Re: [MBZ] door lock issue on 115

[Curly McLain via Mercedes]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 15:01:47 -0500 Randy Bennell via Mercedes
 wrote:


 I think I have discovered what is ailing the door locks on my car.
 You might recall (or maybe not) my posting about locks that sometimes
 will not lock.
 In any event it has become more of an issue as the days get cooler. We
 are not cold yet, but cooler than many of you folks.
 I have discovered, sort of by accident, that if I open the door and
 then slam it a bit harder, the locks work.
 So, my thought is that the door latch mechanism needs some lubricant.


Either that, or the lubricant that is there is hardened up and needs to
be cleaned out thoroughly and replaced with new.

Craig


That lithium grease turns to crud.  it is why I never use the stuff. 
molybdenum grease has never hardened in any use where I have applied 
it over the past 40 yrs.   However, if it gets on your clothes, it 
makes a dark stain on your tennis shorts, rather than a white stain.


I'd say clean and lube or lube and adjust.  The catch is adjustable.

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Re: [MBZ] Uh, yeah, about that cheat code...

[Curly McLain via Mercedes]

Ooops!

http://jalopnik.com/the-epa-may-have-found-a-second-secret-defeat-device-in-1735745096

Dan


How come none of the media "finds" or points out the cheats that the 
EPA uses?  The media, and all the comments about VW, all treat EPA as 
this wonderful pristine organization.  In reality, it is a very 
corrupt, political extortion machine.


For example, it is well under way to dictate if andrew can grow 
dermaders in his yard, or if each and every farm can plant the crops 
they desire each year.


Curt may not be able to cut a tree for farwood to keep from freezing 
with out getting a stamp and paying the EPA.  ( at home or at "camp")


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Re: [MBZ] Rich saves my bacon

[Rich Thomas via Mercedes]

I had a regulator "fail" on a 123, it got all bent so I took it out and 
put it between 2 2x4s and applied some Richforce to the middle of it.  
Got it sprung back right.  At some point on another one the rivets 
holding the arm gear sheared so I bodged it back with some small bolts, 
I had to grind the heads off a bit so they would not interfere with the 
arm motion.  Worked fine.


--R



On 10/9/15 10:38 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:

123 power windows never fail?  If original, this part has lasted nearly thirty 
years and just shy of 350k miles.  I'll compare that to any electric window 
from the 123 or 126 series...



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Re: [MBZ] Overheating 240D revisited

[Jim Cathey via Mercedes]

What I found that probably does not fit the bill

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/5247862716.html


Well, they're certainly proud of that!


http://seattle.craigslist.org/sno/cto/5253972729.html


Gas, ugh.  Interesting possibility, though.  "Doesn't run"
covers a lot of ground, though.  And it's a 2-door.


http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/5246619211.html


Swedish wagon, not a bad choice.  Will show him the pix.


http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/5247748110.html


No pix, needs engine?  I don't think so!


http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/cto/5250130020.html


Volare?  Oh oh oh oh!  Can't imagine that this "vista cruiser"
would attract him, but you never know.  I would expect stunningly
bad fuel economy and performance.  Basket cases, of any degree,
to the back of the line.


http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/cto/5252605497.html


Surprisingly new Barney-mobile.  Wonder how RAV4's do in a crash?


http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/5246852138.html


I sure hate intermittents!


http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/cto/5230207800.html


Rusty W115?  Certainly a well-known quantity!  It might do, anyway.


http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/5257260369.html


Gas coupe?  Not sure if spacious enough.  Putting a bull fiddle
in and out of a 2-door on a daily basis would probably get old
fast...

-- Jim


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[MBZ] The true story of the diesel engine is stranger than fiction

[OK Don via Mercedes]

OK, it's a bit high level, long on prose and short on details, but
interesting never-the-less.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/fuel-economy/the-tumultuous-history-of-the-diesel-engine/ar-AAfaG8D?li=AA8mH2=edgsp#page=1

-- 
OK Don

NSA: The only branch of government that actually listens to US citizens!

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"There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who
learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence
for themselves."

WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers*
2013 F150, 18 mpg
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Re: [MBZ] UPS vs IPS

[Jim Cathey via Mercedes]

They all do.  At least all the recent ones.  Switching mode
power supplies promptly turn the AC into DC - at line
voltage.  That means about 120 VDC.  This is then used to
drive the DC-to-DC converters that result in +12, +5, +3, -5,
etc.  Feed it a steady DC in their voltage range and it
should be quite happy.


Not to imply that the designers _intended_ for you to open
them up to find the main DC rail and (ab)use it that way.
But it ought to work, modulo the always-on portion that
lets you use a pushbutton power switch, or lets the machine
turn itself off.  That could be a separate internal power
supply (for efficiency).  Or not.

Also, the DC rail is not 120V.  A rectifier converts 120V
AC _RMS_ to its _peak_ voltage, not its _power-average_
voltage.  120 * sqrt(2) == 170 or so.  (Modulo droop caused
by loading.)  It'd probably be happy with less, but possibly
not quite so little as 120VDC.  Supplies that will accept
100-240V VAC (not uncommon for world-rated gear) should
run happily on 140-340VDC, and probably on somewhat less.

Try it and see!  I recommend using a machine you don't
care too much about, to start.

-- Jim


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Re: [MBZ] Rich saves my bacon

[Meade Dillon via Mercedes]

I'd still like to know if anyone has read about or developed a "fix" for
the 124 front window regulators to reduce the flexing.

-
Max
Charleston SC
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[MBZ] 123 power windows

[Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes]

Folks

123 power windows do fail

I've probably replaced 3 driver's side regulators on my 1982 300td over maybe 
12 or 14 years

Granted, the 2 replacements were also used units


thanks,

xx rick
Rick Hawkins

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Re: [MBZ] Starting a dormant Cat truck v8 diesel

[Curly McLain via Mercedes]

 > Curly wrote:


 Anybody familiar with these cat engines and the fuel
 pump/injection system?


The 14 L engines were know to require bleeding each injector
if it ever ran out of fuel.  That was in the 1990s.  I'm not
sure about newer CAT engines.


Well, they decided yesterday to haul it home, so I am not going to 
mess with it any more.


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Re: [MBZ] Rich saves my bacon

[Curly McLain via Mercedes]

I had a regulator "fail" on a 123, it got all bent so I took it out 
and put it between 2 2x4s and applied some Richforce to the middle 
of it.  Got it sprung back right.  At some point on another one the 
rivets holding the arm gear sheared so I bodged it back with some 
small bolts, I had to grind the heads off a bit so they would not 
interfere with the arm motion.  Worked fine.


--R



On 10/9/15 10:38 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
123 power windows never fail?  If original, this part has lasted 
nearly thirty years and just shy of 350k miles.  I'll compare that 
to any electric window from the 123 or 126 series...


I think I have had one 123 winder regulator fail in 20+ years.  I've 
had a bunch fail in 126.  maybe 3 or 4?


I am not a big fan of air cond, so I run windows down unless it is 
way cold or way hot, or way long trip. (500 to 1100 miles/day)  YMMV


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Re: [MBZ] Overheating 240D revisited

[Curly McLain via Mercedes]

What I found that probably does not fit the bill

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/5247862716.html


Well, they're certainly proud of that!


"Properly maintained the entirety of its life." and "timing chain 
just broke on it and it doesn't run. will need to be towed. Will make 
great project car."


These are contradictory.  Evidence suggests the latter is true and 
the former is false.

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Re: [MBZ] Overheating 240D revisited

[Curt Raymond via Mercedes]

That Audi is the same generation (late '90s) as my Jetta I think. The ignition 
switches are a known failure point, relatively easy to replace and cheap, like 
$10-$15...
-Curt
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Cc: Jim Cathey  
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> http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/5246852138.html

I sure hate intermittents!




-- Jim


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Re: [MBZ] UPS vs IPS

[Craig via Mercedes]

On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 02:32:10 -0500 fmiser via Mercedes
 wrote:

> They all do.  At least all the recent ones.  Switching mode
> power supplies promptly turn the AC into DC - at line
> voltage.  That means about 120 VDC.  This is then used to
> drive the DC-to-DC converters that result in +12, +5, +3, -5,
> etc.  Feed it a steady DC in their voltage range and it
> should be quite happy.

As Jim already pointed out, the rectified DC is about 165 - 170 VDC.

