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> On Aug 27, 2020, at 5:02 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
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> 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.
>
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