Re: [MBZ] Price Of Fuel

2021-05-11 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Yeah apparently folks are hoarding gasolina like it it 2020 TP. Stations around here have run out. I filled up 2 vehicles at Costco Friday and Sunday in anticipation of this mess so I’m good for awhile. --FT Sent from iPhone > On May 11, 2021, at 11:30 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote:

Re: [MBZ] OT: 1964 Thunderbird convictable

2021-05-11 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
No rust in the body --FT Sent iPhone > On May 11, 2021, at 10:30 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes > wrote: > > On 2021-05-11 19:03, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: >> https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/d/indianapolis-1964-thunderbird/7320304709.html > > This is a California car, just

Re: [MBZ] OT: 1964 Thunderbird convictable

2021-05-11 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
I’m making a plea bargain --FT Sent from iPhone > On May 11, 2021, at 8:25 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] Price Of Fuel

2021-05-11 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> Can refined gasoline be transported by rail or is that considered too > dangerous? Yeah, much more dangerous than the LPG, anhydrous ammonia, or sulfuric acid they transport routinely and in great quantity! The crude oil and molten sulfur is tame by comparison. -- Jim

Re: [MBZ] Price Of Fuel

2021-05-11 Thread Clay via Mercedes
New adventure in the Clay departs SEA saga. Yesterday I had a taxi take me to the Port of Tacoma to pick up the car SWMBA had sent down from ANC to replace the krap Yeep of #1 boy in ND. He spent the past weekend picking up her new CRV in Sioux Falls. We are to swap cars on the plains of MT

[MBZ] project cars 560SL E320 Cab CL600

2021-05-11 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/pts/d/batesville-mercedes-benz-project-cars/7319716914.html Allan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] RIP Golf TDI

2021-05-11 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
Assume you weren't injured. That is the good part. Was the big black truck a Dodge? Randy On 10/05/2021 8:33 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes wrote: I was heading home from the grocery today after work and managed to miss a big black pickup flying down the road a couple hundred feet from

Re: [MBZ] nice looking 115 diesel except...

2021-05-11 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
What is so bad about the seat covers? Can you get replacement covers for a 115? Randy On 10/05/2021 9:01 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: For the horrible incorrect seat covers. https://www.ebay.com/itm/294170037404?hash=item447de68c9c:g:HmgAAOSwMA5gmcBs

Re: [MBZ] 240D 4-speed

2021-05-11 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
One of my favorite things about a 240D is that it'll easily drive up onto a set of ramps. Mine are also old Sears ramps. To get my Jetta up on ramps requires 3 pieces of 2x6 to make a ramp so the front air dam doesn't hit. -Curt On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 12:26:47 PM EDT, Jim Cathey via

Re: [MBZ] 240D 4-speed

2021-05-11 Thread Jaime Kopchinski via Mercedes
Hi John, It’s not terribly difficult can you definitely need the car raised up a bit to get under it. It’s something that’s pretty straightforward on a lift, so any competent shop should be able to do it if your not up for it. Just be sure genuine MB parts are used. Lots of shops cut corners

Re: [MBZ] rare Designo leather interior., Several hail spots. Mercedes Benz S550 2013 - $35, 000 (Willard)

2021-05-11 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
On 2021-05-11 11:00, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote: But no pics https://wilmington.craigslist.org/cto/d/willard-mercedes-benz/7319996674.html 8 years old, totaled for hail damage, $35k? Al Borland sez: "I don't think so, Tim" ___

[MBZ] 240D 4-speed

2021-05-11 Thread John Ingram via Mercedes
Jaime, Thank you, this is the explanation I was hoping for. I guess I’d need to get under the car to do this? I don’t have a safe way to do that, may need to take it to a shop (there is a good one near here). Can the shifter bushings be replaced from inside the car? John Ingram

Re: [MBZ] 240D 4-speed

2021-05-11 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> I don’t have a safe way to [get under the car], may need to take it to a shop A set of ramps is usually pretty easy. Son just welded the muffler back on the 190D using a set of green pressed steel ramps. (Old Sears product?) -- Jim ___

Re: [MBZ] �

2021-05-11 Thread MG via Mercedes
Since I couldn't see the pictures, this is just what I was thinking it could be, going by the description. Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: https://youtu.be/s3bAWScMdjs Rick From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: May 10, 2021 7:39 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc:

[MBZ] Currently on static suspension with lowering springs 1981 Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz 300 SD Sedan 4D, $4, 500

2021-05-11 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
New over sized injectors. Air bags, pump, solenoids, and valves new and ready to install https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/510976560084212 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe

Re: [MBZ] It’s not a bus but

2021-05-11 Thread MG via Mercedes
I would love to see that but I never got the original email. MG Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: That trailer is weird. Why does it have that part that looks like it is for a fifth wheel? It’s not really big enough to be hooked up like that unless on a mini truck --FT Sent from

Re: [MBZ] 240D Shifter

2021-05-11 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I think Jamie is right. My '85 190D had some weird shifter issues, it's been a long time but I remember not being able to find reverse reliably and having to push it out of a couple parking spaces. New shifter bushings fixed it. -Curt On Monday, May 10, 2021, 9:19:32 PM EDT, Jaime

