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I agree - so my kids learned to drive a standard tranny in the 240D that their grandfather bought new (just as the Alzheimer's was setting in. Our son then bought two 190D's from Kaleb, took the manual tranny from one and swapped it into the other that had been auto. He learned LOT doing that,

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I agree with a diesel VW as second. The MB will be easier to find the shift gates on for a new shifter. Actually a 190D is also a good choice... Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 6:00 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: Well, I still think a 240D is ideal.  

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On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 23:08:21 -0600 Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: > then there are things like driveshafts, shifters, shifter linkages, new > pedal set, hydraulics, speedo drive, etc. Ayup. Craig > > Max Dillon via Mercedes > > February 21, 2020 at 10:27

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then there are things like driveshafts, shifters, shifter linkages, new pedal set, hydraulics, speedo drive, etc. Max Dillon via Mercedes February 21, 2020 at 10:27 PM Look for a manual trans from an SL or SLK, that era will bolt up to OM60X. Six speed too.

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Ok thanks will look into the slk etc. I am not confident any of them will take the torque, but it seems odd that some sort of gwagen or higher performance car would never have had a robust manual. I think the w201 pedals etc will all fit. On Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 8:28 PM Max Dillon via Mercedes

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Look for a manual trans from an SL or SLK, that era will bolt up to OM60X. Six speed too. Feb 21, 2020 3:22:51 PM Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes : > I am in need of a stick shift for education of the next generation. Would > prefer not to butcher the 124 wagon with a bmw manny tranny. Seems

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> On February 21, 2020 at 5:01 PM Jim Cathey via Mercedes > wrote: > > > > He said they were wonderful for teaching people to drive a standard > > transmission because the diesel had enough torque at low rpm that it was > > very difficult to stall it. > > Arguably the exact opposite of

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Therefore Karl and the kids need an AZ-1. https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a13445021/you-must-buy-autozam-az-1/ > On February 21, 2020 at 4:02 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes > wrote: > But, if they sit on the right and shift with their left hand, they are > learning to

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Well, I still think a 240D is ideal.   Forgiving, and not enough power to get into high speed or drag race trouble.   240D 4 speed.  Unless you can find a OM615 or OM621 powered MB.   #1 son learned in the 240D auto then transitioned to 200D 4 speed. Jim Cathey via Mercedes

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I spent all summer every year for many years on a Farmall A cultivating tomatoes.  You sit about the same level as the clutch and brake petals.  You shift gears with your left hand.  I called it my British sports car.  I was 9 to probably 15.   It was built in Feb 1942 without anything

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Ahhh... my error. I presumed it was a child ready to take license test. Now I understand the circumstance. On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:31 PM Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > When I was a kid, Dad only steered and pushed the clutch in. I ran the > lever. Was sort of

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Jim Cathey via Mercedes writes: >> He said they were wonderful for teaching people to drive a standard >> transmission because the diesel had enough torque at low rpm that it was >> very difficult to stall it. > > Arguably the exact opposite of what you want. But nice for the people driving

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> He said they were wonderful for teaching people to drive a standard > transmission because the diesel had enough torque at low rpm that it was very > difficult to stall it. Arguably the exact opposite of what you want. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com

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On 21/02/2020 2:30 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote: When I was a kid, Dad only steered and pushed the clutch in. I ran the lever. Was sort of looking for something similar. They are only 9 and 7. But, if they sit on the right and shift with their left hand, they are learning to drive in

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On 21/02/2020 2:21 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote: I am in need of a stick shift for education of the next generation. Would prefer not to butcher the 124 wagon with a bmw manny tranny. Seems like there should be some merc stick option from an amg or something. Seem like everybody just

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When I was a kid, Dad only steered and pushed the clutch in. I ran the lever. Was sort of looking for something similar. They are only 9 and 7. On Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 12:26 PM G Mann via Mercedes wrote: > Just a suggestion. Since the child is "learning" to manage a stick. Why not > pick up a

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Just a suggestion. Since the child is "learning" to manage a stick. Why not pick up a rice burner cheap beater stick shift and let him/her "use it up" while learning to manage a manual vehicle? ie, cheap throw away car [in principle] On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 1:22 PM Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes <

