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Okay, so I bought a 1983 300D Turbodiesel. And now:

Hi all. New member as of today, and today I also picked up my 2nd Benz. I have some experience with my 1971 280S, but today, I bought my first diesel. The cars rather amazing overall, for a black on black leather car with original paint. One owner. 200K miles. A few little problems that I already see answers and/or parts for. Here's my concern. The car is amazingly slow from a stop to 10 or 20 MPH. Then it's decent, much like a gas car. I see an unusual "part", seemingly disconnected in the engine compartment. It's like a little frame with heavy coils inside of it. What is that part??? It seems to perform much better once it's warmed. I know NOTHING of it's history aside from a clean VIN check, one owner, 400 miles in the last 2 years and it was probably garaged.

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84 300TD Wagon won't start parked on a hill

My '84 300TD Wagon won't start if parked facing uphill - even the SMALLEST of inclines actually. Doesn't seem to have a probably parked facing downhill. Because bleeding the injectors gets it to start, I'm assuming it's air "in the system". Is there something I can do about this or is it just because the car is old? Thanks.

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Hey All... I am new Mercedes owner...I just purchased a 1980 300D and am currently running B99. I have a few new filters and my biodiesel gas station (biofuel oasis in berkeley) has monthly seminars on changing filters and all that.

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Electric windows and major electrical shut down...

My 300D's blinkers and windows suddenly don't operate. There is an electrical shut down. The tachometer, gas gauge, blinkers, windows, emergency lights don't work. They all shut down at once while I was operating the vehicle. Other things like radio, wipers, clock, fan, a/c work fine. Any suggestions would be helpful. Has this happened to you?

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Transmission Won't Go Into Reverse

I have a 1981 240D automatic tranny and today I took the car out for a drive on the highway for ~30 min. then stopped at work for a few hours as I was about to go home I realized my car would no longer go into reverse. All the other gears work normally, fluid level is fine and I hear no grinding sound like its trying to go into reverse but can't. Does anyone know what might be going on??? I am going to climb under the car tonight and see if anything looks crazy out of place but I don't know really what I should look for. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -Drew

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W123/617 torque values

I am looking for a listing of torque values for the W123/617 engine. I see references in various repair guides - esp. on page #83 of the Diesel Performance Tuning & Repair - to "recheck torque on each of the locking nuts..." - where can I find those Mercedes factory torque references (other than the Mercedes service manual)? Are those reprinted/listed anywhere else? Also, how truly critical is it that the value cover on the 617 engine actually be officially within factory torque specs? Any elementary guidance is greatly appreciated. thank you, Kieran-

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