He took it as is. Needs all fluids changed, valves adjusted, various trim
pieces inside, back seat, turbo oil return line o-rings, shifter bushings,
possibly a glow plug or 2 in the future, low pressure powersteering hose,
couple more injector return lines, and the RR window quit working about
Fmiser wrote:
I have done that on a Chevy 7004R when I wanted to flush all the
old out. It sort of worked. I had a hard time keeping enough
fluid going in to keep up with what came out - and there seemed
to be a mix of old and new for rather a long time.
I guess YMMV.
I had better luck
I have never taken an outside mirror apart on my Benz and need some help. I
had to rebuild one on a Mazda a few year ago, but really don't remember much
about that either. It seems that the power mirror has jumped off whatever
makes it track. The motor runs, but the mirror either doesn't move or
Hi Peter,
Picked up my multimeter that reads duty cycle today. Give it a quick try
but don't really know what I'm doing, so have a few questions. Not really
sure what you mean by some read 20% adn MB duty cycle is upsidedown, os it
may read 80%? I found the port and plugs it in. With a half
30% may be correct for key on, engine off. The Benz duty cycle
(actually precent of time at 12V as opposed to 0V) is backwards from
US practice, so a 20% reading on a US car will give you an 80% reading
on the Benz. Not really an issue for you, as the continious hunting
from 37-60% at idle
Thanks, everyone - it was, of course, the most embarrassingly obvious thing,
low coolant.
I blame a stressful week, and a pinhole in the radiator that drained it off
more than I'm used to it doing. Otherwise it probably would have occurred to
me to, oh, *check the coolant first*.
Ah, but the first sign of a failing water pump bearing is often coolant
leaking out the weep hole on the bottom. Do check that, and find the
coolant leak at any rate, it will only get worse otherwise
Peter
Don't feel too bad. The two cooling system items that are un-necessarily
changed more than any others are the water pump and the thermostat.
I bought a 1977 corvette a couple of years ago. It would run hot someone
had already replaced the 210 degree thermostat with a 160 degree thermostat,
Cheap old 124.
http://nashville.craigslist.org/car/331417138.html
Rick Knoble
'85 300 CD
'87 190 DT
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Thanks Peter,
That helps to clean things up. The plugs are really fouling though, so is
this the O2 reading lean from an air leak and they adding more fuel than it
can ignite? Just want to make sure I understand this? Larry also
recommended a wire and cap change due to the age and mileage.
Oh, don't feel too bad. I went through a couple of battery changes, traced
every wire in the p car once to try and find the drain, only to discover I
left a small interior light on. hee hee.
Ed
300E
On 15/05/07, Stuart Saxonberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, everyone - it was, of course,
Several things can foul the plugs. Black thick soot is over-rich,
crusty hard stuff is oil ash.
The only way it will go rich enough to foul the plugs is a very bad
oxygen sensor, a failed electro-hydraulic actuator (on the side of the
fuel distributor -- or a broken wire to it), a failed
John Robbins wrote:
The suspension is probably original it is VERY hard to drive in a
straight line. The nitrogen spheres are also completely gone... I'm
thinking about upgrading to Sportline suspension while I'm in there.
Did they make a wagon grade sportline package?
If you are
On Tue, 15 May 2007 06:15:20 -0400 BillR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The best thing to do is to ask the list: List folks - Mak has a
Lancia Flavia coupe, a 220S/1962, 230/1966, 280SE/1970 and a 300SE
1990. He is looking for mostly small interior parts [I think - Mak,
chime in here]. Where are
Mitch Haley wrote:
Did they make a wagon grade sportline package?
If you are talking about changing from SLS to springs/shocks, it
will ride low unless you can find sportline wagon springs (which
probably don't exist unless non-sls wagons were made for other
markets). If you do want to delete
Thanks again Peter.
The plugs foul very fast, and it's a thick caked on black as you kind of
discribe with oil, and yet the consumption seems fine. I don't notice any
blue smoke, or any smoke when when starting or leaving from a stop. I've
even had others drive the car, and stop in front of
White with blue interior. Just found it on craigslist.
http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/car/323336073.html
Brian
WOW you sold that cheap. If you would have lowered the price a long
time ago it probably would have sold for more money a long time ago.
It's true. The 300SD is the car to get! It has lots of room, decent power,
and it's not usually the first car of choice for the biodiesel/vegoilers
which
Congratulations! How many miles are on it? That will be my price range
later this year when I have enough saved up to buy a TD. Nope, ain't
sellin' my SD, nope, no way!
