Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
You're from Maine and never saw anybody do that? My uncle does it every year. He had to give up his Dakota not because it rusted out but he didn't want to put a third clutch in at 350,000 miles. -Curt Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:20:33 -0700 (PDT) From: LWB250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I was told some years ago that one of the reasons cars in the Nordic countries rarely rusted out despite the harsh winters and road salt was because they would take their waste oil after an oil change and spray it on the undercarriage of the car. You have to figure that it would be just like some dirty Cosmoline on it, so it would probably work... Dan - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Doubt it. When I was in Sweden 20 years ago it was hard to find any car on the roads older than about 10 years old. They have draconian inspection laws, Absolutely true, I had forgotten about that. For example (thinking of Denmark), rust perforation (of any size, anywhere on the car) will fail the inspection. If you let your car get rusty, you won't be able to drive it. Thus, you don't see rusty cars on the road. Allan -- 1983 300D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
I never said I was from Maine.or were you referring to someone else? I'm a Hoosier by birth. Dan Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're from Maine and never saw anybody do that? My uncle does it every year. He had to give up his Dakota not because it rusted out but he didn't want to put a third clutch in at 350,000 miles. -Curt Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:20:33 -0700 (PDT) From: LWB250 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel To: Mercedes Discussion List Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I was told some years ago that one of the reasons cars in the Nordic countries rarely rusted out despite the harsh winters and road salt was because they would take their waste oil after an oil change and spray it on the undercarriage of the car. You have to figure that it would be just like some dirty Cosmoline on it, so it would probably work... Dan - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
Rust perforation will fail you here too. Ed 300E On 28/03/2008, Allan Streib [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Doubt it. When I was in Sweden 20 years ago it was hard to find any car on the roads older than about 10 years old. They have draconian inspection laws, Absolutely true, I had forgotten about that. For example (thinking of Denmark), rust perforation (of any size, anywhere on the car) will fail the inspection. If you let your car get rusty, you won't be able to drive it. Thus, you don't see rusty cars on the road. Allan -- 1983 300D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
Sometime in 1967, while I was on alert with B-52’s at Robins AFB, GA, our alert facility manager, a strict and up-tight officer whom we called, “Major Daddy,” suddenly decided that we aircrewmen should wash, wax and polish our vehicles (four-door, crew-cab pickups), so that he could try to impress a general visiting from higher headquarters. Amongst the five officers on each crew, there were grumblings, such as, “If an officer prisoner of war (POW) can’t be required to do manual labor, how can we be required to wash, wax and polish these vehicles?” We officers were somewhat angry. We had finally decided that we would do it, though, and were prepared to start the task as we returned to our parking space outside the alert facility early one morning after performing the daily inspection of the aircraft. As we backed into our parking space, we noticed a sergeant (a gunner on another B-52 crew) wiping lightly with a rag on the bright and shiny truck beside us. Only 20 minutes earlier, when we had left the parking space to go out to the aircraft, that truck had been as drab dark blue as ours and all the rest of them. We jumped out of our vehicle and asked the sergeant, “What have you done? How did you do that?” He replied, “Bucket of water with a little Diesel fuel in it - just dip the rag in the bucket and wipe the vehicle down with it.” In about 10 minutes, all of the alert vehicles were glistening in the sun with their new coats of Diesel fuel - ‘worked well for several weeks, too, and didn’t look oily, etc. They really looked like they had been waxed. We never said any more about it, and we never heard any more about waxing vehicles. By the way, this is in no way an endorsement for using Diesel fuel as a substitute for a proper wax job, nor is it an endorsement for dishonesty and/or deception - if anybody had asked us how we had “waxed” the vehicles so fast, our answer, of course, would have been, “We wiped them down with a thin coat of Diesel fuel”. This is merely an example of innovative compromise by a group of defiant B-52 aircrewmen 41 years ago. LTCOL Wilton ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
