OK now, you got a taillight or a washer reservoir coolant insert?
On 8/21/06, Hendrik Riessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I got one but A. it has been repaired by me and B. it's located a
long way away.
They are a relatively rare item and therefore not cheap.
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The SDL came home for a little while this evening, so I took it out
for a diagnosis run. The outside air temp dropped considerably - it
was only 88F on the car dash thermometer. With the ACC set on max
cool, the air from the center vetns dropped down to 50F, only a 38F
drop, but a lot better than
Yum!
BR
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From: Potter, Tom E [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: It's green chile time here in New Mexico
I fancy that Negro Modelo myself. It sure goes good with a bowl
The problems with WVO are :
It won't flow well enough cold for the engine to start, so you MUST run
on diesel fuel long enough to fill the IP with diesel fuel completely
before shutting off
It won't flow well enough unheated to run the car at all, so you must
heat the fuel even in the
Mercy.
http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/
Bob Rentfro
'77 300D 157K
'87 Acura Legend 177K
Still waiting on '72 350SL 78K
Litchfield Park, AZ
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A bad fuel pump relay causes the same problems as on a Benz --
intermittent stalling while driving (mostly, sometimes croaks at idle
too) that gets worse until it won't run at all. Key is the tach -- if
it stays up, the ignition is OK and the computer is firing the
injectors, if the tach
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:09:25 -0400 Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Would help the I read the Subject line!
Don't worry about it, Doc, I have that trouble sometimes, too.
Craig
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:05:22 -0700 Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Too bad it didn't let me know before I filled up last week.
Oh, and the trick here (on diesels only!) is to stick the
shop vac hose loosely in the filler to draw a partial vacuum
on the tank. Doesn't leak then when you
Peter Frederick wrote:
The problems with WVO are :
It won't flow well enough cold for the engine to start, so you MUST run
on diesel fuel long enough to fill the IP with diesel fuel completely
before shutting off
I've started a 300SD at 40 deg f (5 deg C) in the morning on used soy.
The diesel vapors aren't explosive.
Izzat so? Can you spell Pan Am 103?
RLE
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:41:53 -0700 Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used compressed air to dry everything to prevent rust. I took
particular care to blow out the bleeder passage, then used the sealing
washer to cap off the bore that it empties into and blew into it again,
thus drying
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
256-656-1924
www.kegkits.com
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Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:54 PM
To: Weekly Highway Diesel Prices
Subject: Today's Diesel Prices
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Why did you use water as your working fluid and not brake fluid, or
some
kind of oil, or even alcohol?
A host of reasons:
1) It's cheap. I did a lot of messing around before I got the
rig to work.
2) It ended up all over the place, water is benign. Lots of spraying
while getting the
from the center vents rose to 65F. I then pushed the EC button many
times, rather vigorously, and the air temp rose to 81F. I drove it
home, parked it, and measured the temp of the drive at the garage door
- in the shade - and it read 80F.
So my diagnosis is a flaky push button unit - and
I've run over 40,000 miles on a single tank conversion using waste
canola oil in my S350 and I have yet to see any of the problems
mentioned in this post.
-Dave Walton
87SDL, 94S350, 99E300
On 8/21/06, Peter Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problems with WVO are :
It won't flow well
I have a client who was a petroleum engineer and now he owns a small oil
distribution company. I had to go meet with him the other day to
prepare him for a deposition. I noticed that he sold Mobil oil and was
a Million Gallon Supplier. I figured he might be able to find some
Mobil 1 15-50 T
Remind me not to buy an ex Wal Mart truck, what about soot build up?
Then again I suppose they have done tests on the oil to see what the go is.
Hendrik
who is not quite game enough for those sort of service
intervals..yet
- Original Message -
From: Donald Snook [EMAIL
OK Don wrote:
I've already re-soldered this unit once - but the switches act dirty.
I bought another one to work on, so I'll see if I can get some de-oxit
(?) into the switches, then re-solder the thing. There sure are a lot
of connections on those boards!
