Jamie Said his 82 240D had one.
Dwight
Bissell Cove Quahog Auto Salvage Co
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
Wickford RI 02852
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On Behalf Of Curt Raymond
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 9:10 PM
To: Diesel
Wonko,
Did you hold the accel. pedal to the floor? 60 seconds seems too long -
I'm wondering if the GP relay had already shut off and the glow plugs
were cooling off? Do you know anything about diesel engines? ;)
After reading the other posts on this topic, I felt the need to prove my
car's
I'm going to measure the resistance of the plugs, but they were all
replaced in the last 20k miles or so. This a.m. I made the start a
little more challenging for the car, and she fired right up after one
glow with only a 10 second wait after the light went out.
-Max
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I spoke too soon regarding the dramatic reduction in noise. When the
engine is cold, the noise at 900 RPM is almost non-existent, but once
she's warm the noise is back. I think my motor mounts are to blame even
though they pass my test.
W124 Drive train rubber (from memory): 2x motor mounts,
My guess would be that you have something very wrong. If the block heater
has been plugged in for at least a week, the engine should be warm to the
touch, and start without any special procedures. Perhaps you block heater
isn't functioning?
Jaime
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Wonko the
It's not that bad, just requires very specific steps, cleanliness,
patience, and the right tools including the special socket and a torque
wrench, and some parts. However, easy to screw up and cause expensive
damage if done wrong, so handing off to a pro is the right choice in
some circumstances.
Hi Fred -
Hump? What hump?
Wasn't that on the other side?
Put...the candle...back
(that movie was filled with so many great lines this could go on for a
looog time)
;-)
LarryT
OilAnalysis Time?
Looking for Weber Parts or Porsche Posters?
www.youroil.net
Low compression? Valves adjusted in past several months?
-Max
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Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 7:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] glowing in
I need to preface all the below with on caveat: assumptions are made
about your IP being similar to later engines (OM617, OM60x).
-Max
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Depression breaker:
Airplane, Caddyshack, Young Frankenstein.
-Max
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Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 8:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Give him a
Okay '82 and '83 thing. Anybody got an '81?
-Curt
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 21:14:32 -0500
From: Jaime Kopchinski jaime...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] What is this thing?
Message-ID:
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I submit that your block heater doesn't work or the valves have gotten tight.
The block heater being plugged in negates outside temp. The car should start
like its July...
My 240D got flogged 55 miles this morning and in the afternoon I'll flog it 55
miles back home. The plan right now is to
I bought a set of four Dunlop Winter Sport M3 tires for my BMW. If anyone is
thinking about these tires, I would highly recommend them. They are considered
high performance winter/snow tires. My car drove perfectly through the last
couple of snow storms we had here in the Midwest. On
Do either of you parts boys deal in GM parts? I need to get new
headlight assemblies for the 98 DeVille as the lens separated from the
rest of the assemblies ( apparently a fairly common occurrence for these
bits). I see a bunch of different parts available, someone sent me some
links, but I
Looks like on Rusty's site, once you select a year you can change the make
(which defaults to Mercedes) in the dropdown and select Cadillac. On Gary's
site, you select a year then a make.
I have not taken it any farther than that
Allan
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:07 -0500, Rich Thomas
For giggles, I just tried starting the 240D with -5F temps outside, and -15F
when I woke up this morning. The block heater has been plugged in non-stop
for at least the last week and the car was driven on Christmas day. 60
seconds preglow, cranked a while (did NOT crank until the battery
Thanks for your repsonses, but alas, I am even more confused now than I was
before (which is not all that surprising). Malware seems like a mixed bag,
and no one mentioned McAffee. I definitely appear to have some bugs already
that needs to be *annihilated*. I am willing to pay but unwilling to
I submit that your block heater doesn't work or the valves have gotten
tight.
If the block heater's working, slightly tight valves are negated
since they won't get cold enough to hang open.
If it's quiet you can usually hear it sizzling if it's working.
Doesn't take much traffic noise to cover
Okay '82 and '83 thing. Anybody got an '81?
The infamous Chicken Wagon is an 83 and doesn't
have that. The oil separator is built into the
air cleaner housing. But it's a 300D turbo.
-- Jim
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Safe Mode is a start-up mode that can be used when trying to clean up your
system or otherwise diagnose problems. It simply starts up with minimal
drivers and services. It's not something you would use on an ongoing basis.
