Peter,
I may be doing the same job in the future - appreciate any insights you
gain doing this job.
-Max
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Well then I've been ripped - I didn't get any wiring!
-Max
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Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] NEW EURO HEADLIGHTS -
http://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/1594021401.html
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This thread is useless without pictures.
How far from Wilton's house is it?
Mitch.
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I have not been following this thread, but...
In a truck often there is a load-sensitive proportioning valve for the
rear brakes. Meaning, if there is a lot of weight in the back the valve
opens and more brake pressure is applied to the rear brakes. If the
valve got stuck open this could lead
He could be here in 3 or 4 hours. Even without pics the word picture is
extremely compelling. Use your mind's eye!
--R
Mitch Haley wrote:
Rich Thomas wrote:
http://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/1594021401.html
This thread is useless without pictures.
How far from Wilton's house is it?
'Could probably get there in 3 or 4 hours, but I don't think I wanta be that
close to it. ;)
Wilton
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OK THIS is
So what would that thing be called on the schematic? Looking at the
schematics and the list of components it doesn't leap out at me.
--R
Jim Cathey wrote:
Any specs on the connector, like which hole is what?
It's on the car's schematic, usually found in the ETM.
-- Jim
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Rich Thomas wrote:
http://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/1594021401.html
This thread is useless without pictures.
Somebody local to the guy PLEASE call him and get pix! Even cell
phone ones would do.
Alex
You'd be the envy of the MB list! BTW, I used to live in Summerville -
unfortunately there must be someone there now willing to build such a
machine.
LarryT
OilAnalysis Time?
Looking for Weber Parts or Porsche Posters?
www.youroil.net
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WILTON wrote:
'Could probably get there in 3 or 4 hours, but I don't think I wanta
be that close to it. ;)
Wilton
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Hi Randy,
Thanks for asking - I thought nobody cared.
Last Saturday's storm was a record breaker - we had 26 in the back yard
and lost power for a day. Work was canceled Monday and Tuesday. :)
We are now in the grip of the blizzard of '10 part deux that started last
night. Temperatures are
So what would that thing be called on the schematic? Looking at the
schematics and the list of components it doesn't leap out at me.
Diagnostic connector? Follow the tach signal, it's usually easy
to find the tachometer on the schematic.
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How could anyone keep a straight face?
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
Come on, putcho pants on da ground, hat turn sideways, and come on down!
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WILTON wrote:
'Could
Andrew wrote: OMG what a disaster.
You know what is interesting is all of the predictions of dire consequences and
total expensive failures for this car are nearly identical to the predictions
for expensive repairs and total failure of the BMW I just sold. A lot of folks
claimed that the 7
Kaleb wrote: I saw no signs at all of leaking. Do you know if the ABS in those
things is 4 wheel or just rear? Know how to test the system to figure
out why my ABS light is on?
AH HA! That is important information. I either didn't know the ABS light was
on or I forgot about it. That could be
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Donald Snook dsn...@mtsqh.com wrote:
all of the predictions of dire consequences and total expensive failures for
this car
are nearly identical to the predictions for expensive repairs and total
failure of the
BMW I just sold.
I think you've just been lucky in
We've been getting all of this on it's way to you...
However, this last storm that is now pounding you never materialized to the
level they predicted. We got maybe 3 yesterday out of the predicted 6-8,
and it barely caused a fuss for most people.
A lot of the rural school districts are shut
Donald,
It's like my Crown Vic - when the company bought it and I started researching
the car in depth I found all sorts of ugly things, like what it cost to
repair/replace the load leveling system, tranny, etc.
The heck with it. I have driven it for nearly two years and have not had a
THIS GLOBAL WARMING IS TERRIBLE !!!
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:53 AM, LWB250 lwb...@yahoo.com wrote:
We've been getting all of this on it's way to you...
However, this last storm that is now pounding you never materialized to the
level they predicted. We got maybe 3 yesterday out of the
Yeah right, my library doesn't have that...
Anyway I took the Ranger to work today and STOMPED on the brakes a bunch of
time. Grabbiness is solved. I think the whole problem is how my wife drives.
