sounds like the infamous suction side air leak on the OM617s. If there is a
feed pump in the tank, check for a minor leak somewhere that will let the fuel
leak out and air leak in while sitting, could be anywhere before the pressure
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Check to make sure you don't have a leak in the delivery side blowing on the
return duct, as a cold wall on the return will cause condensation on the inside.
Only thing I can think of other than a plumbing leak upstairs that is somehow
making it's way into the return.
Just had another thought,
Sound like "Hatchet Al" destroying companies right and left.
Send out your resume, no need to wait.
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Sounds like the two kids who killed themselves in a Chrysler 300 a year or two
ago up the road from me. Road is narrow, a bit twisty, and has a negative bank
on a left/right S turn.
Kids went airborne and hit a maple tree three feet in diameter, both died on
impact. Probably doing 80 or
Holy bat droppings, someone regularly flew a 747 into Guatemala City? Yipes,
I'll never forget that landing in a 727 in 1966.
Flying up a ravine watching the ground rise FAST and more and more and more
flaps kept coming out of the wing. Probably had to use 90 degrees of flap to
land a 747
Double glass. Lexus had the same thing about that time.
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Yeah, that 747 was something else.
I had the best and the worst seats in Tourist class on a trip to Germany --
back in those days you got your seat assignment at checkin, and I had lots of
time in Chicago on the way over. Got a nice seat in the emergency exit row
over the wing, a row of
Between engine and firewall.
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My father would have shit bricks if he saw something like that. If you are
going to jumper outlets, you strip a portion of wire to go under the screw, you
don't put wire nuts on.
Same thing for equipment ground, one wire all the way back to the ground rail
in the box, no splices, ever.
He
Crank position sensor is bad or the connection behind the head is corroded.
Runs rough because it's on the mechanical idle, not the computer controlled
idle, and the tach is driven off that signal.
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Started out in 72 as a 350, but the 3.5L was really difficult to get to pass
the 1973 emissions standards without losing too much HP, so MB put the 4.5L in
it.
Got catalytic converters in 74 for Cali and 75 for the rest of the US, and the
low power cams.
Bulk freight, not parcel freight, and never scheduled. We still move way to
much stuff by truck.
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No, the freight rail issue was the railroads trying to get a monopoly and shut
everyone else down. Huge shipping rate wars resulted in the collapse of the
rail beds and operations because they weren't making enough money, in spite of
being able to legally cooperate on setting rates. Corporate
Having been in Europe long enough, I'd much rather take the train on a trip.
Back before the suburban craze, every city had good transportation systems, LA
was superb. Naturally, GM bought it and shut is down
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As I have said for decades, the actual solution to using carbon fuels is to
quit driving and doing things like mowing huge lawns. Electric just pushes the
carbon use off to another place.
The correct solution, as I see it, to too many cars burning fossil fuels is to
re-build our cities to
Cloth upholstery was either standard or an option in Germany. According to my
friend Hans it was preferred over leather because it lasts better and doesn't
get so hot in the summer.
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Those engines are a nightmare to work on according to my nephew who has a
degree in diesel maintenance.
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I just put in three type A LED replacement bulbs in my basement fixtures. A
lot more light, and probably half the power usage. More expensive that
rewiring the fixtures. but quick and easy.
I may have to clean that bench off and use it now.
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Fuel injection issue likely. May be simple, may be a fuel distributor.
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There is one of these parked locally. Floor pan has fallen out in the last six
months, so there really isn't anything left to restore.
Saw one driving here 15 years ago or so, might even be the same one. 1972
only, tiny Euro style bumpers.
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Could be bad injectors, but check the EGR system -- EGT on when it should not
be can make amazing smoke. Low power too.
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The coating is meant to be left on, it's some sort of rust prevention that is
hard enough to wear off very quickly and not damage pads.
It's there to replace the cosmoline that requires volatile solvents to remove.
Reduces volatile emission and the hassle of cleaning the rotors.
I love it,
Lol, I wish I could blame it on a wild driver, but he seemed to be a very down
to earth and reasonable guy. Traveling welder currently working at the plant
next to where I work, living in the campground down the road. Hopefully damage
to his truck is minimal.
Randy:
Indeed, 2016 Dodge Ram. Early enough he didn't have headlights on and blended
into the trees along the road there.
Peter
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I was heading home from the grocery today after work and managed to miss a big
black pickup flying down the road a couple hundred feet from home and got hit
on the right front of the Golf.
Ripped the bumper off, tore off the frame stub,and so forth. Can't imagine
it's not totalled, and I was
Usual cause is a sticky governor, not sure how it works on a Lawnboy though.
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Coumadin and Xarelto have different mechanisms of action I believe, and while
I don't know much about the actual condition you have, I would assume coumadin
is more effective in that situation that other anti-coagulants.