To boot into safe mode, repeatedly tap the F8 key while Windows is
My wife unsolicited last night said the mamabenz SD was being a bit
balky. Exploring that idea a bit further suggested it was not
starting as easily in the 20sF temps we have had as it does in the 90s.
I told her to let it glow a bit longer (it usually lights off after
about 5sec of glowing,
Andrew, try Avast for antivirus, and JV16 Power Tools for correcting
registry problem. Both have free downloads but won't break the bank if you
buy a pro version.
Google for reviews. I've had both for over three years after trying others
that ate up CPU operations and hurt the pocket book.
Andrew,
At the risk of more confusion-the tech guys at the university put
Malawarebytes on my University laptop couple years ago when I got some
malware that the virus program wouldnt catch. They cleaned up my computer
it was fine. Then I got some more Malware a couple months ago-I had
I thought the block heaters were all 500W?
-Max
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Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:47 AM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] glowing in the cold
snip
A
I've been tempted to start using my block heater, even though the car
starts just fine, so that I'll have interior heat as quickly as
possible. One of those Webasto automatic units that runs on diesel fuel
would be a really nice luxury for the few days I'd be able to use it
here in SC. Yes I'm a
Alles.
That's Fronkensteen.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Diesel preferred
On 1/5/2010 8:17 AM, Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310
wrote:
Depression breaker:
Airplane, Caddyshack, Young Frankenstein.
-Max
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Pax!
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
On 1/5/2010 8:09 AM, LarryT wrote:
Hi Fred -
Hump? What hump?
Wasn't that on the other side?
Put...the candle...back
(that movie was filled with so many great lines this could go on for a
looog time)
;-)
LarryT
Animal House should be added to that list.
No, people are sensual. Vegetables are sensuous. Still want to show me your
cucumber?
Dan
--- On Tue, 1/5/10, Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310
meade.m.dil...@navy.mil wrote:
From: Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310
My 240D's block heater spent 2 or 3 winters running off a 400w Coleman brand
inverter powered by a battery in the trunk...
-Curt
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:19:17 -0500
From: Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC, 53310
meade.m.dil...@navy.mil
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Was it the Zucker brothers that produced several really funny ones in a row? I
think they did Airplane and Animal House, let's see what google says...
-Max
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Behalf Of LWB250
Sent: Tuesday,
Max,
I can't really tell the difference in how quickly I get heat, its the center of
town for me pretty much no matter what.
If I lived somewhere seriously cold I'd get a radiator heater to go along with
the block heater, another 1000w into the radiator would surely give quicker
cabin heat...
M*A*S*H should be on the list too.
God damn army jeep!
You know of course that Bobby Troop also starred on Emergency!...
-Curt
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:54:25 -0800 (PST)
From: LWB250 lwb...@yahoo.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Give him a sedagive???
Jerry and David Zucker are connected to Airplane!, Police Squad!,
Kentucky Fried Movie, The Naked Gun series, and more than a few others that
I've never seen.
Mel Brooks (I should have known) and Gene Wilder wrote Young Fronkensteen...
-Max
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From:
I only ever tried the block heater once on the 300D 2.5t for that
reason-couldnt see any difference in heat any sooner so I tucked the cord
back onto bumper and have never used again.
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
1978 240D 4 speed. 218K + miles.
1990 300D 2.5t 170K miles.
Wickford, RI
-Original
I DID NOT COOK THE STARTER!! Idiot son did the job, I had to clean up
after the mess.
There is a crank until you win situation for these old cars. One can
crank the thing for 30 seconds. Then you really need to let it rest
and cool down. But 30 seconds is a REALLY long time when you
Having been the source of much of the fornication of the jobs on Gump,
I pay dearly for the defornication.
Water pump was a good example. Found out that I had the original
pump, and the nuts were welded on by age. No matter how carefully I
tried, three were not going to let go. I had
Any chance of a new shop? I snapped off one bolt on the water pump on
my 617. I simply drilled out the hole to the next larger size, cut new
threads and used a bigger bolt. Later I learned that the water pump
housing on a 617 is replaceable, and I probably could have gotten a used
one pretty
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Donald Snook dsn...@mtsqh.com wrote:
I bought a set of four Dunlop Winter Sport M3 tires for my BMW. If anyone
is thinking about these tires, I would highly recommend them.
I have those on one car in the family, and some Goodyear performance
winter tires on
worldpac has very little on teh domestic front. for genuine GM parts, i
have been using
http://www.gmpartsdirect.com/
shipping is slow, however, and you do have to be careful about excessive
shipping costs
mention has also been made of rock auto, who takes worldpac's catalog
structure and
OM615
They had to remove the body from the block and put new housing on.
