The steel spring is INSTEAD OF the hydropneumatic compensator. It is one or the
other.
Jim Cathey wrote:
I've never quite understood why MB chose this particular design; the
axle is sprung at the wheels anyway, and the trunk mount keeps the
diff secured, so I don't quite understand the
Agreed. I do have the same issue with my mail at home. I always take my
packages to the PO so I guess that helps.
Mike
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Date: Friday, November 21, 2008 10:38:15 pm
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
From: Allan Streib [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
That might well end up being what is needed. The problem is that it is in
the corner of the kitchen at the deep end of a 6' cabinet. You have to
clean out the cabinet and climb inside it in order to get to where it goes
into the wall, and the elbow is inside the wall. I'm afraid we would have
Do keep in mind that the inverters are modified sine wave units ,not pure
sine wave.
Some power supplies do not take kindly to that and reboot the system
repeatedly.
24 V or 48 are the better ones for house use.
mak
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To:
I think that alot of MS problem with Vista stems from when it came out there
were many computer users that had less that 2 gig of RAM installed in them
that were trying to use Vista.
From what I have noticed with 2-4 gigs of ram on a decent cpu and video card
it seems to run fine. Though I
I use Vista on a new computer with 2 gb or RAM. It does seem to be very RAM
hungry, and also takes a fair bit of space on the HD. Having said that,
almost all my previous computers were Macs, so I'm newish to PCs. Seems to
work ok, other than is seems rather inefficient in how works.
A friend
When pumping premium into the 300E the other day, I peeked over at diesel
here. It was something like $1.70 per litre! I remember when it was always
a bit cheaper than regular. I think the days when there are savings to be
had by running a diesel are gone.
Ed
300E
2008/11/22 Kevin Kraly
Allan - the only radio I ever have on is NPR, so I really don't know what
the 'right wing radio' is saying. I do know that the last guy I talked
about this with is a devotee of Rush.
BillR
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I've been driving the 18mpg Dodge Dakota while waiting to get the new diff into
the 38mpg 190D 2.2l, its killing both my pocket book and my soul. My commute is
1 hour each way and the 190D is so much more pleasant. The Dakota is more
powerful but I enjoy the 190D more... Maybe I should get that
Ever since I have that NEW engine put in my car, I noticed that it is hard
starting even in warm weather.
It has to crank quite a bit. Two or three pre-glows help. It fires
instantly, but does not stay running at first.
Lots of smoke for may be a minute. Than it clears out and runs smooth.
Starts
The ride of the hydropneumatic was always better than the ride with
the spring that was used in the 110 cars. 30 years ago, I was always
scrounging the junkyards for a good hydropneumatic compensator for my
110 200D. I never found one. I from time to time loaded the
Man-cave known as the
It has to crank quite a bit. Two or three pre-glows help. It fires
instantly, but does not stay running at first.
If you hand-prime it first, does it make any difference?
-- Jim
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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:06:28 -0600 OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'd have to get 19mpg in the big red van to break even with the 32mpg
Diesel.
I have a spreadsheet in which I have been tracking all of this. The
figure is 19.86, actually. And if I ran a vehicle on premium (at $$2.179),
it
Lots of stuff used to disappear in the Chicago SCF. I used to use
alternates if the parcel was likely to go through chicago. It seems
to have been cleaned up many years ago. no problems recently.
At 09:38 PM 11/21/2008, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have to
The warning about the toilet is because it is all ceramic. Copper
sulfate, when mixed with water forms a dilute sulfuric acid. You can
use it in mild steel (galvanized iron) pipes, but you will notice the
inside is scoured over time.
You can dump it down your kitchen sink in the following
Adchust der falfes Sounds like lack of valve clearance.
At 08:44 AM 11/22/2008, you wrote:
Ever since I have that NEW engine put in my car, I noticed that it is hard
starting even in warm weather.
It has to crank quite a bit. Two or three pre-glows help. It fires
instantly, but does not stay
Adchust der falfes Sounds like lack of valve clearance.
Der, or die? I only ask because they seem to need constant
attention in order to fulfill their purpose. :-)
-- Jim
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:31:47 -0800 Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Adchust der falfes Sounds like lack of valve clearance.