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I am in need of a stick shift for education of the next generation. Would prefer not to butcher the 124 wagon with a bmw manny tranny. Seems like there should be some merc stick option from an amg or something. Seem like everybody just does the 722.6 thing if they want performance. On Wed, Feb

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That is worthy of ATTA BOY clay > On Feb 19, 2020, at 9:25 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes > wrote: > > Sunday my son changed out, pretty much all on his own, the > passenger-side door check in the 190D he's driving. We had > already done the driver's-side check last year. > > -- Jim > > >

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> It amazes me that your son would be old enough to drive... I have a picture of him in a baby bucket in the back of the Chicken Wagon. Had the CW a manual tranny that would have been his car to drive. But, he'd been along with me, at about age 3, when I bought the 190D that he's driving, so

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A sign of maturity! (otherwise, a mark of old age)   Yeah, I remember when he was born. etc.   Stuff that happened 20 or 25 years ago seems recent to me. When I was a kid, the neighbor's Model T seemed ancient, but now 123s are more ancient than it was then. Curt Raymond via Mercedes

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It amazes me that your son would be old enough to drive but then I think back and realize I've been on this list and its predecessor for nearly 17 years now... I've got an upcoming class where we give away some swag. My boss suggested this year we do backpacks because it had been several years

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Sunday my son changed out, pretty much all on his own, the passenger-side door check in the 190D he's driving. We had already done the driver's-side check last year. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/

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On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:12:53 -0600 Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote: > Well, this one was #68 so I am a bit beyond 39. 39 and some months ... Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or

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But your Mercedes is WAY younger... On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 5:13 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Well, this one was #68 so I am a bit beyond 39. > > RB > > On 18/02/2020 4:04 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: > > Yes, Happy 39th birthday! (jack Benny

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Well, this one was #68 so I am a bit beyond 39. RB On 18/02/2020 4:04 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes wrote: Yes, Happy 39th birthday! (jack Benny reference) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

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I do, but I won't.   The maytags are still great. Randy Bennell via Mercedes February 18, 2020 at 3:30 PM We are reduced to talking about washing machines. Anyone got a spare MB tri-star emblem that they can install on their washer and then post a photo of so

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OT: Happy Birthday Randy On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:31 PM Randy Bennell via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > We are reduced to talking about washing machines. > > Anyone got a spare MB tri-star emblem that they can install on their > washer and then post a photo of so that we can

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We are reduced to talking about washing machines. Anyone got a spare MB tri-star emblem that they can install on their washer and then post a photo of so that we can remain sort of on topic? RB ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

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It's not fair to disparage Nigerian scammers. Some of them have families and drive Mercedes Benz, like the rest of us. On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:11 PM, clay via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: An LED lamp can be added to the solatube so that light is to be had during the night. The

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An LED lamp can be added to the solatube so that light is to be had during the night. The tubes provided ample daylight to dark areas of the house. Not sure of the payback schedule v. electric, but bathrooms and hallways no longer need to burn electrons for 12 hours a day, all year long. It

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ATTABOY. W - Original Message - From: Max Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:03 PM Subject: [MBZ] Quiet day on the list Changed the engine oil and filter on my '87 300TD this past weekend

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Changed the engine oil and filter on my '87 300TD this past weekend. Sucked out the old with an electric pump. Filled with M1 5w-40, installed a new Hengst oil filter. Easy-peasy. Need to order some new oil sample kits from Larry. I expect this engine can safely go at least 10k miles

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Please keep us posted. I want to have a solar tube installed to shed some light on a gloomy kitchen, even though it has a window. -- Sent from myMail app for Android Tuesday, 20 January 2015, 00:47PM -0500 from Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com: Did my civic duty today and had jury

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I'm still moving cars and parts on the weekends while working real job during the week. I still have about 15 cars to go. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Max Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Changed the engine oil and filter on my '87 300TD this past

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I have wanted to do this for a long time, and in other homes as well, but never got around to it. Our current home has very little in the way of outside light coming in to the main living area, primarily due to the back of the house being U shaped with a roof over the center of the U. At the

