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I ran a gallon through my 240D, it didn't seem to hurt anything. If I had a good source here in MA of veggie oil at a reasonable price like $1.25 a gallon I'd say in some. Unfortunately I don't really have anywhere to keep it yet so I'd be limited to 10 gallons or so. Once we get our house I intend to see about getting 100 gallons or so. Plan on just mixing it in with the diesel. If I can get it for $1.50 a gallon and I mix 25% thats $6 a week assuming fuel doesn't get any more expensive and I don't need to drive any less (both are bad assumptions). -Curt Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:46:08 -0400 From: Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] Are you watching myth busters right now? To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed i've actually run the same experiment on my 81 TD ran nicely for about 5 miles, albeit it smelled funny. turns out veggie acts as kind of a solvent and does a nice job of bringing all the algae and such into the fuel system. about 15 inline filters later, all was well i have some doubts about using veggie long term, but largely because i consider it unproven. my neighbor is a veggie nut and he has run maybe 9k miles on it. cheap/free fuel is very appealing though, too appealing right now to think that veggie is going to go away. our friend oren will deliver ready to go veggie fuel at $1.25 a gallon for those who dont want to mess with it. or you can just gather and make your own for cost of your time and effort. - Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 18 01:47:19 2006 Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([63.240.77.82]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GDtS9-0001DQ-85 for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:47:19 + Received: from aceraspire (c-68-57-181-125.hsd1.va.comcast.net[68.57.181.125]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id 20060818014655012002kqbne; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:47:06 + Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: LarryT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:46:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: [MBZ] Electrical Problem? '91 300D 2.5T X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7.cp2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com List-Unsubscribe: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: /pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com List-Post: mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:47:19 - Howdy - A couple of weeks ago my battery and alternator died. Installed a new battery and an alternator from Rusty and all was well. Tonight my wife was starting to work - got about 5 miles from home and she called to say the ABS light was on - then the SRS light came on and the AC slowed down as the battery seemed to die. She turned around and transferred to the 240D (old reliable) before heading off to work again. I tried to restart it after she pulled into the driveway and it would not turn over. I plan to charge the battery overnight and put my meter on it tomorrow to see what the alt and battery are doing. Is that the best way to proceed? Does it sound like I may have a bad alternator and/or battery - I'm no whiz on electrical stuff so any ideas would be helpful - also, I'll check the battery cables and ground straps 1st but I checked them a while back and they were OK - but I'll check again. Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs Porsche Road Test http://members.rennlist.com/roadtest/ .
[MBZ] Are you watching myth busters right now?
They just took apart a 126 300SD and rigged a big speaker inside it to see if they could blow the car up. Crap.
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No - how did it turn out? How much power did the amp put out? What frequencies? On 8/16/06, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They just took apart a 126 300SD and rigged a big speaker inside it to see if they could blow the car up. Crap. -- OK Don, KD5NRO Norman, OK The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives. Sir Winston Churchill '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager
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Yeah, I saw that. Made me cringe. I think they would have had better luck destroying a car had they used one that wasn't built so well. --Robert Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: They just took apart a 126 300SD and rigged a big speaker inside it to see if they could blow the car up. Crap. ___ 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
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Did they bust the myth? I didn't see it 'cause all my TVs were on So You Think You Can Dance Bob Rentfro '77 300D 157K '87 Acura Legend 177K Still waiting on '72 350SL 78K Litchfield Park, AZ - Original Message - From: Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List Mercedes@okiebenz.com; Banned List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:31 PM Subject: [MBZ] Are you watching myth busters right now? They just took apart a 126 300SD and rigged a big speaker inside it to see if they could blow the car up. Crap. ___ 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
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They didn't use an amp. They made a crank on the back of the transmission and hooked a rod to drive a 4 foot mythbusters speaker directly off the transmission. It generated roughly 160 db @ 15hz. It blew the sunroof out a bit, but aside from the speaker self destructing, that was pretty much the extent of the damage. -Robert OK Don wrote: No - how did it turn out? How much power did the amp put out? What frequencies? On 8/16/06, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They just took apart a 126 300SD and rigged a big speaker inside it to see if they could blow the car up. Crap.