I was measuring the temp almost
Is it possible that pure vegetable oil causes no problems, but waste
vegetable oil from restaurant fryers has substances such as animal fat from
the fried food that do cause problems?
Gerry
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From: dave walton [EMAIL
On my '85 300D the fuel gauge reads full all the time and the temperature
gauge starts at the bottom but pegs out after a while. The tanks is not
always full and the engine is not that hot. The oil pressure gauge being
mechanical works. Having a problem finding a replacement gauge at a
Jeepers H Christmas Jim, you've really gone to town on that shingle page!
Great info there. I'll probably be sending you the cruise amp (and dead
KLIMA donation) from my 124.
(Plug: I do those, if you're interested.
http://cathey.dogear.com/mamerepairs.html)
Casey
Olympia, WA
Biodiesel: I
Hendrik Riessen wrote:
Remind me not to buy an ex Wal Mart truck, what about soot build up?
Then again I suppose they have done tests on the oil to see what the go is.
Hendrik
who is not quite game enough for those sort of service
intervals..yet
Big trucks (with 12-15 gallon oil
Alan
Check out Jim's site, he da man.
http://cathey.dogear.com/mamerepairs.html
Harry
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From: Alan Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 9:56 AM
Subject: [MBZ] Gauge Repair
On my '85 300D the fuel
That is a W123? The gauges are a dime a dozen. In fact I have one or two
laying around here, I am sure Kaleb has few for sale.
Trampas
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On Behalf Of Alan Duff
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:57 AM
To: Mercedes
I think you may have hit it right on. The car appears to have stopped dripping.
I was away over the weekend and it
sat in the garage from Friday afternoon through Monday evening. No spot on the
floor as there had been on the
street when it was parked in front of the house. I crawled under and
Peter,
where'd you get this information from?
i know more than a few people that have put on tens of thousands of
miles on single-tank systems over the last few years using nothing but
VO here in the SF Bay area, and none of them have experienced anything
like the problems you talk about.
I posted a couple of questions last week but they have never shown up on the
list so I am trying again.
Anyone have advice as to what to look for in a 97 GMC K1500 6.5 Turbo Diesel? I
want to go and look at one offered
privately and if it looks good, have my mechanic brother in law check it
oil changes. Your Mercedes can go well in excess of 50+kmi on Mobil 1
IF
you put in a soot filter and change it every 2500 miles,
I would like a centrifugal soot filter, if one existed. The roll of
goopy
TP to go into the waste stream every 3kmi, and the associated quart loss
of oil, is
I assume that the hoses on the left side are the feed and the return and they
look to be on with hose clamps.
The hoses on the right side may be the vent tubes that you refer to below. They
look like they might be more
difficult to change. Does not look like basic hose clamps and they are
Jeepers H Christmas Jim, you've really gone to town on that shingle
page!
I can do the writing sitting on my butt inside out of the heat.
It's that or go outside and wrench!
-- Jim
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I removed the broken parking brake cable from the car. That was
difficult because parts were rusted in place. Once I figured out how
it was supposed to come out, getting the good one out of the parts car
was pretty easy. You unhook the inboard end first, then you can
pull/push the cable
is again very rough. Maybe I just need to readjust the damper bolt
but I
was wondering if this is a wear item that needs occasional replacement.
I think there's slow wear in the area and it needs occasional
_adjustment_!
-- Jim
Does not look like basic hose clamps and they are smaller and in a
tighter spot to get to. Any
advice in regard to them? Have you changed them out?
Are they rubber or hard plastic? I've not done these, the only
total fuel line replacement I've done is on a 107. (Pesky and
persistent fuel
Anyone have advice as to what to look for in a 97 GMC K1500 6.5 Turbo
Diesel?
Glove box full of money? (Or spare injection pumps.) They do have an
appetite for IP's, if I recall correctly.
talking about putting a big heatsink under a computer controller
for the injection that sits on the
Has anyone done a repair to fix this? I suspect a bad ground but
electrical work is not my strong suit.