Same reason the blood clots that are associated with the J vaccine
To my mind the real problem is far to much computer control of things simple
switches and mechanical "computers" can do far more cheaply, reliably, and
repairably.
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W126 has a 30 gal. tank. My brother got 28 mpg on the highway with his SDL, so
had enormous range. At 14, about 400 miles or so, which isn't too bad.
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I put metal shingles on my roof a few years back. Screw down to the decking,
and it's quieter than asphalt shingles due to the air space under the metal.
50 year warrenty, I won't be around to fool with it then, even if I live as
long as Mom did (97).
Metal is the way to go.
I would hope so, I've done that on the TE and it took me three days. Something
like 18 hours book time
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Get the natural peanut butter that settles out and has to be stirred up. Or
make your own, if you have a food processor it's pretty easy, just roast
peanuts to the desired darkness, rub off the skins, and process until smooth
enough.
All the other peanut butters are partially hydrogenated.
Triglycerides are free fats. Trans fat (hydrogenated fats) and fructose both
tend to raise LDL cholesterol plus triglycerides and high carbs tend to raise
triglycerides I think, along with high fat intake.
For diet recommendations, they are pretty simple. More fruits and veggies,
plenty of
Already have mine, as of Feb 24th!
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That was my reaction to the Hepatitis B vaccine back in '83. Strong reaction
means your body is responding.
I had CoVid in December, got the vaccine in Feb -- first one made me sore and a
little off feeling, second one was just injection site soreness, so I think I'm
good.
Something conductive running over the board is bad
May work once you clean it up though. I'm never than lucky.
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Check for vacuum leaks, especially between the manifold halves and the hose to
the MAP.
Injector seals drove me nuts on my 280SE too.
Might clean the trigger points too.
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My buddy had the same issue with his VW Golf TDI. Cold start no issues
particularly, but immediate restart hot was a no-go until it sat for a while.
Turned out to be a bad crank position sensor.
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Another thing to consider is that ALL of them protect against severe disease.
Feeling crappy for a few days vs intensive care and lung damage, etc, I'll take
the feeling crappy.
Get whatever you can. I suspect we will be getting boosters for this for a
while, just like flu shots.
Buy a TopSider and never take the plug out again, that's what I've done.
Peter
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It is sad, and a sad commentary on our educational system that the hows, whys,
and solutions to the Great Depression are not taught.
If they were we wouldn't have stuff like BitCoin and the GameStop stock fiasco,
people would know better.
The WPA helped feed my Mom growing up, my Grandpa
Do you remember that Hydramatics had the reverse on the far right? Past Low.
One of the early Federal automotive requirements was the PRNDL pattern -- far
too many cars were jumping curbs because the sloppy linkage GM used (nearly
everyone else had quit using Hydramatics after the 1950s fire
Shot of carb cleaner down the intake while cranking will tell you if it's fuel
or not, should fire if the ignition is working and nothing horrible like a
broken camshaft is preventing it from running.
Listen for the fuel pump running a few seconds when you switch the ignition on
too, not
What works for me is a feeder that has a flap that closes down over the feed
when pressed, and comes back up when released. Set at the lightest setting it
will also close when the blackbird flocks show up, otherwise they will strip
the feeder and the songbirds don't get any.
There are various
Not a US model. As far as I know (and I'm no expert here) all US spec W123
cars had relay type glow plugs, series "loop" style to start with, later
"pencil" type like all the later models.
115s still had pull start.
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One thing to remember is that the 60x engines all have flat tappets (actually
the bucket, but same issue), and that modern automotive systems DO NOT have
flat tappets, they are almost universally roller tappets.
As a result, the zinc phosphates and zinc triphenylphosphates that provide
start
Actually, what Gates bought was a technical reference clone of CPM (by Digital
Research) modified to run on a 16 bit 8080 chip. Seattle Computing? Dont'
remember the company, and I believe the guy who did the (illegal) clone is now
dead. Flat-out copyright infringement that the Reagan
If you looked at the actual machine code all those many years ago when I was
doing some piddly programming in C+, until it was optimized it was full of dead
space filled with no-op opcodes (do nothing, skip to the next opcode) since the
programming language set aside large amounts of data space
Silicon reached it's speed limit more than a decade ago, and multi-core
processors are limited by the overhead of managing tasks -- at some point the
time needed to distribute and collect the processing threads is more than
running them consecutively.
I have also come to the conclusion that
More to the point, it's too complicated to write much of anything in machine
code anymore, due to the graphical interface, touch screen environment (plus
all the bloatware).
Software is orders of magnitude more complicated and difficult than hardware,
and we are stuck for the foreseeable
Texas is dark because it has a nearly completely unregulated electricity market
that is not tied in to the rest of the grid so the Feds can't regulate
anything. The result is that no one is responsible for ensuring there is
enough juice when a plant goes down and since they are isolated from
14F right now here, just a little more snow. At least until Wednesday, when we
are supposed to get more on top of the 10 or so we just got.
