Pics? Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 27, 2020, at 5:02 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Picked it up today. It’s a little on the turd side but has potential. Body > decent with no rust. Looks like somebody bypassed the vacuum control stuff > for turbo and put in a regular waste gate. Does start and sounds OK but they > somehow got it idling up way too high. Non of the gauges were working so I > messed with the fuse and got the oil pressure gauge working. Fuel and temp > gauge do not appear to work. Feels like it might have a slight miss in it > which might be why they jacked up the idle. Engine sounds fine though. Does > smoke as in gray diesel smoke. Appears to have a new radiator in it but the > expansion tank appears to be dry. It is possible they didn’t get it filled up > properly when doing the radiator swap. I am betting on blown head gasket > though. I will hook my vacuum filler up to it and just fill it with plain > water and see what it does. Not going to run it though until I have a working > temp gauge. Also found a trunk full of spare parts such as several ACC PBUs, > spare instrumental cluster, a new timing chain, filters etc. > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________ > 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