And the author did a good job of making sure it (coal-powered electrical
plants generate majority of our electricity) remained hidden! I don't
suppose too many green-types would sign up for a coal-powered car if the
smoke was released less than 10 feet away!
-Max
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EPC knows all...
-Max
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From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com
[mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dieselhead
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 6:14 PM
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] 124/126 seat bottoms
Does anyone know for sure if the front seat
According to EPC, the 123 cushion frames and pads were used in early 126
cars, but the seat adjuster which is the metal structure between seat
bottom assembly and the car floor is unique to the 126. I see nothing
in the 124 seats have 123 or 126 part numbers.
-Max
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No, they're durable, replace them when they leak.
-Max
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[mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dimitri Seretakis
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 10:46 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] valve adjustments
Kaleb do you have a permit for your auto recycling business?
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/02/google-earth-license-pools-riv
erhead/
Very respectfully,
/s/
Max Dillon
'87 300TD 328k miles
'95 E300 275k miles (project)
'73 Balboa 20
Charleston SC
Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310 wrote:
According to EPC, the 123 cushion frames and pads were used in early 126
cars, but the seat adjuster which is the metal structure between seat
bottom assembly and the car floor is unique to the 126.
So, if 126 seats bolt onto a 116,
Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310 wrote:
Kaleb do you have a permit for your auto recycling business?
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/02/google-earth-license-pools-riv
erhead/
If government didn't know about the pools before checking sat photos, then I
suggest the pools
What's next?
You replaced a shingle without a permit after that storm, pay for the
building permit or else!
Google earth is usually ~ 2 to 6 years out of date on the data as
well, so some pools might not even be there any more. Hope they did a
manual inspection before mailing out those
Anyone have a complete setup? This is for an om60x so anything from a
124,201 will fit. Need the pedals, linkage, shifter, trans, fw etc.
-Rolf
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Walt Zarnoch wrote:
Google earth is usually ~ 2 to 6 years out of date on the data as
well, so some pools might not even be there any more. Hope they did a
manual inspection before mailing out those nastygrams...
Indeed. There's a house near me that was built in the summer of 2006. It's not
Rolf wrote:
Anyone have a complete setup? This is for an om60x so anything from a
124,201 will fit. Need the pedals, linkage, shifter, trans, fw etc.
Curt has/had that in a 190D recently. I think he sold the engine already.
(or was the 5sp the one he was driving and the parts car an
A couple of weeks ago Time magazine had an article about the Chevy Volt. Last
week's issue had a very well written letter to the editor published in it that
raised this exact issue - this whole idea of an electric car is pretty silly
when the power being used to recharge it is produced by
E wrote:
but hey, here i am responding to a random voice on the 'net who hides
behind an alias, and doesn't even stand behind what he's saying enough
to put his name on it. what was i thinking?!
E:
Dieselhead is Loren Faeth, of Ames, Iowa, a long-time member of this list. I
don't know why
theprofil...@dwx.com wrote:
Maybe he's in the witness protection program. :-)
Probably hiding from relatives after an estate settlement gone bad.
Mitch.
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On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:15 AM, theprofil...@dwx.com
theprofil...@dwx.com wrote:
E wrote:
but hey, here i am responding to a random voice on the 'net who hides
behind an alias, and doesn't even stand behind what he's saying enough
to put his name on it. what was i thinking?!
Dieselhead is
Got to think outside the box.
Properly designed commuter car {50 miles/day} would recharge during the evening
hours when the electrical demand is very low and excess capacity can be used
very economically.
Example: In Northfied Massachusetts there is a unique storage system that uses
surplus
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
Well, ernest has some issues. Anyone old enough to remember the
primordial online culture of the '70s and '80s should know that going
by a handle that reflects one's interests is not hiding behind an
alias, but rather a somewhat archaic (but still acceptable)
tradition.
Yes, Good Buddy. Break, break.
Wilton
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From: Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] DIESELHEAD
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:15 AM, theprofil...@dwx.com
And we ALL know that nobody wants nuclear power...
