Put it all back together. Reamed the glow plug chambers, got quite a bit of carbon out, maybe not as much as Kent spoke of on some that he had done. As I still had the injectors out I used compressed air to blow it out, taking care to keep the cover over the pump well in place.

OMG, it runs a lot better. Huge difference. The turbo works now. I can't swear though that it's as perky as my departed '81 300SD. My mechanic thinks that the 300SD had a slightly better motor setup all in all. Seems unlikely somehow, I mean the engines are identical aren't they?

As luck would have it, we're in a cold spell now. 65 during daylight, 37 last night when I fired it up. Hadn't run in a few weeks and it started right up, this after bleeding the lines. It was about this temp during one of my lengthy difficult start experiences up in WA state in Dec.

Numerous smaller tasks ahead. The tach and clock don't work, the rear windows do a snap-snap noise at the end of close, got to adjust something, I did it once, I forget. One of the hood hinges is in bad shape, the hood open cable needs help. Most important I still need to get on top of the vacuum issues.

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