Er, it's called record profits
On 15-Aug-06, at 8:50 PM, W. Lasher wrote:
Ever notice when a barrel of oil goes up the price at the pump goes
up that
same day, BUT, when the price goes down, it takes a month for the
decrease
to take effect at the pump?
John
1983 300TDt 368k Kilomete
Ah, the CF is a diesel rating so to say diesel, perhaps is redundent.
On the other hand the CF rating is old, so
maybe by avoiding saying diesel they'll keep someone from pouring it
into their TDI or other newer diesel engine which
won't like a diesel oil that is just CF.
However CF is just f
I think I mentioned before when I pull my hydraulic oil filter I
found a zillion ozs of metal particles surrounding a ring magnet in
the filter.
In cross checking, sure enough, part number 140 327 04 06 is the
magnet, regardless of what the description says (spacer, ASD
reservoir) or (met
$16K or so I think is start, but people I know who have them after
adding all the options drove the prices more to $24k.
The dealer tells me after the earlier adopters, the seniors, they are
now selling lots to people who commute (say > 100 miles) a day
something about fuel costs, diesel here i
http://www.chevron.com/products/prodserv/fuels/diesel/ulsd.shtml#A2
October 15, 2006 for most of usa
September 1, 2006 for California (have to be different) also they
seem to restrict *all* diesel to < 15ppm
October 15, 2006 for all of Canada
I'll note they started refining it by June 1, 200
On 6-Sep-06, at 9:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW the lock in question is one of those fancy quickset "max" locks
that use 6 pins and have spool and barrel pins in them. Took a
locksmith about 3 mins (tops) to get in (without using a key).
Ah, there are locks which are *very* hard to
Assuming they are in business in 5 years, and/or the purchaser of
the assets from
bankruptcy court wants to honour those documents. However I do admit
they are in
better shape than Ford from what I read from Wall Street.
On 7-Sep-06, at 1:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GM announced yester
Likely since I suffer from shakes after highway driving and I've
adjust the rack damper pin in the past, it would see time to
replace the 83's rack damper pin. I picked up a new gold pin, but not
quite sure how to replace.
a) Do you back off the lock nut a bit and then unscrew the entire pin
Nice enough to go out and replace the rack damper pin the 83.
Of course as I'm looking about I see the steering damper shock is
busy dripping oil.
Likely the tire balance issue and the need to replace a control rod
and upper ball joint sent the shock to an early death.
On 16-Sep-06, at 8:31
What they do is provide an aux jack on the back that is wired into
the input from the cassette player.
As mentioned you could get a fm adaptor, but I'll point out some
other choices
a) Some xm radio receivers have transmitters and provide aux-in so
you can get xm radio and ipod input then
http://pages.prodigy.net/jforgione/MB_Bekr.html
If you are lucky...
On 19-Sep-06, at 6:08 PM, Sunil Hari wrote:
ooh ooh ooh - where can i find instructions or who can i call to
set my radio to US tuning?
On 9/19/06, John M McIntosh < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:You can check I&#
Ya, like the foot powered high/low beam switches that would get full
of salty water there on the floor, corrode and break, resulting in no
lights when you
flipped from low to high. Or the turn signal switches made of cheap
pot metal that would break while making a left turn across 6 lanes of
Well I've a Denon DVD 1920, but it won't work with some mp3s, and
some DVDs. however the cheap sony DVD/CD/VCR player reads anything
the Denon
won't. Denon does give a better image on the lcd tv tho.
On 20-Sep-06, at 12:36 PM, andrew strasfogel wrote:
Speaking of audio, does anyone know a
Ahmen well like the teenagers around here, buy an ipod and pass it
around and you get back oh 5000 hours of music or something, as
players gain
more storage space and migrate to movies via internet I'm sure the
*sharing* model used by the teenager will encompass video too.
On 20-Sep-06, at
google maps implies it's a house...
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=2725+Oak+Mountain+Trail,+San
+Angelo,+LA,
+76904&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=31.410791,-100.482008&spn=0.005824,0.012338&t=k&o
m=1
Versus say, an empty lot, or field...
