I may be. My recently 16 y/o son needs something to drive. And I'm in the area. I'll see what I can do to find a car dolly and a truck to pull something with. The price is ok and the need for repairs will give my son something to sink time into rather than a computer..
...Kevin 87 300TD 277k mi G.E. said: > > hello all, > After a lot of money and not having a working car for months, I am giving > up on trying to fix up the dud 240D I bought last year from darrell. It's > a total POS and even after a thousand dollars of work to try to get it > sellable to recover _some_ of the money, it still isn't ready for prime > time. I'm going to just get rid of it. I'm asking $200, local pickup only. > It's got some decent parts on it and very little rust. It's an '81, > stickshift, with alloy wheels and euro headlights. It kind of drives, but > the clutch won't disengage. I just spent another 400 bucks having the > master and slave cylinders replaced and the clutch still doesn't > disengage. so , if one gets it rolling one can jam it into gear and > drive it, but, well, don't stop on an uphill. > > I'm also giving up on my other 240D, the one that served me well til the > clutch hydraulics failed, though it was burning tons of oil and it's > gotten pretty rusty. That car had the classic slave cylinder failure, but > i gambled wrong and put the money into replacing the clutch gear on the > other car, and frankly there's too much money sunk into these cars to > really continue. This one is an '82. The blue car is rusty, but it was > known working and served me for a number of years. I'm asking $200 for > this one, too. The tires alone cost more than that. The clutch and tranny > are very strong on that one, if anyone wants to do a manual conversion of > an automatic. I'd thought that when the clutch failed on the black car > (the '81) it was the same thing that went on the blue car, but apparently > the clutch on that one is hosed in more exciting and expensive ways. > > Both cars are in Pittsburgh, PA, and if someone has a garage and a desire > for lots of W123 parts, this is a very cheap source. I won't deliver them, > and i won't pick and pull parts off of them unless it's really worth my > while. I don't have a working car so getting stuff to the post office to > ship is not easy now. Basically they have to get out of here, I can't keep > paying insurance on two dead cars. > > Any takers? Otherwise, they go off to the shredder. scrap price is > almost $100 on them. > > My years-long quest for a decent reliable stickshift diesel still > continues. I miss my Jetta. Poor car rusted literally to pieces, but > it was a great ride (and got 52 miles on a gallon of No. 2 on the > highway). The blue car served me for years, but darrel's POS hasn't gone > 700 miles since I bought it's cost me over $4500 altogether. > > Anyone interested? > > Gregg aka isildur > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________ > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > -- "Thank God for Microsoft" -- Linus Torvalds
