Diesel RVs: 07/16/16

[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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[diesel_mercedes] Rolling Over

*ONLY* 200,000 miles ? why , it's barely broken in !

-Nate
Max wrote :

Almost missed it. Had my camera ready but almost forgot as I was driving tru NW Montana which is almost heaven and yes its true A river does run tru it, lots of rivers. . Now it seems very strange seeing that big 2 staring back at me, the car seems old all of a sudden now. Max

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Re: [diesel_mercedes] Rolling over

The odo roling over isn't much of an event, ours are well into the 300's. Now, rolling over the car would be more interesting.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:26 PM, jasperezra@gmail.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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Almost missed it. Had my camera ready but almost forgot as I was driving tru NW Montana which is almost heaven and yes its true A river does run tru it, lots of rivers. . Now it seems very strange seeing that big 2 staring back at me, the car seems old all of a sudden now. Max