Not that the person/address in the domain registration would
listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com
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I'll note
http://www.utc.fr/~tthomass/Themes/Unites/unites/infos/huile/
Publication_Oil_Sequences.pdf#search=%22ACEA%20documentation%
20Laboratory%20tests%22
Where one can actually understand what the oils have to meet in order
to achieve a certain ACEA rating
On 1-Oct-06, at 8:09 AM, Mitc
And you have a write up somewhere? Since this task is on my to do
list
On 8-Oct-06, at 11:30 PM, Stephen D Murrell wrote:
M.B. mech. could not believe i replaced center vac. element or
repaired
missing connector on center flap; WITHOUT removing the dash!; yes i
can
do it & have done a
On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Bob Rentfro wrote:
> Since I hadn't bought a new cell phone in almost eight years, I
> somehow
> caved in and let my 16 year-old daughter talk me into getting a
> MotoQ. As a
> result, in order to be able to use the phone's gazillion features,
> I had to
> updat
Yes, the high intensity bulbs burn out quite quickly, a year is not
un-heard of.
Also because of the high precision manufacturing involved it's not
unlikely to have the other
bulb burn out next week because the tolerances for their lifespan are
so very tight. So you
should replace both this
On Jun 16, 2007, at 9:09 PM, ernest breakfield wrote:
> can't even *read* what's on that forum without registering (which
> IMO is
> silly).
> while i agree that a complete retrofit would be more suitable than
> just plugging in HID lamps, i'm skeptical that even swapping in
> complete
>
Alas I can't find the link, but last winter I found a Material's
safety sheet on the diesel purge and I believe it was well over 50%
techtron, then kerosene. But I could be remembering wrong, let's see
if we can find it in Google, well no, but I'm sure someone *must*
have a copy somewhere.
Well today I finalized the purchase of a Euro 300TDt 1991 I
believe, it was ordered in 1990, but the maintenance book shows
Ablieferungskontrolle Werk Sindelfingen Jan 13 1992 (Delivery control
work Sindelfingen January 13 1992) The front part of the manual has
the original owners name an
Ah, yes but I'm in Canada, and the paperwork claims it was a 1990
because of the order paperwork, so anything 15 years or older
and the Canadian Govt doesn't care.
It has "620 emission control system vehicles with catalyst technique
(с 01.03.1985)"
I was looking at the milage pattern last n
Mmm
Well my wife knows the answer to this It's about 60 parts supreme
gas, and 8 parts diesel. Or fill it up with gas once you hit the
reserve light.
In fact you *can* run about 20 miles on this mixture, until reaching
benz dealer with complaint about *rough* running & bad idling...
Amazing
Pedro, I'll give some pointers. First you need to see if you are
generating any boost pressure, then if it is getting to the ALDA on
the injection pump to
tell the IP to provide more fuel.
I believe in both cases you will find that a hose runs from the
intake manifold to a three way vacuum
Yes, actually they phoned me at work, actually I was out of town on
business aren't cell phones wonderful, to tell me the wagon was ready.
Ready? Why is the car there? My wife did what?
On 25-Jun-05, at 9:24 AM, Mitch Haley wrote:
John M McIntosh wrote:
I would have bought four six g
Ah, good, great, wonderful.
Exactly what I need to print off to beat prospective buyers over the
head with when I sell the 83 wagon.
Assuming that is happening, opinion is still being voiced between
family members.
On 25-Jun-05, at 6:50 AM, Royce Engler wrote:
Dave said
Some maroon
So I'm out of town, and my wife is showing off the new 92 wagon to
friends, and said friend's husband manages to
grab the sedan key, it's the same shape as the wagon key, and shove
into driver's door lock to take a peek, oops...
Said key does not come out, so anyone have ideas. Mind I"m not h
Ok, back home, so reviewed the situation, said friend (actually said
friend's wife muttering about stupid men said they would pay to fix).
Any said friend managed to torque
key since it's on the S500 fob quit a bit. I'll bet the pot metal/
steel/etc is a bit mangled inside the cylinder. Anyway
The 92 300TDt has a nice becker mexico shortware/longwave/AM/FM/
Traffic radio in it. Problem is the lights are burned out, and my
wife says it crackles.
It's a head unit, with amp in the back. I'm wondering here if I
should spend the $$ to have it serviced via becker usa, or replace it?
Th
http://www.clsearch.org/
This link at one time worked
Seems it's down right now, could email webmaster and see why?
On 8-Jul-05, at 4:43 PM, Rick Knoble wrote:
All you Craigs List users out there,
Is there any way to search multiple cities at the same time? It is
a real
PITA to search 20-
On 19-Jul-05, at 12:34 PM, Fmiser wrote:
Self-cancelling turn signals are from the devil
Real drivers don't need such stuff.
