Our landlord suddenly gave us 30 days notice to vacate the house because the owner was putting it up for sale, so my roommate and I had to find a new place to live, pack, move, and clean the house within that short time. It was stressful, but the 350SDL was driven to the new house in Surprise (with no reverse).

At the request of my roommate, I completely removed the waste vegetable oil system from the car and gave it back to Greg. He was visiting Payson, Arizona, and I happened to be delivering a truck load of Amazon packages to the post office there, so it worked out well.


Later on I was transporting refrigeration equipment to a restaurant in Oakland, California and stopped by dieseldiehard's place. He said he had a good (possibly rebuilt) transmission from a W126 350SDL that was in the way, and he said I was welcome to it. After I got home and inspected it, it turned out it was from a W124 chassis and wouldn't fit. There must have been a mix-up with the one he thought he had, but I really appreciate the gesture. I ended up passing it on to someone who needed a rebuildable core.


With that development, I decided I might as well just fix the reverse clutch pack in the original transmission. So, I made some wheel cribs so removing the transmission would be easier.


Ratcheting straps keep the wheels from rolling off the cribs.

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1967 W110 Universal Wagon, Euro, Turbo Diesel, Tail Fins, 4 Speed Manual Column Shift, A/C
1980 W116 300SD Turbo Diesel, DB479 Walnut Brown, Sunroof, Highly Optioned, 350,000+ Miles