Maybe I'm unplugging the wrong plug but it is the only one obviously
going to the black block that has ABS on it. Is the brain elsewhere?
It's centered between the firewalls on the 126,
has a great big 35-pin two-row connector. The
ABS brain in our 560 SEL doesn't say ABS on it
anywhere. See:
-Original Message-
From: Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 8:46 AM
To: 'Mercedes Discussion List'
Subject: RE: [MBZ] OT Blue Angels
At least the U.S. Navy has changed a whole lot in just 10 years, and the
pace of change will probably
-Original Message-
From: Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 7:55 AM
To: 'Mercedes Discussion List'
Subject: My '95 E300 project update
Dieselvolk,
Major progress this past weekend - She Lives! Finally had some time to
devote, so I started
Sounds like dirty sensors in the front wheels. Pull them out, clean
sensor ends and tone wheel (spray brake cleaner liberally, check for
rocks and junk stuck in the tone wheels). If that doesn't fix, then
maybe you have a flaky sensor/cable (but that usually will make the ABS
light come on and
I think Kaleb should deputize you and fund you, so he can make an east
coast trip once a quarter to drag a collection of goodies like this back
to Okie Acres. Of course he'll need a bigger truck/trailer as well.
-Max
-Original Message-
From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:29:13 -0400 Dillon, Meade M CIV
SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310 meade.m.dil...@navy.mil wrote:
Major progress this past weekend - She Lives!
Called my wife out to the garage to witness the big moment, tightened
all the lines and after two more long cranks the
I'll give you $500 for it... ;)
Some will say otherwise but the only thing thats ever happened when I've used
Bars Leaks is thermostat failure. Closed of course.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:28:50 -0500
From: Dan Weeks theprofil...@dwx.com
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] 300TE
Trade you my extra gross looking 240D (but 110 mile daily driver) for your TE...
If you've time when you're out here, give a shout and we could do lunch or
dinner.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:37:15 -0500
From: Dan Weeks theprofil...@dwx.com
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] ANYBODY
Kaleb: Thanks, but she wants something a bit bigger, and we'd need something
with a title. Appreciate knowing what
you've got, though.
Thanks again.
Dan
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Dan,
There is a cheap 300 SD on the Cape-Chatham- on Boston CL-says it needs
paint job.
Dwight
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
Bissell Cove Quahog Auto Salvage Co.
Wickford, RI
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
Trade you my extra gross looking 240D (but 110 mile daily driver) for
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.com wrote:
I knew of the existence of the 924S, but never have seen one in person or
even advertised for sale. I've seen more than one
Jim Cathey wrote:
div class=moz-text-flowed style=font-family: -moz-fixedDid this
get lost? I'll send it again...
-- Jim
Don't remember 2 red lines. Could they also be the green ones? That
sounds kind of familiar though, all the ys and check valves are
confusing.
Yes, now that I think of
From: theprofil...@dwx.com
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:31:02 -0500
Subject: Re: [MBZ] KLEBS 190D
Kaleb: Thanks, but she wants something a bit bigger, and we'd need something
with a title. Appreciate knowing what
you've got, though.
Thanks again.
Dan
Wow - this may explain my lack of fluid in the SLS reservoir. Thanks for
sharing!
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:07 PM, dave walton walton.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I've only worked on one vehicle with the spheres. Both were bad. The
material separating the pressure bulb from the fluid had
andrew strasfogel wrote:
Wow - this may explain my lack of fluid in the SLS reservoir.
Thanks for sharing!
If you have low fluid, you may also have a leak. I think both of
mine leaked a bit from the leveler valve. The one I rebuilt
because it was leaking a _lot_. Also the pump and all the
Max.
Interestink!
Kaleb is probably too canny to trust my judgment on Rust Central cars.
Someday, sigh.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Diesel preferred.
On 4/20/2010 10:27 AM, Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310
wrote:
I think Kaleb should deputize you and fund you, so he can make an east
On one of my first posts I asked about a switch on my '74 (turns out it
controlled the seat belt relay), and Peter I think pointed out that it would
deter theft (along with making the car start-able) so I should leave it.
Fast forward to this afternoon, I get this e-mail from our neighbor
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't add fluid very often
- but it is not a sealed system!
A good point. Among other things, the SLS system (and the four-wheel
hydraulic systems in the 6.9 and certain W126s) is self-burping (unlike,
say, the cooling
Umm how about something really sneaky like using an extra door switch
hole (with a door switch in it), and put the switch in series with the
wire to the solenoid...
Result: door closed, no cranking.
Of course there are other things you could do...
--
John W Reames
jwrea...@comcast.net
Andrew,
Replace BOTH of the spheres at once! You were told this the last
time, and you ignored it. There is a reason that you need to replace
BOTH AT THE SAME TIME! You just found the reason. The one new one
is abused because the other is weak, then they both fail. Now you
need to
Help me reason this through: In the case of shock absorbers - where a
failure usually manifests as a lack of resistance, the remaining good
unit takes an increased beating. So wouldn't the failure of a sphere -
which causes increased resistance to movement, take some of the stress
off the
The spheres are the shock absorbers aren't they? When the spheres fail the rear
end of the car bounces like a pogo stick...
