Fair point raised. The diesel sold today is the fuel bought on a futures
speculation 6 months to a year ago based on the gamble that the investor
was guessing correctly on price of crude, war, Mid East stability, public
nervousness about terrorism, tanker availability, refinery space and
timing,
Wandering or inappropriate temperature can be caused by disintegration
of the foam tube that draws interior air from the little intake on top
of the dash or ceiling, depending on model.
Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.com writes:
So, the '87 300D's climate control is acting up. (Symptom:
MG trainpain2...@yahoo.com writes:
Start looking for a new transmission it's only a matter of time.
So anyone have a diesel W116 parts car with a good transmission?
Rusty, your rebuilds still come with torque converter and warranty, right?
Allan
--
1983 300D
1979 300SD
That, or see what is involved in running a local licensing server like we do.
As I type this I am building a new W2K8 R2 server in VMware. When I am done, I
join it to the domain, run a small script that points it at our licensing
server, and voila! It's done.
Even if I don't point it, after
There is no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle.
Mike
On Nov 15, 2011 9:44 PM, Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com wrote:
World's first series produced diesel-hybrid was just introduced by
Peugeot in the form of the 3008 Hybrid4 with 200 bhp and CO2 emission as
low as 99 g/km.
Michael Canfield wrote:
There is no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle.
How about 'remote emissions vehicle', or REV?
Mitch.
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That is a much more accurate description.
Mike
On Nov 17, 2011 9:15 AM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Michael Canfield wrote:
There is no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle.
How about 'remote emissions vehicle', or REV?
Mitch.
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I can't justify the expense/hassle of running a licensing server
when all I really need is the ability to print from macs on winders
only printers. and on occasion, run a program that I can't get on
Mac.
Seems to me that if M$ was not such a den of thieves, they would send
through a patch
I think a lot (if not most) of the diesel refined here in the USA is
shipped off to Yurp as they have limited refining capacity and high
demand due to more diesel vehicles. Maybe a better deal for the refiners?
--R
On 11/16/11 10:24 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
Craigdiese...@pisquared.net
The 'correct' hybrid has a diesel engine sized to move
the vehicle down the road at highway speed, fully loaded
and with a few ponies to spare, and sufficient battery
capacity to handle normal acceleration and regenerative
braking needs. And, obviously, sufficient electric
motorage to give the
I'll take 2. When do we start building?
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hybrids
The 'correct' hybrid has a diesel engine sized to move
Maybe stop buying winders only printers?
Just a thought...
Allan
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1979 300SD
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 8:30 AM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com
wrote:
I can't justify the expense/hassle of running a licensing server
when all I really need is the ability to print from macs on
On Nov 17, 2011 6:08 AM, Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote:
There is no such thing as a zero emissions vehicle.
What about an all-electric vehicle where the electricity comes from hydro-
or wind-power? Picking nits, I know, but here in the PNW we do get an
awful lot of our
As far as I know that kind of snap ring does not have anything to
do with the B2 problem as that controls a band.
The crawling forward if the pawl is not engaged could very well
be caused by whatever the snap ring should hold. The part is now
dragging and making the car move forward. It is
OK, another nit - what about the fossil fuel that went into
building/manufacturing the dams/towers and equipment, distribution, etc.?
You can't get something for nothing.
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Disconnect speedo cable at transmission.
Manfred
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:38:16 -0500
From: andrew strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Today's W123 puzzler
The entie cluster was disconnected - noise persisted.
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On Nov 17, 2011 4:22 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
Wandering or inappropriate temperature can be caused by disintegration
of the foam tube that draws interior air from the little intake on top
of the dash or ceiling, depending on model.
True, although on 124s it's more likely
On Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:27 AM, MG trainpain2...@yahoo.com wrote:
The crawling forward if the pawl is not engaged could very well be
caused by whatever the snap ring should hold. The part is now dragging
and making the car move forward. It is also possible that the same is
happening
Given the evident damage I would not try to rebuild it unless you
have access to another tranny of the exact same kind as you will
probably encounter hard part damage, possibly even damage to the
tranny case where in some cases there are internal snap-rings
holding to the case. If there is
Oh! forgot to add. For an auto tranny rebuild there is a, in my
mind, rather steep learning curve and depending on the
transmission also required specialized tools and measurements.
