There will always be some risk in any activity, driving, flying, or just
sitting at home. But the danger on our highways could really be reduced
substantially IF we required drivers to actually LEARN how to drive, and not
issue licenses out of cracker jack boxes.
It takes about 2 years in
I have to wonder if she had been driving a more robust vehicle, if she
might have had a better chance.
That is the reason Marshall Booth is on this list. Perhaps he will elaborate
once again.
Rick Knoble
'85 300 CD
'87 190 DT
Today I cleaned my motor and replaced the head cover gasket, which I blamed
to cause all the oil on the outside of the motor.
Took it for a drive and noticed at a stop after 15 miles that the #1, #2
#4 prechambers were leaking motor oil didn't make it home.
Rattled like the crank bearings
MARTA, dont ask what it means.
Tom Hargrave wrote:
I grew up in Germany, where public transportation and especially the trains
were great. But even in Germany, my relatives all drove because they lived
in rural areas.
The focus is different in the States. We have too many open areas where
I have sure never heard of this before.
Hans Neureiter wrote:
Today I cleaned my motor and replaced the head cover gasket, which I blamed
to cause all the oil on the outside of the motor.
Took it for a drive and noticed at a stop after 15 miles that the #1, #2
#4 prechambers were leaking
The only thing I've seen leaking around injectors or pre-chambers is
diesel fuel.
Check the turbo intake for a pool of oil.
Peter
Howdy -
Have had several kinds of things like that lately - a second or even a
split second either way can mean the difference between seeing the next
sunrise or not. It's like long distance sailors crossing the Pacific - the
largest piece of water on earth - and small sailboats moving at 5
Thanks Mike -
Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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Alex Chamberlain wrote:
I guess I'll have to check out that '93 then and see just what it is... a
2.6 stick Sportline in good shape would be a find! I know Sportline on the
124 meant stiffer suspension, better seats, closer-ratio steering, and of
course the little badges behind the front
Thanks Werner --
I'm discovering a huge world of different MP3's and iPod's - including
some without *any* memory sticks* - gotta watch the amd read the
descriptions carefully!
I've learned that 1 or 2 GBs will be plently of storage for us - mostly
Debbie and her books-on-tape which I
you enjoyed marta, no?
On 3/13/07, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MARTA, dont ask what it means.
Tom Hargrave wrote:
I grew up in Germany, where public transportation and especially the trains
were great. But even in Germany, my relatives all drove because they lived
in rural
When you say Walkman, I assume you're talking about a CD player?
I did say Discman, Sony's particular walkabout CD player.
tried that also and the skipping was so bad I couldn't enjoy the discs.
This particular one has a switch-selectable read-ahead buffer that
dramatically improves its
I've even tried pulling on the top section as hard as I could while it
was
extending to see if I could help unstick the center two sections.
Once they get that badly wedged, I've never had any luck freeing
them up. Time for a new mast, if full extension matters to you.
-- Jim
I was told that as a matter of maintenance and precaution, we should
change the timing chain and rails on our 1983 300TD and 1985 300CD
every
100,000 miles.
On a V8, maybe. Not on the inline engines. The amount of chain
flexure between the two designs is _vastly_ different. Measure
the
Today at lunch I checked the U-Pull's online inventory list, and found
a new-to-me 1970 250, it can't have been there very long.
114.010-12-XX. So off I went, hopeful that it might have some
nice doors or something. Yes! A nice nearly rust-free sedan that was
probably sidelined due to
Wait a minute - doesn't the new TDI need urea to meet emission specs?
That's what the camel urine is for, and soymeal (or grass) would be
good feed stock.
On 3/13/07, andrew strasfogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about an exclusively corn and soymeal-fed camel? Won't its urine have
I already feel better. I had gassers do this when you run low on oil and the
crank bearings go. But there will be a oil gage on zero or a red light on
This is definately something that looks like pitch black engine oil; and it
is coming out of the head where the prechamber collar screws in to it.
One of the old granny tales. We drive faster on the Interstates here
than the Krauts do on the Autobahn.
And every little village along the roadside has Lärm Kontroll Gebiet
(noice control area).
On 3/13/07, Chuck Landenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aw c'mon, Andrew...
Just share No
Worst case it ingested water and it's toast (bent rods), but in that
case the response would have been pretty fast and probably wouldn't
have started. Lots of blue smoke out the back before it died?
Don't know -- time to pull the injectors and do a compression test.
Peter
MARTA is functional but I never said it was nice. All public transit
systems are a compromise. I will say that MARTA is the best way to go
down town on Friday or Saturday night.
