The unfortunate thing is that some people really don't want to do anything for themselves and will take advantage of anyone who offers to assist. I have a nephew who is struggling somewhat. He is now married and they have one child. He never went to school beyond high school and has had difficulty finding a job that will support them. He has chosen somewhat wisely in that they now have a house. However they have no vehicle and rely on the kindness of various family members whenever there is a gathering. He buses it to work and back. I had an old Ford sedan that no one appeared willing to buy (ultimately did sell it for a whole lot less than I had in it but that is another story). In any event, I voiced the thought that we should give it to Matt to help them out. My wise wife said we should not as unfortunately, Matt is the type that will then expect me to maintain or repair it forever and will complain at every family function that we gave him a car that was junk. I took her advice and did not offer it to him. The result is that he is still without a car but could have driven that old LTD for a long time with any sort of minimal ongoing maintenance. It had a totally rebuilt 302 and AT. Was simple enough not to have power windows or locks etc - No AC and a solid frame so that rust in the body would not make it unsafe for a long time. One of my son's friends paid us $1G for it and has driven it for almost a year without incident - even smacked the back of another car hard enough to cause the poor kid some significant back discomfort for a couple of weeks without doing any damage to the LTD. Don't ask about the little Japanese import that he hit from behind.
End of rant Randy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Kraly Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 2:25 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] 1987 300SDL I'm still willing to help list members with their Mercedes providing they are stopping by to learn something. If you do a valve adjustment on someone's car, you'll be doing it forever, but if you teach them how to do it, you **SHOULDN'T*** have to do it ever again. There was a neighbor kid who always had trouble tuning his RC car engine to run properly, so I thought I'd just tune it for him. Every few days, he would come to me and complain that it wasn't running right. Even when I explained to him how to do it, he would end up messing with it and it wouldn't run at all. I ended up selling him one of my cars, and that one never did run right once he started tweaking the settings. I think both of them are reduced to parts now or have been forgotten. Kevin in Hillsboro, OR 1983 300SD 266Kmi, Ursula _ _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