She uses the brakes lightly frequently. I suspect when she's driving the rear
brakes rarely do
No longer the politically correct term. Now it is climate change since they
cannot really prove the warming theory.
Randy
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:01 AM
We have had little bits of snow on and off but no huge accumulations here yet.
That is ok with me. I hope we don't
get a whole lot more.
I am willing to bet that your big snow piles will be long gone before ours are.
We will likely have at least some
snow around until sometime in late March or
I agree. There really is no point in worrying about things like this. All
modern vehicles have issues that can be
expensive to fix. A Neon or whatever they now call it can be expensive to fix
if the wrong things go bad. My b in l
is a mechanic and my younger son is an apprentice. They tell me
Gee, I wonder if I could do that with my 300D? John Deere Green! Think a brush
will do or should we splurge and get
a roller?
Randy
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Just make sure you get the paint a JD dealer's so it is genuwine.
Then a bumper sticker-my other car is a tractor.
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
1978 240D 4 speed. 218K + miles.
1990 300D 2.5t 170K miles.
Wickford, RI
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Bunch of rattle cans should do it. Dollar store stuff is fine.
--R
Dwight E. Giles, Jr wrote:
Just make sure you get the paint a JD dealer's so it is genuwine.
Then a bumper sticker-my other car is a tractor.
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
1978 240D 4 speed. 218K + miles.
1990 300D 2.5t 170K
Maybe for a crown vic but not a 300D
Bissell Cove Quahog Auto Salvage Co
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
Wickford RI 02852
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On Behalf Of Rich Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:55 PM
To: Mercedes
Power outages in the winter are quite rare in DC, so we had no backup plan
- no generator or even firewood for our fireplace. The power went out at
6:45 AM Saturday during the onslaught of heavy, wet snow, when the house
temp. was approx. 62 degrees. Throughout the day, the outside temp.
andrew strasfogel wrote:
Unfortunately, all
the stores are closed so I can't go out and buy firewood.
Firewood comes from stores?
Anybody on Craigslist or in the WaPost offering delivered wood for sale?
Do you have room in the garage to stack a 4'x8'x16 rick of wood, or half of
one? (a full
I can power my furnace, a few lights with my 1500w genny. Not fat
living but is way ahead of nothing! I wouldn't want much more due to
cost, fuel use {got to lug it around and it's got to be fresh!}, crank
starting etc.
Fireplace is NOT a good heat source! With the draft it draws, it will
Only some of the power lines are buried here, mostly in the newer areas. Power
still has to get here from the north
and be distributed about and that is pretty well all overhead stuff.
We rarely suffer outages of any duration - more often a blink of the lights and
we are back up. However, the
I like the inverter idea, I wonder how much power Andrew needs? You
could leave the diesel Benz idling while plugging the inverter into that
car and the furnace into the inverter, but you may need too much power
for the start draw from the furnace blower (assuming gas furnace).
-Max
What ever it is, we did verify that it's NOT a Smart Car ---..
And the sugar cane truck head-on (with a VW something) was nothing like
this picture.
RLE
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What do people think of [her idea of] purchasing a generator hooked up to
our utility natural gas line?
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Dillon, Meade M CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-ATLANTIC,
53310 meade.m.dil...@navy.mil wrote:
I like the inverter idea, I wonder how much power Andrew needs? You
could
I like it, but such a beast might be more expensive than a gasoline
powered generator to purchase, and you may have to pay a fee to someone
for installation. It would be an elegant engineering solution though,
with no need to re-fuel. If you had an electrician wire in the
connection so you only
Shame on you for being unprepared...
I doubt she'd be so excited if the power company came and said We're going to
bury your power lines so you don't have another outage, your share of the cost
is $5000.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:04:23 -0500
From: andrew strasfogel
That would be the ideal, though I think they are kinda pricey for no
more than you might use it. A small gasoline generator with a few 5gal
cans of gas in the garage (cycle them so they don't get funky) would
serve to crank up your heat occasionally to keep the house bearable.
Though with
She is right - our utilities in Florida were underground, and despite all the
hurricane related outages a few years ago ours never even blinked.
