"Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney" (braddelaparker)
05/12/2014 at 12:26 • Filed to: None
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"Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney" (braddelaparker)
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Made an off-hand comment about a 300D being a good replacement for my roommate's aging and slowly dying Passat, and he's now fallen in love with the idea and wants to go look at a few. What are the big, potentially catastrophic items I need to look out for?
Brian, The Life of
> Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
05/12/2014 at 12:40 |
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If the compression tests out, you should be good. There WILL be some sort of mildly irritating vacuum leak that he can either fix (involving a trip down the MB vacuum leak rathole) or just live with it as long as it's fairly slow. I used my vacuum leak to as an indicator for when the engine was warmed up in the morning ... if the vacuum system recharged enough to pop-up the other door locks, the car was ready to drive :D
Seriously though: oil system! The pressure gauge MUST work and he MUST watch it. I lost mine because a cataclysmic sudden pressure drop that I didn't see in time. Always be scanning the gauges on these old cars.
Agrajag
> Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
05/12/2014 at 12:40 |
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Got you covered. http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/vehicle-specif…
The 300D is going to have power everything. Those are all controlled by vacuum so if any switches don't work it is possibly a vacuum issue and not the switch.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Brian, The Life of
05/12/2014 at 12:54 |
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He'll also need to know how to adjust valves, and it's best that the timing chain's been replaced at least once.
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Brian, The Life of
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
05/12/2014 at 12:56 |
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Solid points!