Tom
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From: Gary Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
The M102 does require chain replacement on a more regular basis. Also there
is no 100% way of measuring stretch, experience may tell you a bit but
generally if in doubt change it out.
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To: Mercedes Discussion List
Oh so you go 300kmh along the interstate? Very impressive.
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To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] German speed limits
One of the old granny tales.
bah, somehow ended up sending this to hargrave. so i'm not quite
bright enough to use email :P
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Date: Mar 13, 2007 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Amtrak
To: Tom Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i've never ridden a marta bus,
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:53:10 -0800 Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I removed the B pillar on the passenger side to expose the windlace.
What is it that you are calling, windlace?
Those little cloth-wrapped foam noodles that are glued to the door
frame on both sides of the B pillar.
Don - you're correct, the Bluetec M-B CDI Diesels do indeed use Urea
injection to meet the Euro Bin5 standards.
But the only TDI I'm aware of is the recent (2005 and earlier) VW Diesels,
which don't use Urea - and don't meet the new specs, either!
Werner
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From: OK
Hi; found the small LED resisters in the window switches on Mercedes
Benz.; they had 2 color stripe patterns; but they are around 1000 OHMS to
1500 OHMS in series, with LEDS; 1/8 watt
Steve
This sounds almost exactly like how my OM617 went last fall, except mine
took a few weeks to go from oh oh, where is that oil coming from, to the
point where it was no longer drivable.
Mine was blowing oil out everywhere at the end, except through the turbo.
Mac
on 3/13/07 21:16, Kaleb C.
I just solved my sometimes working orig. radio problem; changed it
out; heaven forbid car is not all original; i don' give a rats ---;
i added a new Stereo that plays;
DVD/DVR-R+/VCD/MP3/WMA/MP4/CD-RW COMPATIBLE;
support USB MMC/SD Memory card for direct playback;
NTSC (M,N) , PAL, SECAM TV
The M102 does require chain replacement on a more regular basis.
Is that a twin-cam? I'd expect them to be more hard
on chains as well. I'm guessing you can pretty much
look at the chain path and figure how long one of MB's
chains will last. (Ignoring defective designs like
the single-row
In a message dated 3/13/2007 4:58:35 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Today I cleaned my motor and replaced the head cover gasket, which I blamed
to cause all the oil on the outside of the motor.
Took it for a drive and noticed at a stop after 15 miles that the
Hi Hans,
Just remember you're asking people to make a diagnosis based on a long
distance assessment of the description you provided. You need to be
cautious and expect things to be worse or not nearly so bad as you're
reading. Start by going thru the diagnosis step by step. A
Hi Steve,
What year is your 300D? It sounds like you ended up with a great
system!! I'm sure you'll get many years of excellent service from it - and
hours hours of reading that instruction manual. ;-) All that fun for
$200 is a bargain! You didn't have a trunk mounted CD changer did
I wonder if CDs and DVDs will still work when they're 20+ years old?
Well, considering that the CD was introduced circa 1983 and I bought
a Kyocera player and some discs within about a year and that they
(player included!) still work...
I trust aluminum-plated pressed polycarbonate far more
The engine ran without any problems. Easy start, good performance.
175K miles on it. For the last 20k miles it had quite a bit blowby
(wet air cleaner and at the filler plug) and leaked a lot at the top.
Synthetic oil (Mobil1 10-40) since last 4 changes (at ~8k). Oil
changes with vac. sucker.
When and where can you go 300 kmh? The only true no speedlimit I
have seen was in Italy on some of the toll Autostradas some 10 years
ago.
On 3/13/07, Hendrik Riessen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh so you go 300kmh along the interstate? Very impressive.
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From:
Where is the best way to check compression, i.e. at the glow plug hole?
On the older 61X engines that's certainly easier. I think it's
less obvious on the 60X. However, if you've now got bubbling
around the injectors you're going to end up pulling them anyway,
so you may wish to do it through
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:32:13 -0800 Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I trust aluminum-plated pressed polycarbonate far more than I
trust tape in terms of holding up. I am less sanguine about
the _recordable_ CD/DVD media, but I could be wrong.
I've had a recordable CD go bad before, so
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:18:23 -0400 LarryT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I considered replacing my head unit, tuner and amp but would need to
run new speaker wires and a new antenna wire. Which I really want to
avoid.
Why would you need to do that? I bought a new radio from Crutchfield
I am trying to go through the different scenarios in my mind.
If the crankshaft went, it should start if it cranks as easy as it does?
I have no whatsoever experience with trouble shooting
prechambers/injectors, what failure symptoms are and what to look for.