Having done 350's, 904's and 700r4's I don't want to even try one
of these at my age. I will just get a rebuild
there are a variety of factors.
1) cetane rating
2) mix of bioDiesel
3) is it #1 or #2 or blended? (depends on region, here in the PNW all we see is
#2)
#1 used in the winter is a weaker mix, less cetane but lower pour point to
avoid gelling.
#2 will have more power but gels in the 34 degree
Sure, but I would assume that Greg was referring to same time of year,
etc. so you would be able to ignore blending discrepancies.
So, how do we find cetane ratings? And just what does cause the
differences in color between some distributors?? Poorer quality?
I see no notices on pumps around
Finally found the valve spring keeper solution. The special socket for OM606
injectors has another use...
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'95 E300, '87 300TD
Max meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote:
I'm considering a trip to base auto hobby shop to use their press to get these
valve keepers off/on.
Here in Michigan the change the diesel formulation about now, when temps
start hitting 32.
However, in the past 3 weeks I have replaced the timing belt, went
from 30 PSI to 33 PSI on the tires and put in a new accelerator pedal
(TPS) and on the exact same route, with exact same driving
The ONLY difference between one brand of gas or diesel and another is the
additive package - which includes any ethanol and/or biodiesel. That is also
what colors the fuel. The feedstocks have been standardized. They dispense the
appropriate additive at the Terminal depending on which retail
Jim Cathey wrote:
I'm thinking a 20HP diesel with maybe 100HP of electric
motor. The diesel needn't be a turbo, but if it's more
efficient on the highway with one then it should have it.
Battery pack relatively small, would only take you a few
miles on its own.
I was thinking maybe 15-17hp
On 16/11/2011 6:42 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
Zeniths, and part of my strong distaste for carbs BUT a 220Sb
with dual solexes would do 18 MPG.
Larry may know more, But I'd guess an M130 with the zeniths tossed in
favor of webers could be tuned to do 18 MPG.
I tuned a 10 MPG truck once to
It would make for a hot little car I should think if done right but I
wonder how the rear end would hold up?
Also wonder what the weight difference would be between the original
engine and the 8? Would not want to spend the sort of money necessary to
put aluminum heads etc on it, at least not
Forgive me please, as I know I am all over the place on my thoughts
about vehicles.
I was recently thinking about Buicks, and then about a 78 MB gasser,
that I have yet to go and look at, but would like to this weekend.
Now, I am wondering, if one was inclined toward and all wheel drive
You're assuming people are reasonable.
I'd bet you $5 my in-laws called for oil a month ago when we had our first cold
snap. They do it EVERY year.
I watch for the big price drop in July and fill up...
-Curt
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:09:52 -0500
From: Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu
To:
I don't know which years we are talking about, but the early 4matics were very
good when they were working and very expensive to fix when they quit working,
which was often.
The later ones are much simpler and more reliable, I think with three open
differentials. I hope the system can apply
At speed, in neutral with engine shut down - noise persists.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:31 AM, MG trainpain2...@yahoo.com wrote:
Disconnect speedo cable at transmission.
Manfred
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:38:16 -0500
From: andrew strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Today's
Cetane refers to the fuel's ability to combust under compression. Rather like
the exact opposite of octane. As far as I know centane is not directly related
to the BTU content of the fuel itself.
It is the BTU content of the fuel itself which decides the mileage you'll get.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 7
Yeah, but I can't see throwing out good laser printers. There are a
few Cretans using some of them that are still using winders. I have
not bought a printer in maybe 8 years. The cheap little
Samsung/Lexmark that I mainly use has been a workhorse.
One is a sharp copier that doubles as a
Some of you may remember that I have been having ACC/heat issues in my '84 300D
for the last 2-3 years. The problem was that I would get max heat at all of
the ACC PBU temperature wheel settings. I had previously switched out the
monovalve inserts, the ACC Push Button Units, and the ACC
On 17/11/2011 12:14 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
I don't know which years we are talking about, but the early 4matics
were very good when they were working and very expensive to fix when
they quit working, which was often.
The later ones are much simpler and more reliable, I think with three
open
So couldn't you use an older and essentially free or real cheap,
winders machine in a network as the printer controller and send
anything from anything to it for printing?
