all the rubber connectors and replace them. Any directions or pointers would be a great help. Like I said earlier, new to diesel motors, so pretty much things would kinda need spelled out to me with regard to diesel specific items since I have only ever worked on motors with sparkplugs hahahaha