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If anyone wants to see it, they are running that episode again right now Robert Robert Tara Ludwick wrote: They didn't use an amp. They made a crank on the back of the transmission and hooked a rod to drive a 4 foot mythbusters speaker directly off the transmission. It generated roughly 160 db @ 15hz. It blew the sunroof out a bit, but aside from the speaker self destructing, that was pretty much the extent of the damage. -Robert OK Don wrote: No - how did it turn out? How much power did the amp put out? What frequencies? On 8/16/06, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They just took apart a 126 300SD and rigged a big speaker inside it to see if they could blow the car up. Crap. ___ 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
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Well it blew the sunroof up a little, but thats it. As far the rest, no clue. OK Don wrote: No - how did it turn out? How much power did the amp put out? What frequencies? On 8/16/06, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They just took apart a 126 300SD and rigged a big speaker inside it to see if they could blow the car up. Crap. -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 91 300D 2.5 Turbo, 90 420SEL, 89 560SEL, 87 420SEL, 87 300SDL, 85 380SE, 85 300D, 84 190D 2.2, 83 300TD, 81 300TD, 81 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 74 240D, 73 280SEL 4.5, 72 250C, 69 250 http://www.striplin.net
Re: [MBZ] Are you watching myth busters right now?
They pick the goofiest cars for stuff. Dodge Intrepid for trying to flip over with a jet engine for instance. You wanna flip something over you get a mini van not a low slung saloon... -Curt Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:51:26 -0500 From: Robert Tara Ludwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] Are you watching myth busters right now? To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Yeah, I saw that. Made me cringe. I think they would have had better luck destroying a car had they used one that wasn't built so well. --Robert Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: They just took apart a 126 300SD and rigged a big speaker inside it to see if they could blow the car up. Crap. - Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 17 13:24:42 2006 Received: from mxa.windwireless.net ([199.164.167.40]) by server8.arterytc8.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GDhrW-0006ek-2i for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:24:42 + Received: from dogear.com (jimc.progress.wi-fi.windwireless.net [206.63.94.197] (may be forged)) by mxa.windwireless.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k7HDPB5g001208 for mercedes@okiebenz.com; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:25:11 -0700 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:24:40 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Virus-Scan: smtp-vilter X-SMTP-Vilter-Version: 1.1.0rc2 X-SMTP-Vilter-Backend: Clam AntiVirus Daemon (clamd) X-SMTP-Vilter-Status: clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0rc4 (mxa.windwireless.net [199.164.167.40]); Thu, 17 Aug 2006 06:25:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] Are you watching myth busters right now? X-BeenThere: mercedes@okiebenz.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7.cp2 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes_okiebenz.com.okiebenz.com List-Unsubscribe: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Archive: /pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com List-Post: mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:24:42 - You wanna flip something over you get a mini van not a low slung saloon... Ah, but think of the commercial possibilities if you should succeed! -- Jim
[MBZ] Are you watching myth busters right now?
Probably the same benz they used to run on straight veggie. Roger _ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
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Roger Conlon wrote: Probably the same benz they used to run on straight veggie. How did that work out? Did they just fill the tank and go? Did the car show any distress?
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I missed that one. Must have been pretty anti climactic. What did they do, pour it in and watch it run? ---Robert Roger Conlon wrote: Probably the same benz they used to run on straight veggie. Roger _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ 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
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Well, they had it lik in a 2 liter bottle hanging above the hood as I recall, but yeah, pretty anticlimactic, it just worked. The only thing that made me a bit worried was they ended it with: Yeah, you can just run your diesel on straight vegetable oil without a problem Umm... sure, depending on where you live and how long you want it to work... Kinda lik some of their other auto tests, like throwing sugar and bleach and what-not in your tank. Nope, didn't cause a problem, it doesn't hurt anything. Sure... right now It's probably my favorite show, but they really don't seem to do much background on actually learning about these myths, or at least the vehicular stuff and they don't seem to know all that much about cars and engines... Levi (: On 8/17/06, Robert Tara Ludwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed that one. Must have been pretty anti climactic. What did they do, pour it in and watch it run? ---Robert Roger Conlon wrote: Probably the same benz they used to run on straight veggie. Roger _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ 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 ___ 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
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Levi Smith wrote: Well, they had it lik in a 2 liter bottle hanging above the hood as I recall, but yeah, pretty anticlimactic, it just worked. The only thing that made me a bit worried was they ended it with: Yeah, you can just run your diesel on straight vegetable oil without a problem Surely no problems in the first half gallon. I can imagine mythbusters disproving the theory that Russian Roulette is dangerous. Click. See, I pointed the gun at my head and pulled the trigger, but nothing happened.