I know from tales that they can
In any kind of bad weather a pickup truck is about the WORST vehicle to have.
The pickups of today are especially bad. Big engines, light rear ends and bad
gas mileage.
But wait you say, how could bad gas mileage make pickup trucks more dangerous?
I know this one because I've been there. Bad
Heck, I still have cassette tapes I bought in the 80's and 8 tracks my mom
bought in the 70's, oh, and a few old reeel to reel tapes that still play
just fine.
I think CD's will last much longer than that.
Mike
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From: Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes
Simple solution.Throw some sand bags in the back. No more light
rear end. Grew up driving 2wd Chevy trucks. My Dad didn't believe there
was any need for a 4WD truck. I'll take a RWD anything with a little weight
in the rear and good snow tires over a FrontWD of any sort. That's
Back in the 50s on the coast of NC, we would use old 2WD Fords and
Chevys to drag the 4WD Jeeps out of the sand on the beach. I made my
spending money that way. I have NEVER had a need for a 4WD yet, and I
have been driving for 50 years.
Tom Potter
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The problem may not be the lifetime of the media, but the lifetime of
the player! How many 8-track players are still out there?
BTW, I've got a bunch of really important stuff backed up on 8 inch
floppies...
Gary Thompson
1995 E320
On 3/14/07, Mike Canfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heck, I
Its amazing, when I bought my first computer in college it had a 40Mb
harddrive which I upgraded to 640Mb and I thought I was hot stuff.
When I _made_ my first real computer in college, it had two
(count them, two!) 160 kByte floppies. I had to build the
controller for them too, not from a
http://www.iowadot.org/2007_blizzard.html
This morning, only ten days later, I was able to ride the motorcycle to work
on dry roads.
--
I'm a man but I can change if I have to ... I guess.
So, nobody knows if a '70 114 hood will go on a '72 115?
Hey, there's $23 at stake here! (And a big PITA.)
-- Jim
What year is your MB? Even though it only says Mercedes on the radio, it is
very likely a Becker.
I agree having a plug input added to the stereo for the iPod/MP3 like Werner
had done is preferable to using
the cassette with a wire option.
I wrote Becker-Harman on Monday to inquire about
It takes ALOT of weight to tame my Dakota. The best thing I've used so far for
winter weight is a snowmobile. 400# and if you get stuck you've got alternate
transportation...
Not real practical to keep in there though and its no good for gas mileage, the
normal disappointing 14mpg goes to
The answer is NO, it will not. Let me rephrase that, the grille will not fit
it. The hood will mount. It will require new washer nozzles and connectors
as well.
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To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday,
Hi Curt - you wrote I've got 24TB thats, terrabytes
Wow! TB's - that's too much to comprehend. I guess it won't be long that
the home user will be able to buy TB storage.
I started using computers back when we used punch cards and there was no
such thing as a monitor - the data or program
Well, I know of two. Mine and the one in my best friends 68
AMX..That one only plays a Steppenwolf tape. Eats anything else put
into it.
Mike
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To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, March
Yes, but they can be refinished as long as they are not too deep and on the
opposite side of the label. If the label side gets scratched through they
are shot.
Mike
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To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent:
Ahhh...The days of Radio Shack and Tandy corp...
I started out with a Commodore 64..With a tape deck. Seemed like quite
the machine over the Vic20 that my friends hadLOL Was really cool to
get the floppy drive and quit typing in the games in basic language. I have
never been
If the crankshaft went as you put it, I assume you mean the bearings are
going bad - or have gone bad. Because it the crank itself were bad - as in
broken crank it wouldn't start and probably wouldn't even turn over.
Typically, when main bearings get bad the oil pressure get lower and lower
Gary wrote:I've got a bunch of really important stuff backed up on 8
inch
floppies
BTDT. Mine is on the smaller 5-1/4 floppies but a problem just the same.
I still have a old 5-1/4 floppy drive in my computer drawer but I'd have to
install it somehow - I don't think my desktop case has a
Actually you can get a terrabyte at home, get 2 500GB drives and boom, you're
there.
We made video editing hardware and software, I usually say we make the things
that make TV and movies.
192TB is 666.66 DAYS (16,000 hours) of DV video which is what most news
programming is made with. And yet
There is an article in the March issue of what was once MacAddict, now
Maclife. Tells how to splice in a jack for your iPod
On Mar 13, 2007, at 5:59 PM, LarryT wrote:
Thanks Werner --
I'm discovering a huge world of different MP3's and iPod's -
including
some without *any* memory
I rec'd a newsletter from Eastwood and it reminded me of the excellent
technical section they have on their website. One I plan to try is their
kit for restoring glass headlight lens' -
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=688itemType=CATEGORY
Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
Looks like yet another plastic car from china
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Go for it! I suspect it will fit. I have not seen the front end of a
114 looking any larger than the 115s at the PnP.
