Well, Hell. The Chowdah Q is coming up on Saturday and for the last two months I've been whaling on my 1985 300TD in an attempt to get it ready for a (THE) trip to Rhode Island.
So, This is the current state of affairs. R&R starter, and now it starts, replaced the Battery (Autozone's Finest). Replaced in no particular order:- Disks F&R, Calipers F&R (Bendix, ATE), Pads (Pagid) F&R, Freed up parking brake and cables, Front shocks (Bilstein), Center link (Jacked it up and bent it, SH*T), Steering damper, Rubber boots on the tie rods, Changed oil (M1) and Filter (Mann), changed both Primary and Secondary fuel filters (Mann), replaced all 4 Accessory belts (Continental), and installed the A/C Compressor that Kaleb sent to me, Lo these many years ago, replaced all three wiper blades (Bosch). Et F-ing cetera. Had the shop put on the set of Tyres (General Altimax) rescued from 2 years lost in the darkness of my cellar, balance and perform an alignment. Tomorrow is replace the center driveshaft bearing and mount and vacu-suck the A/C system etc. so, if the goddess wills, the W123 will make it to R.I. Saturday. (And home too!). Sorry that I have been so quiet. I thought that you all deserved a break from my incessant blather. There have been other fixes that I cannot call to mind. Fred Moir. Lynn MA. Diesel preferred. ________________________________ From: Mercedes <mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com> on behalf of Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: 08 September 2016 21:23 To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Randy Bennell Subject: Re: [MBZ] Lazy in Chief On 08/09/2016 4:03 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: > Where's the diesel content? > Well, it seems pretty obvious that most of you lazy folks are not doing much work on old Mercedes diesels as was the original intent of the list, or else are too lazy to bother telling us about it and giving us clues on how to fix our own poor old worn out broken Mercedes diesels, given that much of the posting on this list has nothing whatsoever to do with old Mercedes diesels. RB _______________________________________ 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
