Time, Place, Cash.

The three items in the title of this post came together and allowed me to purchase a parts car for the amount of $500.

An 84 300d Trubo. Finally, all of the broken pieces I need for my 240D! With 220K, this car is running smoothly and can be moved around under its own power. As the story goes, the previous owner swerved to miss a racoon, and ended up putting the front driver wheel into a ditch. The metal structure of the strut tower is torn and the upper and lower control arms are bent.

 I've began the process of dismantling.

How about a manual 240D with a OM617 swap?

Clean Carpets and Coco Mats

After attempting to purchase a carpet kit and being ripped off by mercedesautoworks.com to the tune of around $300, I decided to simply remove my carpeting and power wash it. The results were pretty amazing. Once removed, I scrubbed the carpets with Simple Green, and went over them a couple times with the power washer. I should have spent that $300 on a power washer....

The results were amazing, and the best part of my new interior treatment are the floor mats. There is a company in SC which makes excellent floor mats. These are not cheap, but you get what you pay for. check them out at cocomats.com.

300K

May 7th, 2015. 300,000 miles achieved.

Rebuilding Injectors

Since I've owned the Benz, its had a rough idle and sometimes a knock here and there. I purchased new Monarch nozzles form Mercedes Source and rebuilt my injectors following the procedure in Kent's guide.

 Testing each injector with the hand pump on my work bench, I found one injector was squirting like a cheap dollar store water gun, rather than misting correctly.

 Old dirty nozzles

After the rebuild and balancing of the injectors, my engine runs smoother than it ever has. Also, there is no noticeable smoking at startup!