The drill out by me would have resulted in even more damage and I was
just trying to replace the stupid gasket, so cost included the whole
housing and pump.
clay
On Jan 5, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Dillon, Meade M CIV
OK, thanks for the input guys. I can't justify the $$$ for the Webasto
unit, so I guess I'll just have to put up with the cold for another
month or so.
-Max
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Funny, depressing, embarrassingly familiar, or possibly all three.
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/cto/1534719782.html
What's an LWB 912??? Not that I am a Porsche expert by any stretch
of the imagination, but I never heard of any 911 variant being offered
in multiple chassis lengths like a
They weren't offered in both wheel lengths, the early ones were a bit
shorter than the later cars. I'm not sure when they added the extra length,
but it was quite early. Making the wheelbase a bit longer was one of the
things they did to try and tame the over steer.
Ed
300E
2010/1/5 Alex
Gary Hurst wrote:
worldpac has very little on teh domestic front. for genuine GM parts, i
have been using
http://www.gmpartsdirect.com/
shipping is slow, however, and you do have to be careful about excessive
shipping costs
I get the idea that the prices shown are Flow's cost, and all the
it's not a terrible conclusion to reach. i simply don't know. i do know
that i can generally do better from flow than i can from the the local
dealers i've tried and many GM dealers are fairly reasonable for parts and
service relative to what is seen in the euro import world
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010
Short Wheel Base - they were the 911s made 9/64 to 7/67 - after that (or
some time in there) they all went to LWB.
Porsche didn't really refer to their models using the SWB or LWB names like
Ferrari did. Bu they did com up with a confusing combination of letters
following the 911 name.
only slightly related; what kind of operating temps are you guys that
live in real cold seeing?
here where temps rarely get much below the 20s-40s this time of
year, i still don't often see the coolant temp indicate anything above
80C until it's been on the highway at speed/load for many
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Sent: Jan 5, 2010 6:37 AM
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] After Action Report - '87
300TDaccessorybelttensionerreplacement
I spoke too soon
For some reason the line in Airplane that really struck me as hilarious was
when the young boy was given the tour of the cockpit and the pilot, Peter
Graves, asked him to sit on his lap and asked him if he liked Gladiator
movies. He said something else to the boy buy I can't remember what it
LarryT wrote:
Short Wheel Base - they were the 911s made 9/64 to 7/67 - after that (or
some time in there) they all went to LWB.
Porsche didn't really refer to their models using the SWB or LWB names
like Ferrari did. Bu they did com up with a confusing combination of
letters following the
Alex wrote: I have those on one car in the family, and some Goodyear
performance winter tires on another. From my observation, both types are
adequate, but neither can hold a candle to Bridgestone Blizzaks. Both the
Dunlops and Goodyears seem like a compromise---they are adequate on dry
Maybe your temperature gauge is not accurate? My car reaches normal
operating temperature after just a couple miles of highway, of course
its an OM603. My normally aspirated OM617 would require about the same,
maybe a little longer. Does your ALDA need adjustment - maybe fuel is
too lean for
Peter, looks like a mis-fire from you?
-Max
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] After Action Report -'87
I also suspect that different tire sizes, even though the same model,
affect the performance. In addition there's the car (weight bias,
suspension type, alignment, engine power, etc. etc.) so a good
comparison is pretty much impossible unless you're Tire Rack and have
multiple tire sets to try on
Larry wrote: For some reason the line in Airplane that really struck me as
hilarious was
when the young boy was given the tour of the cockpit and the pilot, Peter
Graves, asked him to sit on his lap and asked him if he liked Gladiator
movies. He said something else to the boy buy I can't
So OK Don started it here's my review of my '83 240D.
You may remember I bought my '83 240D Hammie back from my friend Devin in May
'08. My first fuel record is Nov '08 which is when I got it back on the road.
Since then we've traveled 11,764 miles (at last fillup) using somewhat more
than 339
Sounds like you calculate ownership cost liek I do. On your .08 miles
previously does that include subtracting the sales price when you sold it
from the total expenses?
Peter
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
So OK Don started it here's my review of my
Get an electric heater, put it in the passenger footwell and remember to turn
it on before you get out at night. Run an extension cord through the firewall
up to where the block heater plug is. Put a tee extension cord there and plug
both the extension cord and block heater into it. Now when
You've verified the gauge?