Anyone remember the big push for electric everything back in the prime
of nuclear power? It was before I was born, but I've read extensively
on it, played with a few elec-trak mowers, and seen countless energy
efficient electric home
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Kevin Kraly kr...@comcast.net wrote:
I like my parents' HHR better than the PT (Pretty trashy) they traded on it.
It has less road noise, way more comfortable seats and, yes, a better stereo
system. It did have great rear seat leg room, but the seat angle and
Walt Zarnoch wrote:
And we ALL know that nobody wants nuclear power...
Anyone remember the big push for electric everything back in the prime
of nuclear power? It was before I was born, but I've read extensively
on it, played with a few elec-trak mowers, and seen countless energy
efficient
--
Peter Arnold
Windsor, CT
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From: Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:08:27 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Say it ain't so!
The next house I build will have 8 walls full of cellulose
Most external burners have a built-in double/triple burn baffle
anyways, so as long as the local yocals don't throw in 10 Goodyears...
I think it's more of the ewww! EYESORE! attitude than anything
around here. One town recently banned outside burners, but still
allows conventional inside wood
You could do what my psycho survivalist former partner did and go with a wood
fired water heating system. His put almost nothing out in the way of smoke
when it was running, and he could burn just about anything in it.
http://garn.com/
Our first house was an all electric high efficiency house
Looks like that is true, if what you say is correct.
-Max
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From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com
[mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Mitch Haley
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:39 AM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 124/126 seat bottoms
I don't have any of the parts, but www.car-part.com can help. Do you
have a little project in mind?
-Max
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[mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Rolf
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:54 AM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Rolf wrote:
Anyone have a complete setup? This is for an om60x so anything from a
124,201 will fit. Need the pedals, linkage, shifter, trans, fw etc.
Since there were so few 5-speed 300Es imported, you're unlikely to
find one. (And by all accounts they're a blast to drive, so I think
parting
Last night on All Things Considered they did letters and someone
pointed out that their slobbering about the Volt and some guy calling it
a zero emissions vehicle was incorrect because it was just a
displaced emissions vehicle.
--R
On 8/3/2010 9:00 AM, LWB250 wrote:
A couple of weeks ago
Two problems with the external burner furnaces:
First, they are air flow controlled furnaces, so they produce huge quantities
of smoke while they are making charcoal after first being stoked, and this
happens usually two or three times a day, and
Second, they don't usually have a significant
And nothing has changed in the intervening years:
Silence was particularly fond of ridiculing Harvard. She complained that
it had been ruined by corruption and elitism, and that most of its
students learned nothing there except how to be conceited:
I reflected in my Mind on the extream
http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/pts/1824965803.html
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Nixon For President, announced 4/1/1992
National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation program reported that
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Republican presidential
In my '77 300D, I have noticed that the car seems to lack power on the
first start after the first stop after coming off the interstate. In
other words, I drive on fast roads for 20 minutes, pull directly on to
the city street, and have to stop; on restart I seem to lack low-end
torque. For a
One asked about 230E cars and others opined on them. I can help a little.
Today's Topics:
1. 230E? (Curt Raymond)
2. Re: 230E? (Mitch Haley)
3. Re: 230E? (LWB250)
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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:03:54 -0700
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Robert Bigham
edward_baldh...@earthlink.net wrote:
4 speed automatic
with anti-rollback device in transmission [Please don't try to
tell me they didn't make them that way. It is indeed there.],
That's interesting. How does it work? You step on the brake
Most likely a plugged bleed on the vacuum control valve so that you don't get
that slight vac drop when you open the throttle. Might have a worn out vac
control vavle, they are plastic and the levers wear. Don't know if
replacements are available, but the quick fix is to put the gear lever
They start in 2nd gear, you do have to mash it to get the kickdown to
engage, which it sounds like you are aware of. Maybe the switch is
goobered up or something in the way of it working well? Are you pushing
(stomping) it hard or just sorta pushing it? I stomp on mine, that
seems to get it
One workaround is to pull the lever into S to start out.
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Mitch Haley wrote:
One workaround is to pull the lever into S to start out.
