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Still no cure! Found this "Barn find"
Picked up this 81' 300TD wagon that has been sitting in this garage since 1992! Has only 84k miles on it. There is too much rust to bother with restoring, so it makes the perfect parts car for me. Interior is perfect, the dash is not even cracked and all will be used in my green 85' wagon. So after getting it home and cleaning it up, I wanted to see if the motor was free. Put a socket on the crank bolt and in moved only a few mm. Weird, so I figured the something must be locked up other than the motor. I cut off all the belts, which were rusted to the pulleys. The Alt. was locked right up, and now the motor turned over with no issues, so I rotated it by hand about 10 times. After putting in a good battery, I cranked it over without using the glow plugs and after about 20 seconds it started up! On 24 year old diesel fuel! Will be parting out the truck and saving the motor as a backup for one of our other cars if needed.