Kevin in Hillsboro, OR
1983 300SD 267Kmi, Ursula
Ad reads:-
1987 Mercedes 300TD. Diesel, metallic brown. vy gd shape. 220k mi. rust free
southern car. well maint. recent brakes tires. $3000. (Webster) 508 943 0623,
(cell) 774 200 0078
Webster is in Western Mass. and this may or may not be a TD, may be a DT?
No Affil etc.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
II ordered mine through a parts store here in Canada, but the catalog is was
ordered from in a US company that have a web site. esitest.com They have
a free catalog too. My model is ED480a. It was about $50.oo US. It's made
in China and I don't see any UL stamps on mine, but you could ask
There are so many things that, when I hear of them, I'm compelled to say
tell me again the part about how mankind is basically good.
Brian
Rich wrote:
On 5/14/07, Rich Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I took a quick look
at it before dragging it back home and it appeared to be OK. I tried
Fred,
Not to give a geography lesson, but Webster is really central MA-just south
of Worcester, only 50 miles north of where I am-I go by it on my way to
Worcester and the MA Pike. (I know, from the North Shore, anything past
Rte. 128 is Western MA.
Anyway, if anyone would like me to go look at
John said...
What do you guys think?
http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~jer99/mercedes/300td/
Damn...now I gotta wipe all the drool off my keyboard
Royce Engler
1985 300TDT 300K
That is a beautiful vehicle. Congratulations.
Tom Potter
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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:51 PM
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Subject: [MBZ] Gotta brag -- Check out my $3200 '87 300TDT
What do you
South/central Ma thank you very much. Its off 290 directly south of Worcester
on the CT line.
I live on the border of western MA and I can tell you that west of my place is
like a whole different state. Alot more like Vermont than the rest of MA.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 22:47:37 -0700
Thanks Craig. I'm sure Mak will pck this up from the list. I am thinking
San Diego and other parts of Southern California.
BillR
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Very nice.
Congrats.
Mike
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From: John Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:50 PM
Subject: [MBZ] Gotta brag -- Check out my $3200 '87 300TDT
What do you guys think?
Nice purchase.
You might want to replace the close-up of the IP with a new once once the
red-dyed tax-exempt fuel has worked it's way out of the system.
Get rid of the green antifreeze ASAP. Do a citric acid flush or two to rinse
out the crud.
-Dave Walton
On 5/15/07, John Robbins [EMAIL
Excellent score, John! Was it part of an estate sale or what? What
of the other 2 examples in that 1st pic?
-joe
Hey, Dwight.
I'm not so parochial as to think Western Massachusetts starts at 128.
495 maybe.
Used to live in Portsmouth on Viking Drive with a view of the Old Stone Bridge
(!) on the Sakonnet.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Dwight E. Giles, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred,
(I know, from the North Shore,
Thanks just the info I needed.
mak
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:04 AM
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II ordered mine through a parts store here in Canada, but the catalog
John.
I'm green with envy.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Various loose flyning formation of paint and rust.
-
Get your own web address.
Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business.
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Wow..I didn't even know MA was big enough to have so many different
names for parts of it...;)
Mike
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From: Frederick Moir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 87 300TD
I have heard of some VWs - not just this one - that use some sort of system
to filter the exhaust. Are these systems - *any of them through the years *
that you guys know of doomed like the infamous MB trap oxidizer or whatever
is was called?
The ones in cars are Menonites, an offshoot of the Amish. The Amish will
ride in cars but they will not operate them. We used to haul veal calves
for Amish farmers in PA to the slaughterhouse in NJ and they were insistent
upon riding along and seeing every calf get slaughtered before being
Damn, that's tempting now that I have a bit of disposable cash.
--
Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark
'87 300SDL (271,xxx mi) needs head
'83 300SD (246,645 mi) SOLD!
'82 300CD (166 kmi) getting front end rebuild
'82 300D (74 kmi) getting '85 donor engine-SOLD!
'85 300D (280,176) parts car-sans
I thought I'd already replied to your comment, but didn't see it sent to
the list... Wonder why I'm not getting my emails back?
John Robbins wrote:
dave walton wrote:
Nice purchase.
You might want to replace the close-up of the IP with a new once once the
red-dyed tax-exempt fuel has worked
Joe Knight wrote:
Excellent score, John! Was it part of an estate sale or what? What
of the other 2 examples in that 1st pic?
