First, and most obviously, the engine is sensitive to low revs. Which
means that revs always have to kept high, especially in gears 3-5.
All your problems sound like they might be relieved somewhat
with a shorter rear end in it. Our 190D (manny conversion)
exhibits a mild form of this
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I don't understand it but since I got this new computer i cannot log onto
the home site I keep getting some type of a JAVA error.
Thanks,
Dave H...
Write down the error and send it back. The most likely problem is
http://nast-sonderfahrzeuge.de/MB-Exotenforum/forum_entry.php?id=19925
or for those who need a bit more space
http://www.autoscout24.it/Details.aspx?id=138296208
or if you want the car to arrive half an hour before you do
Mitch Haley wrote:
Hendrik Fay wrote:
http://nast-sonderfahrzeuge.de/MB-Exotenforum/forum_entry.php?id=19925
Can you imagine trying to get TÜV to let you drive it on the road?
On second thought, although it's on a .de web site, is that a Russian plate?
I bet the Russians are less strict
Hendrik Fay wrote:
http://nast-sonderfahrzeuge.de/MB-Exotenforum/forum_entry.php?id=19925
Rice, rice, baby!
Can you imagine trying to get TÜV to let you drive it on the road?
http://www.autoscout24.it/Details.aspx?id=138296208
E200 Hearse? Roomy, but probably a bit slow. Might be fun, but
Found one for you, I'm passing because it doesn't have AC. '72 350SL for $3950
(typo?)
http://charleston.craigslist.org/ctd/865375420.html
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Very respectfully,
/s/
Max Dillon
'87 300TD, 310k miles
Charleston SC
Digest lurker (on and off) since
2001
Mitch Haley wrote:
Hendrik Fay wrote:
http://nast-sonderfahrzeuge.de/MB-Exotenforum/forum_entry.php?id=19925
Rice, rice, baby!
Can you imagine trying to get TÜV to let you drive it on the road?
I kind of like it. The world needs more brown hot rods.
Euan, any time you want to bore us with a post like that you go right ahead.
I find it much more interesting than the political pap we've had lately.
The juddering you describe interests me since it doesn't happen on my 240D or
190D both manual. I do get a shudder on the 190D first thing in the
Maybe if enough people understood the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights and
then had enough humph to say, believe and stand behind He_ _ NO I'm not
going to take it anymore we would not have to worry about someone knocking on
our door - or more explicitly knocking down our door in the middle
i think it was snook.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Who committed treason?
Kevin wrote:
Why? The high crime of treason is the only crime actually spelled out in
the
constitution. Why shouldn't we expect, if not demand, that those guilty
of
treason are
the waffen ss are just plain military, comparable, say, the USMC. you would
mean just plain SS, but probably more like gestapo from your description.
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Donald Snook wrote:
If it weren't you would be rounded up for such
Hey Wonko, are you going to move back to DC?
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Wonko the Sane wrote:
Dubya is a Democratic cheerleader?
Only if the Democrats have turned to Marxism.
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Drops?? From under the car? Are you talking about a wagon or a sedan?
Mine is a 300TD wagon.
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Mine was some kind of plastic. I don't recall the details but it took
maybe
an hour to drop the vacuum reservoir. I think
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I'm passing because it doesn't have AC. '72 350SL for $3950 (typo?)
http://charleston.craigslist.org/ctd/865375420.html
It has it. It's probably just broken, but I'm sure
it's fixable, as opposed to a Euro car that was made
without it or something. (Well, it has the thermostat
knob, anyway.)
Hi all,
With all of the who did what or who didn't do anything to cause/
contribute to the current financial debacle, here are two pretty
clear articles from the NYTimes
This is from 1999:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260
This is from
Gary Hurst wrote:
the waffen ss are just plain military,
In the end, you were right, but in the beginning, a little closer to what I was
thinking.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/waffenss.html
The Waffen-SS (Armed Protective Squadron) was the combat arm of the
Wagon
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Drops?? From under the car? Are you talking about a wagon or a
Driver's side rear brake is done. Learned a lot, managed to break a c-clamp. It
was a tool show cheapie but interestingly had been fine up till now...
I learned the better way to push the calipers back is with a screwdriver while
the old pads and rotor are still installed...