As for a generator, it's not a bad idea - some of the smaller home standby
units we sell are quite affordable, especially when you consider the
I can give you some ballpark numbers for a couple of nice air cooled automatic
standby systems:
8kW natural gas with 100A automatic transfer switch - around $2400
13kW with same - around $3900
These can be set up for LP as well if you don't have natural gas.
That's with shipping, no
In regards to the fireplace - I would get a wood insert for the fireplace.
Then you can power the blower with your new gas generator. This would be
the lowest cost way to be sure you would have an uninterrupted heat source.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Dillon, Meade M CIV
I am chiming in late but I agree - good but expensive. If you look at places
like Lowes they likely sell a setup
that is installed in a box outside - wired into the sytem and automatic so you
won't even know the power is off in
some cases. Cost will be like $10K. Given you are in the city you
Wow, nice prices. I think I would have to pay double that here.
If you were in an area where power failed all the time, you might want to go
even deeper into this stuff. Do a
google search and you should come up with a story by a fellow in Florida who
got tired of hurricanes taking out his
Check with your insurance company first. Many are reluctant to have any sort of
wood stove in the house. I expect
they would ban fireplaces too if they could. Probably most fireplaces are more
of a decoration than a useful item.
Randy
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That and air quality districts are popping up and deciding when you can and
cannot use your fireplace or stove, regardless of EPA approval.
Fortunately, I moved somewhere that it's still considered acceptible (and
the norm) to burn yard debris.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 03:55:51PM -0600, R A
An insert can make a fireplace much more efficient (although still lousy
compared to a stove) and much more comfortable to live with...
-Curt
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:31:26 -0500
From: Peter T. Arnold pm7...@comcast.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hey
After the ice storm here in '08 firewood was not only free for the asking in
some cases you could get paid to TAKE it...
Before I was sidelined with chest pain I was doing pretty well putting firewood
ahead. Now I'm behind again... Might go cut some this weekend since our
snowstorm is turning
Anybody know of a 5 or 6 kw Diesel-powered gen set? Honda, Mahindra,
whoever, etc?
Wilton
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To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hey Andrew
She is right -
A guy I know was telling me about some Amish people he knew, they had a
diesel engine for something (they will use diesel engines directly but
not generate electricity with them for reasons that are not clear to me)
and ran the radiator into the house to warm it. So I'm thinking you
could get
I have seen them in a local store. Chinese stuff I suppose but it looked
reasonably well put together. Check out
some of the Farm Fleet or similar stores down your way or maybe Grizzley or
Harbour Freight etc.
Randy
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I am an evolved manly-man. Whenever I hear a chain saw I track down the
manly tree crew workers and offer to take the cut logs off their hands for
free, if they dump them in the alley near my garage. Works like a charm, a
true win-win because it saves them hauling to the dump.
On Wed, Feb 10,
Then you need a woodstove and a splitter, go off the heat grid.
--R
andrew strasfogel wrote:
I am an evolved manly-man. Whenever I hear a chain saw I track down the
manly tree crew workers and offer to take the cut logs off their hands for
free, if they dump them in the alley near my garage.
Reasons why I drive a W123.
On 02/07/2010 11:10 AM, Allan Streib wrote:
Interesting stuff here, related to the Toyota situation.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15547/toyotas_lesson_software_can_be_unsafe_at_any_speed
Where's Ralph Nader on this? He seems to be blaming the NHTSA.
95 Suburban. Its stock size tires.
Donald Snook wrote:
Kaleb wrote: I saw no signs at all of leaking. Do you know if the ABS in those
things is 4 wheel or just rear? Know how to test the system to figure
out why my ABS light is on?
AH HA! That is important information. I either didn't know
'Just Googled a bunch of 'em; 'hadn't heard much about small (5kw, etc)
Diesel ones before.
Wilton
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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hey Andrew
I have
I do the same. Just don't understand why they can't sell the stuff.
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 10, 2010, at 6:59 PM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net
wrote:
Then you need a woodstove and a splitter, go off the heat grid.
--R
andrew strasfogel wrote:
I am an evolved manly-man.
What do people think of [her idea of] purchasing a generator hooked up
to
our utility natural gas line?
Probably not really cost-effective for most people.