Nope, on a whim picked up an autotrader and saw an ad for it. Guy who
owned it was a horse trainer, and needed a pickup instead.
The other two are my '79 300SD
dave walton wrote:
Nice purchase.
You might want to replace the close-up of the IP with a new once once the
red-dyed tax-exempt fuel has worked it's way out of the system.
Get rid of the green antifreeze ASAP. Do a citric acid flush or two to rinse
out the crud.
I wasn't too thrilled about
dave walton wrote:
Nice purchase.
You might want to replace the close-up of the IP with a new once once the
red-dyed tax-exempt fuel has worked it's way out of the system.
Get rid of the green antifreeze ASAP. Do a citric acid flush or two to rinse
out the crud.
Yeah, I wasn't too happy thats
Forgot about that in the first post 316k.
From what I've seen on eBay... this thing was pretty cheap. They seem
to go for about 4500-6000 there. Even some of the W123 versions!!
Hehe, I'm up to 4 vehicles and one driver... '79 300SD, '84 190D, 87
300TD and '95 Mazda B2300. I don't
This guy was definitely a horse and buggy guy, 44 yr old, 13 kids
(20yo-6mo, his wife did not look too worse for the wear), but he did
have motorized saws in his saw mill. He had an old motorcycle engine
hooked up to an old table saw, which at one point he stopped cold with a
bad cut (I was
So I guess my $600 83 300TD with 298K and a tranny that went bad in 500
miles was a really good deal.And who was it that said there is no
such thing as a cheap Mercedes? ;)
Mike
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Ya got Bawstun (which includes quite a bit of other towns), da Nawuth
Showah (Italian Riviera), da South Showah (Irish Riviera), Downnacape
(Wheahd ya go this weekend? Ah, nowheah, just downnacape.), and the
rest of it.
--R
Mike Canfield wrote:
Wow..I didn't even know MA was big enough
BBBWWWAAAHHHAAAHHH!!!
Mike
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From: Rich Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 87 300TD
Ya got Bawstun (which includes quite a bit of other towns), da Nawuth
Showah
Nice car, John. How many miles on it?
Wilton
91 350SDL (185kmi)
87 300D (102kmi)
The technology they sign up to is determined on what their local Church will
allow. There is a large settlement north of us and almost every house now
has a small portable generator out back. They are allowed to have
electricity but are not allowed to be on the grid because being on the grid
makes
The Amish will use motorized equipment.The deal is something to do with
thier belief that they must be in contact with the ground and a rubber tire
insulates you from it. That is why they use the iron wheeled tractors and
the like and some do use rubber tire implements behind an iron
Welcome to Massachusetts
The land of The Bean and The Cod
Where the Forbes talk to the Cabots
And the Cabots talk only to God
Probably misquoted.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Dieselitis Maximus
-
Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha!
Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's
I think we can all agree: the Amish are pretty great. Yes!
brian
Tom wrote:
They work hard they do a great job of providing for themselves which is
more than I can say for most of America these days.
Mike wrote:
I have to agree with youThey are the most honorable and hardworking
folks i
Check the flex discs on the drive shaft and the transmission mount too.
I just changed those on my 87SDL. Was able to remove the center mount to get
enough play to get the drive shaft off - but make sure it does not separate
at the middle, or mark it so you can put it back the way it was. I've
Lodges, not Forbes. Saw Henry Cabot Lodge on the Nantucket steamer once
after he had retired -- he looked like some bum that lives under the
freeway (which he probably could have bought).
--R
Frederick Moir wrote:
Welcome to Massachusetts
The land of The Bean and The Cod
Where the Forbes
dave walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Put some magnets in the pan to attract the little suspended metal
bits. They will come out covered with black slimy gunk. Wipe them
off and put them back each fluid change.
I've noticed that my newer cars have had magnetic drain plugs on the
oil pan, as
It could be from putting an ATF tonic in the fuel... Or Marvel Mystery Oil...
-Curt
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:20:20 -0400
From: dave walton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Gotta brag -- Check out my $3200 '87 300TDT
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Car looks much better in photo than it is. Probably the lighting.
WOW!
--
Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark
'87 300SDL (271,xxx mi) needs head
'83 300SD (246,645 mi) SOLD!
'82
Interesting notes Tom. I do believe you meant to say they didn't want to be
dependent on the secular community, though. Sorry - worked in the field too
long. Non-secular would imply sacred in the rather simplistic dichotomy
of secular / sacred, unless I am missing something.