Der, or die? I only ask because they seem to need constant
attention in order to fulfill their purpose. :-)
Just from the German aspect, it would be die,
It's Die (one would be Das).
I need to do that - adchust falfes.
No. I did never hand prime the thing. Why?.
On 11/22/08, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adchust der falfes Sounds like lack of valve clearance.
Der, or die? I only ask because they seem to need constant
attention in
E M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Whether Vista is as bad as most say or not, I don't know, I'm not a
techie guy. I know it's been given the death kiss by the public, so
whether it's wise to keep trying to market something that most think
is crap, might be good money after bad.
The last time I
No. I did never hand prime the thing. Why?.
If the fuel prime is leaking down that may make a difference.
If it does, you know that you're looking for leaks, whether
internal or external.
-- Jim
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I am going to check that. I looked for external leaks since the tank level
is higher than the priming pump, but not the top of the main filter.
On 11/22/08, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. I did never hand prime the thing. Why?.
If the fuel prime is leaking down that may make a
Check for bad hoses on the suction side of the lift pump. Watch the
clear fuel filter while it's running -- a stream of small bubbles
coming in and going out of the filter is bad -- indicates a suction
side leak. If you have the original German hoses with fabric cover,
replace them with
Sorry folks I know I have asked, and had answered, this question before,
but I can't recall what the intake and exhaust clearances are for the
OM617.
I'm going to adjust mine this weekend if possible, the falling
temperatures have not brought any starting difficulty, but I have been
negligent
Thank you all. I unlocked the priming pump and diesel is pouring out the top
when I stroke it.
So the verdict is in: a new priming pump and a falfes adjust job.
On 11/22/08, Peter Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Check for bad hoses on the suction side of the lift pump. Watch the clear
Cold engine 0.10 mm intake (temps below -20 C 0,05 mm), 0.35 mm exhaust
On 11/22/08, Allan Streib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry folks I know I have asked, and had answered, this question before,
but I can't recall what the intake and exhaust clearances are for the
OM617.
I'm going to
#2 is $1.10 more per gal here than plus/extra gasoline
Wilton
Goldsboro, NC
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Ed, you did check backup lights, didn;t you? ;
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Gary, this is Kaleb we're listening here. I'd guess he has about 5%
reason between his ears...
Luther
Gary Hurst wrote:
haven't we already concluded that all anyone knows about vista is that it is
bad for you and you should give it up?
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin
Yeah but how does one find that elusive Bosch sensor? Both Advance and
Autozone only list the one with plug that is 'only' $203 for Bosch at
Advance and $385 for the Denso at Autozone which is the only one they
list. Other then that I don't have any problem with grafting that plug
from the old
Got the new rear shocks in. Took just a little over an hour plus a little for
finding tools and whatnot.
Easy job, the only problem I had was getting the old shock out and the new one
in. Had to lift on the lower control arm. It was easier the second time because
I put the car up higher when I
lol, yes, being alone, I had to drive to a store with a big glass window and
reverse towards it, and check them in my rear view mirror. ;-) I thought
it was very clever of me. lol
Ed
300E
2008/11/22 Wilton Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ed, you did check backup lights, didn;t you? ;
'Zackly the way I do it; 'thought you did it, too.
Wilton
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From: E M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Lamp out
lol, yes, being alone, I had to drive to a store with a
Hans,
Diesel Purge can't hurt I would also try the tried and true
Italian Tune-up..
By NEW, I assume you mean new to your SD, but not new-new!
Take care,
Chuck
On Nov 22, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Hans Neureiter wrote:
Ever since I have that NEW engine put in my car, I noticed that
Thanks Loren. I was assuming it was something like that but it does help to
know. Turns out that the blockage is about 10' down and out from the spot
it goes into the wall between the entry hall and the kitchen. I now have a
12 x 12 hole in the entry hall wall just in case we could put a
Be careful if you're using different drain cleaners -- some (I think
Draino for example) are lye (NaOH) and some (Liquid Fire?) are acid --
you don't want the two in the pipe at the same time!
