Diesel RVs

So ;

I go home last night and sans help I didn't want to go sticking my hands under neath the engine as I rocked it back and forth trying to slip the heat shield back in......

Instead I decided I'd get back to the door checks I stopped working on a month ago .

Of course , now that I have some WWII surplus long fiber EP rifle grease , I can't seem to figure out where the heck I put the box of good used door checks I bought in Las Vegas in Christmas time.... this same box of course has my old metal can of Lubriplate Lithium brake grease .

So , I unloaded my truck , rummaged in my house , looked in the trunk of my Coupe etc. in a fruitless search for the box of door checks then took the door check out of my spare 240D door and didn't wrap it in a rag as I took it apart for inspection , service and cleaning.....

One of the large ball bearings went !POING! and disappeared into the 43Rd. dimension , I heard it hit the steel drip tray under my truck as it vanished but isn't to be seen anywhere .

I finished taking the check apart and laboriously cleaned away all the old black stiff EP grease so as soon as I find some more door checks for parts , I can grease it up and re assemble it .

SWMBO had me take her shopping in Gardena to - day so I went by the Russian Self Service Junk Yard , popped in and found -no- W123's at all , a few rather nice W126's but no diesels .

The shiny black 1977 300D now has a price of $3,000.00 on it , it's a nice little car and all but IMO only worth about $1,500 , it needs some upholstery work , window switches and of course , at the very least a major tune up and the rest of the usual things any 35 year old vehicle needs before being in any way reliable .

They also have Grandpa's 1970 ? Plymouth Scamp two door hard top in VGC for $1,999 , with AC and current tags , I have no need for more cars nor anyplace to store it else I'da made a cash offer on the spot ~ these are very good little cars and few are not run ragged or rusted out , this one showed 97,000 miles and looked pretty good .

Maybe Tom will go to Pick-A-Part with me early Saturday morning to harvest a few W123 door checks .

The Peach Parts Sales manager called me personally to apologize for the close to one MONTH wait for a left front ATE brand caliper , that was nice , I hope it arrives soon .

More to come .

-Nate

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I went home after work and experimented raising the OM671 engine up by it's left side using a narrow block of wood underneath the AC compressor bracket .

I lifted the wood with my hydraulic trolley jack .

The first time I think I might have raised it too high as the wood popped out , luckily before I had my hands in there.....

The second time I was able to get both new hoses tucked in and lightly screwed to the oil filter housing , then i re mounted the left side motor mount to the unibody and spent some time trying to wiggle the alloy support arm in there , it simply wouldn't fit so I disconnected the power steering return hose from the steering box , made a bit of a mess and was able to get the arm nearly in place ~ in time , by shoving the engine to the right with one hand I was able to get the support arm started over it's four 10MM studs but the sheet metal mount protector fell out and I flagged before I was able to jockey the engine high enough to slip it back in , the light was going so I stopped for the day but I made some progress and that's a good thing .