I suspect a bad ground too. The gauge cluster itself could be
faulty (though eminently repairable), but it's just as likely
(if not more so) that the wiring to the cluster is at fault.
electrical work is not my strong suit.
If it is internally faulty I can probably fix it.
I'm not sure of the rate, since it'd be my first such
repair, but ought to be maybe $20. (Plus shipping.)
-- Jim
I don't think that it worked, however I have the # 2 fuse out that
controls the clock due to a problem with the alarm. It goes off if you
open the door even if you left it unlocked, it goes off if you lock it and
use the same key to unlock, it goes off if you lock it and use a different
key to
Jim typed:
I removed .should be the next steps. But
first, breakfast!
I get tired reading Jim's posts.
Ah...the things I could do if I had one tenth of Jim's get up and go...
Bob Rentfro
'77 300D 157K
'87 Acura Legend 177K
Still waiting on '72 350SL 78K
Litchfield Park, AZ
Marshall,
The 2005 car was the last one made for the US with the 1.8L 4-cyl with
Supercharger.
In 2006, the 2.5L V-6 was introduced. From various sites and comments of some
drivers, it appears that the 2006 C230 is getting somewhere around 30MPG on the
highway. This has even been
controls the clock due to a problem with the alarm. It goes off if you
open the door even if you left it unlocked, it goes off...it goes
off...
it goes off no matter what.
Find alarm (under the floorboard) and unplug it. Says Becker on it,
IIRC.
-- Jim
Passenger side, IIRC..
Chuck
On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Jim Cathey wrote:
controls the clock due to a problem with the alarm. It goes off if
you
open the door even if you left it unlocked, it goes off...it goes
off...
it goes off no matter what.
Find alarm (under the floorboard) and
Clearly it's the clean living and no impure thoughts. I fail on both
counts.
On 8/22/06, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I removed .should be the next steps. But
first, breakfast!
I get tired reading Jim's posts.
Ah...the things I could do if I had one tenth of Jim's get
http://tinyurl.com/gapbl
What is this G-series. I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing.
Bob Rentfro
'77 300D 157K
'87 Acura Legend 177K
Still waiting on '72 350SL 78K
Litchfield Park, AZ
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 22 19:36:26 2006
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Oh my lord, maybe that guy can sell my smokey 240d for me:
Exclusive two-stroke Mercedes diesel, one of a handful lovingly
hand-crafted in the black forest for the great(x5)grandson of the Emperor
Ferdinand
ROTFLMAO
Mac
on 8/22/06 3:00 PM, Bob Rentfro at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A real POS for the price. The bowed wood piece at the base of the
windshield is alligatored and needs a complete refinish.
On 8/22/06, LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think by G-Series he means that this rare model was manufactured in
Germany.
On 8/22/06, Bob Rentfro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is this under the carpet mat? I don't see it there. The actual noise maker
for the alarm is in the engine compartment sorta underneath the battery
tray.
Alan Duff
Knoxville, TN
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:44:41 -0700, Chuck Landenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote :
Passenger side, IIRC..
Is this under the carpet mat?
Keep going. There's a plastic floorboard that comes out.
-- Jim
There's a black plastic panel at the forward end of the passenger footwell.
Remove this, and all will be revealed. The noise-maker will cease and
desist in all noisemaking once you remove the offending Becker brainbox.
On 22 Aug 2006 20:18:03 -, Alan Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this
What is this G-series. I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing.
The G-spot that'll get tickled if he actually gets north of $13k for it?
-- Jim
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:27:37PM -0500, Loren Faeth wrote:
All you with auto trans experience:
88 300 TE trans has worked perfectly. Fri night after about 180 miles of
a trip, suddenly downshifted into 3rd and stayed there. Fluid is ok, Level
is ok. Fuel filters and throttle position
Sounds like a computer and/or vacuum malfunction. If it were mechanically
caused you'd be slipping or simply unable to engage in gear (e.g., FW or
RV). I knew when my transmission died because it simply refused to move in
ANY direction (1983 300TD).