Gotta have some
I thought all the wagins had a different ratio diff than the
sedanssomeone must have a technical data sheet with the info.
Zedic
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Yeah thats my point, Euan could benefit from a lower ratio like from a 240D...
-Curt
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Hey Zedic,
Are you still in the UK?
Bob R
In the AZ
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I thought all the wagins
Yes!
I've been enjoying the warm sparkly weather..almost ready to buy a
scarf.
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Howdy Euan, we had an exchange re: juddering several years ago when I also
owned a car like yours.
Mine would make an obnoxious noise at low RPM in 1st and 2nd, and keeping above
2000 RPM would eliminate it. The noise came from either the engine or the
transmission to my ears, and my mechanic
Gary wrote if enough people understood the Constitution
Hey ya'll - anyone know much the Constitution is taught in school these
days?
It's been 40+ years since I last stepped into my High School, but I seem to
recall spending a semester/quarter on the Constitution - possibly 2
always do one pad at a time - using a large screwdriver wedged between the
old pad and rotor obviously being careful not to damage the rotor - although
that's unlikely.
Never remove both pads at the same time - you'll find a worn pad makes a
perfect place to wedge the screwdriver.
Don't
after the war, they were still vilified equally with the ss who ran the
camps, but i always found this to be incorrect, sort of the equivalent
singling out marines or rangers for special treatment. then again, such
subtleties were not really on anyone's minds as the winners were pissed off
and
My wife would love it after she killed me.
--R
Max Dillon wrote:
Found one for you, I'm passing because it doesn't have AC. '72 350SL for $3950
(typo?)
http://charleston.craigslist.org/ctd/865375420.html
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Very respectfully,
/s/
Max Dillon
'87 300TD, 310k miles
Charleston SC
Digest
My youngest graduated from HS three years ago - he and his three
sisters before him all had significant study of the Constitution. I
still have several copies around the house. I even have one on an iPod
Touch!
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Gary wrote if enough
OK Don wrote:
My youngest graduated from HS three years ago - he and his three
sisters before him all had significant study of the Constitution.
In school, at home, or both?
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Well that was to be the subject of my next post.
I didn't realize that the front rotors and wheel bearings were inter-related
the way they are and I'm not prepared...
In fact its terrible because in pushing the driver's side front caliper back I
pretty much destroyed the pads, it looked like
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That would be funny if it weren't true!
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Norman, OK
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and
mountaineering; all the rest are merely
OK Don wrote:
That would be funny if it weren't true!
The question is, do we call the president Comrade Bush or Franklin Delano Bush?
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Come to think of it, there was a second vacuum reservoir in the left fender
near the hood on my 79 300TD. A PO had disconnected it and everything still
worked fine so I never gave it a second thought until now. Is that the one
that troubles you?
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Hmmm where was the media when all this was happening? I wonder how well
the vote was publicized? And when the topic was difficult to understand
if their constituents understood what they were doing.'' they protected
the dems as they always have.
But very gradually the situation is
Hi there, Max
Yes, I remember our conversations. Thanks for your comments this time too.
Apart from a thrust bearing renewal last year, nothing has been touched
in the clutch. It's the original.
Another possible cause (that I learned about in intervening years) would be an
incorrect clutch
Well, that's encouraging. I feared it had been minimalized.
Take Care,
Larry T
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you asked where was the good senator when the good times where rolling?
Did he stand up and warn about the dangers of
If you're talking about Sen Coburn, he was elected to office in 2004 - so he
was pretty new when the problems were starting - which he wrote about.
As far as where he was
You wrote Or the ones that think they can write Bush Sucks on a piece
of notebook paper and hold it up at an airport as Air Farce One lands?
The Secret Service protection division seems to have been converted to the
Waffen SS, starting about 2004.
Either it happened again with Bush or youpre
Were a lower ratio diff to be fitted, what would that mean for fuel
consumption on the highway, I wonder?
Very little, I'd think. Diesels aren't nearly as sensitive to
throttle position as gassers. You want the engine running in
its sweet spot anyway, so if the gearing is too high you'd be
Come to think of it, there was a second vacuum reservoir in the left
fender
near the hood on my 79 300TD. A PO had disconnected it and everything
still
worked fine so I never gave it a second thought until now. Is that
the one
that troubles you?
