[MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz.
Alles.Last night I said that these things come in threes. Well #3 was that this morning the olde and rusty '87 300TD was stone dead, no lights, no start, again.Broken ground strap. Wait for it. As I was replacing the ground strap, it came to my attention that the whole cap of the shock tower was moving in unison with my wrench. Sh*t!It is almost adrift, which explains the occasional shimmy in the front end.Visions of flying off the road with my grand daughter yesterday played in my head.Maybe somebody up there is trying to get my attention! Thank you! Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. ___ 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_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz.
Wow, that is _rusty_! Rusty but no longer trusty. So, is the automatic antenna by chance working and how much would it cost shipped down this way? I could also use some tailgate parts... - Max Charleston SC On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Fred Moir via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Alles.Last night I said that these things come in threes. Well #3 was that > this morning the olde and rusty '87 300TD was stone dead, no lights, no > start, again.Broken ground strap. Wait for it. As I was replacing the > ground strap, it came to my attention that the whole cap of the shock tower > was moving in unison with my wrench. Sh*t!It is almost adrift, which > explains the occasional shimmy in the front end.Visions of flying off the > road with my grand daughter yesterday played in my head.Maybe somebody up > there is trying to get my attention! Thank you! > Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. > ___ > 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_okiebenz.com > > ___ 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_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz.
On 11/09/2015 11:33 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: Alles.Last night I said that these things come in threes. Well #3 was that this morning the olde and rusty '87 300TD was stone dead, no lights, no start, again.Broken ground strap. Wait for it. As I was replacing the ground strap, it came to my attention that the whole cap of the shock tower was moving in unison with my wrench. Sh*t!It is almost adrift, which explains the occasional shimmy in the front end.Visions of flying off the road with my grand daughter yesterday played in my head.Maybe somebody up there is trying to get my attention! Thank you! Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. ___ I had that happen in my old 110 rustbucket 190Dc winter car. I took pieces of sheet metal, and self drilling sheet metal screws and stabilized the shock tower. I drove it that way a couple more years until the car was permanently retired. The 124, where the strut is also the suspension may be a little more tricky, but I am sure you can manufacture something to keep the strut bearing in place, M/L. ___ I have to wonder what your potential liability might be if that failed and resulted in an accident. A bunch of lawyers would be all over that to show that you knowingly drove an unsafe car on the road and totally disregarded the safety of the public in so doing. Now, having said that, I am assuming that this relates to the shock tower and not to suspension that holds the spring. This is not a strut but just a shock right? In which case it might well be ok to do it. My wife's grandfather used to tell a story about driving down to Florida in the winter. He had the car filled up at a service station along the way and the gas jockey checked the oil for him and then came to the window and asked him to come look under the hood. There was oil on the shock and the fellow told him that it was unsafe to drive the car with bad shocks and they could fix it for him quite quickly. Grandpa was smarter than that. He figured the fellow had some sort of small bottle that he used to squirt some oil onto the shock and that it was a scam, so he said to the fellow - "sonny, I have been driving cars since before they had shock absorbers, so I am not concerned about it" and went on his way with his oily shock. RB ___ 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_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz.
Meade.Wow! I have not yet decided on the hulk's future and the scavengers are out!Seriously, I have not yet decided what the future holds. The antenna is kaput, permanently up. The tailgate is keeping the rain out, so far.I'll let you (se) know, when the decision is made. Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:01:10 -0400 > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz. > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > CC: dillonm...@gmail.com > > Wow, that is _rusty_! Rusty but no longer trusty. > > So, is the automatic antenna by chance working and how much would it cost > shipped down this way? I could also use some tailgate parts... > > - > Max > Charleston SC > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Fred Moir via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > Alles.Last night I said that these things come in threes. Well #3 was that > > this morning the olde and rusty '87 300TD was stone dead, no lights, no > > start, again.Broken ground strap. Wait for it. As I was replacing the > > ground strap, it came to my attention that the whole cap of the shock tower > > was moving in unison with my wrench. Sh*t!It is almost adrift, which > > explains the occasional shimmy in the front end.Visions of flying off the > > road with my grand daughter yesterday played in my head.Maybe somebody up > > there is trying to get my attention! Thank you! > > Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. > > ___ > > 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_okiebenz.com > > > > > ___ > 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_okiebenz.com > ___ 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_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz.