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i've actually run the same experiment on my 81 TD ran nicely for about 5 miles, albeit it smelled funny. turns out veggie acts as kind of a solvent and does a nice job of bringing all the algae and such into the fuel system. about 15 inline filters later, all was well i have some doubts about using veggie long term, but largely because i consider it unproven. my neighbor is a veggie nut and he has run maybe 9k miles on it. cheap/free fuel is very appealing though, too appealing right now to think that veggie is going to go away. our friend oren will deliver ready to go veggie fuel at $1.25 a gallon for those who dont want to mess with it. or you can just gather and make your own for cost of your time and effort. On 8/17/06, Levi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, they had it lik in a 2 liter bottle hanging above the hood as I recall, but yeah, pretty anticlimactic, it just worked. The only thing that made me a bit worried was they ended it with: Yeah, you can just run your diesel on straight vegetable oil without a problem Umm... sure, depending on where you live and how long you want it to work... Kinda lik some of their other auto tests, like throwing sugar and bleach and what-not in your tank. Nope, didn't cause a problem, it doesn't hurt anything. Sure... right now It's probably my favorite show, but they really don't seem to do much background on actually learning about these myths, or at least the vehicular stuff and they don't seem to know all that much about cars and engines... Levi (: On 8/17/06, Robert Tara Ludwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed that one. Must have been pretty anti climactic. What did they do, pour it in and watch it run? ---Robert Roger Conlon wrote: Probably the same benz they used to run on straight veggie. Roger _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
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FYI - I've run over 40,000 miles on vegoil in my S350. It works fine. YMMV (pun intended) Costs are not insignificant. Pumps, motors, filters, storage containers, hydraulic couplings, tubing, all add up. Not to mention what you have to do to your car. -Dave Walton 87SDL, 94S350, 99E300 On 8/17/06, Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've actually run the same experiment on my 81 TD ran nicely for about 5 miles, albeit it smelled funny. turns out veggie acts as kind of a solvent and does a nice job of bringing all the algae and such into the fuel system. about 15 inline filters later, all was well i have some doubts about using veggie long term, but largely because i consider it unproven. my neighbor is a veggie nut and he has run maybe 9k miles on it. cheap/free fuel is very appealing though, too appealing right now to think that veggie is going to go away. our friend oren will deliver ready to go veggie fuel at $1.25 a gallon for those who dont want to mess with it. or you can just gather and make your own for cost of your time and effort. On 8/17/06, Levi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, they had it lik in a 2 liter bottle hanging above the hood as I recall, but yeah, pretty anticlimactic, it just worked. The only thing that made me a bit worried was they ended it with: Yeah, you can just run your diesel on straight vegetable oil without a problem Umm... sure, depending on where you live and how long you want it to work... Kinda lik some of their other auto tests, like throwing sugar and bleach and what-not in your tank. Nope, didn't cause a problem, it doesn't hurt anything. Sure... right now It's probably my favorite show, but they really don't seem to do much background on actually learning about these myths, or at least the vehicular stuff and they don't seem to know all that much about cars and engines... Levi (: On 8/17/06, Robert Tara Ludwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed that one. Must have been pretty anti climactic. What did they do, pour it in and watch it run? ---Robert Roger Conlon wrote: Probably the same benz they used to run on straight veggie. Roger _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
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still better than 3 bucks a gallon though, no? plus the advantage of everyone being able to smell you coming from 2 miles away On 8/17/06, dave walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI - I've run over 40,000 miles on vegoil in my S350. It works fine. YMMV (pun intended) Costs are not insignificant. Pumps, motors, filters, storage containers, hydraulic couplings, tubing, all add up. Not to mention what you have to do to your car. -Dave Walton 87SDL, 94S350, 99E300 On 8/17/06, Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've actually run the same experiment on my 81 TD ran nicely for about 5 miles, albeit it smelled funny. turns out veggie acts as kind of a solvent and does a nice job of bringing all the algae and such into the fuel system. about 15 inline filters later, all was well i have some doubts about using veggie long term, but largely because i consider it unproven. my neighbor is