Argh, I meant to say pull it all the way back, which is L, not S.
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Mitch Haley wrote:
One workaround is to pull the lever into S to start out.
Argh, I meant to say pull it all the way back, which is L, not S.
Is it that simple on the transmissions labeled PRNDSL? The PRND32
ones, in my
thanks, Dan.
if that's Loren, i wonder what the deal is,... he's shared some
stuff in the past that was worth saving.
i feel that if anyone has anything they think is of value to share
they should at least feel it's worth putting their name on to get fair
credit for it; once they
Peter wrote:
It was bad enough back in the 80's to close the airport in Helena, MT
repeatedly in the winter before the catalyst requirement, now it's only as
bad as LA most of the time.
I used to fly in to Helena as 'self-loadable cargo' on my way to
Seattle - my son was a pilot for bank
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Mitch Haley wrote:
One workaround is to pull the lever into S to start out.
Argh, I meant to say pull it all the way back, which is L, not S.
Is it that simple on the transmissions labeled PRNDSL?
Hello Alex and others
Regarding the anti-rollback device: My son, who is smarter than I, found it.
Here's how it operates (I don't know how it works.):
In normal operation, that is, moving under its own power with transmission in a
forward gear, most probably D, although it may work in L and
Efficiency is just math. Not sure how reputable the paper is (Tesla
sourced) but the numbers aren't too far off others I have seen, and
they seem to cover the various aspects pretty well:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/greendorm/participate/cee124/TeslaReading.pdf
Not sure why everyone is so
Super, thanks everyone. I'll give it the suggestions a try this evening.
Glad it's not symptomatic of a real problem. :)
Thanks,
-Tim
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net
E M pokieba...@gmail.com
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I mentioned the $1.04 per litre. We have recently had yet ANOTHER tax added
to most things, including gas. To put it in perspective, when gas is now
$1.02 a litre, I jump on it and fill up, as that's somewhat of a
...Dieselhead is Loren Faeth, of Ames, Iowa, a long-time member of this
list. I don't know why the alias lately. Maybe he's in the witness
protection program. :-)..
Ah, that explains a lot.
RLE
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Here's the deal:
Friend of mine is a divorced mom with a job and full time night school.
Asshat hits her in a parking lot and damages her car. Not bad enough to
disable it, but there's over a grand worth of damage. Cops won't come to make
a report, as it's considered a fender bender
Damned right! Other guy's insurance should pay 100% of whatever is
necessary to make her whole - restore/repair her car to what it was before
being hit! Shouldn't have to get her ins. involved at all! It's the other
guy's liability, but if they can get out of some or all of it, they'll be
It is indeed Loren. Lives in the next city over from me. Nice guy in
person, and very Mercedes knowledgeable. I bought a 300TE from him a
few years ago, and we've talked several times.
Dan
On Aug 3, 2010, at 6:27 PM, mercedes-requ...@okiebenz.com wrote:
thanks, Dan.
if that's Loren,
DBV wrote:
I dream of the day someone in the US has the stones to declare the embargo a
waste of time and open trade with the Commies.
What do you mean?
The commies are our largest debt owner - china is still communist, no?
mao
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Thats a bunch of bull right there.
Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310 wrote:
Kaleb do you have a permit for your auto recycling business?
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/02/google-earth-license-pools-riv
erhead/
Very respectfully,
/s/
Max Dillon
'87 300TD 328k miles
'95
I have a setup from a 201 car
Rolf wrote:
Anyone have a complete setup? This is for an om60x so anything from a
124,201 will fit. Need the pedals, linkage, shifter, trans, fw etc.
-Rolf
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I think they have updated my area pretty recent. The view of my back
yard looks pretty up to date, within the last several months anyway. I
do need to thin the heard by at least half.
Mitch Haley wrote:
Walt Zarnoch wrote:
Google earth is usually ~ 2 to 6 years out of date on the data as
I have heard the 5 speed 300E is really boring to drive. I have never
driven one though.
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
Rolf wrote:
Anyone have a complete setup? This is for an om60x so anything from a
124,201 will fit. Need the pedals, linkage, shifter, trans, fw etc.
