The gear pump is rather small...I forget all the specs
(they're at home and we decided not to buy the
filtering equipment until we got one car up and
running perfectly. Jason and I will VO to Wisconsin
and back this weekend on a serious test run (picking
up a very nice Case 222 hyrdo-drive garden
http://www.dieselproducts.com/ - the filter
http://www.vikingpump.com/ - the pump and motor
Chris
--- Gabriel S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
where, may i ask, did you aquire this fancy
filtering device?
On 10/4/05, Christopher McCann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wasn't really implying
DaveI think I heard that term someplace from way back whenever and
really never knew what it meant either but when I took the rod cap and the
bearing was paper thin and even squished up the side 1/4 , it Looked
like a spun bearing that had stopped spinning to me :-) That crank had
Kevin - I'd like to tempt you to do that. You could retire the engine and
transmission to Florida for my ailing 1981 300SD...
Good body and interior, no engine and [probably ]a weak transmission. I've
spent $3k thus far and still no usable engine.
BillR
1981 300SD the EM 265k / no engine yet
Yes, it's the same as the W108, exactly.
Peter
With a top speed of 30mph and a wimpy engine, chances are they will
hear you coming and get out of the way before you can get close
enough.
-Dave Walton
On 10/4/05, Gabriel S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
more like running over peta protesters
On 10/4/05, LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Car
Flyblown is when flies lay their eggs(which turn into
maggots) around the sheep's behind, which leads to a rather slow painful
death for the sheep involved(if not treated in time). Think thousands of
maggots eating you alive.
Man, its nice to be reminded now and then why we quit raising
Just went to fill up. B-20 bio-diesel is $0.10/gallon higher than dino.
Trying to figure out how that could be. $3.199 for dino and $3.299 for
B-20.
Ron Dwelle
35 lb. jug of soy oil = ~4.6 gal.
Wilton
Ron,
IMHO, it's all about caveat emptor and what the traffic will
bear!.. And we are not in charge..
But, I have often wondered what I would do if I were a benign
dictator... Just wonderin'. No aspirations
Take care,
Chuck
Phoenix AZ
On Oct 4, 2005, at 5:06
yea, I saw it. About 4 or 5 hours away. Not sure if I want to mess
with it with these high fuel prices.
Rick Knoble wrote:
I dunno how close this is to Okie
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1981-MERCEDES-BENZ-240D-RUN-BAD-PART-OR-ALL_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6783QQitemZ8004853402QQrdZ1
At CostCo, it's 71 cents per quart -- $2.84 per gallon. Cheapest diesel
fuel in these parts is $2.97.
--mf
On Oct 4, 2005, at 6:52 PM, Wilton Strickland wrote:
35 lb. jug of soy oil = ~4.6 gal.
Wilton
rumor has it that Van wrote:
There is no ridge at the top of the cyl
walls but my plan is to have the block bored for o/s pistons. So far the
valve guides look good but will finish checking them out today.
I thought the 615 and 617 were sleeved. Can you bore those? Or do you
remove the
Why is it that all these bozos have cars with gearshifts that clearly say
1, 2, 3, 4 and then they say it is a 5 speed?
At 07:57 PM 10/4/2005, you wrote:
yea, I saw it. About 4 or 5 hours away. Not sure if I want to mess
with it with these high fuel prices.
Rick Knoble wrote:
I dunno how
Found this ad, not a common car in these parts
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?car_id=190235590
Mitch Haley wrote:
Found this ad, not a common car in these parts
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?car_id=190235590
Could be a 4 or a 5 spd! Both were available in Europe. The 4 spd was
noticeably cheaper. The 124 was NEVER officially imported to the US with
an M102 4 cyl. engine (same
Reverse!
On 10/4/05, Loren Faeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is it that all these bozos have cars with gearshifts that clearly say
1, 2, 3, 4 and then they say it is a 5 speed?
--
OK Don, KD5NRO
Norman, OK
'87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC
The FSM created the Diesel Benz
So Donald, any of this a help? Did you decide one way or the other?
Curious minds need to know --
On 10/4/05, Rusty Cullens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here here Trampus. There is no comparison. The W126 is a far better car
in all aspects.
--
OK Don, KD5NRO
Norman, OK
'87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78
BZZT! Wrong. A 4 speed has 4 forward gears. A 5 speed has 5 forward gears.
At 09:08 PM 10/4/2005, you wrote:
Reverse!
