On August 12, 2015 at 11:56 PM Jim Cathey via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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my perfect running 3 month old R4 compressor failed today.
Are you sure it was mounted/clocked right-side up? The oil suck
port (inside) needs to be DOWN. Isn't/wasn't there an X cast
in to the
Curly, Rick, Craig;
Thanks! I'm going to see if I can figure out what the correct
speedi-sleeve is and try that.
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Charleston SC
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OK, looks like the SKF seal is 17907 = inside diameter = 45.01mm, =
speedi-sleeve part# is 99177 (standard) or 99830 (gold higher quality /
longer lasting).
The SKF website and the speedi-sleeve catalog both caution that the correct
size is determined by measuring the shaft, I can't do that
Even better! Timken catalogs for their seal applications list both the
replacement seal from the MB part number and the Redi-sleeve part
number. In this case the Timken part number is KWK99177.
I'm going to stop by Parks tonight on the way home and buy it if they have
it. Their price is about
this is the part number for the one i bought
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/fss-58228
and the one i bought had mercedes as the correct application
i think the business about SPECIAL MERCEDES COMPRESSER is an old wive's tale
unless someone can show me some good documentation
remember it
OK, looks like the SKF seal is 17907 = inside diameter = 45.01mm, =
speedi-sleeve part# is 99177 (standard) or 99830 (gold higher quality /
longer lasting).
The SKF website and the speedi-sleeve catalog both caution that the correct
size is determined by measuring the shaft, I can't do that until
TRT30 and PS20 both work for Advanced Auto.
Dan
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On Aug 13, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
this is the part number for the one i bought
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/fss-58228
and the one i bought had mercedes as
Supposed to be upper 90s here all next week and weekend, so I had to
put off treating my bees for mites for a couple weeks. I want to kill
the mites, not the bees!
I'm ready for fall, but then after living in Canada for three years
I'm ALWAYS ready for fall around here
Peter
Is the lowest price I've seen here, earlier this
afternoon. Just filled my tank for an effective
price of $1.84, 20% off $2.299 with a discount
gas card from local grocery chain. North
Charleston, Rivers near I526, if you're looking.
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Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
GMANN sez: World wide, crude oil prices
continue to fall.. last price I saw was was
$44.++ per barrel... over two weeks ago.
Dollar value [the world exchange currency for oil purchase] has risen as
oil price has fallen..
The price of fuel tax remains the same or has risen
Demand is down, car
The local monopoly gas station chain jumped the prices of reg from 2.12 2 days
ago to 2.45 today. Diesel still remains 2.08 to 2.18
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On Aug 13, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Is the lowest price I've seen here, earlier this
Welcome to the South!
Around here it’s been in the mid to low 80s due to al the rain we’ve had, but
the heat index has been around 100F for the last month or two.
Just hydrate heavily and take breaks.
I spent about eight hours in it on Saturday parting out the S500.
Dan
On Aug 13, 2015,
World wide, crude oil prices continue to fall.. last price I saw was was
$44.++ per barrel... over two weeks ago.
Dollar value [the world exchange currency for oil purchase] has risen as
oil price has fallen..
The price of fuel tax remains the same or has risen
Demand is down, car owners are
Alex, I'll take the Roll Guy kit for $500
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Charleston SC
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'95 E300
On August 13, 2015 6:59:58 PM EDT, Rick Knoble via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Rick Sez:
this is the part number for the one i bought
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/fss-58228
Here's the one fats recommended.
Behr
https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/mercedes-a-c-compressor-0002304711
Here it is cheaper.
http://www.eeuroparts.com/Parts/54627/A-C-Compressor-490F100/
Rick
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I was out yesterday and chainsawed and split at least a cord of wood
(with a gas-driven log splitter). It was high 80s, maybe 90.
There's nothing I like more for doing that kind of work than a
cool-to-cold Fall day where you have to keep moving to keep warm.
Gets the job done faster, no sweat,
Is the lowest price I've seen here, earlier this afternoon. Just filled my
tank for an effective price of $1.84, 20% off $2.299 with a discount gas card
from local grocery chain. North Charleston, Rivers near I526, if you're
looking.