They cost a lot more than the usual rope-pull generattle,
but if you want automatic turnkey operation they're excellent.
You can make do
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91 300D, 89 560SEL, 87 300SDL x2, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro,
85 190D, 84 190D, 84 300D
This winter my idle speed after a cold start seems to be a little too
low. The whole car shakes at idle on a cold morning. With just a
slight throttle, maybe an additional 50 RPM or so, everything is normal.
I did replace my motor mounts last fall, could this have altered the
idle speed at all,
Need to call in The Wolf?
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Oak's nice.
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Okay - I'll bite. I have never had a diesel and want you guys to tell me if
this would be a good one to own. My current benz is a 1995 E320 and I have
been pretty impressed with the design and performance. What do I need to be
aware of on this
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:54:56 -0500 LarryT l02tur...@comcast.net wrote:
http://richmond.craigslist.org/ctd/1547545749.html
With 228k mi it should either have a new engine or be burning oil by
now - right?
It ain't necessarily so ...
Craig
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My previous abode had two fireplace inserts so I am aware of their pros and
cons.
I was thinking that a buiilt-in *natural gas* powered generator that somehow
exhausts through the furnace flue would make the most elegant solution, but
is that even possible? I guess I could Google it.
On Wed,
No mas!
Andrew
snow covered 1985 300TD
Nothing personal Andrew, but we are all safe for a couple of days
while DC is buried in snow!
I say :
mas!
Mas!
let it snow (in DC!)
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That's about what we had up here (Baltimore). We got 20.5 from the one
that just ended. We got 28 from the weekend one. It's well above my
three year old's eyeballs. I don't remember the previous two. I
think our season totals are close to 80 inches!
We have not seen a city snow plow
Probaby have the engine to spin a compressor to refrigerate milk...
The multiletter agencies are kinda funny about that...
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On Feb 10, 2010, at 18:04, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net
wrote:
A guy
Craig McCluskey diese...@pisquared.net writes:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:54:56 -0500 LarryT l02tur...@comcast.net wrote:
http://richmond.craigslist.org/ctd/1547545749.html
With 228k mi it should either have a new engine or be burning oil by
now - right?
It ain't necessarily so ...
Yeah,
Bonus, you could always go sit in the nice warm car!
Being a Diesel, you can even sleep in the nice warm car with no fear
of CO., but you should pipe the exhaust outside.
I like the inverter idea, I wonder how much power Andrew needs? You
could leave the diesel Benz idling while plugging
For the price, you might not get hurt too much. At 300k, it needs
new nozzles, a new timing chain and new chain guides. While you are
doing that, may was well put on a new tensioner and water
pump/thermostat. If they have evidence the PO replaced those within
100k or so, that is a plus.
Looks perfect for Wonko! It even comes with a bumper sticker!
(S! Don't tell him!)
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:29:20 -0500 andrew strasfogel
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I was thinking that a buiilt-in *natural gas* powered generator that
somehow exhausts through the furnace flue would make the most elegant
solution, but is that even possible? I guess I could Google it.
You
I have a VIA EPIA mini-ITX motherboard in a VIA Sereniti case which I
powered up this evening. As we were getting ready for dinner, we heard a
fairly loud whistling noise. Shirley pointed to my office and the cloud
of smoke coming from the computer. I guess one of the power supply's
electrolytics
Anyone else a fan of the old 600 SWB ? I've been watching lots of YouTube
vids on them. Has to rate as one of my top 5 all time fave Mercedes.
The Maybach might be a great car, but by comparison, it almost seems a parts
bin car, which it kinda is.
Ed
300E
All of what he said but also don't forget to make sure the head has
been upgraded to at least a # 17 and the cat converter in the engine
compartment has been replaced.
IOW, lots of issues!
John
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
For the price, you might not
Peter Hertzing wrote:
no two plugs per pack sorry its a 1995
Ah. I was thinking W210 with the V6.
Tom
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Natural gas (or propane) is the way to go IMO. The fuel doesn't go bad and
the carb doesn't gum up. And with Natural gas there's no storage problem (I
have a 500 gal underground propane tank). The downside is you need a more
costly generator that's set up for LP on NG. My neighbor in FL had a
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