Onboard starts at 2:48. The first of four parts in my DiRT 3 historic rally cars series. Car is Opel Kadett GT/E 16V from 1970s' and course is in Finland. Time was ...
1979 Mercedes-Benz 240D parts car - first start in 13 years (long version)
Well, I bought a parts car for the Mercedes project. Didn't really need it, but couldn't pass it up at the price. In this (long) video, I give an overview of the car and ...
+Katelijne Mardaga I don't really recommend doing what I did unless you really know what you're doing. Keep in mind that this car has the earlier glow plug system, wired in series, not in parallel. But, while wearing heavy gloves, ran a heavy gauge jumper wire from the battery positive terminal directly to the glow plug closest to the firewall, and then had someone else crank the starter.
+DaBossk I've owned a couple. They;re fantastic. Almost the same engine as the OM616 in this video, but with 1 more cylinder, (sometimes a turbocharger), and beefier internals. Thanks for watching.
I live to see this ! Wow. 13 yrs and a little bit of time and she fired
right up! Don't sound to bad either! Did you pull the motor? What parts did
you take? I read in one of your comments that you say veggie and bio are
over rated? I'm interested in your opinion on this...I don't use bio myself
but do use veggie at times... I'm not hard core into it just when I get
some I use it.... These are the best cars ever made in my opinion.... Last
year I did a almost 6k mile round trip in three days.... My friends called
me crazy!!! Why?? Because I did it in my 1977 300d with 360k miles on it!!
Only had one issue. Voltage regulator went out and it did it at night! So I
had to stop and repair it. If it was day hours. I would have just kept on
driving!!! Thanks for the great video!
+Mr Diesel Yes, I did pull the engine. I completely dismantled this car for parts. The floors were almost completely gone. It looked OK up top, but it really wasn't worth saving it as a whole car, unfortunately.As for veggie/bio, I did run a previous car on veggie, but I couldn't find enough of it consistently for it to be economically worthwhile. Also, filtration was a complete pain in the butt.
+Magnus T Wrecked? I never repaired this car. I bought it as a parts car for my 1983 and disassembled it. I sent it to the crusher in the fall of 2013.
I find it strange the someone who could afford one of these new, is the
same person who would neglect, then abandon a car in their driveway for
years. If car is one owner, especially a merc, I would have been cared for
and carefully stored if not driven.
+MercedesDieselGuy Well, then this is a weird case, but I insist on the wealth factor. Most of us can´t afford to simply let a car like this one stay out there and rot, so if he simply left it "out there", he didn´t need to sell the car. Selling a car is a hassle, but most of us go through it because we need the money for the next one, lol...hope this donor contributed to the other car, a running old Mercedes is a delight to watch.
+LS R I'm not so sure in this case. It was a one owner car, and that one owner drove and maintained it well for 20 years. I could tell that the car had something of a "restoration" not long before being parked. There were fresh fenders and what looked like a 1990s paint job on the car. So, this was definitely not a neglected car while it was in use.
Precisely for that reason. People who can afford these cars, as new, have so much money that they don´t give a rat´s ass about what happens to it, since when they find a problem with it, don´t repair it, leave it like that or sell it, and go for the new one. That is why most of the times, those of us who appreciate these cars, can find problems that cost significant amounts of money and are left to us, if we want to drive them for many years. At least that is my experience with second hand luxury cars.