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Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
Where's here, Peter?
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Max Dillon
Charleston SC
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'95 E300
On August 13, 2015 6:55:22 PM EDT, Peter Frederick via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Supposed to be upper 90s here all next week and weekend, so I had to
put off treating my bees for mites for a couple weeks. I want
G Mann sez:
World wide, crude oil prices continue to fall.. last price I saw was was
$44.++ per barrel... over two weeks ago.
Dollar value [the world exchange currency for oil purchase] has risen as
oil price has fallen..
The price of fuel tax remains the same or has risen
Demand is down, car
Being short an employee I have been driving to Arkansas 3 days a week and
spending 8-10 hours a day all day out on dealers lots. Very very hot work
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On Aug 13, 2015, at 6:01 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Welcome to the South!
Around here
Meade wrote:
Someday when I've got some time to play (maybe today,
depending on weather) I will try making a perfect box with
string around the perimeter of the car, then measure /
adjust the toe-in. Another way would be to make two
parallel lines with string, then drive the car between
There you go. Problem solved. To much cheap oil, just shut down a refinery
for a few months...
EPA has not allowed a new refinery to be built in over 25 years anywhere in
the USA. Existing refinery capacity is limited by antiquated equipment
which has been patched together repeatedly while trying
Have the Timken sleeve in hand, probably going to install this weekend. Oil
leak requires a quart every 500 miles now. Back of the car is coated, nasty.
I may wash the engine tonight to ensure the leak is REALLY at the crank seal,
no reason why it couldn't be something else, but that crank
Have the Timken sleeve in hand, probably going to install this
weekend. Oil leak requires a quart every 500 miles now. Back of the
car is coated, nasty.
Whaddya mean, nasty? Back of the car is _rustproofed_. Charge extra
for that...
I may wash the engine tonight to ensure the leak is
For my '75 Dodge van rear evaporator in '75, I ran regular, rubber AC hose
from engine compartment under the vehicle (secured by tie wraps/zip ties)
and up a rear, inside corner (covered on inside by a factory panel) to the
evap mounted on ceiling immediately inside the rear doors. Still
Don't know how you folks down south survive.
It is about 92 here today and although I claim to like it warm, this is
about warm enough for me.
Supposed to drop back off to more reasonable tempertures by about Sunday.
RB
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I was out yesterday and chainsawed and split at least a cord of wood
(with a gas-driven log splitter). It was high 80s, maybe 90. Just have
to keep consuming mass quantities of water, take breaks every little
while. I actually like it warm, after spending my first 45 years in
cold winters.
I've got a buddy with a firewood processor, logs go in, split pieces come out.
Its much more effective to help him with that and get the friend price than to
do any wood myself. I went over last night and we hauled two pickup loads (more
than a cord) back to my place. It was in the high '70s
i think the business about SPECIAL MERCEDES COMPRESSER is an old
wive's tale unless someone can show me some good documentation
I found this quote:
I called Delphi customer service today and talked with a 30+ year
verteran. He pulled their documentation on the r4 unit and they
recommend
AC, or get on the water.
We're having a cool spell, highs in the 80's for the past week or so.
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Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
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It's all the same. I get mine at el Mercado de Wal for 8 or 9 bux for 3 1/2
gal., which will take me around 5,000 miles or so. Some say the stuff at
the pumps may have contamination problems, and I have no interest in hanging
around at the pump to fill up under the hood.
Greg
-Original
Well it is for cars that require def. not all MB bluetec need it, but after
about 09 they all do.
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On Aug 13, 2015, at 8:25 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
The local fuel station where i fuel my 300D 300CD has a box on top of the
diesel pump
I have lived out in the country for many years, but now live even further out
on a ranch/farm. Why do all farms/ranches have a street light on their power
poll? When we turned on the power they asked us if we wanted it turned on and
it's like $5 a month I believe. Problem is when you go outside
Meh.
