I'm late to this one I know but I'd vote for the block heater. Its no where
near as cold in MA as you see but at -20F 40 minutes on the block heater has
always been sufficient to get my 240D to start which is good because I use a
110ah battery to power the blockheater...
-Curt
'83 240D
Is this one of the years that includes biodegradable wiring? I'm needing a new
car bad before the wife kills me or makes me buy something soulless...
If anybody knows of a great diesel MB within about 300 miles of Boston let me
know. 190D prefered but I'm open to anything.
-Curt
I didn't and I have no desire to buy a $1500 car that needs $2000 in work...
A $3500 car thats in good shape I'd consider though
-Curt
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:25:54 -0500
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Might as well establish myself as a full fledged nutter.
On my farm we've got a little camp. The camp has an outhouse which is nearing
unusable because the hole is about full. This summer I did an experiment in
humanure. Basically you do your business in a bucket that has a layer of
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Might as well establish myself
Composting toilets, from what I've seen are usually a sham. They cook the uhh,
deposit, down to ash which is then technically a toxic waste...
Composting, as I'm sure you know, happens out in the open with air and
microbes involved.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:17:57 -0800
Basic composting theory, you mix nitrogen (like the human waste) with carbon
(sawdust) and the carbon takes away the smell. The mixture of the two also
composts faster that either part would individually.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:18:45 -0500
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Hi Bob,
Interestingly on my 240D anyway as soon as you turn the key to on the temp
needle comes off the cold peg
If its very cold, like below 0F I'll use the block heater. To do that I lug a
110ah battery down to the car. So after the car is started I'll let it idle
while I hike the
Nope, I use the marine battery to power the block heater. Technically I use the
battery to power an inverter to power the heater but you get the idea.
3rd floor walkup, my apartment is on the other side of the building. We're
looking to buy a condo with parking lot exposure so I don't have to
So I bought an '85 190D 2.2l 5spd. Its in New Jersey, I'm in MA. Theres a
couple ways to go retrieve it.
Travel down w/no car and drive it back.
Drive down with my wife and caravan back.
Drive the truck down and somehow tow it back.
My truck is a '96 Dodge Dakota, the 190D is
I'm sure I should have done this before I BOUGHT the car, and now maybe I'm
better off not knowing but
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-Curt
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I'd say keep it. That short commute is going to be VERY hard on any car, why
not make it hard on a car thats disposible?
Alternately sell it for $500 and pick up a cheap gas car to beat on...
-Curt
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I was surprised, no shocked, well I almost drove off the road, last spring to
see a Yugo parked on a lawn for sale last spring here in central MA.
I remember seeing Yugos on display in the mall back when I was in elementary
school. I remember thinking Dang I can almost afford one, whats wrong
Ahh the adventure of Mercedes ownership. I don't have much time right now so I
just wanted to drop a note that the '85 190D has made it home to join the
family.
Its got some issues, the monovalve has been superceeded with a manual valve
(YUCK!) theres a toggle switch to turn on the A/C (which
Excepting that in most places thats totally illegal especially if you're
selling for profit. Some would even say its immoral because you're essentially
taking money out of someone else's pocket.
-Curt
the videographer who is very sensitive to this sort of thing.
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Hey Jim,
That'd be quite a sight huh, but you missed the part where I said we went
68mph. With Hammie it'd have only been 68mph on a long downhill close to
sliding out off control... No, I have a '96 Dodge Dakota w/318ci v8. Managed to
pull 10mpg pulling the car, 18mpg unloaded. I think
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Okay I've been going through Rusty's site and making a list, he had the switch
bits I needed for the seats (YAY!) and a bunch of other stuff.
The thing I didn't see and haven't seen anywhere yet is a block heater. The
block heater on my 240D has been a savior many times, at -20F the 240D
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Huh?
