Interesting.  I just wondered because I don't want to do whatever I
did to cause it to happen again.  I may have tried using starter fluid
a couple of times, but I don't think it ever helped with my engine.
Pretty much it either started or it didn't.  Long cranking is what got
it going when I was visiting Montana or Minnesota combined with
putting hot air in the air intake with a hair dryer and using a block
heater.  My engine had 144,000 miles on it when I got it so I really
don't know what they run and start like when new.  It will be
interesting to find out.

Shipping a motor to Germany and back is not something I would do to
reply to Tiger's suggestion about a factory in Germany.  One of the
best things about Metric besides the helpful, honest guy who runs the
shop and it's small size and staff is that it is close enough for me
to be able to trailer the motor there and back myself.

I really like Mike, the President of Metric.  He was completely
comfortable with me coming in his shop and visiting with him.  He was
working on a block from a 1954 Mercedes when I was there.  It was also
a 5 cylinder diesel.  I don't have my engine back yet, but from what
other people who know Metric have told me and my impressions of the
shop so far I would recommend the place.  I stripped out the heads on
the allen socket bolts that hold the vacuum pump in place and a nut
was missing on a bracket that holds the exhaust pipe on.  I asked Mike
if he could recommend a good place to get metric hardware and he just
went to his hardware inventory and gave me a handful of the bolts I
needed.  I decided to replace the front seal on my transimission and
Mike got me one of those too for 1/2 what the discount on-line parts
places wanted.

I will post on the list when I get the engine back next week.

On Jun 9, 5:09 pm, "-->> T.G. Lambach <<--" <"T.G. Lambach at
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