40 years ago I heard thru the grapevine that this exact system was used by a local funeral home on it's hearse and flower car. Pete -- Original message -- From: wilton strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometime in 1967, while I was on alert with B-52s at Robins AFB, GA, our alert facility manager, a strict and up-tight officer whom we called, Major Daddy, suddenly decided that we aircrewmen should wash, wax and polish our vehicles (four-door, crew-cab pickups), so that he could try to impress a general visiting from higher headquarters. Amongst the five officers on each crew, there were grumblings, such as, If an officer prisoner of war (POW) cant be required to do manual labor, how can we be required to wash, wax and polish these vehicles? We officers were somewhat angry. We had finally decided that we would do it, though, and were prepared to start the task as we returned to our parking space outside the alert facility early one morning after performing the daily inspection of the aircraft. As we backed into our parking space, we noticed a sergeant (a gunner on another B-52 crew) wiping lightly with a rag on the bright and shiny truck beside us. Only 20 minutes earlier, when we had left the parking space to go out to the aircraft, that truck had been as drab dark blue as ours and all the rest of them. We jumped out of our vehicle and asked the sergeant, What have you done? How did you do that? He replied, Bucket of water with a little Diesel fuel in it - just dip the rag in the bucket and wipe the vehicle down with it. In about 10 minutes, all of the alert vehicles were glistening in the sun with their new coats of Diesel fuel - worked well for several weeks, too, and didnt look oily, etc. They really looked like they had been waxed. We never said any more about it, and we never heard any more about waxing vehicles. By the way, this is in no way an endorsement for using Diesel fuel as a substitute for a proper wax job, nor is it an endorsement for dishonesty and/or deception - if anybody had asked us how we had waxed the vehicles so fast, our answer, of course, would have been, We wiped them down with a thin coat of Diesel fuel. This is merely an example of innovative compromise by a group of defiant B-52 aircrewmen 41 years ago. LTCOL Wilton ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
Farmers used to spray the tractors, the idea being that the waxy residue was a rust inhibitor. My ex-brother in law once got an oil ring on the fender of his chalky old car (when teenagers married in the 70's, they couldn't afford luxuries like nice cars) from putting a wet oil can on it, and decided the oil ring didn't look chalky. Gave the entire car a rubdown with the drain oil and it did look much better, at least for a while. OTOH, if you get any used diesel oil on an old chalky white Benz, it looks horrible. My 300SD has sooty oil fingerprints on the left fender and I don't know how I'll get rid of them. wilton strickland wrote: Sometime in 1967, while I was on alert with B-52s at Robins AFB, GA, our alert facility manager, a strict and up-tight officer whom we called, Major Daddy, suddenly decided that we aircrewmen should wash, wax and polish our vehicles (four-door, crew-cab pickups), so that he could try to impress a general visiting from higher headquarters. Amongst the five officers on each crew, there were grumblings, such as, If an officer prisoner of war (POW) cant be required to do manual labor, how can we be required to wash, wax and polish these vehicles? We officers were somewhat angry. We had finally decided that we would do it, though, and were prepared to start the task as we returned to our parking space outside the alert facility early one morning after performing the daily inspection of the aircraft. As we backed into our parking space, we noticed a sergeant (a gunner on another B-52 crew) wiping lightly with a rag on the bright and shiny truck beside us. Only 20 minutes earlier, when we had left the parking space to go out to the aircraft, that truck had been as drab dark blue as ours and all the rest of them. We jumped out of our vehicle and asked the sergeant, What have you done? How did you do that? He replied, Bucket of water with a little Diesel fuel in it - just dip the rag in the bucket and wipe the vehicle down with it. In about 10 minutes, all of the alert vehicles were glistening in the sun with their new coats of Diesel fuel - worked well for several weeks, too, and didnt look oily, etc. They really looked like they had been waxed. We never said any more about it, and we never heard any more about waxing vehicles. By the way, this is in no way an endorsement for using Diesel fuel as a substitute for a proper wax job, nor is it an endorsement for dishonesty and/or deception - if anybody had asked us how we had waxed the vehicles so fast, our answer, of course, would have been, We wiped them down with a thin coat of Diesel fuel. This is merely an example of innovative compromise by a group of defiant B-52 aircrewmen 41 years ago. LTCOL Wilton ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 40 years ago I heard thru the grapevine that this exact system was used by a local funeral home on it's hearse and flower car. When I worked at Domino's Pizza years ago, they used some kind of thin oil-based clean/shine fluid to keep their delivery cars shiny. It worked really well but I can't remember the name of it. Probably a ZEP product since that's who supplied all the cleaning supplies. I'd think Diesel would be rather smelly for this purpose, though. Also I wonder what effect it would have on the paint, long-term. Allan -- 1983 300D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
Mitch Haley wrote: My 300SD has sooty oil fingerprints on the left fender and I don't know how I'll get rid of them. Simple Green. Works great :) John ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
