Welcome Home Henry ;
Are you now done with old M-B's ? .
Too bad of so .
-Nate
Henry wrote :
>
> Hi all!!
> I've been out of the loop, mourning the sale of my SDL, sorry.
> But, today, as I'm getting ready to take the parts one, to the new owner, I
> decided to take a battery over to my 85 (or is it 83?) 300D (the beauty I
> got, that got smashed in the rear quarter and totaled).
> It's been sitting for 3 years, up on blocks.
> I put the battery in, and thought first I better crank a little, to get fuel
> to the injectors, before going through the glow plug/start procedure.
> it's been in the high 20's here at night, but was about 55 deg. at the time.
>
> I turned the key, to crank to get fuel........and the dang this started!!
> That quick!! no glow plug time or anything.
> I was so shocked, I shut it off!! haha
>
> then, turned the key and it fired perfectly, like I drive it every day.
> I ran and got a couple gallons of fresh diesel, put about 5 times
> concentration of "PRI-D" diesel treatment, along with the same concentration
> of algae killer/preventative (I forget the name, but it's yellow). and
> poured them in the tank. It sat there idling like a sewing machine for about
> 1.5 hours!
> no smoking, nothing. I revved it a few times, turned the heater on high, and
> even put it in all gears, forward and reverse, just to "lube it all up".
>
> well anyway, just a happy surprise, it worked so nicely. The engine has 220K
> on it.
>
> If anyone wants to clean me out, I've still got a 220D manual trans with
> cracker head, the above car, and another half stripped parts 123.
> I'd let 'em all go cheap, if you took it all.
>
> Henry
>
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