'88 W124 Ex- Berlin Taxi - suddenly a millionaire

Oh - and I found the two missing pieces for the full rubber boot floor!



Unfortunately, someone cut them to fit the roller blind. Originally cars with roller blind from factory had shorter rubber mats. I probably need to make some sort of shim to space out the roller blind, resp. the brackets. So it fits over the rubber mats - right now it doesn't... Bit of a bügger, but these are so rare, you have to work with the stuff you can get.

Cheers,
Jan

So - I found the issue with the radio. Or so I thought. Yesterday I found a broken earth wire - which explains the sparks (earth drawn vie the antenna cable). Fixed - all good. Radio working again.

But his morning - loss of reception again... HNNGH.

So I took it all apart again - and found yet another issue, this time not as easy to fix.

The wire from the frequency spliter to the antenna is broken off. Resp. the sleeve nut lost it's grip, a bit of the socket broke off. Cable is lose in the antenna and has bad erratic connection.



and since those CB splitters are somewhat rare - I fixed it like this; which works well enough for now



Actually I only need an antenna wire with the right connector to fix the splitter. It's not even soldererd, it's just clmaped to the circuit board. So easy to change.

Cheers,
Jan

Nice work on the radio - but boy - get that shabby steering wheel fixed!!!

Yesterday I took the car to somwhere south of Freiburg and collected these:



215/55 R16 tyres on some shabby 8x16" eight hole (read: a$$-hole ) alloys. The alloys will be thrown away for the sake of human kind, the tyres will go on the Coupé, with the 8x16" steels I recently bought. And it'll be a bit different this time - but more on that once it's finished.

From where I loaded them I headed straight to the garage, as there was some lift time available. P's 300TD, his brothers 32b TurboDiesel and my 300TD were waiting for some winter preparation. This time we went for FluidFilm NAS. The years before we used FluidFilm Liquid A. Which was sort of a waste, as at least half of it drips off... The thicker NAS is way more economic and will probably stay longer. I have a feeling that the Liquid A gets washed away pretty soon.

Only downer is that the NAS is very much not so liquid... *glob glob glob*



Though as soon as the can is a bit emptyer and the stuff can be shaked, it gets thinner (thixotropic liquid). And then - a liberal coat is applied to whereever neccesary...





^a little dripping occurs, but way less than with the thinner stuff. Nice. And yeah, I know that jacking point needs a repair - but not before spring...

And - well - this weekend I have cracked the 935.000km mark. Which means the car has now done 40.000km in slightly less than a year. And apart from that mysterious engine knock - it's been more or less free of big trouble.

Though there'S one thing that needs fixing before the next TÜV; I also did an oil chnage and discovered that I have a major oil leak. It look like either the oil pan is leaking or the injection pump main seal. Either are a PITA to replace. But with that oil leak - no TÜV. Good thing is: I have over a year of TÜV left. So I can sort that during summer, when hopefully the Coupé is back on the road (fingers crossed).

And that's it. Thanks for reading.

Cheers,
Jan

It's parked in a field?

Headlight wipers, correct, Sir!

I think they make the front end a little less "dull" to look at.



They'r not even connected, just for the looks 'Cause in real life - they just waste a lot of washing fluid without too much effect. But they look good.

Re: alloys; of course I didn't throw them away... I'm selling them. I'm not too eager on the 8-hole wheel design. I prefere the 15-hole "manhole covers", of which I have a 16" set. That's enough. Hmm. Counting; I have 6 sets of steels, and 1 set of alloys I don't know. I'm not an alloy type of guy I guess.

Cheers,
Jan

If only I could find a 16" set of 15 hole manhole covers...

Nice! Mine all have working wipers but either no rubbers or broken rubbers. I'll investigate Volvo rubber.

That would've been plan B. I was hoping the wipers had the same "streamlined" blade-carriers. And also because - reasons (I don't know...).

Anyway, I borrowed the pump timing check tool blinky-thingy from work, that's the plan for tomorrow - one of those rare free days The engine starts to throw smoke starting from about 3500-4000RPM. Might be late injection? The chain has no stretch at all, so next thing to check is the injection timing. And if this is spot-on as well - it's just a smokey old bastuard diesel