They could be bad. Rubber deteriorates with age, regardless of use. If the
were on the shelve for 20 years?
I bought a set of brand new fork gaiters for my '72 Triumph. They didn't
survive installation.
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.netwrote:
When I did all
Did you check the damper on the IP?
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.netwrote:
When I did all the engine work to my 92 300SD I replaced the motor mounts.
They never did seem exactly smooth but every time I drive the thing its
worse and worse. Today I drove
Here is my extreme view on this topic:
This is exactly why you shouldn't buy rubber parts (including suspension)
from anywhere but the dealer. As hard as guys like Rusty may try,
aftermarket parts are turning to crap quickly. OE quality, etc, is all BS.
Unless the part has a three pointed star
A friend of mine made a hydrogen turbine engine out of a
turbocharger. It was quite impressive when it was running.
How is it that a turbo would use heat energy to stuff more air in? Seems
it is transfering kinetic energy from the exhaust to the intake via the
shaft between the two
Many have talked about the effects on Rubber and Age - but if your MMs are
the same as on my 91 300D they are not the typical rubber mount but more of
a hydraulic damper with a fluid container inside the metal shell that the
engine rides on.
Any signs of leakage?
LarryT
91 300D
Got any '85 300d's ?
Rick
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On Jul 16, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
Oh I got a bunch still on the car come buy some 123s
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On Jul 16, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com wrote:
Dang it! :(
Rick
There is no damper on the IP.
On 7/17/2011 6:57 AM, Hans Neureiter wrote:
Did you check the damper on the IP?
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Kaleb C. Striplinka...@striplin.netwrote:
When I did all the engine work to my 92 300SD I replaced the motor mounts.
They never did seem exactly
They are the same or very similar to the mounts on your 124. I am
going to have to crawl up under there and look at them I suppose.
I did discover I did not replace the tranny mount when I replaced
the motor mounts so maybe that is it.
On 7/17/2011 8:14 AM, LarryT wrote:
Many have talked
no but I have some 82 and 83's
On 7/17/2011 8:44 AM, Rick Knoble wrote:
Got any '85 300d's ?
Rick
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On Jul 16, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Kaleb C. Striplinka...@striplin.net wrote:
Oh I got a bunch still on the car come buy some 123s
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On Jul 16, 2011, at 5:49
Hi Andrew. When I was living on DC I used to go to a gas station new Mt Airy
Maryland and buy B100 at the pump. I would fill up my tank and then another
four five gallon yellow diesel fuel containers in my trunk. This would last me
about three months.
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On Jul 16, 2011, at
I got the engines swapped in the 80 240D yesterday. I took the PS
hose fittings off at the PS pump, to lessen the mess of fluid leakage
and because they are easy to reach. When I went to hook up the high
pressure hose (the back one) to the new pump, I can't get the
threads to start.
So i
Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com writes:
A friend of mine made a hydrogen turbine engine out of a turbocharger.
It was quite impressive when it was running.
Did he do anything useful with it?
Allan
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The new mounts I got from Rusty for the Snookmobile 300D are still fine
after all these years.
When I installed the factory reman crate engine in the '76 300D, I bought
new mounts from the local indy who got them from the dealer in Kansas
City. One of them collapsed on letting the engine down. I
I find it easiest to start threads when the pump body
is loose too.
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It was stage 1
For stage 2 he built a hydrogen turbine.
I'm not sure if he ever got to stage 3.
He also modified briggs engines to run on hydrogen
and modified briggs engines with fuel injection and had them meeting
CARB requirements for cars.
He was out riding his mountain bike and died
I got more of the fluid out of the pump, and it looks like there is a
part of a thread off the hose broken off inside the pump thread. SO
I think it is best to get a tap and die and chase the threads. At
least now I see a reason. Before i saw that it didn't made sense.
I find it easiest
I have had new MB Factory parts from the dealer fail immediately too.
Not motor mounts, but other things. Even MB is not above and beyond
gremlins, shoddy suppliers and human error
The new mounts I got from Rusty for the Snookmobile 300D are still fine
after all these years.
When I
The tranny mount was my guess as well. That drove me nuts on my 79 300TD
after the engine mounts were done.
Greg
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From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com]
On Behalf Of Kaleb C. Striplin
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 7:51 AM
To: Mercedes
Folks
It's interesting to listen to the WVO and biodiesel discussions. This
would have been heresy a few years ago, but 4 buck diesel has softened
you people's hearts!
My PERSONAL EXPERIENCE is that i've been running a 300TD (1982) on WVO
for about the last 5 years. The car is
I agree that everyone is free to do what he wants with his own car. To
me, diesel would need to be significantly more than $4/gal to make the
work of collecting, filtering, and using WVO worth the time.
Your comment of running WVO down to 42 degrees is interesting to me,
years ago I worked at a
Sotell us what you have left.
Bob R
On Jul 17, 2011 7:51 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
no but I have some 82 and 83's
On 7/17/2011 8:44 AM, Rick Knoble wrote:
Got any '85 300d's ?
Rick
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On Jul 16, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Kaleb C.
