1980 300D sat for a year, won't start - Page 13 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

marco5 · #**181** 07-25-2011, 11:12 AM

nice dude, great pics!!! Cant wait to see inside her LOL

marco5 · #**182** 07-27-2011, 12:47 PM

Any updates

tyl604 · #**183** 07-27-2011, 10:35 PM

Yep, looking for updates.

CommieGIR · #**184** 07-28-2011, 01:46 AM

No, decided I need to remove the transmission and engine as one piece, its going to be near impossible to remove the engine separately.

Kind of stuck at that right now

marco5 · #**185** 08-02-2011, 08:58 AM

Any luck with the engine?

piccolovic · #**186** 08-02-2011, 07:09 PM

OK . . . am kinda confused now due to sooooo long of a post.

You parked the car 18 -24 months ago. At the time you shut it down, it worked just fine and the engine seemed good.

Now you are convinced you need to rebuild your engine, or get a good used one? I can't find when you found something that indicated your engine needed a rebuild, and how does that happen within a two-year period of not using the car????

Just confused.

marco5 · #**187** 08-05-2011, 04:00 PM

DUDE STATUS UPDATE

CommieGIR · #**188** 09-02-2011, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by marco5

DUDE STATUS UPDATE

New engine, that is a status update right?

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Originally Posted by piccolovic

OK . . . am kinda confused now due to sooooo long of a post.

You parked the car 18 -24 months ago. At the time you shut it down, it worked just fine and the engine seemed good.

Now you are convinced you need to rebuild your engine, or get a good used one? I can't find when you found something that indicated your engine needed a rebuild, and how does that happen within a two-year period of not using the car????

Just confused.

Okay, you've got it kind of backwards:

Previous owner parked the car for 18-24 months, he SAYS it ran good when parked (I'm highly doubting this now).

It wouldn't start there, I got it to start at my house, its hard to start, and when it does smokes EXTREMELY heavily, and there is a heavy rod knock.

Basically, I got lied to, and since I have to pull the engine anyways to access the crank, I am just replacing said engine with a good running one.

CommieGIR · #**189** 09-03-2011, 08:34 PM

Don't know if anyone is following this anymore, but for the benefit of those who are:

Aquaticedge · #**190** 09-03-2011, 11:14 PM

I'm following this still, did you ever Autopsy the old engine?

CommieGIR · #**191** 09-03-2011, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Aquaticedge

I'm following this still, did you ever Autopsy the old engine?

Not yet, once the new engine is in and running, the old engine will be autopsied, if its fixable its going in a 1987 Jeep Cherokee someone gave me without a motor

CommieGIR · #**192** 09-05-2011, 07:58 PM

New engine is in! I hated wrestling it back into the engine mounts, but two hours later its in place!

layback40 · #**193** 09-05-2011, 08:47 PM

Its always good to see progress !!!

CommieGIR · #**194** 09-05-2011, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by layback40

Its always good to see progress !!!

After fighting that engine hoist for god knows how long, I hurt all over....

Oh well, tomorrow, things start going back in! Hurrah!

layback40 · #**195** 09-05-2011, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by CommieGIR

After fighting that engine house for god knows how long, I hurt all over....

Oh well, tomorrow, things start going back in! Hurrah!

I know the feeling of being bruised trying to get a motor in, skin off a few knuckles & a bit of blood loss. Putting things back on now feels like an eternity, there is always something else or the thing you just bolted up has to come off because you needed to do some other thing first. Perseverance is your friend !!

Good Luck !!!