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06-30-2011, 03:31 AM
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Happy birthday junqueyardjim!
Hope your birthday Rocks!
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06-30-2011, 05:13 AM
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hAPPY bIRTHDAY jIM!
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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver 1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone 1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy! 1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior  Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!
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06-30-2011, 01:01 PM
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Happy birthday Man.
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06-30-2011, 10:01 PM
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Take the newly converted benz out for some ice cream with the mrs!
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07-02-2011, 04:01 PM
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Thanks Guys; Thanks for the birthday Greetings. Love em all! I did take it for a little ride again yesterday Tom. It is a little hard in front, must have some pretty dry rubber in there somewhere (I suspect guide rod ends). But she runs like a jack rabbit! I mean really gets out there and flies. Shifting is good, but a little different with the fast engine deceleration, but it shifts OK if your fast, dbl clutch it if your slow. I do have a problem getting it in reverse, but I am going to put it on a hoist at my Indy's shop on the 18th to see what needs adjusting. But except for that, I really like it. Have new plates coming in for it reading "83 240D" Indiana. No smoke, no leaks, good vacuum, good boost and a great body and interior and a working sunroof. Still need to install the power antenna and I am going to pull the instruments and use the 85 Speedo and probably the tach though I am a long ways from hooking it up. Need a guy like Army here to get me through that. But he always says, "Don't leave that lay there or I'll take it to bits" and I bet he will. There is a rusty bad body 240D on Craigslist in Shelbyville with a 4 speed. Guy is asking $1500 but I think after he sits with it for another month or so he might think $750.00 is enough. I did miss one on Craig List this spring. A guy in Coal City was selling a pair of junker W123's, a 240D 4 speed and a 300D 4 speed Euro. Neither one ran, the 300D had a ruined vibration damper and craank. I called him so often and never an answer, but this week I called and got him. He said he sold them both to a "collector" in Clinton. I keeping my eye open for them to re-appear, might even go to Clinton and look around.
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Junqueyardjim Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C.S. Lewis 1983 Mercedes W123 240D 4 Speed 285,000 on the road with a 617 turbo, beautiful butter yellow, license plate # 83 240D INDIANA 2003 Jaguar Type X, AWD. beautiful, good mileage, Mom's car, but I won't let her drive it!
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07-03-2011, 07:50 AM
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Jim, did you put in a 307 diff too?
yeah, too bad you missed out on the 300 euro.
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07-03-2011, 10:58 AM
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Yes Tom, I think that is what it is - the standard 85 300D differential with or from the automatic. It is geared plenty fast, you can tell that on 1st gear starts.
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Junqueyardjim Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C.S. Lewis 1983 Mercedes W123 240D 4 Speed 285,000 on the road with a 617 turbo, beautiful butter yellow, license plate # 83 240D INDIANA 2003 Jaguar Type X, AWD. beautiful, good mileage, Mom's car, but I won't let her drive it!
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