Curly.Don't think I'll chance it. If it came loose it would, at least bore a hole in the hood, whilst giving me the choice of new underwear. Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:33:49 -0500 > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz. > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > CC: 126die...@gmail.com > > >Alles.Last night I said that these things come in threes. Well #3 > >was that this morning the olde and rusty '87 300TD was stone dead, > >no lights, no start, again.Broken ground strap. Wait for it. As I > >was replacing the ground strap, it came to my attention that the > >whole cap of the shock tower was moving in unison with my wrench. > >Sh*t!It is almost adrift, which explains the occasional shimmy in > >the front end.Visions of flying off the road with my grand daughter > >yesterday played in my head.Maybe somebody up there is trying to get > >my attention! Thank you! > >Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. > >___ > > I had that happen in my old 110 rustbucket 190Dc winter car. I took > pieces of sheet metal, and self drilling sheet metal screws and > stabilized the shock tower. I drove it that way a couple more years > until the car was permanently retired. The 124, where the strut is > also the suspension may be a little more tricky, but I am sure you > can manufacture something to keep the strut bearing in place, M/L. ___ 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_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz.
Randy, it is a strut but not a coil-over strut (there is a separate spring). Very bad if the upper strut came free, but not quite as bad as the loss of control when the ball joint lets go. Fred, thinking a little further, perhaps the issue is the rubber strut mount (replaceable with ease) and not the surrounding sheet metal (replaceable with advanced metallurgy skills and welding equipment)? - Max Charleston SC ___ 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_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz.
My wife's grandfather used to tell a story about driving down to Florida in the winter. He had the car filled up at a service station along the way and the gas jockey checked the oil for him and then came to the window and asked him to come look under the hood. There was oil on the shock and the fellow told him that it was unsafe to drive the car with bad shocks and they could fix it for him quite quickly. Grandpa was smarter than that. He figured the fellow had some sort of small bottle that he used to squirt some oil onto the shock and that it was a scam, so he said to the fellow - "sonny, I have been driving cars since before they had shock absorbers, so I am not concerned about it" and went on his way with his oily shock. RB I took the Escort Dissel into snears in Honolulu for something. When it was done, the long faced "advisor" too me in to show me the "dangerous" condition of the car. One of them had taken a oil squirt can and squirted oil on top of the shocks. Then there was an entertaining song and dance about how it was unsafe and how they had to be changed right now, etc. Each time I said no the story became more dire... It was quite humorous but as the story became more dire and entertaining, I was also getting more annoyed. another nail in the coffin that holds snears, crowbar and company. It was also the last time I ever took a car to snears. ___ 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_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz.
Alles.Last night I said that these things come in threes. Well #3 was that this morning the olde and rusty '87 300TD was stone dead, no lights, no start, again.Broken ground strap. Wait for it. As I was replacing the ground strap, it came to my attention that the whole cap of the shock tower was moving in unison with my wrench. Sh*t!It is almost adrift, which explains the occasional shimmy in the front end.Visions of flying off the road with my grand daughter yesterday played in my head.Maybe somebody up there is trying to get my attention! Thank you! Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. ___ I had that happen in my old 110 rustbucket 190Dc winter car. I took pieces of sheet metal, and self drilling sheet metal screws and stabilized the shock tower. I drove it that way a couple more years until the car was permanently retired. The 124, where the strut is also the suspension may be a little more tricky, but I am sure you can manufacture something to keep the strut bearing in place, M/L. ___ 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_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz.
Max.The "Coal-scuttle" that holds the upper rubber mount is almost adrift.I had been contemplating a welding spree, now I don't know, as I have my hands full with the green one.Chowdah Q is almost upon us. Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:07:58 -0400 > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Was, wherez my Paatz. > From: mercedes@okiebenz.com > CC: dillonm...@gmail.com > > Randy, it is a strut but not a coil-over strut (there is a separate > spring). Very bad if the upper strut came free, but not quite as bad as > the loss of control when the ball joint lets go. > > Fred, thinking a little further, perhaps the issue is the rubber strut > mount (replaceable with ease) and not the surrounding sheet metal > (replaceable with advanced metallurgy skills and welding equipment)? > Max > Charleston SC ___ 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_okiebenz.com