-Curt
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:48:12 -0400
From: dave walton walton.d...@gmail.com
To:
Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject:
Re: [MBZ] Changing 300TD
Back when I was in school in Cambridge, the car theft capital of the
world, someone tried to steal my car from the parking lot, tore up the
ignition lock. I got that fixed and the guy there at the shop told me
to buy this thing that had about 12 connectors on it. The cap of this
thing, that
Rich Thomas wrote:
called campus po-pos to report my eyewitness observations of the cars
involved and the perps, and they had no interest in car thefts -- If we
spent all our time dealing with stolen cars we would never get anything
else done. The joys of the Peoples' Republic!
If they
...I hated the feel of the shifter in a 914 - more than twice as bad
as a VWbug. Soft and mushy...
That would be in a pre-1973 model after which the side-shifter transmision
was used. I converted my 1970 914-6 to a side shifter which solved the
situation. Also, like many MBs, the
Yes, exactly. A bad shock gives the opposite reaction than a bad sphere.
They both function as shock absorbers but the design and mechanics are
different.
-Dave Walton
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
The spheres are the shock absorbers aren't they?
The real cops (the stupid ones per the president) did not have
jurisdiction, or did not want it, or did not care. That's why Cambridge
was the car theft capital. QED.
Campus po-pos did not care about drinking either, we had a pub on campus
that was usually quite busy, and we could take beer
It's centered between the firewalls on the 126,
has a great big 35-pin two-row connector.
Ok, found and unplugged it. It disabled the ABS just fine but it still
caused the ABS light to go off just like anything else I unplugged which
again makes sense as you would want an indication of a
I got one.
Rick Knoble wrote:
From: theprofil...@dwx.com
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:31:02 -0500
Subject: Re: [MBZ] KLEBS 190D
Kaleb: Thanks, but she wants something a bit bigger, and we'd need something with a title. Appreciate knowing what
you've got, though.
Some cops are dedicated to the mission of serving and protecting the
community. Some are only interested in avoiding work and waiting for
retirement. Some departments have a preponderance of the latter, usually
when the police management are only interested in avoiding work, holding a
finger up
The spheres are the shock absorbers aren't they? When the spheres fail
the rear end of the car bounces like a pogo stick...
The spheres are the adjustable auxiliary springs, and to a lesser
degree,
heat dissipation devices to dump the energy being converted to heat
in the orifices and piping.
I got one.
And?
(details)
Rick
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True - '73 was the last year I worked at the shop, and we didn't get new
cars to work on.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:59 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote:
...I hated the feel of the shifter in a 914 - more than twice as bad
as a VWbug. Soft and mushy...
That would be in a pre-1973 model after
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC,
53310 meade.m.dil...@navy.mil wrote:
I had full steering control due to the ABS which saved my bacon and the
front clip of my '87 wagon.
Not that I don't know what you mean, but that's an odd term to use of a
WHen we put the 81 240D engine in the 66 (push pull cable ) 200D, I
had to figure out a way to shut the thing down other than killing the
engine. I had a vacuum toggle switch. So I ran a new vacuum line
into the cabin, hooked the vacuum shitch under the dash, and ran a
vacuum hose form the
Did anyone here get in touch with this seller or buy it? I passed it
on to a friend, as we both sent emails. no reply, but today the ad
was gone.
Just wondering if it was a scam.
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What's wrong with replacing them with a pair of good used spheres? Since
they are so easy to install, I could take the risk.
Of course, I would have to know how to determine their condition by a mere
inspection... Any clues?
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net
85 red/black, runs drives cold ac, need to get a title.
Rick Knoble wrote:
I got one.
And?
(details)
Rick
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Well, this was Cambridge, MA, a Domestic Violence Free Zone and a
Nuclear Free Zone (though there was a nuclear reactor right there on
Mass Ave as you drove across the bridge into Cambridge, but whatever...
the concerned Hahvahd crazies did not get the memo), and populated by
stupid cops as
Curt Raymond wrote:
The spheres are the shock absorbers aren't they? When the
spheres fail the rear end of the car bounces like a pogo
stick...
No. The accumulators are _springs_. Hydraulic fluid does not
compress well, so to allow a hydraulic cylinder to change the
ride height there is a
andrew strasfogel wrote:
What's wrong with replacing them with a pair of good used
spheres? Since they are so easy to install, I could take the
risk.
Of course, I would have to know how to determine their
condition by a mere inspection... Any clues?
Quantity of nitrogen in them and the
Of course, I would have to know how to determine their
condition by a mere inspection... Any clues?
Same way you determine the condition of a hydraulic hood/hatch
strut---by mere inspection and without testing it out in any
functional way.
In other words, you can't.
-- Jim
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