On 8/22/06, Loren Faeth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/secret_new_car.php?sid=22page=1
RLE
Sounds like a computer and/or vacuum malfunction.
I agree. Except that the computer in these vintages is fluidic,
not electronic, and ATF courses through its veins not electrons.
Your tranny is sick, in other words. You could try a fluid
and filter change as that's fairly cheap in comparison
I don't know as I did not mess around with them. Will have to crawl under again
and take a second look.
Didn't check to see if there was an overflow drain of sorts either. Just noted
that the earlier drip appeared to be
from the filler side of the tank and not from the side with the outlet hose.
That is exactly what the 190-D I just bought was doing. I order a newly
rebuilt tranny from Sun Valley Mercedes, who specialize in rebuilding MB
trannys,
and have a 1 yr warranty as well. 818-768-0704.
Give em a call, this is my 2nd tranny from them (1st one in 300SD last year,
still
Looks like you are going to have to draw me a picture. This is a 1985
300D. I removed the panels underneath the passenger side of the dash. This
revealed the blower motor and ductwork. There is what looks like a
temperature sensor with two connections plugged into the ductwork. There
is
have ya'll had any luck with the ATF backflush done by some shops? they
cirulate atf (as I understand it) by discnnecting the atf cooler lines and
pumping it back thru the AT -
wondering if in a situation like this [Loren's 300TE] it would help? Or
would it do more harm?
Larry T (67 MGB,
Looks like you are going to have to draw me a picture. This is a 1985
300D.
I didn't think that 123's had a factory alarm system. _Is_ this a
factory alarm system? The underhood thing is a metal horn, and
looks more like a fat version of the regular horn than the usual
aftermarket horn
wondering if in a situation like this [Loren's 300TE] it would help?
Or
would it do more harm?
Converting it from something undrivable to what was that again? :-)
-- Jim
would you buy a 500sel with 140K for $500? it needs a gas tank and a window
and window motor; otherwise, the guy claims it's good to go.
--
Sunil Hari
1992 300D 2.5T - 286Kmi.
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I will be out of the office starting 08/22/2006 and will not return until
08/28/2006.
I will respond to your message when I return. For urgent issues please
contact Ahmad Daneshmand.
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I wonder if the dude has been sniffing to many cow patties ;)
Harry
69 280 SEL 120,000 Miles
72 350SL 108,000 Miles
2004 VW Passat 4 Motion
1999 Mazda Miata
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From: Steve MacSween [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tue, 22
Oops, I assumed we were talking about a 124.
On 8/22/06, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like you are going to have to draw me a picture. This is a 1985
300D.
I didn't think that 123's had a factory alarm system.
Casey
Olympia, WA
Biodiesel: I drive in a persistent vegetative
I think we should send every single post the Ahmad...
Bob Rentfro
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:22 PM
Subject: [MBZ] Mark Maturo/HLIFE is out of the office.
I will be out of the
Bob Rentfro wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/gapbl
What is this G-series. I don't think I've ever heard of such a thing.
Bob Rentfro
'77 300D 157K
'87 Acura Legend 177K
Still waiting on '72 350SL 78K
Litchfield Park, AZ
___
http://www.okiebenz.com
For new parts
Going to get rid of my set of euro lites for a 116 on ebay. Anybody
interested before I do?
Have one amber side marker cracked, but the other is good. No control
knob for the vacuum adjust, but lots of the hose included
--
Clay
Seattle Bioburner
1972 220D - Gump
1995 E300D - Cleo
1987
Every one of my posts is an urgent issue. I Ahmad is up to the task.
On 8/22/06, Bob Rentfro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think we should send every single post the Ahmad...
--
Casey
Olympia, WA
Biodiesel: I drive in a persistent vegetative state
'87 300TD intercooler #22 (217k)
'84 300D
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