240D temps tend to fluctuate a bit since theres no overflow bottle (I guess
anyway) but mine generally sits just over the 80C mark at temps above say -20F
even on the highway.
I seem to remember that Marshall had a magic number at which it was too cold
for an MB
Did you ever think about spending some time in a Turkish prison? or
something like that.
Since it was cold the other night, and my wife had been out picking up
branches and stuff, we got talking about wood chippers and decided to
watch Fargo again. Always entertaining yaaa you betcha.
Yup, something went crazy with the reply.
There are four mounts on the diff -- two in the rear and two up front, one on
each side of the mounting plate with a single bolt through all of it. Rear
mounts have to be pushed out toward the front, the hole is tapered.
Peter
You should be normal running temps (about 80C) shortly after starting off. You
may in fact never get to operating temp if you aren't running 45 mph plus,
though -- diesels don't make much heat with no load, unlike gassers where idle
combustion is lousy and very wasteful.
It takes a couple
...What's an LWB 912???...
1969 or 1976.
RLE
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...Short Wheel Base - they were the 911s made 9/64 to 7/67 - after that
(or
some time in there) they all went to LWB...
You are wrong. 1969 was the model year when the wheelbase was lengthened
and production start was September 1968.
I owned a 1968 911. I also picked up a 1968 911L at
I wonder how attractive bio-diesel is going to be now that the $1.00 per
gallon federal subsidy (paid to the refiners) expired on 12/31. A local
producer stated in a small newspaper article this week that he was receiving
$48000 per week from the Feds and thought that passing along the buck a
diesel/biodiesel/wood, gets 140 mi/cord!
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/01/wooden_car_burns_wooden_fuel_travel.html
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Maybe you could try getting a little heater to run for the 30 minutes
before you leave the house? Timers are good for that. A 500W heater with
a small fan, disconnected when you drove away from the house, would
probably keep the car satisfactorily warm until the engine warms up.
Just a
Interestingly enough, in Ecuador last week, diesel was $1.05/gal, gas
was $1.50/gal or so for Extra and $2ish for Super depending on where
we were. I had a little Daihatsu Terios, which was fairly frugal on gas
but severely underpowered for traveling at 14000ft altitude (or sea
level for that
I can think of a few things, the heater could be drawing all the heat, or your
thermostat housing could be eroded, or your thermostat could be stuck open.
Mitch.
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You need a new thermostat if the temp takes more than 5 minutes to reach
80-85C. Every Benz diesel that I have driven (with a new thermostat)
has reached 85c within 2 miles of home at 30-40mph in sub-freezing weather.
Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark
'87 300SDL (300,xxx mi)
ernest breakfield
Rich Thomas wrote:
diesel/biodiesel/wood, gets 140 mi/cord!
Seriously? I'd never heard of such poor performance from a gassifier.
A cord of wood weighs tons, and costs $100-200 in rural USA. That would be
dollar a mile fuel consumption.
Mitch.
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It does, good catch. I don't expect to sell the car for very much this time if
at all. Quite possibly it'll need to be be parted out...
-Curt
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 14:08:28 -0600
From: Peter Hertzing phertz...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] '83
I read once that many cars were converted to wood gassification in Germany near
the end of WWII but haven't ever seen any real proof of it.
Its a pretty well developed technology. I've pondered it a couple times for
power generation at camp but suspect its a bit beyond my abilities and doesn't
hi Max!
i'll check the temps with a laser thermometer again, but haven't
found any real disparities in the past.
good thought about the airflow over the rad when there's no coolant
flow; but there's also the oil cooler, and all the heat lost to air
that's generally circulating around
hi Curt!
yep; gauge seems to work fine, and no disparities when checked with
a laser thermometer. operating temps with #2 fuel in more temperate
weather are pretty much what we'd expect.
like i said; once it's on the highway for a while, it reads like you
say yours does; just over the
hi Luther!
sorry if i wasn't clear enough; temps come up fine with regular #2
fuel, but not as fast (or not at all) when running a high concentration
of BioD which we do most of the time.
(like i said below, we've already switched out 'stats a couple of
times just to check them and
but but but you cut it as you go along, or get people to give you wood!
Like fryer oil, just stop at a meskin restaurant and drain the fryer
into your tank, or pick up a few branches or pallets alongside the road.
Maybe it should be 250 mi/cord (free!)
