[MBZ] Becker Mexican stand off

I just found a Becker Mexico on my parts shelf. I must have picked it up many many years ago, but never used it due to the power wires being cut so close to the body. Well, I wanted to see if I could make it work, but had to get those wires bigger than a stub. The lid was pretty simple to get

Re: [MBZ] Release Fuel Door Actuator?

Can you post a photo? On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Sorry, can't help with that. > -- > Max Dillon > Charleston SC > '87 300TD > '95 E300 > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives htt

Re: [MBZ] I despise the W220

Subaru makes a decent Diesel but you can't get it here, at least not OE. http://jalopnik.com/383023/the-new-subaru-ee20-boxer-turbo-diesel-in-detail > -Original Message- > From: OK Don via Mercedes > > Yup - waiting for a reasonable no maintenance Diesel car to show up. > ___

Re: [MBZ] Release Fuel Door Actuator?

Sorry, can't help with that. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes

Re: [MBZ] Release Fuel Door Actuator?

That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking how to disconnect the actuator from the part that projects through the hole in the side of the fuel filler area so the actuator can be removed from the car. -D > On Apr 2, 2017, at 8:43 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > Different chassis, but o

Re: [MBZ] Release Fuel Door Actuator?

Different chassis, but on my 124 sedan, behind the trunk liner, there is a yellow round knob on the top of the shaft on the top of the actuator. Pull up on that knob to release the fuel door lock. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On April 2, 2017 8:37:33 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Me

[MBZ] Release Fuel Door Actuator?

I’m trying to figure out how to disconnect the vacuum actuator on the fuel door on the 300SEL (W126). You can’t see in there very well, and the business end of everything is in the opposite direction, too. I know there’s a tab of some sort that you can push on to release the actuator from the

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

Max wrote: > We need nukes! Split baby, split those those atoms! We need to hear from our own Dr. Craig - he played with nukes?? Furthermore, do neutrinos have mass? Do neutrinos have charge? Search internet will do fine but it seemed a nice diversion for okiebenz? tin.man _

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

None of that applies to the process I was speaking of.It does not burn coal. Coal is the raw material which is converted in to salable products. It has nothing to do with power plants. BTW, The RTW is building coal fired power plants as fast as they can with no "smog" restrictions. One

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

Liquify the CO2 AND remove all the heavy metals and sulfur. Economically it's a pipe dream, and we need to find employment for displaced miners. They got the dirty end of the stick, yet again. Peter ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives htt

Re: [MBZ] Sunday's 300SEL Fun

Understood. I have to go back and look at my notes to see if I checked the cable adjustment. For the most part is shifts fine. Thanks! -D > On Apr 2, 2017, at 5:16 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > Ok just checking. Vacuum only affects the firmness of the shift on these. If > i

Re: [MBZ] I despise the W220

To be fair they decimated the American car manufacturers, we've still got a strong market. They did it at a time when the American manufacturers produced garbage. Honda and Toyota brought in cars that actually ran with only regular maintenance at a time when the big 3 got your a rattly piece of

Re: [MBZ] Sunday's 300SEL Fun

Ok just checking. Vacuum only affects the firmness of the shift on these. If it shifts late it's probably the cable out of adjustment. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 2, 2017, at 3:58 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > I connected it to the modulator, of course. > > Gotta go to the source

Re: [MBZ] Sunday's 300SEL Fun

I connected it to the modulator, of course. Gotta go to the source to be sure. And just for grins, I replaced the hard line and flexible connectors after I tested it,and it leaked with them in line, too. But thanks for the suggestion. It sort of makes sense now, as the shifts in low gears wer

Re: [MBZ] Sunday's 300SEL Fun

No that does not tell you the modulator is leaking. Did you put it to the line going to the modulator or did you get under the car and hook it directly to the modulator. If you hooked it to the line it could be th modulator, the rubber connector at the modulator, or the hard line itself. You nee

[MBZ] Sunday's 300SEL Fun

Stuck my head under the hood again just to try and ferret out this vacuum leak. I think I found it. I put the MityVac to the transmission modulator, and it does not hold vacuum. Shifts are good and not harsh, maybe a little late if that, but to the average driver you wouldn’t notice. If I pu

