I always thought that the SLC louvers were ultra cool. I'd like to have me a
450 SLC 5.0. Now that's a car. Pop in a 5 speed manual and it'll be all set to
go.
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On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
The only problems with the SLC windows
For sure. I can't imagine what they are like on Mitch's car. The 140 is a
frightening collection of black boxes that appear to be pretty robust, but
allow for little to no interaction for the average DIY'er when something goes
south.
Dan
On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:15 PM, Jim Cathey
I have always heard horror stories about the louvers. Things about them being
unobtanium and difficult to remove, clean/paint around, etc.
Dan
On Mar 22, 2013, at 3:27 AM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote:
I always thought that the SLC louvers were ultra cool. I'd like to have me a
450 SLC 5.0.
Dan Penoff wrote:
I can get a URO mount for under $40 plus shipping. For that small of a
difference, why bother? Not to mention I KNOW the quality of the part I am
getting from the dealer.
You KNOW the quality of the URO part, too.
On 20/03/2013 9:47 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
Meanwhile, January continues
You are not kidding.
Not much melting happening here yet.
Minus 20C this morning.
High today supposed to be minus 9C but at least it is not snowing.
Randy
January continues still.
In early March they told us it as
weird battery failure mode. (probably internal open circuit from breakage)
And _that_ is freakin' dangerous.
-- Jim
And really hard to diagnose when it tests ok, cranks ok but the
engine won't run more than a few revs. Sure acts like an engine
problem, not a battery problem.
Interesting threads. I like how the APA/URO rep tries to defend himself, albeit
unsuccessfully.
Again, this comes back to a very dated post I made regarding window seals. I
referenced a great article by the former owner of the House of Ghia who I met
many years ago when I was into VWs and he
Dan Penoff wrote:
Interesting threads. I like how the APA/URO rep tries to defend himself, albeit
unsuccessfully.
Again, this comes back to a very dated post I made regarding window seals. I referenced a
great article by the former owner of the House of Ghia who I met many years
ago when I
We just had an election with 16 scoundrels and scalawags running for the
vacated congresscritter seat, gotta be a runoff in another coupla weeks
between the Appalachian Trail hiker and a guy who does not even live in
the district he is trying to represent. A friend of mine told me the
other
Easy decision -
'Nother Sondy Tale:
ICE CAP OR UK ROYALTY?
By Wilton Strickland
At a base staff meeting one morning in early summer of '78 at Sondrestrom
Air Base, Greenland, Base Commander informed us that Prince Philip, Duke of
Edinburgh, would be visiting for a couple of hours 2 or 3 days
Today it won't fire at all.
Borrowed a better code reader from FLAPS, it knew there had been an
evaporative emissions event since last reset, my Scangauge didn't mention
that.
In scrolling through all the available readings, the only thing that
caught my attention was MAP = 0.0 hg, no matter
Not sure on that model, but the 60 to 87 gassers, it is near the RR
axle. Take a couple of long wires to run jumper to the battery.
Check wiring and ground if you can first.
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You may have thought I was talking about a computer, but I wasn't! :-)
I had my neck surgery on Pi Day and came through that well. I was
released from the hospital a little after 8 p.m. on Wednesday, 20 March.
I did get our freecycle laptop with newly-purchased hard disk up and
running before we
'Glad things have gone well thus far and continue to do so. 'You still in
AZ? 'Hope all goes well.
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Craig diese...@pisquared.net
To: mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 3:24 PM
Subject: [MBZ] System rebooted and back online
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:13:40 -0400 Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net
wrote:
No ammo for the mount, so we never got to shoot it...
That's too bad :-)
Craig
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Thanks for the good news!
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20
Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
You may have thought I was talking about a computer, but I wasn't! :-)
I had my neck surgery on Pi Day and came through that well. I was
released from the hospital a
I found this which seems to pertain.
I have voltage at one terminal of the fuel pump relay under the back seat
with ignition off and voltage at another with ignition on.
I have 0.6V from ground to the relay terminal that's switched by the
relay, seems like it should be 0.0V. Can't hear pump over
I found this which seems to pertain.
Oops, supposed to be a link:
http://www.justanswer.com/mercedes/7ktw9-e320-1999-e320-two-days-ago-car-quit-driving.html
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Just another data point for consideration:
Rock Auto has the URO flex disc for under $40.
No doubt that meets MB specs, I'll bet
Dan
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FYI for anyone who might be interested:
Rock Auto has a wholesale buyout on Trico wiper blades. I bought their top end
Neo blades for all of my cars with the exception of the S500 (it still has
the stock wiper arms, thank goodness!) and only spent $21.00.
That was two for the 2005 Mazda 6,
From: Craig diese...@pisquared.net
You may have thought I was talking about a computer, but I wasn't! :-)
I had my neck surgery on Pi Day and came through that well. I was
released from the hospital a little after 8 p.m. on Wednesday, 20 March.