There are actually 2 pieces of professional gear that I have that will get
around macrovision, 1 is a TBC (Time Base Corrector) and the other is a
distribution amp. Neither were hard to get, in fact the TBC is built into one
of my decks. Distribution amps are as common as dirt and vital if
So this morning I thought I'd take the 190D to work for its first shake out
run. It started fine at 25F but as soon as I pulled out I knew something was
up, the engine wouldn't rev above about 2000 rpm (working tach, yay!) while the
clutch was engaged and the car could barely move itself in 2nd
No worries on the passport front, at least not yet. I've been to Canada like 8
times this year (3 times I flew, the rest we drove). When I flew over I took a
birth certificate, driving a drivers license was plenty. They ASK for passports
but...
I've heard but not verified that they had to
Today I took the 190D for the 80 mile round trip drive to work. The first
couple miles were pretty dicy, above about 2500rpm there was no power and there
wasn't power enough in 4th gear to move the car so I was stuck at about 30mph.
After about 4 miles though things started picking up. I fueled
5spd
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:50:15 -0500
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Today I took the 190D
10F this morning. Hammie started but wasn't crazy about the idea. I remember
that the year he started real good in the very cold I was putting a dose (4oz,
not the 32oz I put in the 190D yesterday) of Diesel Kleen in at every fillup.
The new starter sure cranks better than the old one did!
I know from bitter experience that a backwards thermostat in a 240D is a
BAD(and stupid) thing...
On the way home last night the heat in the car was vauge at best so I'm
pretty confident replacing the thermostat will get things going. Might as well
flush the coolant while I'm there...
The first year I had Hammie the glowplugs went out. It took 2 days for Rusty to
get me new ones. Temps averaged in the 30s that whole time. To get him started
in the morning I'd run the blockheater for an hour and then drag him to the top
of the hill in our apartment complex and roll down. If
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Just wanted to drop a note with kudos for Larry T and his Oil Analysis Company.
I just got the results back from the second test on my '96 Dodge Dakota. I LOVE
it when the results match what I expected. Fuel in the oil was up a bit which
is probably because my wife drives the truck and just
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They do have a website: youroil.net
I don't know if they do soot since I haven't been testing a diesel engine.
-Curt
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Oh man I went through this Sunday with the 190D.
My Indy called today yeah its been fine for me
I assume you turned the wheel to take the pressure off the steering lock, but to
no immediate effect?
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Oh man I went through this Sunday with the 190D.
My Indy called today yeah its
of Scotch or electrical
tape around the plastic tube makes a better seal with the bellows
bottle when sucking the iol up.
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They do have a website: youroil.net
I don't know if they do soot since I haven't been testing a diesel engine.
-Curt
Bet she'd put some spring in your step! ;p
-Curt
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If I did,
Hey Tom,
I'm currently going through that with my 190D. I won't even talk about how
much I paid, but I decided I was going to make it into a very nice car before I
started driving it.
Brakes
Thermostat
Monovalve
flexjoint
motormounts
ball joint
tie rod end
switches
My local Tire Warehouse offers nitrogen, offers free refills if any leaks out.
I've been sort of thinking that when I put new skins on the 190D I'll actually
get nice tires for the first time in my life (rather than store brand) and
maybe get the nitrogen, its only like $6 more.
-Curt
That surprises me as Scion = Toyota and anybody thats ever priced a used Camry
has seen Toyota's magic at work.
I had a Kia Optima as a rental once. It was a decent car, gas mileage was not
its high point (about 24mpg with a 4cyl) but better than a Chevy Cobalt (also
4cyl) I had (about 20mpg,
A guy I work with drove one and didn't like it, said it felt cheap. For
reference he drives a '99 Acura Integra. Also interesting to note is a
comparably equipped Civic or Corolla is cheaper...
-Curt
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Is there an online source for the 201 manual? I want to fix this, the PO
bubba'd in a manual shutoff valve in the heater hose.
I'm in New England. The interior is tan, but a lighter tan than my 240D. I
think I'm probably up to swapping the
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Jiminy crickets, learn something new every day!