Re: [MBZ] OBD Reader for a W211

You really need the sds to properly work on that car Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 2, 2017, at 2:09 PM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes > wrote: > > What are my choices for a OBD reader for my 05 E320? > > Bob R > > Sent from my iPhone > > ___ > http://www.okiebe

Re: [MBZ] OBD Reader for a W211

You have two choices, but they[‘re different as far as what you’ll get from them: 1.) A standard OBDII reader that you can get online or at FLAPS relatively cheap under $100 for sure. It will tell you basic codes that are common to all cars. 2.) A Xentry system, which involves a dedicated lap

[MBZ] OBD Reader for a W211

What are my choices for a OBD reader for my 05 E320? Bob R Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mer

[MBZ] Drive Cycle

What is the drive cycle for my 2005 E320? Most of what I read is garbage. Nothing is consistent. Bob R Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] I despise the W220

They have poor aesthetics, the manufacturers steal/copy technology from more serious European marks such as Mercedes, they copy designs from European and American cars but execute them poorly and they decimated the American car market. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 2, 2017, at 2:59 AM, archer75

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

If the economics make so much sense why aren't investors flocking to it? Theres no money in oil right now... -Curt From: Curley McLain via Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Curley McLain <126die...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, April 2, 2017 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Presidential

Re: [MBZ] Resurrecting a vergasser WUZ: Choices

I've never even seen a compression tester that didn't have a hose... Oh wait, maybe I have. I vaguely remember my dad had some plastic thing you could hold into the plug holes. -Curt From: Curley McLain via Mercedes To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Curley McLain <126die...@gmail.com> S

Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Wilton an Max WUZ: Parts

Overall condition deteriorating slowly/subtly. WWilton - Original Message - From: "archer75--- via Mercedes" To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2017 3:15 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Wilton an Max WUZ: Parts Yeah, keep in touch. How're you doin

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

For fuel production, this is true at the moment. However, there are premium prices for high cetane, high lubricity Diesel, and you are discounting the value of the co-products. Right now, the co-products would be producing the profits, not the fuel. Demand for co-products is high and for one

Re: [MBZ] Radio Shack Closeout?

> Dan wrote: > Local Radio Shack is closing to become nothing more than a > Sprint phone store. 60%-90% off everything. Their prices are usually so high that it takes 60% off to make the price competitive with Mouser Electronics - which has great selecting and great service but only "fair" pric

Re: [MBZ] Resurrecting a vergasser WUZ: Choices

Yea should be Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 2, 2017, at 9:46 AM, Max Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > No, that's a good idea. Are these engines easy to rotate by hand? > -- > Max Dillon > Charleston SC > '87 300TD > '95 E300 > >> On April 2, 2017 10:00:30 AM EDT, Kaleb Striplin via Merced

Re: [MBZ] Resurrecting a vergasser WUZ: Choices

May end up there... -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On April 2, 2017 12:08:31 PM EDT, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote: >Nope but I know where there is a good dizzel engine that would work in >that car > >--FT > > >On 4/2/17 10:05 AM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: >> Yes, M104.

Re: [MBZ] Resurrecting a vergasser WUZ: Choices

Nope but I know where there is a good dizzel engine that would work in that car --FT On 4/2/17 10:05 AM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: Yes, M104. Maybe Floyd has a compression tester I can borrow? -- --FT Winston Churchill: “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or s

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

By "clean coal", do you mean "liquify the CO2 and store it in caves"? If so, yep, clearly an economic disaster. Mitch. > On April 2, 2017 at 10:15 AM Peter Frederick via Mercedes > wrote: > Ditto for "clean coal" -- won't fly at market prices in comparison to wind > and solar. ___

Re: [MBZ] Resurrecting a vergasser WUZ: Choices

A normal old fashioned compression tester won't down in the pit where the plugs are in a M104. You will have to have the one with a hose because the M104 has COP and sunken plugs. You can do a rudimentary test by knocking the porcelain out of an old plug and putting a hose on it. You will be

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

We need nukes! Split baby, split those those atoms! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/m

Re: [MBZ] Resurrecting a vergasser WUZ: Choices

No, that's a good idea. Are these engines easy to rotate by hand? -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On April 2, 2017 10:00:30 AM EDT, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >If it is a bad gasket or cracked head and all that coolant leaked into >the internals of the engine during it

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

Coal gasification has been around on an industrial scale since Germany was forced to use it during WWII to produce liquid fuels due to lack of petroleum. Not economically viable without large government subsidies, and it was the loss of the subsidy that ended development, not the "war on coal".

