Windshield was new when I got the car 12 years ago.
Wilton
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From: "Meade Dillon via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Cc: "Meade Dillon" <dillonm...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] NC mini Q
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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