Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread Max Dillon
Methinks your PBU (push button unit) may be to blame, but that is a guess. I doubt your fan clutch has anything to do with it. Even if your fan and clutch were completely removed, your thermostat should hold the engine temperature at 80+ degrees. Cooling would be negatively affected, not

Re: [MBZ] '95 E300 with OM606 - how long to reach operating temp?

2011-02-10 Thread Max Dillon
Ned, Thanks for the confirmation! Just found your reply in my spam filter, along with a few others... -Max From: ned kleinhenz ned.kleinh...@gmail.com To: Mercedes List Mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Mon, February 7, 2011 10:19:40 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] '95

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Allan Streib
XBox, Wii, and PlayStation game consoles will also let you watch Netflix on your TV, assuming you have internet connectivity to the console. Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net writes: It is served up over a net connection, needs to be fairly fast (my DSL seems to run in the 5Mb

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Allan Streib
Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net writes: Oh, and another thing -- once you have an account it is apparently possible for 2 streams to be going at once, my daughter uses our acct at school and so far there has not been any problem. Two is the limit on the basic account, if you

Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread John Reames
I suspect you have a seized cooling fan thermo clutch or a oil thermostat that is stuck open. The fan clutch should not lock up until the air passing over it gets hot enough. At highway speeds, there is enough air moving through the radiator to keep things cool without the clutch locking. A

Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread Mike Esh
Thanks Max, Could someone direct me to the location of the service manual procedure for trouble shooting the HVAC on an 84 300D. Thanks, Mike P.S. The engine temperature remains very steady at about 100 on the temperature gauge throughout the heat fluctuations. Sent from my iPad On Feb 10,

Re: [MBZ] No cable

2011-02-10 Thread John Reames
What about 3/4 mile of cable (not RG6, but something with less loss, like hardline) with a bidirectional amp that takes power off the cable (you would need an injector somewhere, but you could have that closer to you. Of course, you would have the fun associated with with either stringing up

Re: [MBZ] Another day another wheel bearing

2011-02-10 Thread Max Dillon
Robert, PLEASE give the bunny new front wheel bearings BEFORE the car goes one direction and the wheel(s) go in another... My father and I were traveling in a '69 Benz (newly purchased) through the desert southwest when the left front wheel bearing let go. It had been making a noise for a

Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread Max Dillon
Mike, The CD with the service manual used to be available for about $20 plus shipping from MBUSA, but their link is down at the moment: http://www.classictechlit.mbusa.com/ I'll send you a copy of the procedures from the manual. It calls for using a tester but if you are clever with a

Re: [MBZ] No cable

2011-02-10 Thread John Reames
802.11 wireless Ethernet operates at microwave frequencies (your microwave oven operates in the 2.4GHz range, the same as 802.11b/g) Take a big antenna (with a good gain), and a hot amplifier and you can get a massive EIRP; wouldn't a 15dB antenna with a 1 watt amp put you in the neighborhood

Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread Max Dillon
Oops - forgot one other thing on your car - the foam tube between the in-car sensor in the dash and the (?) located under the dash. Hopefully someone who's BTDT repair can chime in to let us know how to find and replace this tube. When the foam tube disintegrates, crazy behavior results. I've

Re: [MBZ] No cable

2011-02-10 Thread Max Dillon
You can, I think, purchase the fiber cable pre-terminated. Single mode is less user-friendly than multi-mode but better for long distances due to higher powered light source; single mode light source can damage human eye, multi-mode is much safer. -Max From:

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: No cable

2011-02-10 Thread Jim Cathey
Take a big antenna (with a good gain), and a hot amplifier and you can get a massive EIRP; wouldn't a 15dB antenna with a 1 watt amp put you in the neighborhood of 32dBW EIRP? Dunno. We just kept reaching for bigger hammers until we got something that worked. We tried the basket antenna

Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread Jim Cathey
Perfect heat as I drive around town but when I get on the highway it drops down to less than 40 degrees. As soon as i slow down it bounces back to normal. Still sounds like a monovalve problem. Does the MAX setting make any difference? That should be equal to unplugging the monovalve. Did

Re: [MBZ] Adoption was Re: New Snook Car!

