Hey everyone, I recently won an '87 mercedes 300D on ebay, engine runs well, solig extirior and very nice, if a bit sun-damaged interior. It drives very well but it has a lot of "personality". Starting is finiky, the big fuel solenoid (the one with the "STOP" leaver on it) is somewhat uncooperative. Some times when I turn the key to start it the buzzer wines as normal and it fires up without a fuss. Other times though it cranks well (starter was replaced, new battery" it gets no fuel. Upon inspection of the engine itself you can see that the stop lever is still parked at the bottom of its travel. Playing with the ignition in the car, cutting the accesory power on and off repeatedly, will usually slowly raise it so that it will let fuel in. On rare occasion, no amount of coaxing will get it to lift and I have to pop the hood and prop it up manually to start it. Once it is running I can pull out whatever is holding it up and it stays in place. I assume that whole little solenoid can be swapped out. Is that hard to aquire? Thanks for your input.