Allan
--
1983 300D
Bill R [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks Loren. I was assuming it was something
i understand that it is sometimes just practical to use the microsoft OS. i
have some vendors who have systems of communicating with their inventories
that simply will not work on anything other than the MS OS. if i want to
know if there is a certain bilstein shock in a warehouse near you and
I would rather use XP, but this new computer I have had for a while came
with Vista, and its very difficult to go back to xp on it.
Gary Hurst wrote:
i understand that it is sometimes just practical to use the microsoft OS. i
have some vendors who have systems of communicating with their
The guy helping me is pretty experienced. Actually he works and I pay him.
That helps both of us. He knows there is copper sulfate in the pipes, and
the muriatic acid [if that is what it is] will go in tonight. Watch your
late breaking news to see if we went out via fumes. Amateur plumber and
I heard if you called M$ they would give you XP code such that you could
down grade. However you have to already have XP install disks.
Trampas
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Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 5:01 PM
yea, I already have xp install disks, in fact, I have xp running on a
seperate hard drive on this computer. REally, the problem is I need to
get my mail an everything moved over from the vista install, which
luther sent me the instructions, I just have not done it yet. Then,
there is the
Well, actually, I just booted my computer from the other hard drive with
the XP install, followed the simple instructions for pointing
thunderbird to the correct location of mail files, and am sending this
from XP. I will say this computer is MUCH faster on XP than Vista.
Kaleb C. Striplin
MG wrote:
Yeah but how does one find that elusive Bosch sensor?
What year/engine is your wife's Taco?
I just randomly picked one, 2004 V6, for which Rockauto sells original type
Denso front sensors for $145.79.
Amazon has the same part for even less:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000C5WD2Q
No, being clever involves putting the handbrake on, switching the
ignition to on and putting the gear selector into R and then walk around
to the back of the vehicle and inspect reversing lights.
For brake lights I use a stick.
Hendrik
E M wrote:
lol, yes, being alone, I had to drive to a
There's a man who trusts fully in his handbrake!! hee hee. I'd ask how you
would check to make sure the safety switch works on an elevator door, but I
think the answer would scare me. ;-)
Ed
300E
2008/11/22 Hendrik Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, being clever involves putting the handbrake on,
The hydropneumatic compensator was a clever way of adapting the old axle design
for level control, but it seems unlikely that the hydro compensator was the
reason for that design because it wasn't offered until years after the steel
spring version.
On the Ponton site it says of the evolution
Where I live, we refer to that as a statistic.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Hendrik Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
No, being clever involves putting the handbrake on, switching the ignition
to on and putting the gear selector into R and then walk around to the back
of the vehicle and
This is something I get very annoyed at each time I hear a news broadcast
mention the current price of regular gas and the bozos never mention that us
dieselers are payin' through the nose. Reg. gas here at $1.799/gal. vs.
diesel at $2.879. At least Autoweek magazine had the nerve to print a
E M wrote:
There's a man who trusts fully in his handbrake!! hee hee. I'd ask how you
would check to make sure the safety switch works on an elevator door, but I
think the answer would scare me.
When I was in college, a friend showed me how to open the elevator door from
inside while the
Yesterday I decided it was time to tackle the valve stem seals on #7
again, now that I have the new ones in hand. I removed the spark plug
and its extender. The plug was oily, but not hugely fouled, so I
guess the extender is working. I got the obtruding fuel and vacuum
lines removed, then
But he DIDN'T say, start engine or engine running. ;
Wilton
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From: E M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Lamp out
There's a man who trusts fully in his handbrake!!
Gang,
My car has the (apparently optional) stereo sound system with electric antenna.
Wondering about the speaker grille in the middle of the dashboard, which does
not appear to contain a speaker, but does emit light from the climate controls.
Two questions:
1. Is the absence of the middle
Where I live, we refer to that as a statistic.
No, being clever involves putting the handbrake on, switching the
ignition
to on and putting the gear selector into R and then walk around to
the back
of the vehicle and inspect reversing lights.
