Well ;
I'm in the NE L.A. Metro area but , I'm no longer running a repair shop .
I hope you have a GREAT trip and take lotsa pictures to share with us .
I'm getting to the age where I want to begin taking my dogs (Chihuhuas) in the car with me in spite of the hair & dander....
I firmly believe in Proactive Vehicle Maintenance , this is why I'm always taking something waaayyyyy too far apart as I dip in and find little niggly things that bug me so I keep on at it until it's done to my satisfaction . this allows me to spend all my time either driving clapped out old Vehicles all over the place , or working on them...... =8-) .
It sounds like you have a good Mechanic there , treat him well and you'll do fine .
If you're going on a long road trip , is the top tank of your radiator plastic or metal ? the plastic ones have an unnerving habit of breaking without warning , for no particular reason , after this happened to me in Korea Town L.A. @ rush hour , I decided to replace all my radiators proactively and do routine cooling system citric flush etc. , since then everything's jake , no further issues .
Tom's W-126 is running a bit warm these days so we're trying to schedule the time to do an involved deep water jacket cleaning .
There are _scads_ of W-123 wagons out there , early , non turbo ones are cheap but look closely as some have been hammered and can be money - pits .
-Nate
Mary wrote:
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> Nate, I wish you lived closer...I would pay you to to fix up the wagon when we get one. Perhaps I need to look in your area - where are you in So Cal?
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> In addition to an oil and pre filter change, our 300D needed 1 rear axle when I took her into the mechanic (he showed me and they are orig, so not surprising after almost 30 yrs). We ended up doing both rear axles, as on right axle the boot had already come off and the grease was gone and the left the boot was obviously ready to go tits up and it is cheaper to do both than 1 followed by another. So now the 300D has 2 new rear axles, new rear brakes and rotors. I'm a chick, so I had no idea about the brakes and my previous mechanic did NOT alert me to this when he saw the car 6 months ago or I would have done the brakes before rotors were needed...new guy is more knowledgable and showed me the rotors - he is very good about showing me what is wrong and explaining to me why something needs to be done. Anyhow, the W123 runs great and should be really fun to drive on the road trip. Hubby had brain surgery in January, so I will be the driver the whole way and he has never seen this part of Oregon or Washington State. The dog loves the back seat of the 300D, much prefers it t our Toyota Rav4 (guess he likes to travel in style).
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> Mary
> --- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Nate" <vwnate1@> wrote:
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> > You are *so* lucky to be able to do this ! .
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> > _Please_ , take lotsa car pix any and everywhere......
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> > Will you be joining the CWC ? or buying a nice one , ready to go ? . there's no shortage of cheap W-123 wagons about and of course , I like the up - fixin' part anyways....
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> > -Nate
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