I did get our freecycle laptop with newly-purchased
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:28:20 -0400 WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
'Glad things have gone well thus far and continue to do so. 'You still
in AZ? 'Hope all goes well.
Yup, we are still in Arizona. Phoenix, to be exact.
Craig
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:34:11 -0400 Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net
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Thanks for the good news!
I'm glad I have good news to pass on!
Craig
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So today I got AAA to come tow the beast home. I went to meet the tow
truck, and of course after waiting over an hour past the expected time
(within 45min) and calling AAA 3x, I finally got them to give me the
towing company # so called them. The truck got waylaid for reasons
unclear, so I
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:33:45 -0400 Gerry Archer
arche...@embarqmail.com wrote:
Glad to hear your surgery turned out well, Craig.
Who did it and at what hospital?
This would be good to know since others on the list in the Southwest
might also one day need the same type surgery, and a patients
So today I got AAA to come tow the beast home. I went to meet the
tow truck, and of course after waiting over an hour past the
expected time (within 45min) and calling AAA 3x, I finally got
them to give me the towing company # so called them. The truck got
waylaid for reasons unclear, so I
'Glad ya got it home and made some additional progress with it. ATTABOY!
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] NOT BENZ -- weird
It must be like 400hp as I only need to do attendant work every year or
so. But when I do it is a huge pile of sh.tuff.
--R
On 3/22/13 6:23 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
So today I got AAA to come tow the beast home. I went to meet the
tow truck, and of course after waiting over an hour past the
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:32:32 -0500 Kaleb C. Striplin
ka...@striplin.net wrote:
My ml had a check engine light for the erg that haunted the po. One of
the vacuum lines was bad and leaking, replaced that, hooked up my
trusty sds and reset it, no more check engine light.
ATTABOY!!!
Craig
We all know what diesel oil filters look like for the 603 and 617 etc, I
ordered some filters for my 606 and it is much smaller, and the ones for my cdi
and very small. I am hoping with the advances in diesels they just don't need
as much filtering. Wow
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Ps, I got these from autohausaz, order arrived fast and were good quality
parts. That will probably be my last order from them thought as I am working on
something else that will benefit all.
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On Mar 22, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
We all
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:25:42 -0400 Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net
wrote:
He was supposed to go under the knife several days ago, hope it went
well
Thank you. It went well. Had no Internet connectivity for awhile there
until Thursday (that was yesterday, wasn't it?).
Craig
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:29:41 -0400 Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
I dropped him a note late last week about parts and haven't heard from
him, so I assumed he was recovering.
I saw your email earlier today. Since you said to not rush a reply, I
have not. Hope that's OK.
I am now down to 165
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
I'm glad I have good news to pass on!
Craig
As wilton would say, Attaboy!. Glad to hear you came though it with good
results.
--
OK Don
2013 F150
2012 Passat TDI DSG
1957 C182A
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:45:17 -0500 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
Did you try winders with internet exploder?
A lot of that kind of crap is IE only microshaftized. THe MLS my
daughter uses finally got downgraded to be browser independent. To
the RTW, that is an upgrade.
A
Aren't those the new fleece type filters? More filtering in less space, or
so they will claim.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.netwrote:
We all know what diesel oil filters look like for the 603 and 617 etc, I
ordered some filters for my 606 and it is much
On Mar 22, 2013 4:27 PM, OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote:
As wilton would say, Attaboy!. Glad
to hear you came though it with good
results.
Me too! Here's hoping the job search goes better now that you have one
less thing to worry about.
Alex
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On Mar 22, 2013 1:54 PM, Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Just another data point for consideration:
Rock Auto has the URO flex disc for under $40.
At least Rock Auto is upfront about which supplier you're getting.
Alex
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:14:18 -0500 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
OK Don wrote:
Wire an LED in parallel with the pump so you can see when it's
running.
What I need to hear is a change in its sound, probably from liquid
hitting it.
Wire an ammeter in series with the pump motor. Put
Any benefit from the surgery yet?
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20
Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:25:42 -0400 Max Dillon
meadedil...@bellsouth.net
wrote:
He was supposed to go under the knife several days ago, hope it went
well
Nope. No hurry whatsoever. I'm going to be playing home health aide for at
least three weeks shortly when the wife has her hip replacement surgery early
next month anyway, so time is on our side
Dan
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On Mar 22, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
On
Weird, my OM606 ('95 E300) uses the same filter as my OM603 ('87 300TD).
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20
Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
We all know what diesel oil filters look like for the 603 and 617 etc,
I ordered some filters for my 606 and it is
The 97 at least uses a new style filter, I guess the 95 still uses the old
style
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On Mar 22, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Weird, my OM606 ('95 E300) uses the same filter as my OM603 ('87 300TD).
