me I should start it and make sure it still works.
-Curt
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 20:58:29 -0700
From: Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mercedes Diesel Adventure, At Night!
Message-ID: e80a7b15-97f8-11e1-bef3-000502d9a
He who drives a car which is old enough to apply for its own driving license
should carry his own jumper cables.
Which reminds me, I never moved the cables to the e320 wagon.
Mitch.
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the trunk was locked with the key, but the key had to stay in the
ignition to keep the engine running. No access to tools, so we drove
on, sweating.
Isn't this car still shut off with vacuum? Pull the shutoff
hose to the IP, then remove and use key, then put key back,
then put hose back.
Open the pod bay doors HAL
--R
On 5/6/12 12:40 AM, Max wrote:
Just after dark this evening, I was piloting the '95 E300 with my bride, the
daughter (asleep), and a trunk full of luggage. We'd started in Baltimore this
morning, and we had another 70 miles to home in Charleston.
Suddenly,
'Nother ATTABOY! 'Glad it worked out well, and you got home safely without
too much delay.
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Max meadedil...@bellsouth.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 12:40 AM
Subject: [MBZ] Mercedes Diesel Adventure
On Sun, 06 May 2012 00:40:26 -0400 Max meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Suddenly, the ABS light came on. My dear wife noticed, and remarked
that surely my driving was the cause.
I surmised that the OVP relay might be the cause, she assured me it was
pilot error.
Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
Isn't this car still shut off with vacuum? Pull the shutoff
hose to the IP, then remove and use key, then put key back,
then put hose back. That oughta work, but leaving it alone
may have been a wise choice too.
I did not think of that, but on this car
rant I would add that running her father (you) down in front of your daughter
is utter and absolute BS. I am divorced with custody of my two sons, and I have
never spoken ill of their mother in their presence. In due time they found out
what a POS she is, all on their own. You are a very
Jim Cathey wrote:
Plan B: carry a small rope-pull genny in the trunk and have
_it_ provide +12V for your trip!
I did something like that years ago. I was delivering (drive
away) a television microwave news van. It had a Onan generator
installed to provide power for the TV gear - plus 12V to
I have a link somewhere to putting a weedwhacker motor on an alternator
to make a portable 12V generator like for the beach or camping or
something, with a battery and an inverter you can get some 110 too. I
was thinking to do that at some point, another one of those projects
that would be
Like the 4 engines I wanta put on my walker. ;)
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mercedes Diesel Adventure, At Night!
I
Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
I have a link somewhere to putting a weedwhacker motor on an alternator
to make a portable 12V generator like for the beach or camping or
something, with a battery and an inverter you can get some 110 too.
In the mail recently was a HF
Ok, calm down, I guess my attempt at humor fell flat. I assure you my wife DID
express appreciation that I diagnosed and fixed the problem, and I told the
story with some exaggeration and embellishment, tending to show my wife in a
less than flattering way. I know that both of you gentlemen
Yeah I have one of those in a box too, that is what I was thinking to
use once I replaced the fuel line. I have an old Homelite chainsaw too
that worked great until the pickup line in the tank got dissolved.
And of course the parts are NLA, so I guess I will have to bodge
something up,
I have a link somewhere to putting a weedwhacker motor on an
alternator to make a portable 12V generator like for the beach or
camping or something,
Yeah, I'd heard of this one and had laid in a dead whacker
for it. It's in the someday pile. A.k.a. the maybe never
pile.
-- Jim
Just after dark this evening, I was piloting the '95 E300 with my bride, the
daughter (asleep), and a trunk full of luggage. We'd started in Baltimore this
morning, and we had another 70 miles to home in Charleston.
Suddenly, the ABS light came on. My dear wife noticed, and remarked that
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