Randy
On 17/11/2011 1:36 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
Yeah, but I can't see throwing out good laser printers. There are a
few
On Nov 16, 2011, at 10:12 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com
wrote:
Rant warning
So once again, I should have just wiped the drive and
started over. Save time! Save money! Wipe M$ off your
hard drive. Call up LUooie Don(or your favorite LU) and
get the pooop on the hottest
With the Speedo cable disconnected? I think they are speculating it is the
rotation of the cable from the transmission in its flexible shaft, which
will be rotating at the same speed whether or not the engine or instruments
are engaged.
Best,
Tim
On Nov 17, 2011 1:23 PM, andrew strasfogel
Jim Cathey wrote:
The 'correct' hybrid has a diesel engine sized to move
the vehicle down the road at highway speed, fully loaded
and with a few ponies to spare, and sufficient battery
capacity to handle normal acceleration and regenerative
braking needs. And, obviously, sufficient
I read a rather lengthy article about the Benz engineers who analyzed a
diesel hybrid and determined that the difference in the cost of the
diesel engine, performance, etc. would not be as economical as a
gasser. Damn physics.
I think I posted it at one point.
--R
On 11/17/11 3:21 PM,
The noise is definitely coming from the front, and not from the cable,
which was disconnected from the speedometer and monitored during the test
drive. The noise is solely caused by wind/air, which makes it particularly
difficult to track down the exact source.
Thanks for all your interest.
On
Randy Bennell wrote:
I would think that traction control would be a function of the ABS
system which all of the later model cars must have?
I looked it up (on wiki, for whatever that's worth).
The 2nd generation system as found on the 210 series had 3 nice reliable open
diffs, with ASR
On 17/11/2011 2:30 PM, andrew strasfogel wrote:
The noise is definitely coming from the front, and not from the cable,
which was disconnected from the speedometer and monitored during the test
drive. The noise is solely caused by wind/air, which makes it particularly
difficult to track down the
'My thought, too.
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hybrids
Jim Cathey wrote:
The 'correct' hybrid has a diesel engine sized to move
the
...The ONLY difference between one brand of gas or diesel and another is
the additive package - which includes any ethanol and/or biodiesel. That is
also what colors the fuel. The feedstocks have been standardized. They
dispense the appropriate additive at the Terminal depending on which
How to Use a Printer Attached to a Windows XP Computer in Mac OS X
...
The process falls into these five general steps:
On Windows: Make sure you have a working printer set up on your Windows XP
computer (this is not covered here).
On Windows: Install the software needed to
If you are going up a long grade such as Donner
Pass eastbound or the Grapevine (Tejon Pass) in
California, could you make it to the top with a 20
hp diesel, a relatively small battery, and a full load?
Gerry
From: Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net
The 'correct' hybrid has a diesel engine
There is no foam tube in a W124, but the suction blower can go bad,
or fall off the plastic pipe.
The blower is behind the right hand side dash vent. Test by seeing
if a bit of tissue paper will stay put on the temp sensor grille
beside the sunroof switch.
The early units are NOT
Cajon? Between San Berdu (Bernardino) and Victorville?
'Reminds me: I was going down Cajon Pass on a rainy, very foggy early Sat.
afternoon in about late Jan '78, when suddenly coming toward me in the
opposite, up-hill direction with an altitude above ground of about 50 feet,
at most, was a
Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com writes:
If you are going up a long grade such as Donner
Pass eastbound or the Grapevine (Tejon Pass) in California, could you
make it to the top with a 20 hp diesel, a relatively small battery,
and a full load?
Only very slowly. This is the problem with
Gerry Archer wrote:
If you are going up a long grade such as Donner
Pass eastbound or the Grapevine (Tejon Pass) in California, could you
make it to the top with a 20 hp diesel, a relatively small battery, and
a full load?
About 1/3 as fast as you could with a 60hp engine. That is where
What is the horsepower rating for the early VW Jetta diesels - non turbo?
One of my former neighbors was a VW Jetta lover. He had 2 or 3 of them
when he lived accross the lane. A very frugal fellow. An accountant by
profession and German by background so the Jetta was an obvious response.
One
Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca writes:
What is the horsepower rating for the early VW Jetta diesels - non
turbo?