On 10/4/05, Loren Faeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is it that all these bozos have cars with gearshifts that clearly say
1, 2, 3, 4 and then they say it is a 5 speed?
Wow! I don't often get interested in vergassers but that looks like a fun,
economical car. The euro 2.3 is a screamer for its size. I don't see
anything that indicates it is a 5 spd. It says manual trans. Most likely
a 4 spd, but who knows? Too bad it is in Rusty, PA about the same as
Closer to you than to me
On Monday, October 3, 2005, at 04:13 PM, Bob Rentfro wrote:
Kaleb brought
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1979-MERCEDES-240D-DIESEL-5-
SPEED_W0QQitemZ8004799239QQcategoryZ6783QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
to our attention
Why can't something like this be somewhere near me?
Is that a B2 issue with the tranny?
On Monday, October 3, 2005, at 04:28 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mercedes-Benz-300-Series-MERCEDES-BENZ-
300SD-TURBO-
DIESEL_W0QQitemZ4579813423QQcategoryZ6330QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
--
Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK
89
Hi Gabriel,
No we don't have parrots who eat sheep far as I know.
The PETA mob need direction and focus on genuine cases of animal abuse such
as the dancing bears in China etc.
However when they have a go at honest Farmers trying to look after their
livelyhood then I will get stroppy.
The
Hi Mitch,
The main problem with M102 motor is that you need to feed it good grade fuel
otherwise it is a bit of a slug. The do a little better with the manual box
but not much.
The M102 also likes to eat valves every now and then.
I am also not a great fan of the 124 chassis because of the
Kick down switch under the throttle pedal. I am going to check this one out
this week.
Rick Knoble
1985 300 CD
- Original Message -
From: redghost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] cheap SD
Is that
JabbaHursty wrote:
that's much more sporty than the 126, which is pure town car.
Huh? My 300SD with 230K takes the curves,brakes, and does just about
everything else better, than the '74(78K) and '79(5K) Town Cars I've driven.
except maybe accelerate, but it passes fuel pumps more often!
How do I tell which alternator belt do I need? non California 1985 300SD
Thanks
Mike Piles
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Christopher McCann wrote:
I wasn't really implying anything, just making an
observation. Yes, Fuel prices will lead to price
inflation in general, but Europe has had high fuel
prices forever and it's still cheaper to buy bulk
fresh VO than it is to buy D2 or BioD (the cheapest
fuel at the
Mitch Haley wrote:
You need a tank for each product you are dispensing. If you want to add
another, you need an extra tank. If they won't let you bury another tank,
you either drop an existing product or don't add the new product.
Or use an above-ground tank, if you have the real estate. Ever
For the chemically inclined among us: If one were to add 1.5 oz of ordinary
store-bought Acetone to every 10 gallons of diesel fuel, would the acetone
in that concentration cause any damage to seals, gaskets, injector pumps
etc?
I ask this for I was listening to a Nationally syndicated late night
http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/101950791.html --79 SD $2500
http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/101939410.html --88 TE $4500
http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/101890368.html --96 s320 $12k
http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/101833413.html --56 300c $25k
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not mine, no affiliation, too bad is you do not want to see all the
great Benz for sale out this way Mac, the rest of the list is drooling
for some new rides, no matter where they find them
Love to see them all! Buy me a Dodge Ram Cummins and a three-car hawler and
[list of Seattle cars deleted]
Clay,
Not mine, no affiliation, too bad is you do not want to see all the
great Benz for sale out this way Mac, the rest of the list is drooling
for some new rides, no matter where they find them
--
Clay
Seattle Bioburner
1972 220D - Gump
1995 E300D
[list of Seattle cars deleted]
Clay,
please don't include me in the generalization the rest of the list
that you use to justify what you seem to think of as a 'service' to the
list; there's already too much noise on this list for me to support any
more.
do you understand that (thanks to
W, yes and no. I have in the past purchased three Mercedes that were
'referred' through notes on mailing lists.
I for one enjoy the fact that someone takes a minute to compile such lists
(just as Kaleb and others from time to time forward eBay links to
interesting cars).
Not everyone has
Philip
Oops, I shoulda said bore the sleeve. When you resleeve the engine you
must have them bored to fit the pistons. (std) You can buy the oversized
pistons and have the sleeves bored to fit them. Which I did on the last
rebuild I did, Hay.. every little extra cube counts with 67 HP
BillR wrote:
[BillR] You can get nasty can't you?