Guys, the ignition being 'on' doesn't mean that
Anti-jacking, I would suspect. While it's much less likely to jack
under hard cornering because the pivot point is below the axle most
of the time, that swing axle system WILL jack at strange times.
Caused Corvairs to flip when the tire dismounted and the rim dug into
the road, but it's
Are the plugs in #6 and #7 normal (that is, do they have evidence of
combustion)? If not, and you have gasoline fouling, it's time to
replace the boot between the air horn of the fuel distributor and the
throttle body, the throttle body to intake seal, and the seals
between the two halves
Talking about septic tanks (which is rhyming slang for yanks BTW), my
mothers septic is overflowing badly and she got some people out to see
what the problem is. According to the experts she needs a new you beaut
AU$11,000 septic system put in. Me being a skeptic smelled a rat because
Yes and yes. The fiberboard cover is missing. The grill is held on
by two semi-recessed screws, take it out and cut a blank from
something fairly stable and cover the hole.
Peter
On Nov 22, 2008, at 6:11 PM, David Bruckmann wrote:
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You don't have to have the engine running to do this but the ignition
must be in the on position.
And yes I do trust my handbrake because I maintain it myself.
Hendrik
E M wrote:
There's a man who trusts fully in his handbrake!! hee hee. I'd ask how you
would check to make sure the safety
Perhaps I should have said set the ignition key to position 2 but do NOT
start the engine.
Hendrik
Jim Cathey wrote:
Where I live, we refer to that as a statistic.
No, being clever involves putting the handbrake on, switching the
ignition
to on and putting the gear selector into R and then
Allen - Your design was what we were going for, but when we got into the
wall there is a stacked iron pipe that goes up as well as down, and also has
a lateral run going behind the stove inside the wall. I don't know what the
original configuration of the kitchen was, but it seems it is quite
So maybe he is pretty clever after all. ;-)
Ed
300E
2008/11/22 Wilton Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But he DIDN'T say, start engine or engine running. ;
Wilton
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From: E M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday,
Yeah, but the first way you said it makes you sound like a guy who like to
live on the edge. hee hee.
Ed
300E
2008/11/22 Hendrik Fay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Perhaps I should have said set the ignition key to position 2 but do NOT
start the engine.
Hendrik
Jim Cathey wrote:
Where I live, we
Garbage disposal? On a septic? Or am I getting my threads confused?
Here it's against code to have a garbage disposal on a septic. We never
put food or grease down the drain -- into the trash. Or into the woods,
sometimes.
Allan
Bill R [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Allen - Your design was
Is it possible to install conventional spark plug leads in a W103 engine so
that 'R type plugs can be installed .?
As I understand the resistance of the leads and the spark plug resistance
combined causes poor performance in a103 engine.
mak
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The normal septic failure mode is when you go too long without pumping the
solids out of the tank, and the solid stuff starts making it into the 2nd
chamber and through the outlet, where the crap plugs the drainfield pipes.
Mitch
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Oh. Guess too much was assumed.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where I live, we refer to that as a statistic.
No, being clever involves putting the handbrake on, switching the
ignition
to on and putting the gear selector into R and then walk around to
On cross-country trips, I used to regularly cruise at triple digits
and never got a ticket. I only traveled these speeds, however, behind
expensive european touring cars that were very well driven and had
radar detectors. I gave them plenty of room and drove smoothly and
carefully. Now, of
Symptoms:
* No glow light
* Car will not start (plenty-o-juice)
What I've done:
* Replaced glow plug relay-still no light, no start
What I did next:
* Checked continuity from ignition side of 50 amp fuse all the way to
last glow plug.all good.
Will I still have
This is about the '77 300D, isn't it? Original glow plug type and circuit?
Not if the last glow plug is open (burnt). Measure resistance from it
to ground (with it disconnected from the circuit).
Will I still have continuity if a glow plug is bad?
What should I do next?
--
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:29:06 -0700 Robert Rentfro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
* Checked continuity from ignition side of 50 amp fuse all the way
to last glow plug.all good.
I presume this means you used an ohmmeter and put one probe on the 50 A
fuse and the other probe on the glow plug's
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:05:47 -0600 OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is about the '77 300D, isn't it? Original glow plug type and
circuit?