52? 48? Something in that neighborhood.
He said that he was down to about 40 kph by the time he crested hills
but it kept on going.
Just think, they also put that motor in
I object, to the whole load of echotrash that is pushed down or up our
respective orifices.
The entire hybrid industry is driven by government subsidy and self
serving regulation. NO hybrid vehicle, if you truly look at the support
industries that are necessary to produce and maintain it, is non
I Agree with total rant below. If I ride my bike all summer around town
instead of driving for short trips I'll do more then any hybrid. This
reminds me of something that happened at church a couple years ago.
Everyone was chatting after service and wanted what we could do as a faith
community to
If you're so sure what the answer is why do you ask the question?
BTW the cable is still turning if you haven't disconnected it from the
transmission. It still turns even with the engine off and the transmission in
neutral.
Did you pull the windshield wipers off the car? You were so sure it
Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
I always wondered about that auto braking. If you jab hard enough at
the brake
pedal to let the system think you might be in an emergency, it puts the
brakes
on full for you. I still think it sounds like a good way to go spinning
out of
control when the guy
Depends on how fast you want your top speed to be and how many gears the car
has.
The American people have somehow been taught that you can't go anywhere with
less than 200hp. I've commuted happily all week at 62hp and my '78 240D turned
in a quite respectable 31mpg.
-Curt
Date: Thu, 17 Nov
My cousin sold the VW line for a decade. According to him, the cars are great
brand new, but he would advise to never buy a used one. They have very poor
long term quality. He would lease the cars for his own use, but never buy
them. Not worth the pain once the cascading failures set in.
Linux rides on all the old former M$ garbage I deal with. I tried to set up a
two year old box as media pc. Had their OE install disks, but no way the codes
wanted to work. Call and get the run around, but still got a code out of them.
It does not work. Call back and get told I need to
andrew strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote:
At speed, in neutral with engine shut down - noise persists.
A bad speedo cable would still be making noise in that scenario, because if
still connected at the transmission end, it turns with the drive shaft.
Between the hood and the windshield
clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net writes:
My cousin sold the VW line for a decade. According to him, the cars
are great brand new, but he would advise to never buy a used one.
They have very poor long term quality. He would lease the cars for
his own use, but never buy them. Not worth the
OR get a fancy router that has print server abilities. If the winders printers
are USB, you should be able to hook up just fine. I think HP or somebody made
parallel port print servers that hook to 10-base
clay
On Nov 17, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Randy Bennell wrote:
So couldn't you use an older
Have a friend who bought a Nissan Leaf (all electric) for his wife to drive
to work because electrics were allowed in the bus lanes. Everything was
fine, great mileage, faster commute trip, no problems until the local
authorities barred electrics from the bus lane.
Car never made it to work and
RLE wrote:
Which is why the premium gasoline (Chevron) at my card-op station contains
no ethanol. It's the choice of the aware owner of the business.
Can any one purchase fuel at card-op station?
The diesel places here seem to prefer larger operators of trucks?
And for diesel, I don't like to
In 16 years with my 91 350SDL, I've used ABS only once. Approaching
intersection in the rain on green light at about 55 mph, another car pulled
out from the right on a red light in front of me. I got on the brakes
really quick and hard and held it. With a rat-a-tat-tat pulsing sound, the
Alles.
My '81 diesel Rabbit and Dasher (wagon) had a whopping great 52 hp.
Luke's '79 pickup had all of 48, unless it ran away, then who knows.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Diesel preferred
On 11/17/2011 7:40 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
Randy Bennellrbenn...@bennell.ca writes:
What is the horsepower
up-hill direction with an altitude above ground of about 50 feet, at
most,
My dad has participated in these stunts, in the ANG.
He tells of the time they crested the Jackson Hole pass
at about 100' in an F101. That is a _big_, loud aircraft.
Scared some truckers...
Great fun for the aviators.
If you are going up a long grade such as Donner
Pass eastbound or the Grapevine (Tejon Pass) in California, could you
make it to the top with a 20 hp diesel, a relatively small battery,
and a full load?
Sure! Can a fully loaded semi make it? I'll take a couple of
slow vertical runs per year
Benz engineers who analyzed a diesel hybrid and determined that the
difference in the cost of the diesel engine, performance, etc. would
not be as economical as a gasser.