Re: [MBZ] Resurrecting a vergasser WUZ: Choices

Yes, M104. Maybe Floyd has a compression tester I can borrow? -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On April 2, 2017 9:56:11 AM EDT, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: >Before you spend too much time on fuel, coolant, etc. it might be wise > >to do at least a rudimentary compression t

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

Yesterday was April Fools Day. BTW, from personal experience, the war on coal started the day after the bummer was elected. On the day of the election, we had USDA backed funding to build a plant to pull "crude fuel" out of coal, along with sulfur and carbon black. On the day after, the UDSA

Re: [MBZ] Resurrecting a vergasser WUZ: Choices

If it is a bad gasket or cracked head and all that coolant leaked into the internals of the engine during its years of sitting, you could have big problems. Have you verified the engine is not locked up? Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 2, 2017, at 8:56 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > wrote: >

[MBZ] Resurrecting a vergasser WUZ: Choices

Before you spend too much time on fuel, coolant, etc. it might be wise to do at least a rudimentary compression test. If Kleb is right, and there is a bad head gasket it is best to know that sooner. Which engine is this? M104? Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes Apri

Re: [MBZ] Choices

When I look at a car and there is a jug of coolant in the trunk, that is a red flag to me. In this case with the coolant leaked out that is 2 red flags. Maybe it's for an external leak, maybe it's got a blown head gasket. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 2, 2017, at 7:39 AM, Meade Dillon via Merced

Re: [MBZ] She won't let go!

I'd try repeated soakings that alternate between brake cleaner and some kind of spray penetrating lube, like Houdini lock lube or PB Blaster or Aero-Kroil, and try plenty of wiggling and vibrating, and I'll bet she lets go. - Max Charleston SC On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 11:50 PM, clay via

Re: [MBZ] Selling Parts

We're a rare breed. Now that I've pretty much completely taken apart the steering column from Wilton's car, I'm going to take pictures of the bits and post them. Nice steering wheel (black rubber), nice multi-function switch assembly with turn signal / cruise control stalks integrated. I've also

Re: [MBZ] Choices

Thanks Craig & Curley, yes this is a gasser, mit M104 engine: 1995 E320 Cabriolet I've never tried to resurrect a gasoline engine, so this will all be new. The story goes that the car was not running and diagnosed with a bad fuel pump, so once I get the fuel tank and lines dealt with, I guess I'll

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

Russian Internet trolls -- Americans are really gullible. The "War on Coal" is bogus -- we just put in a co-gen plant at the plant site were I work most of the time. Been chewing on it for at least 25 years, but with the price of natural gas it was a no-brainer. No more low sulfur coal from

Re: [MBZ] Presidential order

Hmmm. Must be about April first. You don't think? Naw, couldn't be. Gerry Mitch Haley wrote: > What day is today? > http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/04/foghorn/breaking-donald-trump-enacts-hearing-protection-act-executive-order/ > > > On April 1, 2017 at 8:58 PM Curley McLain via Mercedes

Re: [MBZ] I despise the W220

Why are you down on Japanese cars, Dimitri? They are just another foreign car. Gerry Dimitri wrote: > Subaru wagon aka rugrumpermobile! > > OK Don wrote: > > Hence the Subaru we just bought. If our mission was just running into town, > > it would have been a Spark or similar, but it also needs

Re: [MBZ] Secret message for Wilton an Max WUZ: Parts

Yeah, keep in touch. How're you doing medically, Wilton? Gerry ~ Dan Penoff wrote: > Thanks, Wilton, and it’s good to see you around. You know we wonder about > you from time to time when we don’t see an occasional “ATTABOY” on the list…. > Dan > > > O