Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue!

2014-06-21 Thread Mountain Man
Curt wrote: Once again I hate to interrupt the political talk for something about my car. ;) Keep putting up diesel questions and political talk dies to a dribble. When diesel questions dribble, political talk rises. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue!

2014-06-21 Thread Rick Knoble
From: Mountain Man Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 10:34 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Reply To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue! Curt wrote: Once again I hate to interrupt the political talk for something about my car. ;) Keep putting up diesel questions

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue!

2014-06-21 Thread Rich Thomas
Back after Katrina we were living in Houston and dizzle went to $4something, so I went over to Sams and got a coupla totes of peanut oil or whatever, was like $2something a gallon. I ran that half/half for awhile in the TD and I noticed it ran much more quietly and more smoothly, which at the

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue!

2014-06-21 Thread WILTON
And, if y'all don't watch it, I may hafta throw in another Sondy Tale. Wilton - Original Message - From: Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue! Curt

[MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue!

2014-06-20 Thread Curt Raymond
Once again I hate to interrupt the political talk for something about my car. ;) You might remember back to last winter when my 190D refused to start in the cold one day but was fine a couple days later. I'd also noticed that it seemed to idle poorly immediately after starting.  Along with all

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue!

2014-06-20 Thread Dan Penoff
You gotta love the cheap/free fixes! I got some free parts at the dealer today... I had ordered a replacement headlight lens for the W140, as the youngster (through no fault of his own) picked up a rock in the middle of the drivers side xenon headlight. I had also ordered a pair of seals for

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue!

2014-06-20 Thread Dwight Giles
So Curt, how would you explain this exactly? The B100 cleaned the injectors? Anything else? On Jun 20, 2014 7:52 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: Once again I hate to interrupt the political talk for something about my car. ;) You might remember back to last winter when my 190D

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue!

2014-06-20 Thread Peter Frederick
B100 has a much better cetane rating that typical american diesel (which is usually really bad in the summer). I buy my fuel at the coop-- local crude distilled down the road with 5% Biodiesel. Works great. When I'm on the road, I try to use BP or Shell, as they are both much better

Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue!

2014-06-20 Thread Curt Raymond
now so has probably earned it. I've put 43,000 on since we hauled the car out of Craig Pierce's yard... -Curt Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 20:31:47 -0400 From: Dwight Giles dwight.gi...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Biodiesel to the rescue! Message-ID