No, that's not nasty, that's just sarcastic. You posted to a thread in
which people were comparing notes on snow tires -- seeking information
to safely navigate the icy hazards of the upcoming winter -- to gloat
about living in the Sun
I was on the phone the other day with a fuel/oil distributor who's
getting into biodiesel. For the record, Wolf Oil of Slinger, Wis.. He
had me interested until he told me their price for B-100 -- $25+ for a
5-gallon pail!! Boutique fuel, with an emphasis on the boutique.
Ron Dwelle wrote:
I for one enjoy the fact that someone takes a minute to compile such lists
Yeah, you never know when I may have to take a little trip up to Seattle to
pick up a car. I'm still hoping for that nice little Forrest green '72 220D
that a *certain* list member owns *smile*. Na, I guess he'll
Chris,
You will have to let me know how that turns out. I have thought about using
one like that but thought that the cake may need to be cleaned out too often
without some minor prefiltration.
Andy
On 10/4/05, Christopher McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.dieselproducts.com/
Some
There is a serious problem with this theory.
For this or any other additive to work, you'd have to increase the amount of
energy available from the fuel but one gallon of diesel has a finite amount
of energy. And diesel exhaust contains almost no unburned fuel. In other
words, almost all of the
right...in England about 70% taxes, but transportation
companies still havfe to pay the taxes, even if
farmers don't. Of course, US citizens pay a lower % of
their income on food than any other country in the
world, do our food prices going up, might just put us
at par with Europe, where it is
that's the crux of the argument. IF DIESEL EXHAUST
FROM A HEALTHY ENGINE HAS ALMOST NO UNBURNED FUEL IN
IT, THEN IT WON'T WORK. The Acetone argument is that
it reduces surface tension in the fuel and allows it
to atomize better, giving a more complete burn...if
the burn is already 99% complete,
don't forget taxes, if you pay on food there. In PA
you do not pay taxes on unprepared food (or clothes).
In MO you do...but in MO you DONT pay taxes on
precious metals purchases (bullion/coins)...oh well.
Chris
--- L. Mark Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At CostCo, it's 71 cents per quart --
Indeed, that would be KC :-)
Chris
--- George Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That would be Kansas City
___
Deneal Schilmeister
St. Louis - Cincinnati
1997 SL500
http://homepage.mac.com/deneals/SL500.htm
-Original Message-
From: On Behalf Of Rick
Well technically there is also the burn time. That is diesel fuel takes time
to burn. The problem is that at certain points in the piston travel changes
in the cylinder pressures will have different power outputs. Thus by
decreasing the burn time of the diesel fuel in theory you can get more
But not 33%.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
256-656-1924
www.kegkits.com
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Trampas
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 8:40 AM
To: 'Mercedes mailing list'
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 33 1/3 increase in Diesel fuel
BUT Adolph Busch was the first in America to
manufacture diesel engines. Adolp and Rudolf (Diesel)
were friends and he came to the St. L world's fair and
attended an opening of Busch's engine factory...lots
of interesting connections. First diesel engine in
commercial use in the US was at the
Marshal please chime in. I guess I use it because that is what I have done
for the last two years since I got the car. (tradition un hampered by
progress?)
If there is an advantage to the 5w 40 for the 617.9XX non turbo engine I
would like to hear it. 95% of my driving is long highway
I am working on making valve adjustment wrenches and like to know the needed
dimensions. Thanks
angle
I ? /
_
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/ Height ?
===/ I 14mm Combi wrench
-L?-
Hans Neureiter, Houston, TX
'82 300SD, '95 E300D
A properly running diesel is VERY efficient. With the engine loaded,
most of the fuel is completely burned - CO concentrations (incompletely
burned burned fuel) run well less than 0.5% (suggesting that most of the
fuel is already almost fully consumed) and particulates are quite low as
long as
I agree with Tom. If an engine is that fouled up that it has a 33% power
loss; and a little Acetone fixes that; who needs mechanics?
On 10/5/05, Tom Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But not 33%.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
256-656-1924
www.kegkits.com http://www.kegkits.com
-Original
There was a big discussion about this on the biodiesel list just a few
days ago.
Marshall Field wrote:
For the chemically inclined among us: If one were to add 1.5 oz of ordinary
store-bought Acetone to every 10 gallons of diesel fuel, would the acetone
in that concentration cause any damage
Tom Scordato wrote:
Marshal please chime in. I guess I use it because that is what I have done
for the last two years since I got the car. (tradition un hampered by
progress?)