2011-02-10 Thread Donald Snook
Tim wrote: Sorry to hear about the problems. You are a good family to keep trying. Well, the nursery is all done and the supplies are purchased, so we have to keep trying! :) Actually, we didn't hesitate at all. We know this is the right thing for us. Donald H. Snook

Re: [MBZ] OT - Snow report

2011-02-10 Thread Donald Snook
Ok Don wrote: Kaleb - how's the snow in your neck of the woods? We got about 4 inches, but most of it blew somewhere else. A few drifts to shovel (like to the car), but not near as much as last week. I know, those of you up North wouldn't even have noticed this storm! I know you were asking

Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread Max Dillon
Jim's comment stirs another thought: hitting Defrost should force the system to full heat and AC and high fan speed with air directed to the windshield; if that works (restores heat) then I'm pretty sure the PBU is one possible source (you may have multiple things wrong). -Max

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
If you have an account you can watch the ones that are available for instant download on your computer, he would just have to log in to the account. On 2/9/2011 5:04 PM, Mountain Man wrote: I was visiting with a friend - amazing, eh?, I have a friend... yesterday for lunch. He was mentioning

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
Some blu ray players have netflix built in, you just have to allow access from the netflix account and have an internet connection. You can also do it with the play station and I believe x box. On 2/9/2011 5:11 PM, Mountain Man wrote: John wrote: Mao, it's automatic. If the selection says

Re: [MBZ] OT - Snow report

2011-02-10 Thread andrew strasfogel
DC got about one inch, which became ice and wreaked havoc in Prince Georges County to the east. All kinds of spinouts on the major roads... On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Donald Snook dsn...@mtsqh.com wrote: Ok Don wrote: Kaleb - how's the snow in your neck of the woods? We got about 4

Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread andrew strasfogel
The foamy hose replacement involves removing the glove box liner. The replacement line is foamless rubber so you won't have to go through this all over again. Helps to have small hands to unhook the old hose and reattach the new one to the in-dash sensor... Might also want to replace the hard

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Rolf
We have had three, but all off the same public IP. -Rolf On 02/09/2011 07:01 PM, Rich Thomas wrote: Oh, and another thing -- once you have an account it is apparently possible for 2 streams to be going at once, my daughter uses our acct at school and so far there has not been any problem.

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Rolf
Yup. PS3 is the way to go. Blue ray player, netflix, hulu, stream divx/avi from your computer AND a can of whip ass on 15yr olds who think they know everything. Whats not to like? -Rolf On 02/10/2011 07:51 AM, Allan Streib wrote: XBox, Wii, and PlayStation game consoles will also let you

Re: [MBZ] No cable

2011-02-10 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.comwrote: (Hey, list EEs: RF signal strength decreases proportional to the square of distance, right?) I think that only applies to a point source

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Tim C
I don't think you can run two streams from the same machine (or at least you used-to-couldn't), so it is an end-to-end connection. In any case the DVD plans have more simultaneous streams, I believe. From watching my incoming traffic I think you could get away with a 512K connection, 1M gives a

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Rolf
The 50's 300SL in GT5 is a phenomenal car on the 'ring for its age. It does get a wee squirrely at 140+mph... Best driving sim ever. -Rolf On 02/10/2011 11:10 AM, Tim C wrote: I don't think you can run two streams from the same machine (or at least you used-to-couldn't), so it is an

Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread Gerry Archer
Oops - forgot one other thing on your car - the foam tube between the in-car sensor in the dash and the (?) located under the dash. Hopefully someone who's BTDT repair can chime in to let us know how to find and replace this tube. When the foam tube disintegrates, crazy behavior results. I've

Re: [MBZ] Adoption was Re: New Snook Car!

2011-02-10 Thread Gerry Archer
I assume you checked on the possibility of harvesting, impregnating, and then implanting ova? Not always available locally, but usually available in larger cities. There is also the possibility of surrogates hosting the ovum/sperm of the wife and husband or ova from other women and sperm from

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Max Dillon
OK, all this talk has me intrigued. I would really like to get PBS and also Italian channels (like RAI Uno, RAI Due, or RAI World) over the internet (DSL). I've got a decent windows machine connected to my TV. What else do I need, and what would it cost me? HD is nice but not required. -Max

Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread R A Bennell
How is the coolant level? That sounds to me like you either have insufficient coolant or an incorrect mixture of coolant and water. Randy On 09/02/2011 10:29 PM, Mike Esh wrote: Perfect heat as I drive around town but when I get on the highway it drops down to less than 40 degrees. As soon

[MBZ] Bosch Injectors

2011-02-10 Thread Rusty Cullens
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Re: [MBZ] Advice on Bunny repair (Was Another day, another wheel bearing)

2011-02-10 Thread Robert Bigham
8. Re: Another day another wheel bearing (Max Dillon) Message: 8 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:14:20 -0800 (PST) From: Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another day another wheel bearing Robert, PLEASE give the bunny new