Is there an online source for the 201 manual? I want to fix
Wal-Mart sells a Lubricating Gel which is like -15F 15w40 motoroil. I sprayed
some of that on the hood latch when it was sticky and it free'd it right up. I
also put some in Hammie's balky door lock which became smooth as silk.
I was nervous that the stuff would get impossible to turn in cold
Lessee, Hammie hit 250,000 yesterday. I've had him about 2 1/2 years and put on
about 45,000 miles. 18,000 miles a year is low, he wasn't my commuting car
until I'd had him about 9 months, lets figure 40,000 in 2 years.
So to go another 750,000 miles is 37.5 years. I'll be 30 in February so
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Why is it disturbing?
Stuff in the air is a natural phenomonon, from dust stirred up by the wind to
hair falling off lions on the savanna.
Dirt is life, we rise from it and return to it. Why are we in such an all
fired hurry to keep it away?
I work with a guy who is paranoid about germs, uses
We're actually expecting snow on Christmas day. Just the thing to drive from MA
to Maine in.
Last weekend I finally (it only took me a year) got my wankle powered
snowmobile running right. I rode it about 5 miles which doesn't seem like much
until you realize that the fastest I ever went was
Arctic Cat actually. 303cc, 19hp.
I had a line on a Johnson last year but couldn't figure out how to get it
here from Indiana without the shipping costing more than the sled. The Johnson
sleds weigh like 600#, this one had reverse which seems like a manditory thing
to me.
My Cat is a pig
So my Indy tells me (this is a heck of a Christmas present) that theres a
rubber balancing deal on the driveshaft which is bad on my car. He says that he
can't buy the part separately and an entire driveshaft is over $1k.
So the question is can I use a driveshaft off a 190E for my '85 190D
Interesting,
Mercedessource has a kit for this, he makes like its a common thing but I've
never seen it before.
-Curt
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I've been selling alot lately and have had to leave a couple negative
feedbacks, seems like people from Pakistan don't understand Will only ship to
North America in my listings.
Anyway theres a limit to how long after an auction you can leave feedback, I
think its 90 days (could be 60 I
I know from bitter bitter experience that running a 617 in an '81 300TD with no
thermostat WILL make the car overheat.
The interesting thing is that it'll go for a good 20 minutes from a cold
start (a Marshall cold start, 8 hours or more) but if you shut it off and
restart it it'll overheat
Of course I would never do this and I expect nobody else here would either but
I've *heard* of people pulling the cat and smashing out all the innards before
they reinstall it. Keeps that stock appearance for states that require a cat
for inspection...
-Curt
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005
I was surprised how easily a shot of contact cleaner fixed the seat switches in
my 190D. I squirted a little in there without even taking the switch apart,
just stuck the little straw around into the switch and immediately the switch
started working better. A couple more shots had it working
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#3 Keeing the RPM down gets better mileage, this one shouldn't be a
surprise but try
telling 20 people that and see who gets it
I saw an ignition advance curve for the 60x timer, and full advance
came on in
the 2000
Taking my Dakota to Maine last weekend on a 300+ round trip run we average
17mpg. Thats in the snow and includes my wife getting it stuck in the snow on
my parent's front lawn...
Best we ever did was 22mpg on a 1000 mile round trip.
Worst was 10mpg on a 300 mile one way towing 6000#.
Well heck when I first moved to MA I was shocked at the weak inspection policy,
cars that NEVER would have passed inspection (mostly because of rust) were
running all over the place. Now its gotten pretty serious which is nice, you
see alot fewer heaps leaving a smokescreen and all.
I'm not
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Unless its a '96 (OBD II emissions) or later and the shop has the good
computer. In fact I stopped having my pickup tested at one place because they
didn't have the rig to plug into the computer. Cripes thats as easy as pie
computer says everything is okay so emissions are all set. I don't
Transmission modulator?