If there is an advantage to the 5w 40 for the 617.9XX non turbo engine I
would like to hear it. 95% of my driving
I think we pay for them to mix it for us (plus it's
been suggested to me that the tax break is less for
B20 than it is for B99); I observed the same phenom
where I get mine: the price order, lowest to highest,
was B0 (by only $0.02), B99, B20, by about $0.10 or
so. Whether B0 or B100 is more
The unfortunate fact is that the way dino fuel is
going, there won't be much price pressure on him to
lower that. :(
DG
--- Russ Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was on the phone the other day with a fuel/oil
distributor who's
getting into biodiesel. For the record, Wolf Oil of
Slinger,
Now all he has to do is organically grow his own flax,
process it himself, and he'll be all set!
DG
--- Bob Rentfro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Holy Cats, Chris...with what do you plan to power
your centrifuge?
So you intend to run WVO you sent for a spin in
your centrifuge as fuel?
Cool.
As with any area there are good and bad points.
I'm with you there, Bill. Here's my rant, back at ya:
During a pretty recent December, we got 54 inches of snow in
southeastern Wisconsin. That's 54 inches of snow in one month. It was a
wild blip on the bell curve, to be sure, but the
OH, now you want a RAM! Well they are all over the Seattle list. As
well as the three car trailers.
On Tuesday, October 4, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Steve MacSween wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not mine, no affiliation, too bad is you do not want to see all the
great Benz for sale out this way
Ok Earnest gets no Seattle cars either
On Tuesday, October 4, 2005, at 10:19 PM, ernest breakfield wrote:
[list of Seattle cars deleted]
Clay,
please don't include me in the generalization the rest of the list
that you use to justify what you seem to think of as a 'service' to the
list;
http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/101882076.html
Would this be too much to tow behind Gump?
--
Clay
Seattle Bioburner
1972 220D - Gump
1995 E300D - Cleo
1987 300SDL - POS - DOA
The FSM would drive a Diesel Benz
rumor has it that Van wrote:
Philip
Oops, I shoulda said bore the sleeve. When you resleeve the engine you
must have them bored to fit the pistons. (std) You can buy the oversized
pistons and have the sleeves bored to fit them. Which I did on the last
rebuild I did, Hay.. every
Depends on how much of a hurry you're in? Ought to be fine behind Cleo
though
On 10/5/05, redghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/101882076.html
Would this be too much to tow behind Gump?
--
Clay
Seattle Bioburner
1972 220D - Gump
1995 E300D - Cleo
http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/101928668.html
Dude wants $18k, it is a green car dealership. I am available to
look at it, if anybody is at all interested. I know Earnest is not.
Maybe Regina needs it
--
Clay
Seattle Bioburner
1972 220D - Gump
1995 E300D - Cleo
1987 300SDL - POS -
no Earnest here, so no problem... ;-P
since we all can shop in any market we want to, i can (and do) shop
wherever/whenever i want...
don't get it yet? look at it this way; if everyone were to post all the
cars they thought might be interesting to everyone else on the list
like you do,
that's sad, and proof again that humor is not universal...
i don't find ignorance or a lack of an ability to understand the
greater picture the least bit amusing.
cheers!
e
I am available to look at it, if anybody is at all interested. I know
Earnest is not.
Nicemade my afternoon
I've read some of the comments over time, about biodiesel. Well, I tried out a
2% biodiesel-98% normal #2 at a Shell station on Rte 123 I-75 (one of the
Franklin exits, just south of Dayton, Ohio) and it was expensive... $3.20/gal.
I filled it up and have been running fine with it since last
Nick Gough wrote:
How does biodiesel fare during the winter months? Won't it gel a lot faster? If
so, there will be a huge boost in anti-gel additive sales. A friend is buying a
1993 300D (2.5L turbo) and wants to use 100% biodiesel in it. Will he have to
convert his car over to it? I know
i am far from humorless, but i don't think making fun of people is funny
(and it's a poor reflection on those who do).
you're right that i wasn't interested; i'm more of a W123 fan.
i don't have any idea if eArnest was interested or not (whoever he is).
cheers!
e
Come on, it was
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Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:52:41 -0500
From: Russ Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hurricane snow ties
To: Mercedes mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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As with any area there are good and bad
The more I hear about life in the outback of NZ or OZ, the more I enjoy
city/suburban life.