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Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'95 E300,
Big Blue is sitting on my Landgrebe dolly in my driveway, with a battery charger
on an extension cord.
I like that dolly better than a Demco Kar Kaddy.
Tows like a dream, at least at 30mph.
It's nice not to have to wonder if the dolly fenders will steer into the car's
fenders when you turn
Max Dillon wrote:
Weird, my OM606 ('95 E300) uses the same filter as my OM603 ('87 300TD).
Same block, different head.
Mitch.
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eBay has them for about $80 or less
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On Mar 22, 2013, at 7:12 PM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Big Blue is sitting on my Landgrebe dolly in my driveway, with a battery
charger on an extension cord.
I like that dolly better than a Demco Kar Kaddy.
Tows like a
Ugh, doesn't sound like fun at all. May her surgeon be skilled and the surgery
a success.
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'95 E300, '87 300TD, '73 Balboa 20
Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com wrote:
Nope. No hurry whatsoever. I'm going to be playing home health aide
for at least three weeks shortly
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
eBay has them for about $80 or less
Bosch, used OE, or Beck-Arnley?
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Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com writes:
You might be interested in a casual non-scientific survey of Internet
parts vendors I made a week ago. it was rather distressing to find
that many suppliers offer substandard parts made offshore, the URO
brand being one of the most prevalent suppliers.
As I
I'll see if I have any new (as opposed to used) 606 filters; they look like
they are a pleated element without endcaps.
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Mobile: +14437915905
On Mar 22, 2013, at 19:13, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
Ps, I got these from
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:01:16 -0400 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
If Lemforder is OEM, it looks like 50% cheaper than OE and 30% cheaper
than OEM. There's a pic in a peachparts thread of a one year old
shredded URO flex disc. Absolutely the last part on the whole car I'd
buy URO, as
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:12:56 -0700 clay redgh...@comcast.net wrote:
Somebody had done the typical gut the car or break the good stuff, such
as tearing off the R107 doors and stripping it. Made a mess of the
engine bay as well as the cabin when they removed the hard top (broke
the glass) and
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:21:32 -0400 Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net
wrote:
Ugh, doesn't sound like fun at all. May her surgeon be skilled and the
surgery a success.
Indeed!
There's a guy in New Mexico that is doing hip replacements from the
front. I'm told it reduces the need to cut
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:41:15 -0700 Alex Chamberlain
apchamberl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 22, 2013 4:27 PM, OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote:
As wilton would say, Attaboy!. Glad to hear you came though it with
good results.
Me too! Here's hoping the job search goes better now that you
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:55:36 -0400 Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net
wrote:
Any benefit from the surgery yet?
I seem to not have the tingling and minor pains I had previously. We'll
see how things progress.
Craig
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On Mar 22, 2013, at 8:03 PM, John Reames jwrea...@comcast.net wrote:
I'll see if I have any new (as opposed to used) 606 filters; they look like
they are a pleated element without endcaps.
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jream...@verizon.net
Home: +14106646986
Mobile:
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
eBay has them for about $80 or less
Thanks, I bought an OE pump with bracket for $31.50.
Hopefully it doesn't have as many miles on it as the one that came with my car.
Mitch.
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P.S. Only 83 unread Mercedes List emails left, but that's a moving
target. If y'all would only stop writing and let me catch up! :-)
Well most of us will be stopping for a few hours now just to let you
ketchup. (or is that catsup) Hendrik will be starting up though.
Happy
Mitch, Sorry I didn't recognize the original post as your initials.
I think that is a good choice. I bought a used fuel pump for the 380
and it turned out ok for at least 5 yrs. ...so far, so good.
Good luck! I hope that solves the problem. I hope you get a break
in the weather to
Dieselhead wrote:
Mitch, Sorry I didn't recognize the original post as your initials.
The ones without my name in the headers came from the hospital parking lot
through my ISP's webmail host.
It feels good to have the car in my driveway after leaving it there overnight.
First time I ever
The Weather Eye says we are up to minus 6C and the sun is shining.
Wind is light at 4kph from the north.
So, not too bad out right now at 2PM, CDT.
When the sun starts to go down, it will feel much colder pretty quickly.
Supposed to warm up somewhat next week.
We are below normals for this time
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:55:00 -0400 G. M. Brown g_010...@hotmail.com
wrote:
As it turned out, my local indy (EuroSpec) replaced the upper control
arms and the sway bar bushings and aligned the front suspension, and I
had two new tires installed. Some of the bushings were in terrible
shape;
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:15:13 -0500 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
Glad to have you back safely Craig! Best wishes!
Thank you very much, Loren.
Craig
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:52:09 -0500 Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
Prosecutor in OH wants to prosecute punxsutawney phil.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/03/21/ohio-prosecutor-seeks-death-penalty-for-punxsutawney-phil-after-bad-forecast/
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