OOPS! The glow plug testing information I just gave is for PARALLEL glow
plugs, not series glow plugs. If you remove the plugs and see a circular
loop
You forgot to mention how much fun running an excavator would be! I don't
think I could actually get my wife to let me do such a thing. I need to
avoid exertion and stress, and I can tolerate neither cold nor heat. I do
think we are ok now with the muriatic acid, though. It seems to be running
...a horizontal compensating spring was fitted between the rear axle and
the right axle shaft to keep the car more stable under various driving
conditions.
So I guess it was a necessary improvement, but I don't understand how the
spring contributes to stability
It reduces the
Yes, we do indeed have a garbage disposal of two of three kitchen sinks into
two septic tanks. We are sort of careful about what goes into them, though.
The exception to that would be the quart of old ham salad my darling wife
decided to dump into ours. We have had some kitchen drain problems
Insert any Linux bootable CD.
Format the hard drive as FAT32.
Reboot and insert XP install disk and follow all prompts.
Luther
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
I would rather use XP, but this new computer I have had for a while
came with Vista, and its very difficult to go back to xp on it.
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Had it pumped out last year. Should be good for another year.
BillR
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Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 8:38 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] plumbing / chemical help needed
The
Hi Everyone, need some advise.
There is a local 300E with just over 100,000 miles. Said to be in very good
shape, certified, emissions tested etc. I've head they had some problems
with the transfer cases on the 4matic cars? He's asking $2900. Is there a
way to tell if the transfer case is
I need one of those excavator thingies. I don't really have a use for
it at this time, but the idea of having one is the balls.
--R
Hendrik Fay wrote:
Talking about septic tanks (which is rhyming slang for yanks BTW), my
mothers septic is overflowing badly and she got some people out to see
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:42:29 -0600 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Insert any Linux bootable CD.
Format the hard drive as FAT32.
Actually formatting it as the default (ext2 or ext3) works very well. Then
XP says, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS! and you can have XP format it NTFS,
which is much
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:08:00 -0500 Rich Thomas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need one of those excavator thingies. I don't really have a use for
it at this time, but the idea of having one is the balls.
I rented a full-sized backhoe a few summers ago to put in a water line
around the side of
Re: ext2/3...I didn't know XP would write over it or even know that the
partition was there?
Luther
Craig McCluskey wrote:
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:42:29 -0600 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Insert any Linux bootable CD.
Format the hard drive as FAT32.
Actually formatting it as
Diagnosing a series glow plug system is very simple:
Take a voltmeter and measure voltage between the center
and ring terminals of the glow plug. While glowing,
each should show about 1V. More and you have a bad
glow plug (or connection thereto), the higher the voltage
the worse. 12V indicates
convince my darling wife that if she ever wishes to dispose of a quart
of
old ham salad again that the trash can is a far better place than the
garbage disposal.
As was explained to me long ago: it's perfectly acceptable to
put food into a septic system, provided you have eaten it first.
Are the plugs in #6 and #7 normal (that is, do they have evidence of
combustion)? If not, and you have gasoline fouling, it's time to
replace
At times. #7 is badly oil-fouled, usually. I've just replaced
its stem seals, so we'll see if that makes any difference.
the boot between the air
Except for the boot between the air meter horn and the throttle body,
yes. Naturally, you have to remove the fuel distributor to replace
the boot.
You have to pull the manifold to get to the throttle body seal and
the manifold seals. Sadly, there is no reason to think that whoever
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:08:16 -0600 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: ext2/3...I didn't know XP would write over it or even know that the
partition was there?
Yeah, the partition table is the standard sort, so XP knows a partition is
there, but the partition type number is something it
It seems than at Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:08:16 -0600, Luther wrote:
Re: ext2/3...I didn't know XP would write over it or even know
that the partition was there?
The partition and the file system are two totally separate
things.
XP by default will not know what to do with the file system. But
it
i'm a mandriva man myself, but there are lots of different flavors you can
use.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Insert any Linux bootable CD. Format the hard drive as FAT32. Reboot and
insert XP install disk and follow all prompts.
Luther
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