Did you ever try to start a 616 at 0F? With 15w40 conventional oil it ain't
gonna happen, 10w40 maybe. M1 5w40 is no big issue...
When I first got my '83 240D it leaked/consumed a little oil using M1 but
nothing exciting. Then my brother in law gave me a gift card for an oil change
which was
I'm not opposed to WVO conversions per-say, I'm opposed to poor WVO
conversions. Unfortunately it seems like the bulk of them are poor conversions.
A boat gas tank in the trunk is a poor conversion, its the hallmark of a poor
conversion as a matter of fact.
A good conversion pre-heats the oil
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Curt Raymond
curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
My wife's motorcycle hasn't been out of the garage this year, the
starter was acting poorly, it would disengage as it cranked, not good
and it scared the crap out of her.
If you've never seen one motorcycle
Rick, did you have to modify your engine at all?
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
I agree that everyone is free to do what he wants with his own car. To
me, diesel would need to be significantly more than $4/gal to make the
work of collecting,
YES - I have a 1985 300D, minus a chassis and transmission!
This could equally be described as a1985 300D turbodiesel engine. It's
sitting in a shop in Silver Spring, MD waiting for a new foster (or maybe
a permanent) home. I am not asking a lot of money for it either.
Andrew
On Sun, Jul
Thanks.
It worked out too, I ran it up to operating temp before I finished putting it
together and couldn't find any leaks. Did it again after reassembly and
couldn't find any leaks.
Was cleaning up the work area when I realized that one of the fork seals must
have COMPLETELY let go, oil had
Rick Hawkins Java wrote:
About 10k miles ago, the car wouldn't start without starting
fluid even when the temps for 50F or more.
Wow! You do like to gamble!!!
WVO, unheated - there seems to be enough data to suggest this
isn't low-risk.
Using ether in an pre-chamber engine is akin to
You don't have to modify your engine to run on veggie oil, I've done it twice,
once in my '83 240D just to prove to myself that I could, and once in my '85
190D as an exhibition at a car show at work. Both times I dumped a couple
gallons from the grocery store into the tank. With the 240D I
here in the SF Bay area, running WVO was so popular for a while that
there's an abundance of 616s and 617s in the local yards. AAMOF, you
can't give away a non-running 617 now to some local junkyards unless you
tow it to their front door and sign it over; that's how many of them
were killed by
Cool. Save two.
Rick
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On Jul 17, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
no but I have some 82 and 83's
On 7/17/2011 8:44 AM, Rick Knoble wrote:
Got any '85 300d's ?
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andrew
there are absolutely no mods on any of our three wvo vehicles
aside from cleaning the tank
i drained and somewhat cleaned the tank on daughter's 300d turbo and
ran a polishing filtration by pumping wvo out of the tank and
filtering it thru a whole house water filter and back into
Did anybody catch last week's Top Gear?
Jeremy bought a 9 year old CL600 for 7000 quid, with 120k on the odo.
Richard bought a much older 850i for the same money, and they're going to run
them a while and see if anything expensive goes wrong. I feel sorry for Hammond.
Mitch.
Hasn't softened mine. Show me an objective study demonstrating that WVO doesn't
increase wear vs #2 diesel, then you might interest me. Until then, I'm
convinced that WVO is the fuel of choice for those who don't care about their
engine.
Max
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That is the prudent path. Plus it leaves more free WVO for the rest of us :-)
The *last* thing I want is more competition for the primo oil.
-Dave Walton
On Jul 17, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Hasn't softened mine. Show me an objective study demonstrating
Darn. Should have watched today's episode before saying that.
Jeremy's CL already had a failed ignition coil, which apparently costs £878, or
$1400. Hammond has had an entire week of trouble free commuting in the 850i.
Mitch.
Mitch Haley wrote:
Did anybody catch last week's Top Gear?
Jeremy
Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net writes:
Darn. Should have watched today's episode before saying that.
Jeremy's CL already had a failed ignition coil, which apparently costs
£878, or $1400.
Someone needs to tell him about Rusty.
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Its true that dealer parts fail. I once had a rebuilt power steering pump
leak more as soon as I put it on than the old one, but overall I've liked
dealer parts better, especially rubber. More likely to get a newer revision
part that's 100% what Mercedes wanted it to be.
Brian
On Sun, Jul 17,
Allan Streib wrote:
Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net writes:
Darn. Should have watched today's episode before saying that.
Jeremy's CL already had a failed ignition coil, which apparently costs
£878, or $1400.
Someone needs to tell him about Rusty.
What's worse was Jeremy is in UK, and with
Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net writes:
Allan Streib wrote:
Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net writes:
Darn. Should have watched today's episode before saying that.
Jeremy's CL already had a failed ignition coil, which apparently costs
£878, or $1400.
Someone needs to tell him about Rusty.
Allan Streib wrote:
Jeremy also isn't much of a wrench-turner. He's a car enthusiast for
sure, but I don't think he's into DIY repair.
Which is why, when James put up a picture of Richard's 850 in the staff parking
lot and asked where Jeremy's car was, Jeremy said 'someplace warm and dry'.
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