a veggie nut and he has run maybe 9k miles on it. cheap/free fuel is very appealing though, too appealing right now to think that veggie is going to go away. our friend oren will deliver ready to go veggie fuel at $1.25 a gallon for those who dont want to mess with it. or you can just gather and make your own for cost of your time and effort. On 8/17/06, Levi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, they had it lik in a 2 liter bottle hanging above the hood as I recall, but yeah, pretty anticlimactic, it just worked. The only thing that made me a bit worried was they ended it with: Yeah, you can just run your diesel on straight vegetable oil without a problem Umm... sure, depending on where you live and how long you want it to work... Kinda lik some of their other auto tests, like throwing sugar and bleach and what-not in your tank. Nope, didn't cause a problem, it doesn't hurt anything. Sure... right now It's probably my favorite show, but they really don't seem to do much background on actually learning about these myths, or at least the vehicular stuff and they don't seem to know all that much about cars and engines... Levi (: On 8/17/06, Robert Tara Ludwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed that one. Must have been pretty anti climactic. What did they do, pour it in and watch it run? ---Robert Roger Conlon wrote: Probably the same benz they used to run on straight veggie. Roger _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
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I've run about two tanks of pure vegetable oil through so far. The engine runs quieter (vegetable oil has better lubricity that dino diesel) and it starts much more quickly than it used to. My theory about that is the solvent qualities of the vegetable oil have cleaned out the injectors. --mf Gary Hurst writes: still better than 3 bucks a gallon though, no? On 8/17/06, dave walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI - I've run over 40,000 miles on vegoil in my S350. It works fine. YMMV (pun intended)
Re: [MBZ] Are you watching myth busters right now?
I've put two consecutive tankfuls of bio in since I've several trips downtown to take SWMBO to jury duty (that takes me right past the lone bio pump in town). I had to get emissions done yesterday and it was comical watching those knucks. My yucking it up was split between their yearly confusion on how to deal with my car and their stupid looks wondering what that odd smell was and where it was coming from. Bob Rentfro '77 300D 157K '87 Acura Legend 177K Still waiting on '72 350SL 78K Litchfield Park, AZ - Original Message - From: Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Are you watching myth busters right now? still better than 3 bucks a gallon though, no? plus the advantage of everyone being able to smell you coming from 2 miles away On 8/17/06, dave walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI - I've run over 40,000 miles on vegoil in my S350. It works fine. YMMV (pun intended) Costs are not insignificant. Pumps, motors, filters, storage containers, hydraulic couplings, tubing, all add up. Not to mention what you have to do to your car. -Dave Walton 87SDL, 94S350, 99E300 On 8/17/06, Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've actually run the same experiment on my 81 TD ran nicely for about 5 miles, albeit it smelled funny. turns out veggie acts as kind of a solvent and does a nice job of bringing all the algae and such into the fuel system. about 15 inline filters later, all was well i have some doubts about using veggie long term, but largely because i consider it unproven. my neighbor is a veggie nut and he has run maybe 9k miles on it. cheap/free fuel is very appealing though, too appealing right now to think that veggie is going to go away. our friend oren will deliver ready to go veggie fuel at $1.25 a gallon for those who dont want to mess with it. or you can just gather and make your own for cost of your time and effort. On 8/17/06, Levi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, they had it lik in a 2 liter bottle hanging above the hood as I recall, but yeah, pretty anticlimactic, it just worked. The only thing that made me a bit worried was they ended it with: Yeah, you can just run your diesel on straight vegetable oil without a problem Umm... sure, depending on where you live and how long you want it to work... Kinda lik some of their other auto tests, like throwing sugar and bleach and what-not in your tank. Nope, didn't cause a problem, it doesn't hurt anything. Sure... right now It's probably my favorite show, but they really don't seem to do much background on actually learning about these myths, or at least the vehicular stuff and they don't seem to know all that much about cars and engines... Levi (: On 8/17/06, Robert Tara Ludwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I missed that one. Must have been pretty anti climactic. What did they do, pour it in and watch it run? ---Robert Roger Conlon wrote: Probably the same benz they used to run on straight veggie. Roger _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com