Ya, I once a long time ago had a 66 chev and one day as I was turning
left across 4 lanes of highway traffic the
self-cancelling turn signal mech broke and loc
Wife is muttering about three cars in the driveway, she wants just
one, but she does agree that two *are* needed.
13 year old son is lobbying for keeping the 83, 3 more years until
he can drive (then what?).
mmm however if anyone wants to pony up $7,000 usa I'll part with it.
Please note thi
On 19-Jul-05, at 9:28 PM, BenzBarn wrote:
The cheap food policy in NA is really starting to show just how
bad things
are getting. ( NA has the cheapest food in the world ) It's said that
Canada has about 3 days supply of food. I don't believe this but
even if it
is true what that tells m
r, no penalties
2) Got fired
3) Got thrown in jail for an illegal strike
4) None of the above
And no other people could be found who could operate a ferry?
--R
John M McIntosh wrote:
John
1983 300TDt 352k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac)
1992 300TDt 144k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac)
1993 500SEL
Or is that gone now?
Anyone know?
PS if you remove the left vent you can access the bulb that lights
the headlamp vacuum adjustment panel, versus
pulling the under console cover, etc.
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John M. McIntosh <[EMAIL
Ah, someone (or perhaps a few people ) here in victoria have been
flogging 230TEs all winter/spring/summer.
I saw a blue one at the dealer, my neighbour looked at a 230TE,
didn't say what color, but said it blew blue smoke.
Pricing on these have been anywhere from 5K to 10K USA
Lets see what
I've a question about the passenger side wheel well configuration on
the w124 diesel.
On the left side you have an louvered front splash cover, but on the
right there is no cover, and the rear of the front bumper is exposed.
I'm wondering if there should be a lovered cover there? We're not
su
Now that I'm back from three weeks of work I dug deeper into the w124
92 diesel and today as I was preparing for steam cleaning the carpets
I discovered that the
left foot well right below the left side foot rest had about 3 cups
of very fine sand in the wiring harness box.
It appears that
in other models.
Brian
On 7/25/05, John M McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've a question about the passenger side wheel well configuration on
the w124 diesel.
On the left side you have an louvered front splash cover, but on the
right there is no cover, and the rear of the front bumper
Yawn, it's late just finished a 3 hour highway drive in the w140,
really nice to drive. So lets see...
a) 92/93+ had shimmy problems, fixed that by redoing suspension
system which lowered the car an inch or so.
b) expect the oem expensive blower regulator to fail, third-party or
later regul
lly nice.
On 30-Jul-05, at 8:39 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Yea I knew about all those problems. Now wiring deal, so the 92's and
93's had the same problem?
John M McIntosh wrote:
John
1983 300TDt 358k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac)
1992 300TDt 145k Kilometers (mobil 1 Delvac
Actually now in my middle age I have a rule:
When done all tools are put away, anything missing? mmm no turn key,
or close hood until said tool is found.
Sometimes that can take a while, usually wife points out what's this
screwdriver by the espresso machine for?
Sigh...
On 14-Oct-06, at 8:
Well up here in Canada where there about 500+ running about locally,
I'll comment a bit.
I'll note the performance is like say a 240D, mind usually the
performance is fine for daily driving, even on the highway. People
who drive them usually figure out how to shift the auto-manual
tranmis
On 6-Nov-06, at 12:58 PM, Rich Thomas wrote:
For in-city use you probably couldn't beat one, except it might
benefit
from a hybrid/plug-in powertrain? I guess that would add to the price
quite a bit, and it is pretty frugal on fuel as it is. On a Texas
interstate, cruising at 75-80mph (in t
70+24 -> 94 mph which I guess explains the 90ish upper limit I
observed.
Also the portland paper was full of complaints about how there was
only say two state cops patrolling such and such highway due
to cutbacks and redistribution of funds, vote for so and so to
restore law an order, etc...
LIkely the price you see is for the current DOT approved importers,
say $15K for the car, $1K to alter to DOT standards/etc, 14K extra
profit to cover DOT paperwork/bribes/politics/scandals/lawsuits/etc.
Up in Canada we avoid the extra $15K of price gouging by buying from
mercedes/smart dir
Well on I-5 I'm not sure you should say all the drivers are from oregon.
Past experience north of LA shows 100mph is more the norm btw.