When I worked at a small dealership for Toyota (a real novelty in the late 60s), Volvo, Triumph and Jaguar used to spray te engine compartment and under-carriage with a mix of diesel fuel and WD 40. The results were spectaclar - all rubber parts glistened and all parts needing lubrication rec'd it. Can't recall how long it lasted, but it really looked good for the time the cars were on the lot. Larry T (66 MGB, 74 911, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net 800-583-8601 Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs - Original Message - From: Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel Farmers used to spray the tractors, the idea being that the waxy residue was a rust inhibitor. My ex-brother in law once got an oil ring on the fender of his chalky old car (when teenagers married in the 70's, they couldn't afford luxuries like nice cars) from putting a wet oil can on it, and decided the oil ring didn't look chalky. Gave the entire car a rubdown with the drain oil and it did look much better, at least for a while. OTOH, if you get any used diesel oil on an old chalky white Benz, it looks horrible. My 300SD has sooty oil fingerprints on the left fender and I don't know how I'll get rid of them. wilton strickland wrote: Sometime in 1967, while I was on alert with B-52's at Robins AFB, GA, our alert facility manager, a strict and up-tight officer whom we called, Major Daddy, suddenly decided that we aircrewmen should wash, wax and polish our vehicles (four-door, crew-cab pickups), so that he could try to impress a general visiting from higher headquarters. Amongst the five officers on each crew, there were grumblings, such as, If an officer prisoner of war (POW) can't be required to do manual labor, how can we be required to wash, wax and polish these vehicles? We officers were somewhat angry. We had finally decided that we would do it, though, and were prepared to start the task as we returned to our parking space outside the alert facility early one morning after performing the daily inspection of the aircraft. As we backed into our parking space, we noticed a sergeant (a gunner on another B-52 crew) wiping lightly with a rag on the bright and shiny truck beside us. Only 20 minutes earlier, when we had left the parking space to go out to the aircraft, that truck had been as drab dark blue as ours and all the rest of them. We jumped out of our vehicle and asked the sergeant, What have you done? How did you do that? He replied, Bucket of water with a little Diesel fuel in it - just dip the rag in the bucket and wipe the vehicle down with it. In about 10 minutes, all of the alert vehicles were glistening in the sun with their new coats of Diesel fuel - 'worked well for several weeks, too, and didn't look oily, etc. They really looked like they had been waxed. We never said any more about it, and we never heard any more about waxing vehicles. By the way, this is in no way an endorsement for using Diesel fuel as a substitute for a proper wax job, nor is it an endorsement for dishonesty and/or deception - if anybody had asked us how we had waxed the vehicles so fast, our answer, of course, would have been, We wiped them down with a thin coat of Diesel fuel. This is merely an example of innovative compromise by a group of defiant B-52 aircrewmen 41 years ago. LTCOL Wilton ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
A light coat of motor oil works too. Alot of snowmobile hoods are plastic and wax doesn't work very well. Motor oil works a treat. -Curt Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:36:31 -0500 From: wilton strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel To: mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Sometime in 1967, while I was on alert with B-52?s at Robins AFB, GA, our alert facility manager, a strict and up-tight officer whom we called, ?Major Daddy,? suddenly decided that we aircrewmen should wash, wax and polish our vehicles (four-door, crew-cab pickups), so that he could try to impress a general visiting from higher headquarters. Amongst the five officers on each crew, there were grumblings, such as, ?If an officer prisoner of war (POW) can?t be required to do manual labor, how can we be required to wash, wax and polish these vehicles?? We officers were somewhat angry. We had finally decided that we would do it, though, and were prepared to start the task as we returned to our parking space outside the alert facility early one morning after performing the daily inspection of the aircraft. As we backed into our parking space, we noticed a sergeant (a gunner on another B-52 crew) wiping lightly with a rag on the bright and shiny truck beside us. Only 20 minutes earlier, when we had left the parking space to go out to the aircraft, that truck had been as drab dark blue as ours and all the rest of them. We jumped out of our vehicle and asked the sergeant, ?What have you done? How did you do that?? He replied, ?Bucket of water with a little Diesel fuel in it - just dip the rag in the bucket and wipe the vehicle down with it.? In about 10 minutes, all of the alert vehicles were glistening in the sun with their new coats of Diesel fuel - ?worked well for several weeks, too, and didn?t look oily, etc. They really looked like they had been waxed. We never said any more about it, and we never heard any more about waxing vehicles. By the way, this is in no way an endorsement for using Diesel fuel as a substitute for a proper wax job, nor is it an endorsement for dishonesty and/or deception - if anybody had asked us how we had ?waxed? the vehicles so fast, our answer, of course, would have been, ?We wiped them down with a thin coat of Diesel fuel?. This is merely an example of innovative compromise by a group of defiant B-52 aircrewmen 41 years ago. LTCOL Wilton - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
I was told some years ago that one of the reasons cars in the Nordic countries rarely rusted out despite the harsh winters and road salt was because they would take their waste oil after an oil change and spray it on the undercarriage of the car. You have to figure that it would be just like some dirty Cosmoline on it, so it would probably work... Dan --- Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Farmers used to spray the tractors, the idea being that the waxy residue was a rust inhibitor. My ex-brother in law once got an oil ring on the fender of his chalky old car (when teenagers married in the 70's, they couldn't afford luxuries like nice cars) from putting a wet oil can on it, and decided the oil ring didn't look chalky. Gave the entire car a rubdown with the drain oil and it did look much better, at least for a while. OTOH, if you get any used diesel oil on an old chalky white Benz, it looks horrible. My 300SD has sooty oil fingerprints on the left fender and I don't know how I'll get rid of them. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