On 10/4/05, Steve MacSween [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Gabriel S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've seen pictures of those maggots on sheep...totally nasty. Is there
also
a parrot type bird out there
dave walton wrote:
They get a penny per percentage of bio blend if made from virgin Soy
oil. That drops to 1/2 penny per percentage for bio made from waste
oil or virgin non-soy.
Thus a gallon of B20 soy gives them a 20 cent tax credit.
I guess the soybean farmers have a good lobby...
Yep,
There was
On 5-Oct-05, at 7:34 AM, Marshall Booth wrote:
A properly running diesel is VERY efficient.
There was some discussion of that in the mercedes shop magazine a few
issues back if I may paraphrase as compared to gassers, it was
interesting
because of the concepts we take for
You need a conversion kit to run SVO (straight vegetable oil) or WVO
(waste vegetable oil) but you do not need to do anything to run
BioDiesel.
You can dilute SVO or WVO to some in fossil Diesel fuel without any conversion.
With the SVO and WVO the devil is in the details - there are many ways
to
Andrew,
WTIC... (with tongue in cheek)... Is there really an outback in
NZ??? Maybe Dorothy found it behind the screen in OZ!
But, I was in an Outback recently had a wonderful bloomin'
onion..
Keep smilin' and take care,
Chuck
Phoenix AZ
On Oct 5, 2005, at 12:35 PM,
ok, ok...i wasn't really paying attention to the vegi-diesel thing so far...but
today i noticed about 6 5-gal pails od used oil behind my lunch place
(vietnamese)...after straining, is this stuff ready to use in my '86 sdl?
Rotkäppchen?? Was bedeutet das?
On 10/5/05, Christopher McCann
If you mix the kitty liter or play box sand with rock salt, and put it
back in the bags and duct-tape them shut, you will have a mix that
gives you weight, traction, melts ice, and won't freeze into a solid
brick when you need it most - even if it gets wet.
-Dave Walton
On 10/5/05, Russ Maki
That a fair price for a nice one. I'd pay more if it had the options I wanted.
-Dave Walton
On 10/5/05, redghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://seattle.craigslist.org/car/101928668.html
Dude wants $18k, it is a green car dealership. I am available to
look at it, if anybody is at all
I won't be doing that, but Rudolf (Diesel) said such a
thing - farmers can grow their own fuel. Oil presses
are not that expensive. His enitre philosophy for the
engine was that by changing the fuel delivery system,
it would run on all sorts of locally available fuels.
WAY ahead of his time. Read
by thinned wvo, do you mean mixed with diesel that's in the tank? and how does
it work in the cold?
Yes, but to be safe, carry an extra fuel filter and tools to swap it
just in case.
We've gone 3 years and over 40K miles on thinned WVO in my wife's 99
E300 without changing the fuel filter,
signature altered with translation.
Chris
--- andrew strasfogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rotkäppchen?? Was bedeutet das?
On 10/5/05, Christopher McCann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
don't forget taxes, if you pay on food there. In
PA
you do not pay taxes on unprepared food (or
clothes).
andrew,
1. ideally, you would heat in a 55 gallon steel drum
to dewater
2. pre-filter through thick denim into another barrel
3. pump (northertool.com - 1/2 or 1/4 hp clear water
pump is $40) into a
4. GE water filter ($40 at Home Depot) that filters to
5-15 microns.
In my AKP-Wagen, I simply
Dave,
Please describe your filtering system.
Thanks, Chris
--- dave walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, but to be safe, carry an extra fuel filter and
tools to swap it
just in case.
We've gone 3 years and over 40K miles on thinned WVO
in my wife's 99
E300 without changing the fuel
Yes. I think, anyway. No one that I've heard about has had the rumored
desolving of rubber fuel lines. The one thing to be aware of is that
BioDiesel is a grat solvent and cleaner - so it will clean all of the
gunk out of your fuel system and deposit it in the fuel filters. I
don't know how much
Chuck Landenberger wrote:
Kaleb,
Do you still have a carfax account? If so, would appreciate one on
this 16V VIN..
WDBDA34DXHF299792
I thought Houston got clobbered by a Hurricane last month.
Find out where it was at Rita time, and how far above sea level.
Very good! And the Mrs., is she happy also ???
On 10/5/05, Christopher McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sold the Sienna for $6500. Bought the 300TDt (1987)
for $6,000...with taxes, plates, inspection came to
$6,519 total. Lost $19 bucks on the deal. I'm happy.
:-)
--
OK Don, KD5NRO
Norman,
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