Re: [MBZ] Life of CV Joints

2011-02-10 Thread Robert Bigham
7. Re: Life of CV joints (Robert Bigham) 8. Re: Life of CV joints (Benz Hogs) 9. Re: Life of CV joints (Mitch Haley) 10. Re: Life of CV joints (Allan Streib) 13. Re: Life of CV joints (Fmiser) Message: 7 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 11:25:12 -0600 (GMT-06:00) From: Robert Bigham

[MBZ] OT - outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread R A Bennell
Yesterday afternoon I received an email message from someone in Lahore, Pakistan offering to do work for my law office: Typing · Transcription · Editing · Formatting · Diagrams · Working on Incorporation Documents and Annual Return files · Drafting

Re: [MBZ] OT - outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread E M
If I hired an American lawyer, and I was paying him American wages, guess who I'd want to be doing the work. If I found out some dude over in Pakistan was being fed the work by way of outsourcing, our working relationship would come to an end in quite a hurry. Ed 300E On 10 February 2011 16:28,

Re: [MBZ] OT - outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread Mitch Haley
E M wrote: If I hired an American lawyer, and I was paying him American wages, guess who I'd want to be doing the work. If I found out some dude over in Pakistan was being fed the work by way of outsourcing, our working relationship would come to an end in quite a hurry. Some big CPA firms

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Allan Streib
NetFlix carries a lot of PBS and BBC programming, National Geographic, etc. though it's mostly a year old or older. All you need to do is sign up for a Netflix account. There's a free trial I think. Not sure what to do about the Italian stuff, though I'd be surprised if it's not available

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Rolf
If anyone is looking for BBC stuff I can hook you up with invite a BBC/ITV only site. -Rolf On 02/10/2011 05:41 PM, Allan Streib wrote: NetFlix carries a lot of PBS and BBC programming, National Geographic, etc. though it's mostly a year old or older. All you need to do is sign up for a

Re: [MBZ] OT - outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread E M
I agree 100%. I always ask up front who's doing the work, and to make sure it's on the invoice. If you send my work to India and invoice me, expect to be paid in rupees, and adjusted accordingly. Ed 300E On 10 February 2011 17:31, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: E M wrote: If I hired

Re: [MBZ] DSL vs cable vs dialup

2011-02-10 Thread RELNGSON
.What really amazes me is where I live I cant get cable or DSL, I live about 8 miles out of town but there are hundreds of houses out here in the area.  My mother lives in Rolla, KS (mapquest it) where all the houses are MILES apart and she has DSL.  Now that is strange. To quote I

Re: [MBZ] DSL vs cable vs dialup

2011-02-10 Thread Peter Frederick
I got DSL (and cable, incidentally, became available) two years ago. Till then it was dialup or statelite. which wasn't gonna happen since I don't watch the rot on TV much. ATT is upgrading hard wiring for DSL fairly fast, but it's spotty and state dependent. Indiana did a big push for

Re: [MBZ] OT - outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread Rich Thomas
I used to work for an Indian guy from England, his family made a nice little fortune flying documents to India and getting them scanned or dealt with somehow, maybe data entry or something, then flying it all back a coupla days later. This was back in the 70s/80s and I guess it was fairly

Re: [MBZ] OT - outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread R A Bennell
Probably data entry. Punch cards and feed, then print out and return. I knew someone who did that sort of thing here. They did not do the punch cards to my knowledge. They had a computer and places like accounting firms would create the punch cards and deliver them to my fellow who would run

Re: [MBZ] Adoption was Re: New Snook Car!

2011-02-10 Thread John Reames
IVF doesn't always work... or worse, they forget to put the Velcro feet on 'em and they go where they aren't supposed to. -- John W Reames jwrea...@comcast.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:07, Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com wrote: I assume you checked

Re: [MBZ] OT - outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread John Reames
Umm would any of that be potentially privileged information? Isn't there an obligation to keep it that way? It's kinda tough to do a BI on generic warm bodies overseas... -- John W Reames jwrea...@comcast.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 On Feb 10, 2011, at 16:28, R A Bennell

Re: [MBZ] No cable

2011-02-10 Thread John Reames
Yes lasers used on SMF will make you see spots (permanently, if you are lucky). LEDs (used only on MMF) might be painfully bright, and you should not suffer noticeable damage. The gotcha is that the same laser based optics can (and are) used on MMF, so you can still get hurt. With networks,

Re: [MBZ] Outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread Robert Bigham
I'll bet they also have the inside track to get you the $Eleventy Zillion that were left in the bank in someone's name similar to yours. Will only cost you maybe $45K in fees/bribes to get it released to them for your benefit. Honestly, how can we view these kind of things as other than

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread John Reames
Can you watch on an iPhone? :) i've been trying to watch Dr who and torchwood, but it gets darned expensive when you live in an area that where the only legal cable is comcast, so don't even think about fios or fios tv. -- John W Reames jwrea...@comcast.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile:

Re: [MBZ] New Snook Car!