I hate driving in snow, have to decide which car to take tomorrow, the Benz
with flaky injection but heat, or the Golf that runs like a top but won't warm
I've managed to get one wall done in mine beyond the 3/4" Cellite installed
when it was built in 1974. Still stays above freezing except when super cold,
and gets quite warm on sunny days.
I may live long enough to get it fully insulated and the windows I want to make
put in so I can see
I would guess it's pretty dangerous to operate them with unbalanced blades.
And icing will greatly reduce power output, just like airplane wings lose lift
with icing.
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Don't let the tank go completely empty either, as most suppliers will not fill
it without a leak check -- for obvious reasons.
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You are probably correct. I would guess 100# tanks would work if you have a
hookup about four foot off the ground -- that's the usual height I think.
Usually in pairs if I remember correctly, they used to be pretty common around
here for gas stoves when the house had oil or wood heat.
Those
I have a thousand gallon propane tank in the back yard I use to fuel the
furnace in the pole barn. When my parents built the house in 1956 propane and
fuel oil were the two choices, no natural gas line.
When the local utility put in natural gas in the 80's Mom got tapped in and
converted the
And around here, the number of $500 excessive smoke tickets you get and how
many dead engines you have in the back yard. Local kid had a "smoke stack" in
the bed of his $30,000 truck -- lasted about six months, got a couple tickets,
and burned the exhaust valves, leading to a head snapping off
The problem of low power on 617s is usually low turbo output, which can be
adjusted too.
Factory recommendation is to have barely visisble smoke at full throttle under
load in 3rd gear around 2500 rpm, but the kid is right on one point -- there is
a specification for optical density in the
Lol, I'm two weeks away from official Geezerhood. Medicare is on the
horizon.
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The clutch is replaceable, but you have to take the starter off to get to it.
It's part of the drive gear.
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Bad over-running clutch, you need to replace it before it starts kicking out
during warm starts too.
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The real key to cold starting to crank until it's actually running, if you stop
you won't have enough battery to try again without charging it.
I started my 300D a few year back with a weak engine (420k miles) doing that,
it took about a minute before it was actually running on it's own. Lotta
I think the engines lasted much longer than the sheetmetal..
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Lol, not in a 1974 450SL, no. Engine and transmission, no brain box.
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Buick was always the best built of the GM products. Even in the 80's when
everything GM made shed pieces sitting in the drive the Buicks weren't bad
given their design.
Decent transportation, yes, exciting to drive, hardly.
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I believe the M177 tensioner is oil pressure only, which is why the 380 tends
to break chains. Lots of slap on start-up, and the plastic guide has a piece
that is easily snapped off. That broken part falls into the crank sprocket and
snaps the chain.
One cure for that it to cut the "ear" off
Take the mainfold off, it's easy (watch that you get all the brackets back on,
one will drop down and short a glow plug if you don't get it back). Makes
the job much easier.
All hard plastic vacuum lines need very careful handling, they are brittle.
Plain tubing is readily available,
By 1948 they were out of mil spec parts. My brother's 46 has some military
parts.
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I think my brother paid that much for his 1946 CJ2a in rebuildable condition.
They are not common, and fully restored run more like 20k that 4.
Peter
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Got the old turbo out and a new one in the Golf today. Foolishly decided it
was easier to take it out the top than the bottom to avoid removing the right
drive axle. Should have done that, would have it all back together now with
far less hassle!
Will have to go to the hardware store bright
I got four of the new injectors in the 88 TE today -- it was getting late, I'm
working outside, and the two in the center require some fiddling to get them in
(lines have to come off the fuel distributor).
Huge difference. Either the seals were so bad they all leaked horribly or the
injectors
Didn't that model have a torque converter known for self-destruction?
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If you don't have a web provider, you have to have your own hosting servers and
internet connections. Not cheap, and you have to have people to run them. For
a service that operates world wide with hundreds of millions of users
potentially, we aren't talking a couple desktops in a corner.
We got one for my Mom. Worth every penny, as she could get help any time she
needed it. We got ours thought the local home health aide agency, I think it
was $50 a month.
It was a great relief for us, as while I lived with her, I was a work all day
weekdays and she wasn't always near the
Drill Dr. works well. It's not possible to sharpen drills without a proper jig
of some sort in sizes less than 1/2" even with years of practice.
Rule in the shop was that nothing under 1/4" got sharpened, and usually nothing
under 1/2". Spent more sharpening them than they cost, small drills
Bad software doing lots of read/write cycles. Flash media have a very short
life compared to magnetic surface drives, and if some computer whiz decided to
buffer everything all the time, it will be toast fairly fast.
I'm a great fan of mechanical gauges.