As my Dad would have said, “It builds character”.
BS.
Dan
On Aug 13, 2015, at 8:26 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Being short an employee I have been driving to Arkansas 3 days a week and
spending 8-10 hours a day all day out on dealers lots. Very
Already replaced the seal for the chain tensioner, immediately after
the head was installed and the first seal leaked because I wasn't
careful and let the seal get cock-eyed while tightening.
The other possible leakers I can think of are the vacuum pump/gasket
and the timing case cracking at
Curly,
The Dodge was an '88 Grand Caravan. It's A/C compressor failed IIRC.
Ned
I suspected it was pre-MB. The 97 and later vans are pretty good.
By 99 they were pretty dependable. the little square boxyones like
your 88 had problems.
I've had 99, 2000 and 09
Curly wrote:
But WHO hired the contractor? I'm guessing the EPA (expensive pollution
agency) wrote the specs and hired the contractor. That means the expensive
pollution agency is responsible. If they'd have left it alone, nothing
would have happened.
This is a whole lotta stuff in the
Or maybe a new ride for boy Penoff?
They don't have potholes in Tampa, do they?
http://lansing.craigslist.org/cto/5171059572.html
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A week ago, gas was about 2.33 here (87 octane gasahol).
Now it's 2.99, and 93 octane is 3.39-3.59.
It might as well be 2012 again.
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Here in D.C. we had 12 straight days above 90 but now it's settled into the
80s with clear skies, low humidity. Nightime in the 50s and low 60s.
Perfect.
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Being short an employee I have been driving to
It's so the criminals that come from the city to rob you can see at
night
I would vote for motion lights with on/off manual switch instead.
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I have lived out in the country for many years, but now
Already replaced the seal for the chain tensioner, immediately after the head
was installed and the first seal leaked because I wasn't careful and let the
seal get cock-eyed while tightening.
The other possible leakers I can think of are the vacuum pump/gasket and the
timing case cracking at
How do you measure toe-in that way? In other words, how do you calibrate the
laser pointer?
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Charleston SC
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'95 E300
On August 13, 2015 8:31:56 PM EDT, fmiser via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
On my 123s and my domestics I use a laser level against the
front rim
How do you measure toe-in that way? In other words, how do you
calibrate the laser pointer?
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Charleston SC
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'95 E300
Trigonometry. Length of the long leg of a tringle, Length of the
short leg, angle between the long leg and the hypotenuse.
What kind of accent is that? Bulgarian?
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Or maybe a new ride for boy Penoff?
They don't have potholes in Tampa, do they?
http://lansing.craigslist.org/cto/5171059572.html
It's security lighting. It's convenient to just have the power company
install/activate one, assuming it's in a good location. Cost is about the
same. But you won't be able to turn it off. I installed my own photo-eye
lights (sodium and mercury vapor) on my barn with switches so I can control
G Mann writes:
EPA has not allowed a new refinery to be built in over 25 years anywhere in
the USA. Existing refinery capacity is limited by antiquated equipment
which has been patched together repeatedly while trying to meet ever more
stringent EPA regulations.
BP in Whiting, IN dumped a butt
Yabut how do you know the laser beam is parallel to the rim of the front wheel?
If the laser is not parallel, all that work means nothing.
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Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
On August 13, 2015 10:14:22 PM EDT, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
How do you
On August 13, 2015 at 10:35 PM Max Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Yabut how do you know the laser beam is parallel to the rim of the front
wheel? If the laser is not parallel, all that work means nothing.
Reminds me of a wheel alignment article I saw in a motorcycle
Curly,
The Dodge was an '88 Grand Caravan. It's A/C compressor failed IIRC.
Ned
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The local fuel station where i fuel my 300D 300CD has a box on top of the
diesel pump labeled diesel exhaust fluid. Is that the generic kitty p..s
for bluetecs? Kids that run pumps have no clue. Not that I want one.
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Being short an employee I have been driving to Arkansas 3 days a
week and spending 8-10 hours a day all day out on dealers lots. Very
very hot work
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