They're probably right. But there are other issues,
such as longevity, ease of maintenance, lack of gas
that goes bad when
Since I changed 3 things (tire pressure, TPS and Timing belt) I don't
know which had the larger effect but I am taking it to the bank:-)
My vote is the belt, if those stretch as they wear and age.
There are other potential factors, such as fuel formulation.
-- Jim
Curt wrote:
The American people have somehow been taught that you can't go anywhere with
less than 200hp. I've commuted happily all week at 62hp and my '78 240D
turned in a quite respectable 31mpg.
No Harpo?
mao
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Jim wrote:
Great fun for the aviators.
kills them if they do it in italy.
or was that the skiers that got killed in italy?
mao
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, glenn brown g_010...@hotmail.com wrote:
Some of you may remember that I have been having ACC/heat issues in my '84
300D for the last 2-3 years. The problem was that I would get max heat at
all of the ACC PBU temperature wheel
Mystery solved.
My SWMBO nailed it. From the passenger seat she swore that the noise was
coming from above, such as the sunroof or roof rack. We checked, and the
front roof rack crossbar was loose and rattling on one end, damaged where
the knurled bracket meets the long cross bar (probably
The 2001 ML has 4matic, and it works great. It has the three diffs and
braking. The 2002 and later are supposed to have a better traction control
system - that doesn't eat brake pads if you live in slippery areas. This
car goes anywhere on ice, snow, etc., however, it doesn't stop any better
than
There are old pilots, and bold pilots, but no old bold pilots.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com wrote:
Jim wrote:
Great fun for the aviators.
kills them if they do it in italy.
or was that the skiers that got killed in italy?
mao
Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
I always wondered about that auto braking. If you jab hard enough at the
brake pedal to let the system think you might be in an emergency, it puts
the brakes
on full for you. I still think it sounds like a good way to go spinning
out of
control when
Can any one purchase fuel at card-op station? The diesel places here
seem to prefer larger operators of trucks?
And for diesel, I don't like to get old fuel - do they sell a lot of fuel
each week? Is it a deposit basis, or do you just pay the bill each month?
Anyone else use card-op?..
Don't forget, we were both in fog/clouds. Maybe he was desperate to get
over the pass on a trip to Vegas; maybe figured if he were lucky enough to
get over the pass, he'd be lucky enough to win big in Vegas.
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net
To:
There was an excellent article in the WSJ today about a pipeline between
OK and TX coast, and that its flow is being reversed to take oil to the
coast from OK where there is a large supply at a lower cost than world
average. This announcement has driven up crude prices. The article
also
...If you are going up a long grade such as Donner
Pass eastbound or the Grapevine (Tejon Pass) in
California, could you make it to the top with a 20
hp diesel, a relatively small battery, and a full load?..
Not safely. There is a lot of fast traffic on those highways, particularly
the
So we removed that crossbar and the noise has now gone. Who
else made a similar diagnosis?
I had a similar problem. On my coupe, a PO installed an air deflector for the
sunroof, the smoked plastic kind (offensive looking to me). Anytime I got over
75 or so it would thump against the roof,
I just realized, you lot are using the correct word for petrol. OMG
what's next? Proper spelling of the Queens English?
Or is the reason behind this because the big O is down over and bringing
a load of grunts with him?
Hendrik
who didn't get to meet the prez
Rich Thomas wrote:
I think a lot
That is funny, I betcha you could have cut the air with a knife until
the gardening proposal saved you.
Priorities.
Hendrik
who should do more walking and less consuming of the malt beverages
Peter Hertzing wrote:
I Agree with total rant below. If I ride my bike all summer around town
instead
The issue is power, with the scenario of the batteries being dead and
only the little Diesel chugging along, however electric motors develop a
lot of torque so it should make it but very slowly.
Which reminds me of many years ago when I drove a 40tonne truck with
230HP up a very steep hill and
If you are going up a long grade such as Donner
Pass eastbound or the Grapevine (Tejon Pass) in California,
could you make it to the top with a 20 hp diesel, a
relatively small battery, and a full load?
Jim Cathey wrote:
Sure! Can a fully loaded semi make it? I'll take a couple of
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