[MBZ] OT: House addition photos
What's the latest on new addition to the house? Have we seen photos? These two photos are from the end of construction this Spring. It still looks pretty much like this, though there is now some scrub grass growing up. (We haven't done any landscaping yet.) http://userweb.windwireless.net/~jimc/addition1.jpg http://userweb.windwireless.net/~jimc/addition2.jpg -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Power Steering Groaning
The noise probably has something to do with the suspension rather than the power steering system. Think bushings, tie rod ends, etc. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Rich Thomas < richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > 79 TD, fluid is clean and up to proper level. I recall some mention of > this issue in the past but don't remember the story. Steering works OK, > just groans when I turn the wheel. This is a fairly recent innovation that > Brunnhilda has presented. > > --R > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Anyone in the Hampton Roads or Norfolk, VA area??
Does anyone live in this area? I need someone to pay a visit to a junk yard and take photos of a wrecked vehicle. Please contact me off list. I will barter with a W123 or W108/109/111 part if you need it and I have it, subject to reason. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Power Steering Groaning
79 TD, fluid is clean and up to proper level. I recall some mention of this issue in the past but don't remember the story. Steering works OK, just groans when I turn the wheel. This is a fairly recent innovation that Brunnhilda has presented. --R ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Crapapalooza
http://jalopnik.com/5395475/they-see-me-rollin-they-hatin-for-6000 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Crapapalooza
A pity, indeed. Wilton - Original Message - From: "Curt Raymond" To: "Diesel List" Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:01 PM Subject: [MBZ] Crapapalooza http://jalopnik.com/5395475/they-see-me-rollin-they-hatin-for-6000 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Chinese Volvos, Medieval Chinese Navy
Thanks Greg, that is a great synthesis of the stuff that I read. Another culture that had superior ocean-going sailing craft and navigational skills were the Polynesians, but unfortunately much of that history is lost because it was oral. Whenever I compare early European sailing craft to that of other cultures preceding the rise of the British empire, the non-Europeans generally had much better craft and navigation. European ships seemed to be really low-tech, using the brute-force method to survive nature, whereas for instance Egyptians made ships out of reeds and sailed all over the Mediterranean coast of Africa and the middle east and potentially could have sailed to the Americas (see Thor Heyerdahl's books). Max -Original Message- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Greg Fiorentino Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:12 PM To: 'Mercedes Discussion List' Subject: Re: [MBZ] Chinese Volvos, Medieval Chinese Navy http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sultan/explorers.html 400-foot long wooden sailing ships; an armada of 317 ships with 27,000 men. Greg -Original Message- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310 Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:53 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Chinese Volvos They were a sea-faring regional power before Confucius (? I think, was a great article in National Geographic and also in a Navy magazine I used to subscribe to, point is that they did this hundreds of years before the English/Spanish/French/Dutch), trading all over Asia and Africa, and there is evidence that they even sailed to North America. They invented the concept of compartmenting a ship, all though they did it for trade reasons instead of engineering and then later discovered the benefit (harder to sink a ship with water tight compartments). Their sail rigging also allowed their ships to sail faster and closer to the wind than a European square-rigged ship of the same hull size. Max -Original Message- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Mountain Man Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:55 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Chinese Volvos jabba wrote: > and the chinese love > of short cuts. How do we know this? - short cuts? I thought they invented modern fireworks? They used to be a very technically advanced culture 500 years ago, I thought? mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Fuel Leakage Question
The only time this ever happened to me was when I put the cap on crooked so only one ear was grabbing. If the vent were plugged, there would be other symptoms and the usual pressure differential caused by a plugged vent is a vacuum condition, not a pressure condition. I'd be suspicious of your tank neck seal, and recommend you check it to see if it is square/flat or deformed. You could try cleaning the neck and the cap really well, and then putting some talc on the rubber seal in the cap, put it on and remove, and see if the talc is removed in a complete circle or not (same trick used to see where a door seal is leaking air). You may have to just push the cap down firmly to see if there is a low spot in the neck somewhere, as the rubbing action from closing the cap might move enough rubber/talc over the low spot that it won't be visible when you remove the talc. Max -Original Message- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of B Phelps Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 3:14 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: [MBZ] Fuel Leakage Question One of our '85 300SD's is losing fuel from the tank fill area. It appears to be escaping from the tank when making 90 degree left turns. It seems to be forced past the cap and draining out of the vent in the fill area. I have replaced the cap with no success. Is it possible the tank is over pressurized forcing the fuel past the cap? Regards, Bill Phelps 3 '85 126 300SD's ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
