[diesel_mercedes] Junk Yard Fun

 

It's been hot in Los Angeles so Tom decided to finally allow me to replace the dead HVAC fan in his '87 W-126 300SDL .

We headed out to the local Junk Yards about 7:30AM , this first one had only _one_ W-126 in it , a gasser that some lowlife loser had owned and installed " TOTALLY JAMIN' BUMPIN' STEREO YO ! " using (of course) translucent wires way too big for the job and mangling the door cards , using mixed and unmatched sheet metal screws in the dashboard and door cards......
Not overly surprising it was junked in spite of low mileage and good overall condition .

The next yard had five or six W-126's in it , only one Diesel but all had HVAC fans , I removed them all and two were replacements , German made with good brush length and one was the original (yellow squirrel cage) one , also with good brushes , I took all of them to a junked battery and tested them , the two replacement and one good bushes original one all worked well , lots of torque and high speed , quietly , the other three were working but not worth anything IMO , Tom bought the three good ones and we hied off to a shady parking lot where I installed the best of the bunch , we enjoyed nice cool and dry air all the way to a Chinese Buffet place in Arcadia , later on he gave me one of the replacement fans to tinker with , see if I can use it in one of my W-123's .

I also got a bag full of hardware and a good tested overboost protection valve but managed to lose it somewhere between the Junk Yard and home  *#-o d'oh!.

That's all for to - day , I think I'll go to Golden Cove to - morrow morning , they have a nice British Car Meet there once a month .
-Nate

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