We used to the same with the rust bucket's we'd drive in Western NY State. We would spray used oil up into the door panels the channels along the sides just about every other closed in space with a garden sprayer once a month in the winter. But it was easy to do because the cars we drove in High School were already pretty rotten, with plenty of pre-made access holes. We also discovered that a stop sign was a perfect fit for the floor of a 1967 VW bug it did not rust near as fast as the original floor pan... Thanks, Tom Hargrave www.kegkits.com 256-656-1924 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LWB250 Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:21 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel I was told some years ago that one of the reasons cars in the Nordic countries rarely rusted out despite the harsh winters and road salt was because they would take their waste oil after an oil change and spray it on the undercarriage of the car. You have to figure that it would be just like some dirty Cosmoline on it, so it would probably work... Dan --- Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Farmers used to spray the tractors, the idea being that the waxy residue was a rust inhibitor. My ex-brother in law once got an oil ring on the fender of his chalky old car (when teenagers married in the 70's, they couldn't afford luxuries like nice cars) from putting a wet oil can on it, and decided the oil ring didn't look chalky. Gave the entire car a rubdown with the drain oil and it did look much better, at least for a while. OTOH, if you get any used diesel oil on an old chalky white Benz, it looks horrible. My 300SD has sooty oil fingerprints on the left fender and I don't know how I'll get rid of them. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.1/1345 - Release Date: 3/26/2008 6:50 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.1/1345 - Release Date: 3/26/2008 6:50 PM ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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LWB250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I was told some years ago that one of the reasons cars in the Nordic countries rarely rusted out despite the harsh winters and road salt was because they would take their waste oil after an oil change and spray it on the undercarriage of the car. I'm not at all sure that those countries actually use salt on their roads. Judging from the lack of potholes (you don't even see patched ones much) and generally excellent road conditions I've seen in places like Denmark, I'd say they either build the roads a lot better or they don't use salt on them in the winter. Allan -- 1983 300D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Read once, guys with old Fiat's used to mix oil with dust from a vacuum bag to give it extra stick, and smear it inside the doors. Ed 300E On 27/03/2008, LWB250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was told some years ago that one of the reasons cars in the Nordic countries rarely rusted out despite the harsh winters and road salt was because they would take their waste oil after an oil change and spray it on the undercarriage of the car. You have to figure that it would be just like some dirty Cosmoline on it, so it would probably work... Dan --- Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Farmers used to spray the tractors, the idea being that the waxy residue was a rust inhibitor. My ex-brother in law once got an oil ring on the fender of his chalky old car (when teenagers married in the 70's, they couldn't afford luxuries like nice cars) from putting a wet oil can on it, and decided the oil ring didn't look chalky. Gave the entire car a rubdown with the drain oil and it did look much better, at least for a while. OTOH, if you get any used diesel oil on an old chalky white Benz, it looks horrible. My 300SD has sooty oil fingerprints on the left fender and I don't know how I'll get rid of them. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] Another use for Diesel fuel
I was told some years ago that one of the reasons cars in the Nordic countries rarely rusted out despite the harsh winters and road salt was because they would take their waste oil after an oil change and spray it on the undercarriage of the car. Doubt it. When I was in Sweden 20 years ago it was hard to find any car on the roads older than about 10 years old. They have draconian inspection laws, and a some kind of tax-funded system that essentially gives you a new car at that time. All the old ones get crushed. A bad place to be a car collector, unless quite wealthy. (Also a bad place to try to be quite wealthy.) Of course, the 90+% income taxes to pay for that kind of thing sent plenty of them to the States to work for a few years. (Longer and their State-funded retirement is compromised.) I enjoyed taking a batch of them out to lunch in the 60 Falcon. Pre-restoration! You'da though I was trying to kill them the way they acted. Was pretty funny watching them pick bits of seat stuffing off their clothes while griping about deathtraps... I don't know if they use salt, it may be that they just know how to drive on winter roads. I wish we did it that way here. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