Peter
Check for split hoses, missing or torn gas cap gasket, and cracked plastic
parts. Any of them will give you fits, the tank does NOT vent out the cap (or
in, for that matter), all venting is through the evaporative control system.
You will need to verify the operation of all the valves too, as
Well, the turbo gave up on the Golf Friday on the way to work, so I had to
borrow my brother's truck (he's unable to drive for a couple months, his
pacemaker is acting up) and so there is a chore waiting for me next weekend.
It has been flaky, but I was hoping I could live with intermittent
The only old computer of any interest I have is a Mac II I got from my next
door neighbor when the company he worked for surplused out all the Mac equpment
-- probably around 1995 or so.
Got it for something like $25 -- not bad for a computer that cost $10,000 new
minus monitor.
Pretty spiff
I don't remember changing the fuel filter being a big deal on these cars.
Starting one with iffy glow plugs and 400k miles at 10F is much more of a trial.
Peter
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I always changed the fuel filter or did any other injector work on a hot engine
-- cranks much faster and uses a lot less battery power.
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The desert southwest is lousy with rare earth metals. However, since we quit
making more atom bombs, there is zero American company interest in mining any
of them, and we don't even make much tool steel any more to encourage vanadium
mining.
All part of the 50 years of de-industrialization we
Actually, all the new cases are from there being far too many cases around.
Since I'm half way through a case myself with no known exposure, I can verify
it's very contagious.
The more people have it, the more it spreads, just like any contagious disease.
The death rate is going up because
Chinese or European. American ones were supposed to taste better but be
smaller.
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There has been a breeding program for decades to restore them but some serious
scientific errors were made in the original work in the 1930s.
Chinese Chestnuts are good eating, bigger than the American ones, and smaller
growing. I've been known to collect them off the side of the road in the
Been a while, either 350 or 425 until they steam. If you don't mind cleaning
up, they are done when they explode.
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Soak them a few minutes in clean water -- this will re-hydrate them a bit and
soften the shell.
Cut an X through the rough part of the shell, if you don't they explode. Very
messy.
I roast them in the oven until they steam, you wan them cooked all the way
through but not dry.
An acquired
Fun cars in good shape. I junked mine, there was so much rust below the
belt-line it wasn't repairable. Even the doors were rusted eight inches up.
Plus it got 14 mpg to and from work, premium only (rattled badly on mid grade).
Only 2000 every registered in the US, probably a dozen left in
The French bailed on Viet Nam because holding on to a plantation colony wasn't
worth the money, effort, or dead soldiers. The Viet Cong were probably the
best army in the world, having been in combat (and winning) since the 1920's
fighting off the Chinese under several governments and the
It's very good. I "watched" most of the first part from the kitchen while Mom
had it on the TV, I don't have good memories from those days.
Well worth the time, Burns is a good historian and very neutral. I felt a
great deal of stress relief after watching it, believe it or not.
Showing your (young) age Kaleb!
A "hanging chad" is a partially detached punch-out on an IBM data card. You
probably don't remember people carrying around huge boxes of IBM punch cards,
I've not seen a punch machine in use since 1983 when SIU retired their last one.
The Votomatic system used
Sadly, there are bad doctors as well as bad mechanics
Sorry to hear about your dad Clay. My mom is hanging in there at 97, still
sharp but failing physically. My father died six months after a bad heart
attack in 1976.
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Colonoscopy cures colon cancer, since it's almost aways very slow growing. I
had two pre-cancerous polyps removed during my first one -- had I not had it,
in ten or fifteen years I would likely have gotten serious colon cancer.
Removal of the pre-cancerous polyps removes the origin of
Paperless machines were all the rage a few years ago, we had them here. Never
trusted them as there is absolutely no way to audit them.
Remember that the problematic Votamatic system that caused all the uproar in
2000 in Florida was a vast improvement over the ancient voting machines, also
More likely the preservatives in the oils rather than the oils themselves, plus
residual pesticides and herbicides.
The sugar industry spent amazing amounts of money telling us fat was bad for
us, when in fact it's sugar that's bad for us and fat is good so long as you
don't go berzerker on
Last time around the Ruskies got access to some state voter databases and there
was some discussion about being able to hack into some voting machines (Diebold
ones I think) that could be hooked up and programmed remotely. There was no
definite evidence that any votes were interfered with, but
I'm one of the original statin skeptics.
First and foremost, I have a PhD in biology (Plant Physiology, but I got to
take animal physiology along the way) and I have never seen any investigations
concerning the pathway by which serum cholesterol causes plaque formation (the
fancy name for
I'm with you on the BP meds Curt. I was on a big dose of carvedilol after my
heart failure, and it nearly cost me my job. About all I could do was wander
in to work and stagger through the day, sort of like having an anchor in each
shoe. Same thing my Dad felt when he had heart trouble in
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