Have you tested the shutoff valve itself yet? When the one on my 240D was
going I could put the mityvac on it and pull oil up. If I slurped a bunch of
oil out of it it'd work good for another couple weeks.
Does the car start hard? Is it possible you got the
The oilers will agree that blocked filters come on slowly and not just one day
I was zipping along and the next day it was no go.
Actually one day about 2 years into owning my 240D I noticed a SEVERE
reduction in power that changing the filters fixed right away.
I'd let the tank get much
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A 240D with a bad filter is a DRAG.
-Curt
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LOL, the other day I was putting a track into my favorite old snowmobile, this
is a brand new track because I got tired of putting in a used one every couple
years. The owner of the shop remarked You're getting pretty quick at that job.
To which I replied Well you know when I do a job three or
Its a '85 190D 2.2l 5spd.
Indy said the rubber balancing whatsit on the driveshaft was bad, Fred Moir
is a champ and trucked one out here for me.
Indy now says its too short and won't fit.
It never occured to me to make sure Fred's car was a 5spd... Fred said he'd
checked the EPC but...
I think theres a limit to the amount of temperature cycling any solder joint
can take. The 9 Mac computers, especially the oldest ones, the 128k and 512k
had solder joints that would eventually fail and need touching up. I had to do
this on my Mac Plus at one point, fortunately the point that
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I lust after an old (but rust free) diesel Rabbit -- as a work car, of
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I know 2 people with relatively recent Jettas both are still being paid
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I had a similar problem with my 240D after it sat at my Indy's for a couple
days last fall. It had a coating of maple leaves on it while it sat and
something about those leaves... A good scrubbing with glass cleaner fixed it.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:21:10 -0500
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To put an end to my suffering I coughed up the bread and bought a new
driveshaft (well really only the front half) from Rusty. I'm ready to be
driving the 190D rather than having it sit in my Indy's driveway.
Before I bought I used the IM feature on Rusty's site to ask about price. I
gotta
I'll tell you the same thing I told Marshall and we'll let everybody guess.
I paid around (maybe just a bit more) than what I'll save in the first year
driving the 190D instead of my 240D 80 miles a day.
To recap: '83 240D 4spd, '85 190D 2.2l 5spd.
Anybody who remembers my fuel mileage
More like gawrsh I dunno whats wrong wit dis dang ting, dem commies make just
cars.
To me it means the combustion chambers are almost undoubtably ruined.
-Curt
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Don,
I know its not a great comparison but my '96 Dodge Dakota doesn't use hardly
any oil in 3,000 miles and its got over 180k miles. I've owned it for nearly
130,000 of those.
It was leaking badly from the rear main seal (about a quart in 500 miles) until
I switched to Mobil 1, that
I learned how to drive on a '47 KB-7 hauling potatoes for my great uncles at
the ripe old age of 12. Drove my cousin Tom nuts, he was 17 and could legally
drive but I was already bigger than him and could handle the KB-7. He was stuck
unloading barrels in the potato house.
I never experienced
Ours was a stake body with a hydralic boom for lifting potato barrels and later
culverts. Most of the time I was running it I'd go about 2 miles out to a
field to pickup barrels, then back to the potato house to unload barrels, then
back to the field. Keep it running all the time theres no
Dan, I couldn't pay for a better straight man.
I'm gonna be 30 next month. This would have been in about '88. The whole
operation up until my Uncle Pat died was running (most of the time) with 40
year old equipment.
I wish I'd paid attention, I'd like to know how many miles that KB-7 had
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I'm living in Gardner now, went to Fitchburg State for my higher education. I
work in Tewksbury so me an Hammie ride down Rt 2 everyday.
I'm sure there somebody on the list that was at Devins when it was hoppin.
Coburn Gore, thats somewhere you should think about every day, 2 or 3 houses,
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I'm sure I'm coming late to the party but I use synthetic largely because that
way I don't have to spend as much time actually doing oil changes...