--R
Mitch Haley wrote:
Rich Thomas
Rusty says ~$140 for the oil separator new...
Looks like I'll want to be really really sure its the problem before I replace
it. I have a feeling the leak might be where the separator meets the down pipe.
There was a particularly shifty looking seal there.
-Curt
Years ago in the MI UP, I plugged elec cord for my van block heater and a
small elec heater sitting on the engine cover inside the van into a
receptacle that I activated via a CB when I would get up in the morning. By
the time I had showered, dressed, etc., and ready to leave, the engine and
A cord (128 CF) of air-dried red oak weighs about 3350 lbs.
Wilton
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Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] New CL claim
Rich Thomas wrote:
Japan also had many charcoal (wood gasification) driven cars.
Wilton
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To: Diesel List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] New CL claim
I read once that many cars were converted
i spent some of my childhood in quito. my dad was really dark and spoke a
passable spanish, so he passed ok (except he wore white shoes which screamed
i'm a foreigner). little me with milky skin and blond hair had no chance
and was just called gringo' by the regular folks.
it was very cool btw.
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/1536915328.html
No interest, etc...
Can't tell if that's an automatic or a manual. Looks sorta like a gear
selector on the column
Allan
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Any chance it's really gone 250K miles without bending?
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I missed the first part of this, which engine?
-Rolf
Curt Raymond wrote:
Rusty says ~$140 for the oil separator new...
Looks like I'll want to be really really sure its the problem before I replace
it. I have a feeling the leak might be where the separator meets the down pipe.
There was a
there is a rusty 280c in hallandale that can be had for next to nothing.
it's in a driveway just north of hallandale beach blvd and just east of
US1. it is easy to find
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
these things is designed (not surprisingly) to expect the waste heat resultant
from running PetroDiesel
This statement seems to neglect the action of the thermostat. The whole point
of the thermostat is to keep the engine at optimum temp. For bioD to result in
the engine running cold the
so now you have more tire than you do car?
Donald Snook wrote:
I bought a set of four Dunlop Winter Sport M3 tires for my BMW. If anyone is
thinking about these tires, I would highly recommend them. They are considered high
performance winter/snow tires. My car drove perfectly through the
Are these thermostats from Rusty? The good made in France ones? There Chinese
ones are crap, absolute waste of time.
See my other post but I think the big reason for not blocking the radiator is
that something is wrong with the cooling system. Your symptoms don't make any
sense to me. Run
Right now around here you could pick up enough wood along the road to drive a
million miles... Pine is super easy to get free and should gassify well enough.
If it were 128 miles/cord it'd be 1 mile per cubic foot...
-Curt
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:55:53 -0500
From: Rich Thomas
yes, very good chance.
Allan Streib wrote:
http://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/1536521989.html
Any chance it's really gone 250K miles without bending?
Allan
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85 190D, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 76 240D, 76 300D,
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hi Curt!
i understand the purpose of the thermostat, but it's not like the
'stat is controlling the exclusive method of cooling of the engine; the
more obvious methods of heat loss other than the radiator might be the
oil cooler (i don't know if this has *any* thermostat whatsoever) and
There is a thermostat in the oil cooler system (in the oil filter
housing, I think) and if it fails, the engine will overcool.
If your oil pressure is higher at idle in cold weather than when it's
warm, this could be a problem.
Peter
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Wood gassification is very well developed. There's a guy who owns a
sawmill somewhere in the south who runs all his trucks on wood gas.
He's kept close track of his fuel useage, and in his fleet of 3 dodge
dakota v-6s he gets 5,000 miles per cord on the average. He drove from
his home town
616, '83 240D
-Curt
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:57:50 -0500
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To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Oil separator part deux
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I missed the
My point is that your thermostat should be able to keep the engine warm
regardless of the fuel used. ICE engines are massively inefficient in regard to
waste heat. Theres absolutely no way that my car at -20F can run up to full
temp and yours at 40F can't just because of the fuel. Your car is
The Frankenheap warms up noticeably faster in sub-freezing
temps if I cover the radiator. If I forget and leave it
covered up and the temps get up to freezing, the car will
overheat. I do it because it warms faster, the lack of that
cold air blast over the sippy little engine helps it warm up.
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If my memory is correct, the Gump is an OM615, and if so, has
regular hex for the Delivery valve body. No special socket needed.
While the other precautions are good to heed, the older pumps are not
as sensitive to over-torqueing as the OM60x IP and the later 617 IP.
It's not that bad,
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