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General Information => User's ride Wall => Topic started by: lovinthedeez on May 13, 2012, 06:13:49 pm
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I've always wanted one.....glad to be back :P
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3.0 idi turbo deez ;D
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Hells yeah buddy!!
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I think that hood is as along as the entire length of a VW Rabbit. What a mother ship.
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I think that hood is as along as the entire length of a VW Rabbit. What a mother ship.
Funny part is that I rarely drive, as my work is a whole six blocks away. Still have the fear from the crash. Feels like a tank going down the road, and sounds like one, too ;D. Bought it from a pastor. This guy could never sell a vw to a layman. He had NINE kids. "This one broke this, and that one broke that".....The motor was in amazing shape. Not a drop of oil leaking anywhere, and it's got 277K on the clock. Bio kit is on the way........
nothing but tanks now.....
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As I was looking over my hands this morning I figured out why people convert those huge boats more often than VW Rabbits. My hands look like hamburger after a week in the close spaces. More like I have been picking fights with a cat that still has claws. But I got my WVO system almost in. Went to test it and found one of the two solenoids is not pulling up tight so I still am pulling diesel as well as veg oil.
Here's customer service for you though. Went to the site where I bought the valves and gave a short explanation of the trouble and asked if there is a way to adjust them for a tighter fit in place. The hoses are done so well and the fittings are air tight so I wasn't relishing the idea of pulling it all apart to send the valve back. Their rep was back to me in just a few hours. Says they think I have a stuck valve and they will send another no charge. I can pull the body off in the car and swap the internals and not have to cut hoses or pull fittings. I can even keep the lame parts no need to send them back. Now is that service with a smile or not? I was smiling even though it will be a week or so to get the part and do the work.
So have at it with the mombo benz. I live in Portland and am surrounded by them. One weekend walk about the neighborhood I counted 20. And most were vintage beasts.
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Benz is the only way to go! Why'd you talk me out of it again?!!?!?
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The learning curve begins. wondering why the hell the fuel filter won't come off, I then learn about the 24 mm bolt holding on to the sucker. switched out filters, then I learned about the two o-rings on before mentioned bolt that I never removed entirely............ ;D :D :) ;)
I love this thing.... 8)
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I actually almost talked my sister into getting an '85 w/ the om616 TD, but turned out it needed too much work to be a DD. That and knowing my sister she'd have put gas in it first time she filled up. ::) Too, bad; really wished somebody in our family had a 616/617 equipped Volkspanzer (I like to nickname them the 'people's tanks').
99% of the 80's MBs in my city run Diesel, and this is a college/retirement town so we have no shortage of old-folk/student cars kicking around. Wish I had enough play money to hit the classifieds.
Back OT, you look like you found a semi-rare cosmetically kept up one. Keep her up well; ones of that caliber are getting hard to find anywhere!