On 6-Nov-06, at 11:26 PM, Tyler Backman wrote:
I am genuinely surprised that you found Oregon drivers to drive fast,
since I have been surprised by much faster
http://www.clubsmartcar.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6445
gas engines at 61/71/84 (turbo) hp rated at > 47 mpg
diesel at 45hp, < 3.5 liters/100Km say 68 mpg
pricing starts at $11,000 usa
Oh and new transmission and shift pattern etc to improve nasty
shifting issues. Interesting to read Consum
Service interval is 40K km, with oil change every 20K km for the gas
model. Having an oil dip stick is just asking for
someone to ask were is the motor anyway, can't seem to get the front
hood open...
On 10-Nov-06, at 12:48 PM, R A Bennell wrote:
Don't ask to look under the hood. There isn'
145K km, electronically limited, the chipping folks will have fun,
also water cooled turbo, again someone will
figure out upper boost limits.
On 10-Nov-06, at 1:02 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
R A Bennell wrote:
Don't ask to look under the hood. There isn't one. All servicing
is done from under
Well assuming you sat in an old one, versus the one talked about in
the press release the engine is located in the back under the hatch
on the floor, the engine lurking there is the size of a large
microwave. He could have shown you the dip stick and the oil filler
cap. Perhaps he was confus
Well if they are talking about oil changes every 12,000 miles, and
service checks every 25,000 miles they are really
into the consumer doesn't need to get access to the engine now. Most
I guess will run until the idiot lamp (needs service) comes on, most
interesting one is when water separator
nd. I also do not
buy new cars so it is usually a good idea for me to keep an eye on
what is happening.
Randy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John M McIntosh
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 4:48 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subjec
It's called a PIN
A742674
item 257 on the part sheet,
617.952 engine, 07 injection pump, 045 injection pump.
It doesn't look like the non-turbo injection pumps had one?
BTW (shamless plug) I've a used one here for oh say $50 usa.
On 15-Nov-06, at 4:10 PM, LarryT wrote:
Hi Tom,
I looked at
Ya, and up here in West Coast Canada, 300CDs are going for 10K in the
paper at the moment, 250K miles...
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
pool of available cars. Whether or not it is worth $35 is for the
shill
bidders to decide, but I can easily see how this could be worth as
much
as a new C-Cla
Well given the snow in the pacific NW I can say
(a) the 83 diesel is mmm a pig with michelin hydro-edge tires: no
traction and slides.
(b) the 90's diesel with michelin mxv4, with assisting ASD and ABS:
traction and much better stopping.
both started fine at 23F
On 30-Nov-06, at 1:50 PM,
On 30-Nov-06, at 5:22 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
Rich Thomas wrote:
If you come here illegally you get free health care, as much as
you can
use, any ER has it.
Well, sort of. They'll give you emergency care. They won't give you
anything else. If you have a chronic disease, like diabetes,
.
That and counting the 4x4 trucks in the ditch.
On 30-Nov-06, at 3:06 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Its 19 here right now, that was the high for today
John M McIntosh wrote:
Well given the snow in the pacific NW I can say
(a) the 83 diesel is mmm a pig with michelin hydro-edge tires: no
tra
Given the freezing weather when we went out this am to open the w124
the door opened but didn't unlatch. So I though
perhaps the latch was frozen and I closed the door and tried the key,
will a little pressure (not much!) there was a snap noise and now the
key turns 360. We figured out we cou
Ok, I printed off the repair sheets and took the door apart and found:
a) The lock cylinder removal requires just the unscrewing of one set
hex screw. The cylinder has a shaft assembly attached with a T
ending that fits into the latch assembly. The T connector is sheared
off. Which is why
Ya, we had an mbca director out to our section to teach a defensive
driving course. They said good tires are really good at either braking
or turning, but less effective doing both at the same time. In an
emergency
brake then steer, or steer then brake. Standing on the brake is easy but
what mo
Right so I run into town this evening to take some video's back and
because of the temp difference there is ground fog and visibility is
not great on the straight country road at 40 mph, what's that? Stand
on brakes as Bambi and his brothers decide which way to run.
Rubber shear, ya clouds of b
On 6-Dec-06, at 7:09 AM, Werner Fehlauer wrote:
"Varta",
(a) the varta folks in germany actually answered questions via their
web site.
(b) both varta battries I had ran 7 years before I replaced them
based on age, not failure.
Some interstate special 1000 amph battery we got when we bo
Yes and for sure I can report that take really bad links, then do the
stomp on accelerator to pass, and the rear will *dance* sideways.
Very disconcerting, leads directly to fixing that issue ( 89 300TE)
On 6-Dec-06, at 11:47 AM, Marshall Booth wrote:
When rear links are bad, driving slowly ov
I'll note he (Mr DieselGiant) has a number of videos on YouTube now.