The power factor corrected versions have a second switching supply (a
buck/boost configuration) that is in front of the DC bus that make the
input look more like a resistor than a capacitor (which has large charging
spikes near the peak of the input waveform). These will change the voltage
range of DC operation, but should not have any problems running off
straight DC.



On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 07:16:02 -0700 Jim Cathey via Mercedes
 wrote:

>  modulo the always-on portion that lets you use a pushbutton power
> switch, or lets the machine turn itself off.  That could be a separate
> internal power supply (for efficiency).  Or not.

In the supplies I have seen, those are indeed a separate internal
power supply. IIRC, I even saw one that had a 60 Hz transformer --
something that would not like a straight DC input.


> Try it and see!  I recommend using a machine you don't care too much
> about, to start.

You can, by shorting the correct terminals of a computer power supply's
motherboard connector, run the power supply without connecting it to a
computer motherboard. It's been awhile since I have done that, so I don't
remember the exact way to do it.


Craig

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[MBZ] Noise from the back of the car

[Craig via Mercedes]

I've been having to drive over a lot of "traffic bumps" lately (rather
slowly, I might add) and heard some strange noises a few minutes ago.

I rocked the back of the car up and down like one would for checking
shocks, and, sure enough, heard some clunking noises that shouldn't have
been there. Since I'm alone, I had no one to rock the car up and down
while I was on the ground looking underneath, so I just looked.

One of the things I found was the lower left rear shock mount has a
rusted-out hole in it and cracks around a large fraction of the periphery
of the area around it in the left trailing arm.

Has anyone dealt with something like this before?

Thanks,


Craig

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[MBZ] Rock Auto RAWKS!

[Dan Penoff via Mercedes]

I continue to find some really good closeout deals on Rock Auto.  I have an RSS 
feed set up for the closeouts for all of my cars so when something new comes up 
I’ll see it right away.

I just scored a pair of brand new Bilstein shocks for the back of the 1994 S420 
for $25.00/each.  These are typical of what come up on closeout - private label 
stuff that’s probably a buyout of old inventory.

I know the original shocks are on the car, so I figured for a quarter of what 
new ones would cost otherwise I would go ahead and grab a pair.

Dan
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Re: [MBZ] Uh, yeah, about that cheat code...

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

I have had success in my new garden growing "German Johnson" heirloom
tomatoes w/o composted kitty litter.  They taste great despite this
handicap.

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

> Ooops!
>>
>>
>> http://jalopnik.com/the-epa-may-have-found-a-second-secret-defeat-device-in-1735745096
>>
>> Dan
>>
>
> How come none of the media "finds" or points out the cheats that the EPA
> uses?  The media, and all the comments about VW, all treat EPA as this
> wonderful pristine organization.  In reality, it is a very corrupt,
> political extortion machine.
>
> For example, it is well under way to dictate if andrew can grow dermaders
> in his yard, or if each and every farm can plant the crops they desire each
> year.
>
> Curt may not be able to cut a tree for farwood to keep from freezing with
> out getting a stamp and paying the EPA.  ( at home or at "camp")
>
>
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Re: [MBZ] Starting a dormant Cat truck v8 diesel

[fmiser via Mercedes]

> Curly wrote:
> 
> Anybody familiar with these cat engines and the fuel
> pump/injection system?

The 14 L engines were know to require bleeding each injector
if it ever ran out of fuel.  That was in the 1990s.  I'm not
sure about newer CAT engines.

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Re: [MBZ] UPS vs IPS

[fmiser via Mercedes]

> Meade wrote:
> 
> Are there PC power supplies that accept DC power as well as
> AC power?

They all do.  At least all the recent ones.  Switching mode
power supplies promptly turn the AC into DC - at line
voltage.  That means about 120 VDC.  This is then used to
drive the DC-to-DC converters that result in +12, +5, +3, -5,
etc.  Feed it a steady DC in their voltage range and it
should be quite happy.

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Re: [MBZ] This guy is on crack

[Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes]

Nelson Cruz hands down.  He banged 40+ home runs for the second year
running.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

> I missed LT Don's msg. - please re-post.
>>
>
> He was lamenting that he could not choose between Rubio or Cruz.
>
>
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