Since there were
Don't try to collect from 'otherguys' insurer. They will beat you to
death with details, in an attempt to get you to walk away.
I prevailed by suing 'otherguy' in small claims court. That made his
insurance company wake up an write a check.
--
Pete Arnold
You win some, You loose some and
WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com writes:
Damned right! Other guy's insurance should pay 100% of whatever is
necessary to make her whole - restore/repair her car to what it was
before being hit! Shouldn't have to get her ins. involved at all!
In no fault states, the way I understand it, each persons
I think you're wrong, who is the keeper of the Marshall emails?
I don't think M1 15w50 is that hard to pour compared to 15w40 conventional
oil...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:44:28 -0500
From: Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] oil thread... (no porch or
So in MI, when the nimrod doing 80 rear ends you at the stoplight, you pay
for your totaled car, medical bills, and etc?
E...
On Aug 3, 2010 8:47 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com writes:
Damned right! Other guy's insurance should pay 100% of what...
I had one as a rental once, hated it...
Thing I hated most was the window switches being in the center of the dash...
Interestingly people who have them tend to LOVE them... A woman I work with
adores hers.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:50:48 -0400
From: Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu
Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com writes:
I don't think M1 15w50 is that hard to pour compared to 15w40
conventional oil...
M1 15W50 is not hard to pour. Marshall used to challenge people to put
a cup of M1 15W40 and a cup of conventional 15W40 in the freezer, let it
chill down, and compare
Walt Zarnoch zarnoch...@gmail.com writes:
So in MI, when the nimrod doing 80 rear ends you at the stoplight, you pay
for your totaled car, medical bills, and etc?
No, your insurance does, and his pays for his.
I do think the driver at fault is subject to having his premiums
raised, while you
Gone and gone... $600 for the pair, 310,xxx miles.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:17:06 -0400
From: Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Looking for a 5spd.
Message-ID: 4c5808c2.1040...@voyager.net
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Northfield is neat, ever been there? I went back in college, I wonder if they
still let people tour the generating floor...
-Curt
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 13:43:24 + (UTC)
From: pm7...@comcast.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Say it ain't so!
After 9/11, I doubt you and even get to the plant, let alone get a tour.
Those days are long gone -- Sabic is installing crashproof gates at
the plastics plant I work in.
Peter
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Peter T. Arnold wrote:
I prevailed by suing 'otherguy' in small claims court. That made his
insurance company wake up an write a check.
Especially if you're suing them for $1000. They'd rather pay than send an
attorney.
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Walt Zarnoch wrote:
So in MI, when the nimrod doing 80 rear ends you at the stoplight, you pay
for your totaled car, medical bills, and etc?
Your mandatory insurance does. AFAIK we're the only state with unlimited medical
(claims over a million or something go through the state catastrophic
I want one of those little packaged nukes on my flying car like I was
promised when I was a kid.
--R
On 8/3/2010 4:59 PM, Tim C wrote:
Efficiency is just math. Not sure how reputable the paper is (Tesla
sourced) but the numbers aren't too far off others I have seen, and
they seem to cover
Y'all are making me even more gladder I live in NC, where, if the other guy
causes it, the other guy pays. Why not?!
Wilton
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To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 9:27 PM
Subject: Re:
We have minimum beer and wine pricing here. I remember about 10 years or so
years ago, there was a local wine producing, offering a good wine for $3.50
or so a bottle. Gov said no no to that, much charge at least 7.50 or
whatever it was. It's not the greedy beer and wine producers, it's the gov
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
I have heard the 5 speed 300E is really boring to drive. I have never
driven one though.
I don't know why it would be, unless the transmission ratios were
really poorly chosen. Certainly nobody would say the automatic
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?ct=pcar_id=267271299
This R107 is supposed to be stick shift too:
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?ct=pcar_id=283510954
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DBV wrote:
I dream of the day someone in the US has the stones to declare the embargo a
waste of time and open trade with the Commies.
What do you mean?
The commies are our largest debt owner - china is still communist, no?
mao
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I'll be impressed with the ChiComs
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