That reservoir is for the HVAC system. It
http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/cto/866389163.html
I've been to Beverly! An ex girlfriend moved back there, I
helped her drive cross-country. Her family owned a
copy shop, I think her brother still runs it.
-- Jim
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they're REALLY tight against the rotor. Like its hard to turn the
wheel tight, like it makes a horrible squealing noise when I move the
car tight...
They'll scrub down to something reasonable pretty quickly.
I like to use a putty knife or the like to protect the pad and/or
rotor when I'm
LarryT wrote:
Either it happened again with Bush or youpre thinking about the person
in Chicago who said that to Clinton and was promptly investigated by the
IRS.
You wanna know something truly amazing?
I googled it and it lead me right back here:
I've just finished doing one (of the two) in Ethelred, the '82
380 SL. They were both bad and you could rattle the wheels back
and forth when jacked up. (Chunka-chunka.) It's been worrying
me, and I finally got time to address it.
It's actually not that hard, a 4 grinder is the secret weapon.
I might consider buying this, seems like Berryman wanted $1k jusr for the manny
tranny and everything you'd need to install it in a 190 a couple of years ago.
http://lansing.craigslist.org/cto/865279573.html
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they are crazy rare. a 2.6 would be preferred to a 2.3, but a running 2.3
with 5 speed is still a steal for a thousand bucks
one warning though is that a lot of guys think 5 speed means the shift
lever is on the floor. so they will call 4 speed manuals 5 speeds and
automatics with the gearshift
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Don't tempt me! It's not fair that it's on the wrong coast!
Kevin in Hillsboro, OR
1983 300SD 267Kmi, Ursula
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oh, yeah, well worth a long look
do you evcen live near lansing, MI?
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It's been some time since I last reported on the problem I had with my
steering freezing momentarily.
The fix, you'll recall, was to adjust the power steering belt to
eliminate slippage.
Well, that seems to have been the correct diagnosis. Wet or dry, there's
been no recurrence of steering
Euan wrote:
The fix, you'll recall, was to adjust the power steering belt to
eliminate slippage.
So how hard is it to steer with the engine off?
I back my 16v down a hill and turn around before starting the engine usually,
it's kind of heavy, but not bad if it's rolling when I turn.
Comrade.
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OK Don wrote:
That would be funny if it weren't true!
The question is, do we call the president Comrade Bush or Franklin Delano
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There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor
OK Don wrote:
Comrade.
Good point. FDR would have wanted to create jobs by spending $800 billion
building windmills and solar generating plants. And that would be 100 times
better use for the money than what we just did with it yesterday.
Mitch.
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OK Don wrote:
Comrade.
Good point. FDR would have wanted to create jobs by spending $800 billion
building windmills and solar generating plants. And that would be 100 times
better use for the money than what we
That's what is known as a 50' paint job.
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Don't tempt me! It's not fair that it's on the wrong coast!
Kevin in Hillsboro, OR
1983 300SD 267Kmi, Ursula
OK Don wrote:
Exactly.
But don't forget, Comrade Bush has over 300 co-conspirators, including
Comrades Biden (D-CT), McClain(R-AZ), Obama(D-IL), Lenin (D-MI)...
Mitch.
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I recall that being the case but the HVAC worked fine without it.
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Come to think of
I have a can of Biobor algaecide that came with the car but the directions
are quite complicated, not to mention hard to read, as they are printed in a
twisted way around the can. Has anyone used this stuff? I currently have
about 5 gallons in the tank (1983 300TD), or about 1/3 of a tank.
He was in the house way before that
LarryT wrote:
you asked where was the good senator when the good times where
rolling? Did he stand up and warn about the dangers of
If you're talking about Sen Coburn, he was elected to office in 2004 -
so he was pretty new when the problems were starting
yea right
Mitch Haley wrote:
I might consider buying this, seems like Berryman wanted $1k jusr for
the manny tranny and everything you'd need to install it in a 190 a
couple of years ago.
http://lansing.craigslist.org/cto/865279573.html
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Jim Cathey wrote:
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I've been to Beverly! An ex girlfriend moved back there, I
helped her drive cross-country. Her family owned a
copy shop, I think her
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