BillR
It seems than at Wed, 16 May 2007 12:33:17 -0400, Mike wrote:
The ones in cars are Menonites, an offshoot of the Amish.
Just to be picky, it's actually the other way. The Amish are an
offshoot of the Mennonite. They decided the Mennonite were
getting to loose and modern to be healthy. *smile*
Bill,
I stand corrected.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
www.kegkits.com
256-656-1924
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 2:39 PM
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But what about those little man hands? They freak me out!
Brian
On 5/16/07, Fmiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems than at Wed, 16 May 2007 12:33:17 -0400, Mike wrote:
The ones in cars are Menonites, an offshoot of the Amish.
Just to be picky, it's actually the other way. The Amish are
Sometimes this group covers some really odd subjects.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
www.kegkits.com
256-656-1924
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Subject: Re:
Thanks for the clarification. Given my motto (why do it right the first
time?) I think it has been a wise decision not to take flying lessons.
On 5/15/07, Rich Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Airplanes seldom fail (though they occasionally do, but very very very
seldom). Pilots fail a lot,
All of you have an exaggerated sense of my Mac-competence. My son,
however, is a MacWhiz so I will try to get him to do it for me.
On 5/15/07, Fmiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems than at Tue, 15 May 2007 12:09:58 -0400, andrew wrote:
Great, except I forgot to mention that I want a
With flying, taking off is an option but landing is mandatory.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
www.kegkits.com
256-656-1924
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Those Canadians have a great sense of humor (e.g., Mike Myers, Martin Short,
Ed Grimsley)
On 5/16/07, Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1987-Mercedes-300-TD-Wagon_W0QQitemZ320114806810QQihZ011QQcategoryZ6783QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Car looks much better in photo than
Tom H. wrote:
Sometimes this group covers some really odd subjects.
You said it, Tom. With all the computer stuff and ham radio stuff - I am
lost sometimes. (I am not complaining I send some Off topic material,
too. Plus, my delete key still works).
It's just that I can't
See Don's post (below).
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
www.kegkits.com
256-656-1924
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Subject: [MBZ] Weird Topics was RE: Re: OT the
From: Zoltan Finks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT the Amish - was Pesky Sleazeballs - hey at least
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But what
Donald - Remind me - Football is the one with the pointy ends, right?
BillR
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 4:20 PM
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Subject: [MBZ] Weird Topics was RE: Re: OT the
http://liesweiter.blog.de
Tim
1982 300TD
1991 300TE 4Matic
You missed a couple:
Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Jim Carey, Catherine O'Hara,
Ivan Reitman, Tommy Chong, Kids In The Hall, Phil Hartman, Rich
Little, Howie Mandel, Lorne Michaels, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis,
Wayne and Shuster, Dave Thomas, Michael J. Fox, Alan Thicke, Red
Green, Tom
Nice wagon. It's a dead ringer for mine except my interior is a lighter
beige Tex. Not to brag or anything but I got mine from Jeff Zedic for $2400.
I added some foam inserts from MB to the front seats to stiffenen them up a
bit. Worked well. Joe did that as well I believe. I saw a factory
Zoltan Finks wrote:
And are the Amish loosening their standards on not using technology? I see
them more and more riding around in cars.
Around here (Vermontville MI), if you really need a job, you can buy a passenger
van and drive the Amish to WalMart. They hate to drive 15 miles each way
John Robbins wrote:
Nope, on a whim picked up an autotrader and saw an ad for it. Guy who
owned it was a horse trainer, and needed a pickup instead.
So that was tractor diesel and not heating oil.
Mitch.
Donald offered:
Here's an off-topic subject for you - why the Washington Redskins (or
St. Louis Cardinals) are the greatest sports team in the country.
Sports and ree-lige-un are two subjects we seem to stay away from.
And, by the way, Donald is only 50% correct.
Bob R. certified Cub
And, FWIW, David Stern is an idiot.
Bob R.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:41 PM
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Donald offered:
Here's an off-topic
Got lucky found a factory hitch with electrics on german ebay.
Buddy was bringing in some vehicles parts at about that time so I
hitched a ride for it in his container. The hitches turn up fairly
regularly over there but the electrics are a bit more of a poser; lots
of sedan harnesses but very
You could have got it cheaper from me.
Craig McCluskey wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2007 06:15:20 -0400 BillR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The best thing to do is to ask the list: List folks - Mak has a
Lancia Flavia coupe, a 220S/1962, 230/1966, 280SE/1970 and a 300SE
1990. He is looking for mostly
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