On Dec 14, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Marshall Booth wrote:
Black, Waylon wrote:
http://dieselgiant.com/mercedes_diesel_maintenance_tips.htm
There's some useful information there, but remember, he's selling
stuff
so some of the r
A while back I picked up a 2Kwa and 1Kwa HP powerwise UPS. These fine
UPS made by
HP before that division was bought out by APC run the UPS side fully
isolated from the line via the inverter,
so no surprises, because the system is always running via the
batteries, which is why I picked them u
On Dec 22, 2006, at 8:10 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
They gave me all 4 teeth in a little baggie.
Mmm I didn't get mine, however all I recall was the dentist who had
hands the size of dinner plates, one of which he wrapped around the
top of my head and pop, pop, pulled the top two in 10 sec
On Jan 1, 2007, at 11:15 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
A friend called, and said that he'd scored a used 6kW UPS from work,
and that he'd trade me the 3kW he'd already gotten from there in
Oddly enough I did spy in craig's list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006-12-29, 6:04PM PST
Used APC Matrix 5000 UPS w
On Jan 4, 2007, at 5:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you can find an E320 powered by anything but a 3.2 V-6 I'd be
surprised.
Unless it's a new Bluetec.
Oddly enough I was at the dealer today picking up a part and they had
just roll a new 2007 BlueTec diesel off
the truck and you cou
On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Chris Kueny wrote:
The Lister engines available from India today use no spark. ...
See www.utterpower.comfor all the details.
Chris K
Cayce, SC
After clocking 60 hours of gas generator use in dec here in the
pacific NW I look at the various generator option
The USA EPA changed the rules for small engines in January 2007. It's
possible many engines made outside of the USA can no longer be imported.
Testing and modifications of course takes time and $, also maybe the
supplier couldn't careless about selling small engines into the USA
anymore.
Cana
On Jan 7, 2007, at 9:23 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
Lister cycle engines are low compression, dirty, and make lots of
smoke
along with burning quite a bit of fuel for the output generated.
My understanding is that they are actually quite fuel-efficient,
at least as used for modest amounts of back
On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Werner Fehlauer wrote:
E-brake shoes can disintegrate, dry out and crumble due to years of
no use,
and also can become useless if impregnated with grease from failed
bearing
seals. They do rarely "wear" out, as you said. The actuating
cables and
linkage can a
Seems a bit high in the Canadian market for such a basic vehicle. But
it's a 4matic (likely the evil type).
That and diesel is for the most part cheaper in Canada so the
dynamics are different, plus of course we can
import mmm vehicles upto 1992 now without hassle. Now if it was a
wagon, I'll
find an
AWD vehicle for my wife.
http://tinyurl.com/y7t8v8*
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The cold weather up here in the NW has shown the 90's W124 needs to
have the wiper mech greased.
In looking into this, plus reading notes on the internet it says to
use a pick or allen wrench on the lower flange of the wiper rod housing
at the 5 and 7 o'clock position stick in hole to unlatch
Ok, I dug around more and found a UK site that had pictures of the
assembly which is the same as mine
The fellow noted even with the screw undone the housing won't come
apart. In looking at the shop manual
it looks like that the one I have would require removing the assembly
and undoing the g
Yes, that and testing. A friend of mine a few years back bought a
new toyota van (new model, first year of production) and proceeded to
put
50,000 miles on it in the first year. They got a phone call a year
out saying Toyota wanted their transmission, if they agreeded they'd
get a
new one
It's a QC issue, if the shipping folks of company "A" can't met the
shipping QC specs which might be there because the robots like to
have consistence when they remove things from pallets then why should
they think the product made by company 'A' will met the standards
either.
Reminds me
Early this summer we replaced the distributor caps, rotors, wires,
plugs etc. on the w140. Occasionally it would have a slight miss,
that they felt was
perhaps due to the EGR valve which wouldn't hold a vacuum. Oddly the
dealer said this part wasn't available anymore. A week back I ordered
Sure work on the trunk and rear seats, and the front of the sedan
feels wanted...
On the way home this morning, when I walk around the car to close the
gate. Gee the driver's side xenon lamp is
PURPLE, not blue, PURPLE... Wife takes car out at lunch, comes back
and no light on driver side.
If it has the ASD feature like my 92 300TDt then it should have two
return lines to the hydraulic reservoir, screwed on top of the tank.
one line is the return feed from the suspension system
2nd line is the return feed from the ASD system.
without ASD there will only be one line.
