At night with a flashlight, didn't look too bad at all under the hood, but
I didn't really look that closely.  The cross-over pipe and intake manifold
looked spotless, side of the injection pump was very clean as well.  Front
of the engine is a mess, but I don't think there was motor oil sprayed
there.  As Rich said, the power steering pump took a hit and broke off the
reservoir, so power steering fluid was dumped all over.

The right side windshield molding is knocked off, like maybe the rear
corner of the hood hit it.  Windshield is not scratched, and I may try to
remove that and have it installed on my '95 sedan, which has a cracked
windshield.

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Max
Charleston SC

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:47 AM, WILTON via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com
> wrote:

> Did the black oil spray onto everything under the hood?  Recently, there
> had been a slight PS leak which I  thought for a while was from the PS
> pump, but when I was getting serious about replacing it about 3 weeks ago
> with a "nearly-new" (used 2 or 3 months) one that I had kept from the
> 350SDL, I realized that the leak was not at the pump; it was at a joint
> between the metal pipe/tube and the rubber hose about 4 inches from the
> pump.  'Replaced the hose (about 14 inches long), and I think the leak had
> stopped.  I had thought since the accident that the pump probably took a
> significant blow. I had also tried to take a look under the hood before I
> let USAA haul it away, but, again, I was unable to open the hood.
>
> Appraiser evidently lifted the hood at rear some; I noticed yesterday that
> it was "up" some at rear much more than when I saw it last here in
> Goldsboro.
>
> Ironic that the engine compartment was absolutely spotless and new-looking
> when I got the car 12 years ago, and I had tried to keep it reasonably
> clean (much more so than what we often/usually see), the appraiser gave me
> no + for it - 'said it is "dirty and greasy."  The only leaks I ever had
> were the occasional minor ones from injector return lines, a small amount
> at top of injector pump years ago and the PS hose recently.
>
> Wilton
>
> -
>
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