On Mar 14, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Jim Cathey wrote:
So, nobody knows if a '70 114 hood will go on a '72 115?
Hey, there's $23 at stake here! (And a big PITA.)
-- Jim
Can he use the grill from the 114 on the 114 hood in his 115? I
mounted a '69 114 grill on Gump because I liked the metal better than
the plastic.
On Mar 14, 2007, at 9:16 AM, Rusty Cullens wrote:
The answer is NO, it will not. Let me rephrase that, the grille will
not fit
it. The hood will
That, he should be able to do.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Frankenheapery
Can he use the grill from the 114 on the 114 hood in his 115? I
mounted
I do like how the front hood wraps down over the front fenders. I think a
lot of water and crud gets in the old design and promotes rust as the car
ages. I think this new design will help with that, and isnt that kind of
thinking what Mercedes use to be all about? As for the interior, it looks
Can Kaleb or somebody with an open Carfax account run this VIN?
WBAHE6328RGF29561
Should be a '94 BMW 540i.
Thanks!
Alex Chamberlain
'87 300D Turbo
'93 Isuzu Trooper
Don - you're correct, the Bluetec M-B CDI Diesels do indeed use Urea
injection to meet the Euro Bin5 standards
Well, strictly speaking, urea injection won't be here until sometime in 2008.
And the tradename Bluetec is not being used anywhere except north America by
MB. Elsewhere the old term
Au contraire - the term Bluetec is indeed being used widely in Germany (and
perhaps in the EU?), and they are pushing urea injection in their Actos
truck line, too. You are correct that the USA Bluetec with urea injection
are 2008 models, and that the current CDI M-Bs in the USA do not use
Hi Craig,
Crutchfield was the 1st place I went last year when I bought this car.
Basically the box in the dash is a cassette player with some wires. The
tuner and power amp are in the trunk as seperate boxes near the passenger
side hinge. The speaker wires go from the dash to the amp to the
I have two W126s with OM617s that my wife is after me to get rid of. I am
located in Raleigh NC. Just in case you need an engine.
One of the cars is a 1985 300SD with around 300k miles, runs and drives but
needs front end rebuilt (tie rods etc). Also the body is a bit rough as it
does have 300k
On 3/14/07, LarryT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Craig,
Crutchfield was the 1st place I went last year when I bought this car.
Basically the box in the dash is a cassette player with some wires. The
tuner and power amp are in the trunk as seperate boxes near the passenger
side hinge. The speaker
Werner,
Wanted your opinion on my reply about What are the odds? thread on
the MBZ list? Since I used your name in the text!
Let me know and I'll post it..
Thanks,
Chuck
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Werner is right on target.
I urge every parent of a young driver to write or email
Well, I obviously already sent it to the MBZ list Mea culpa!
So, opinions solicited from all about how to improve driver education!
Be careful,
Chuck
Phoenix AZ
Chuck - the fact that practically no one felt that a response was needed
says one of two things - either the problem is too big for any group to do
anything about, or that they don't really care and accept it as a necessary
fact of life.
I hope it is the first case, as the annual death toll
Au contraire - the term Bluetec is indeed being used widely in Germany
(and perhaps in the EU?), and they are pushing urea injection in their Actos
truck line, too.
I did not mention the trucks because I didn't feel it relevant to the
discussion and I am aware of the truck usage.
You
Today I went to do some more investigating:
Excessive blow-by is not evident. The turbo is slightly oily, but the
shaft is moving a little in radial direction.
The motor started right up. A huge, scary clunk at first that turned
into a steady, loud hammering. Oil pressure first pegged and went to
For anyone who may have read my previous post regarding the stuck two center
sections of the antenna on my '84 300D, I had some success by squirting Kano
Kroil in the antenna shaft and allowing it to sit over night upside down
and, with some gentle persuasion, I was able to free the two stuck
Looks like yet another plastic car from china
Thank you. I have won the bet I made with myself, thanks to your
oh-so-predictable respone.
RLE
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Took a trip down to Tucson from Saturday to this morning. I drove the 300D,
wifey followed in the Acura (she was following in the Acura just workin' on her
fitness..).
Remembered there are four places that sell bio. I burned two tankfulls (B-99)
through in four day.
Still amazed how much
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