E300D is sort of rare and more valuable. I had a giant issue getting the insco to not screw me on value. They wanted to give me $4k, I wanted to be made whole. The transaction took a few months, and they finally found a REAL comparable after looking at six examples. Turned out the car is really worth $9500 when they stopped looking at the E320.
clay 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored chap 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers On Apr 15, 2015, at 11:26 AM, Dave wrote: > > Looks like Mercedes content is scarce lately, so I'll tell a story. > In the summer of 2013 a friend of work told me about his carpool partner who > had "an old Mercedes diesel" sitting in his driveway, unused, leaking fuel > that he was ready to get rid of since he was tired of doing work on it and he > went to a Nissan Leaf for his commute. I looked and found a gold 1995 E300d > non-turbo with about 220k miles, that I purchased for $2200 and drove home. > Over the next 6 months I replaced fuel lines, injector nozzles (Bosio, damn > noisy at idle) heater motor brushed, Climate control temperature sensor fan, > some transmission stuff to make it shift half way normal, and generally get > everything working and turned it over to my wife as her primary vehicle and > sold her 1998 Volvo S70 (not a popular move...). > The E300 ran for over a year and then in September 2014 while on the highway > it lost most of it's power and when we got it to an off ramp would not idle > and was leaking oil from the front. I called the kid and his truck and we > strap towed it the last 3 miles home, where it sat for a few months before I > had time to look at it. What I found was pretty strange, the timing chain had > jumped at least one tooth but the intake and exhaust cams were no longer in > time with each other, even though the gear mark was lined up. The ultimate > culprit was the vacuum pump, of course at 240k miles. I pulled the cams and > found that the intake cam gear is pressed to the cam with no index marks or > locating pin (?) I pressed the gear off and heated it a little and got it > timed correctly withing a few degrees of the exhaust cam. When I got the head > off there were impressions in the carbon aligning with the intake valves, > they were not obviously bent but after lots of debate and pricing valve jobs, > I order ed valves and Neway seat cutters to do the job myself. When I pulled the timing cover I found a crack where the bar that sticks below the crank timing sprocket comes out of the back side of the timing cover I believe this holds the chain in time when tension is removed. I had this welded at an aluminum boat dealer that I used to work at (yes I'm cheap). I ordered timing chain, all guides and headgasket set at this point and began re-assembly. For the vacuum pump, I cut the damaged lever off of the mechanical pump and went with a Hella electric pump. This saved me about $700+ for the mechanical pump and injection timer assembly. I did final assembly a few weeks ago and got the vacuum system finished on Sunday. On first analysis I may need a better vacuum pump, this Hella gets pretty hot during normal use. > Wife is actually pretty happy with it as the standby vehicle she was driving > was a 1989 Chev G20 van :-). > I did the job so cheap because the car just does not have enough value to > spend what it would take to do the job right. I really like the OM606 but, > damn, when buying parts I really wished it was a OM603. > > DaveL > Lynnwood, Wa. > 1973 GMC 23' motorhome > 1982 E300CD daily driver > 1995 E300d "Gilda" > 1989 Chev G20 > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