[MBZ] 1 4spd, 1auto (2) Mercedes Benz 1983 240 D,$2,000

2021-05-11 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/806600500022085 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] Someone Cut 1 Of The Cats... 2008 Mercedes-Benz E-Class, $2, 500

2021-05-11 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2192658594204206 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] Brand new wheels and tires/adapters Tires aren’t balanced HOOD STACK 1984 Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz 300 D Sedan 4D,$1,400

2021-05-11 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
$300 POS https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1140797323055983 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] rare Designo leather interior., Several hail spots. Mercedes Benz S550 2013 - $35, 000 (Willard)

2021-05-11 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
But no pics https://wilmington.craigslist.org/cto/d/willard-mercedes-benz/7319996674.html -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] The cat guy just left

2021-05-11 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
No wonder people are stealing those things left and right. That'll buy a lot of meth. Allan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] Price Of Fuel

2021-05-11 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
I have seen news today of Carter-esque gas lines and stations with no fuel. Time to get the national guard tanker fleet on the road? Is there one? Can refined gasoline be transported by rail or is that considered too dangerous? The latest crisis to not go to waste? Allan Karl Wittnebel via

[MBZ] OT: 1964 Thunderbird convictable

2021-05-11 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/d/indianapolis-1964-thunderbird/7320304709.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] 2007 GL450 - 171k miles - $7,200

2021-05-11 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Does look clean but that's a lot of money for the age and miles. https://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/d/columbus-for-sale/7320326108.html Allan -- Allan Streib Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Digital Science Center | Intelligent Systems Engineering |

Re: [MBZ] Price Of Fuel

2021-05-11 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
A fellow in the retail petroleum business says: If people didn’t panic buy like morons. Everyone would en fine. The choke point isn’t the pipelines or lack there of. It’s trucks and drivers. There is not spare capacity in trucking right now. So over buying means it just can’t be delivered.

Re: [MBZ] OT: 1964 Thunderbird convictable

2021-05-11 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
On 2021-05-11 19:03, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/d/indianapolis-1964-thunderbird/7320304709.html This is a California car, just needs floor pans. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] 240D 4-speed

2021-05-11 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
I have posted photos before of a set of ramps that I made out of 3/4" plywood. I didn't invent them. They were a plan in a car magazine way back when. I made a taller set back in the early 70's that I used with a pickup truck to get it higher. In the 80's or 90's I made another set with a more

Re: [MBZ] Currently on static suspension with lowering springs 1981 Mercedes-Benz Mercedes-Benz 300 SD Sedan 4D, $4, 500

2021-05-11 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
*"Looking for cool and fun trades."* Wish I had kept my '76 Chevette. On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:09 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > New over sized injectors. Air bags, pump, solenoids, and valves new and > ready to install > >

Re: [MBZ] 240D 4-speed

2021-05-11 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
Is this helpful for stick shift bushings? https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/mercedes-shift-bushing-installer-baum-tools-b7200 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go

Re: [MBZ] nice looking 115 diesel except...

2021-05-11 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I agree. They were original and in above average condition. On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:54 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > What is so bad about the seat covers? > Can you get replacement covers for a 115? > > Randy > > On 10/05/2021 9:01 PM, Kaleb Striplin via

Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this

2021-05-11 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
"I just drove this car 300 miles on the Italy to Paris - World Rally of Texas". Sounds like a fun guy! Max Dillon Charleston SC May 10, 2021 8:50:57 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes : > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/299150795042440/ > > > Sent from my iPhone > >

[MBZ] The cat guy just left

2021-05-11 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] 240D 4-speed

2021-05-11 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Silver Star is a good indy shop in Vienna. Ask for Peter. On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 3:02 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I have posted photos before of a set of ramps that I made out of 3/4" > plywood. I didn't invent them. They were a plan in a car magazine way >

Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this

2021-05-11 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
I kinda like it --FT Sent from iPhone > On May 10, 2021, at 8:50 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/299150795042440/ > > > Sent from my iPhone > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list

Re: [MBZ] The cat guy just left

2021-05-11 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Wow --FT Sent from iPhone > On May 11, 2021, at 5:12 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > >  > > > > Sent from my iPhone___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change

[MBZ] ML500 trailer lights

2021-05-11 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
My wiring kit came today so I decided to install it. Found a tail light wiring color code but it was kinda weird as some of the wires are similar colors. But anyway with a meter I sorted it out. Turn signals won’t power with no bulbs but I got it. Took Mitch’s excellent suggestion and wired

[MBZ] Warfarin

2021-05-11 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Started the warfarin yesterday. This morning about 4am I woke up to that pain in your stomach that feels like you will later be puking. Could not go back to sleep. About 8am the puking starts. Every now and then while in the back 40 pulling cats I had to run off between a couple of cars to blow

Re: [MBZ] RIP Golf TDI

2021-05-11 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
Randy: Indeed, 2016 Dodge Ram. Early enough he didn't have headlights on and blended into the trees along the road there. Peter ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options

Re: [MBZ] Price Of Fuel

2021-05-11 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Apparently Ashville has no fuel, period? On Mon, May 10, 2021, 9:48 PM Clay via Mercedes wrote: > Sure you can! Contact all manner of eco friendly municipalities or > property owners and haul the kids on over. SEA loves to contract for goat > removal of offending herbaceous matter. The bus