2011-02-10 Thread John Reames
How did they make it work with the DAS system (I think they were using benz DAS keys...) -- John W Reames jwrea...@comcast.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 On Feb 9, 2011, at 9:37, Donald Snook dsn...@mtsqh.com wrote: Kevin wrote: Is this the same 3.5L that was used in the Dodge

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Allan Streib
You can watch on an iPod Touch, so I would assume you also can on an iPhone. On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:47 -0500, John Reames jwrea...@comcast.net wrote: Can you watch on an iPhone? :) i've been trying to watch Dr who and torchwood, but it gets darned expensive when you live in an area that where

Re: [MBZ] DSL vs cable vs dialup

2011-02-10 Thread Allan Streib
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:30 -0500, relng...@aol.com wrote: What you don't know is that one thing that limits DSL is the fourteen cable mile limit (in my area) from the C.O. Plus, the cable makeup and whether there are any repeaters. So, straight line distance doesn't come into it. I live about

Re: [MBZ] Adoption was Re: New Snook Car!

2011-02-10 Thread Gerry Archer
In vivo doesn't always work either. Few procedures in medicine work all the time. Nevertheless, in vitro/in vivo work often enough that they're worth doing for many people. Some ob/gyn specialists are hesitant to send a patient to a clinic that does IVFs and implants for a variety of

Re: [MBZ] No cable

2011-02-10 Thread OK Don
That sounds like a cool experiment! Let us know how it works out. On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.comwrote: That makes sense. (As long as it doesn't mean that I would get fast upload speeds and slow download---exactly the opposite of useful.) I was

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Mountain Man
Rolf wrote: If anyone is looking for BBC stuff I can hook you up with invite a BBC/ITV only site. Does anyone watch Aljazeera English? Give me that invite - I'm interested... I have been hearing that Aljazeera English have the best international coverages of anyone. I guess Burlington, VT is

Re: [MBZ] OT - outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread Mountain Man
Ed wrote: If I hired an American lawyer, and I was paying him American wages, guess who I'd want to be doing the work.  If I found out some dude over in Pakistan was being fed the work by way of outsourcing, our working relationship would come to an end in quite a hurry. Why is this analysis

Re: [MBZ] Outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread Mountain Man
Ed wrote: Honestly, how can we view these kind of things as other than scams? It is the universal indoctrination we have all received and learned well through the years and try to practice as effectively as possible. It is all religion. Save dollars. Dollar is god - god needs to be saved, so

Re: [MBZ] 84 300D crazy heat

2011-02-10 Thread Mike Esh
Defrost setting does not correct the problem. I am going re check mono valve. If the seal are good should I be ordering the whole unit? Mike Sent from my iPad On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote: Jim's comment stirs another thought: hitting Defrost

Re: [MBZ] OT - outsourcing

2011-02-10 Thread E M
For me, I apply it to pretty much everything I can, and it's becoming harder and harder to do all the time. Example, I went to buy some dental floss sticks tonight. Anything I eat or goes in my mouth, I always go with a known name, thinking (wrongly) that such companies would still wish to

Re: [MBZ] Digital images, PPI, etc.

2011-02-10 Thread Craig
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:24:24 -0600 Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote: 'T'is the power of the shell script. Start with it not really more than a note to self to help remember a command. Expand and build from there. Yup. And I've built some pretty nice scripts. Craig

Re: [MBZ] OT - Netflix

2011-02-10 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
you can, and also on the ipad On 2/10/2011 6:58 PM, Allan Streib wrote: You can watch on an iPod Touch, so I would assume you also can on an iPhone. On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:47 -0500, John Reamesjwrea...@comcast.net wrote: Can you watch on an iPhone? :) i've been trying to watch Dr who and

Re: [MBZ] No cable

2011-02-10 Thread Craig
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:56:38 -0800 Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.comwrote: (Hey, list EEs: RF signal strength decreases proportional