On Nov 6, 20
No these are High Intensity Discharge bulbs with xenon gas type
D2R http://www.kfztech.de/images/kfztechnik/elo/xenon2.jpg
your bulbs are tungsten fired bulbs with Xenon gas type HB2/9003/H4
http://www.rallylights.com/hella/H4.asp
To confuse you my w140 came with H4/H3 (1993), then I upg
On Nov 7, 2007, at 6:29 AM, Christopher McCann wrote:
> Got it. I thought of upgrading the SD to HID (High Int. Dis.), but
> it was too expensive, so I upgraded to H4/HB2/9003, which has made
> a world of difference.
I'll note if you use H4 you have a choice of now using
Philips X-Treme Powe
Well unless you live in Canada and want a 92 or earlier w124 diesel
from Europe or Japan (where most benz except the G-wagons seem to be
left hand drive).
Pricing runs 9 to 12K Canadian FOB Japan, you'll need to figure out
how much that is in worthless greenbacks tho.
On Nov 7, 2007, at 10
Well that depends on of course the year, but since you've a diesel
it's an 92/93?
In looking at the manual
With bumper/rear window antenna
the rear bumper is designed for FM reception, the signal is routed
via the FM bumper antenna amplifier installed on
the left side in the thrunk to the AM r
On Nov 8, 2007, at 8:02 AM, LarryT wrote:
> Along with the electrical consumption req'd to make steel is the power
> needed to make Aluminum - used in ever increasing amounts to save
> weight and
> increase mpg's. Alum needs much more electricity than steel.
Up here in the Pacific NW during t
On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Loren Faeth wrote:
> Yeah, But I am not miffed at you. It has been fun corresponding with
> you. I am miffed at the bank, cause it was in US dollars. Like I
> said, the US and Canada are so little different, some of this border
> stuff seems really stupid. We have
On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:48 PM, ernest breakfield wrote:
> what does the cost of Corn have to do with BioDiesel? i'd never
> heard of
> anyone anywhere using Corn for BioDiesel; it's far too low-yield and
> doesn't make good enough fuel to even bother with. i've only heard of
> Corn being used (in
Being in Quebec your local Esso agent (see phone book) should have
anything and everything Mobil.
Mind you need to buy a box of 4 by 4L jugs of Delvac 1.
On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Steve MacSween wrote:
> Anyone know any reason I ought not to use this for winter in an OM617?
>
> I asked about
I'm not sure this is quite true, I was reading somewhere they are
forced to buy equipment from elsewhere and that
equipment meets current nasty first world environmental standards
(such as they are), thus emissions are much
lower than oh say any usa coal fired plant given perhaps they are all
Depending on what you have for lamps/lens the higher wattage bulbs
could melt things because of higher heat.
Normally this is not a problem for mercedes assembles that are not
USA specific.
You are running 20% higher wattage thru the wires, normally this is
not a problem for mercedes, but yo
I think the pricing on w140 is undervalued because of the stigma of
concern about repairs.
This may result in great deals if you can find one that has the
following fixed
engine wiring harness
evaporator
vacuum pump
lurking transmission issues
beware of the sealed no fluid change ones.
for t
The build sheet based on the VIN does (kinda)
my 83 -> Dealer Nato members sales (401)
my 92 300TDt -> Freiburg branch (236)
my 92 S -> Canada (701)
On Nov 13, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin ((CAT)) wrote:
> Is there a way to tell what country a euro car was originally sold
> in, or pro
Ensure you get the one that came with the 2 cycle engine so you can
attempt to train everyone to ensure they mix in the 2 cycle oil
at the gas station, and don't forget
On Nov 15, 2007, at 7:12 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
> You had me right up until you mentioned all new cars looking the
> sa
Mmm timely, since I spent all afternoon replacing the rear seat belts
in my w140, so let me cross post this since it explains how Mercedes
manages the locking of the belt.
Last month I got a set of rear seat belts for my W140 sedan, dealer
had a garage sale where I bought a few dozen parts
Well there are other ways to know if the email was opened.
Google shows for example
http://www.returnreceipt.com
http://www.msgtag.com/Mail_Receipt_.html
These use the feature called "web bugs" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_bug
to let some server know when the mail was opened. Users with be
On Nov 20, 2007, at 9:08 AM, archer wrote:
> Gerry wrote:
> I was going to do this but finally realized that the screen would
> have print
> that was too small for me to read with poor visual acuity. Instead
> I simply
> sent a $200 donation.
> These laptops are interesting so I thought som
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