My '96 Dodge Dakota gasser is now at 8,000 mile changes thanks to oil
analysis through Larry T's service. The 190D will get the same testing and
Rick,
Have you used the 15w50 since it got the new packaging? I was thinking about
switching to it this year for my '82 CB900. Also considered Mobil 1 Motorcycle
formula. I really only go about 2000 miles on the bike a year so I probably
don't need synthetic.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 10
Looks like its up on concrete blocks... Thats wierd.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:16:00 -0600
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Interesting, I've had my Inspiron 8500 for 2 1/2 years now. Today I poppd the K
key off to get something out from under it (bit of fingernail it turned out)
and broke the key. I called Dell support (smart IT manager got us gold support
which is good until November) and they're shipping a new
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Interesting, I've had my Inspiron 8500 for 2 1/2 years now. Today I
poppd the K key off to get something out from under it (bit of
fingernail it turned out
I put a whole bottle of Power Service Diesel Suppliment in Hammie today. So
thats plenty to treat 50 gallons in about 15 gallons of fuel.
Why would you do a stupid thing like that? You might ask.
Well yesterday when I got home from work it was 55F and raining. Right now 28
hours later its 4F
Simply put you can't make those kind of blanket statements with any kind of
assuredness. Here in MA driving without plates will get you pulled over, the
car towed and impounded and a hefty fine.
MA also doesn't recognize temp plates from ANY state. When I bought Hammie I
was going to get NJ
of gas in the diesel during winter.
Trampas
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Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 8:16 AM
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Subject: [MBZ] Fat lotta good
1F this morning when I woke up.
Put Hammie on his block heater
I think its a little of column a, a little of column b and even a bit of column
c.
I've been using 15w50 oil which is probably a bit thick for this weather but
it leaks less.
I forgot about putting the multimeter on to check resistance, I'll check that
tonight. The battery charger
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A friend of mine was telling me about one of his dad's bikes that did the same
thing. My suggestion that it might be the rubber brake line was met with scorn.
It was about 2 weeks later when out of desparation they tried replacing that
front line, since then everything has been fine...
My
Well, a Farmall is geared rather lower than a 240D, so I'd expect that.
My favorite tractor I grew up around was our Farmall 200.
Mine's a Super M, it also out weighs the truck by something like 2000# which
doesn't help. Tractors are easier to tug start with a full sized pickup. We had
an
How flat is the battery in it? How long did you leave the booster cables hooked
up before you tried to start the car?
When I'm boosting my 240D I leave the cables connected for at least 5
minutes. If the battery is down enough that I need to boost it its going to
take some time to get back up
Jan 2006 14:15:16 -0500
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On Monday, Jan 16, 2006, at 08:15 US/Eastern, Curt Raymond wrote
Went down and followed the block heater cord, pulled the thingie off and, whoa
its shredded. I'm amazed it ever worked, in fact I'm sort of amazed it didn't
start a fire! This is beyond shoe-goo and tape, its dead Jim. (like that one?)
So its off to Rusty's site to order me up a new one.
Oh a wise guy huh? Why I outta.
We were going to buy a condo anyway. House prices in New England are outta
site but predictions are that they'll at least moderate as the boomers retire
and take off for warmer locals. Condo prices should stay strong because of
those same boomers
Jim,
You got a way of taking the fun out of everything...
The pins on the heater are fine, I don't think the connector has been off
since the heater was put in.
But still I'll probably check it...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:58:15 -0800
From: Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yeah well, I'm a risk taker I guess...
I wonder, I don't have an ammeter so I can't test current to the block heater
to prove its working. I'd tried testing for voltage drop at the battery before
but saw absolutely nothing (wonder why..Duh.) wonder if a properly operating
block heater
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I think this is not too far from where Curt Raymond lives-(better
protect that new driver's seat.)
Dwight Giles, Jr
1979 240D auto, 250K + miles
1990 300D 2.5t, 130K miles
Wickford, RI
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