[diesel_mercedes] Instrument cluster needing attention

 

Hello all -
I have both a 75 240D & a grey market 84 380SLSL (love them but they're works in progress)
the SL's odometer has stopped working & the gas gauge is pegged at full
I swapped the 240's cluster yrs ago so I feel comfortable pulling the cluster on the SL

I'm tempted to replace the odo gear myself as it looks like a good DIY 
I've also read that the fuel gauge issue could likely be the result of a bad ground

I'm curious how difficult these projects could be & if the degree is too high, what's a reputable shop that people know of (I'm in Ohio but I'm sure it wld be sent out) - lastly, how much I should expect a shop to charge if I sent it out to them. I guess I should add that if I sent the cluster out for repair, I would also have the gauge faces put back to black - someone swapped them out at some point for white (not sure if I could do this).

Thanks much in advance - I've learned a ton over the years reading all the emails that fly back & forth & have enjoyed the adventures / antics of this membership.

- Chris 
Cincinnati, Oh

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[diesel_mercedes] Rescue tape and a clamp fixed the leak...but...

 

I'm no longer losing hydraulic fluid as I used rescue tape wrapped around the high pressure hose behind the radiator fan.  I also used a hose clamp.  Dry as a bone.  However I'm still getting streaks of hydraulic fluid up the top of my hood on both sides of my grill.  My air intake is moist.  The top of the hydraulic canister is damp but not one other part of the engine compartment is wet with fluid.  I theorize that the fluid is coming from part of the half gallon that spewed in the engine compartment and trapped in the hood under cover.  It is now through the force of gravity migrating to the front of the hood and up and out on each side of the grille.  Anybody got any other ideas.  That's all I can figure and it is clear fluid and I'm not losing any of my other fluids. Seems that hydraulic fluid doesn't contain a solvent that will take down the hood under cover.  Lawrence Rhodes

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Posted by: Lawrence Rhodes <primobassoon@sbcglobal.net>
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