Diesel RVs

340 miles , Starton added (about 8 oz.) and the AC run pretty much constantly .

One 100 + mile trip with four people in the car , all freeway except for on and off .

29.9 MPG .

The Hirshmann antenna shaft Tom gave me (bought) back when I first bought this car , seized

~ I'm going to remove it and try to polish then grease , maybe use silicone grease ? .

If I can find my can of it , I'll use Lubriplate dustless gun grease .

I love this poor old worn out thing .

I shampooed the seats , drop in carpets and door cards , this made the side runner carpets look nasty so now I want to remove all the seats and drop in carpets , shampoo the side runner carpets and painted floors and wash the original head liner too .

At the same time maybe I'll replace all the shirt rubber vacuum hose bits in the central locking as there's a leak : unless it's cold out , the vacuum bleeds away in a matter of minuets , this normally indicates old & stiff rubber hose connections , they're every where throughout the entire car , inside the doors , the trunk and so on .

-Nate

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I came back from Down East just in time to go on a Sports Car back roads mountain tour .

As my Metropolitan Nash FHC isn't quite road worthy , I decided to take my trusty old 1984 Diesel Sports Coupe , it was a hot day and the car has air conditioning with a brandy new Japanese Sanden compressor & R134a .

As it turns out my turbo , the very same one I said I wanted to overhaul a year (or longer) ago , is really not working well so I wheezed the poor old thing up and down the Sta Monica Mountains as fast as it'd go , not very fast as I had to keep manually shifting the slushbox tranny between second and third gears , turning off the AC on the steep uphill parts , the Lotus in front of me easily ran away and I had to struggle to catch up to him on the downhill and straight sections of road .

Oddly the rest of the old MG's etc . weren't able to keep up with me , probably because of the stinking trail of partially burned Diesel fuel and oil I was trailing...... .

I was so slow , I only got the rear end to step out once and that too close to a telephone pole and ditch for my liking , good thing these are good handling cars that respond well to quick inputs , well assisted of course by Michelin radial tires and Bilstein HD gas shocks .

Anyway , after stuffing my face with good BBQ at The Rib Nest at the end of the run I motored on home and have been driving the even slower '81 240D since , I dug out the turbo kit I bought from Kent Bergsma @ Mercedesource last year and hope to attack it soon .

I have two spare turbos for parts and I bought the ' upgraded ' kit because I assume at 397,000 + miles everything that can be worn out or used up , is in this one .

BTW : the Sanden compressor seems to work well , I can only feel it cutting in when I'm going up hills , even then it barely slows me down unless I'm driving too fast with the throttle pinned .

Consider it the next time you do routine majo AC Service , I will on my '82 240D for sure and it still blows ice cold from it's Delco R4 compressor .

-Nate