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@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:03 PM Subject: [MBZ] Quiet day on the list Changed the engine oil and filter on my '87 300TD this past weekend. Sucked out the old with an electric pump.  Filled with M1 5w-40, installed a new Hengst oil

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Where do you' do all that driving? -- Sent from myMail app for Android Tuesday, 20 January 2015, 00:03PM -0500 from Max Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com: Changed the engine oil and filter on my '87 300TD this past weekend.  Sucked out the old with an electric pump.  Filled with M1

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Did my civic duty today and had jury duty. Slow week so we got dismissed early I'm going to spend some time in the attic scoping out the location for a tubular skylight I want to put in our laundry room. it's yucky outside or I would wash the R129. Dan

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This being a quiet day on the list, I have a question about the Air Asia flight that went down. Todays news websites report that the plane apparently climbed at 600 ft/min, stalled, and then crashed. That rate of climb is beyond its capability without stalling according to the reports. My

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That is why you get one of the ones with the solar panel that charges it. Free power and no new hole in the roof AND it works at night in the dark. RB On 20/01/2015 2:07 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: It would, but sunlight is free. On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Randy Bennell

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were exceeded. -Original Message- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of archer75--- via Mercedes Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 5:16 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] Quiet day on the list This being a quiet day on the list, I have

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Free sunlight would not be enough for me to cut a hole in my roof. Now you sound like Wilton!(or anyone else who ever had to chase leaks in a roof) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or

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Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: Free sunlight would not be enough for me to cut a hole in my roof. Now you sound like Wilton!(or anyone else who ever had to chase leaks in a roof) When I bought my current house, with plans to put in a 95% furnace, my realtor suggested I tear out the

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On 20/01/2015 4:15 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes wrote: This being a quiet day on the list, I have a question about the Air Asia flight that went down. Todays news websites report that the plane apparently climbed at 600 ft/min, stalled, and then crashed. That rate of climb is beyond its

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Point well taken. There is an existing ceiling fixture that won’t be removed, so there is a backup if necessary. It is set up with CFLs right now. You can get lights to mount inside the tube. Craig - Lowe’s won’t price match special orders. I ordered it form them anyway, as I am letting

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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:20:59 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Craig - Lowe’s won’t price match special orders. I ordered it form them anyway, as I am letting them carry the paper on my Lowe’s account for six months. Then I’ll pay them…. Ah, I thought it was a stock

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It would, but sunlight is free. On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote: Would a nice new LED light fixture not solve the problem with a lot less fuss? RB ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

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Won’t be the last hole I’ll cut in a roof. If it’s done carefully and correctly, leaks should be the last thing to worry about. I’ve cut holes in a number of roofs for skylights, exhaust stacks, fans, etc. Never had a leak to this day. Dan On Jan 20, 2015, at 6:52 PM, Curly McLain via

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Yes. I just finished stripping about 400 sf of roof to put down a double layer of ice and snow block to cure a stubborn series of leaks over a shallow cricket. IMO. CFLs and LEDs just don't cost that much to run. Besides, a little waste heat is a bonus half of the year. -Original

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G: Problem ... is that the [sky]light is not regulated. Que? Nor is window light regulated. I still prefer it, when it's available. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 12:44:00 -0700 Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:03:58 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: While I have been a fan of Solatube, I found that the Velux line that is readily available through the big box home

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Nope. Stuff like this is special order. I don’t think they stock anything like this. It’s due to arrive on the 27th, so it’s not far away. Dan On Jan 20, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Ah, I thought it was a stock item. Craig

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Free sunlight would not be enough for me to cut a hole in my roof. -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:07 PM It would, but sunlight is free. On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:27 PM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote:

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Andrew, Daily commute is about 40 miles, 5x per week. Occasional pleasure trips to Florida or Asheville NC now and then. My work travel has dropped off to almost nothing now, had a trip up to WDC last fall. Previously I was driving all over the south-east and up the eastern seaboard, but no

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Would a nice new LED light fixture not solve the problem with a lot less fuss? RB On 20/01/2015 1:03 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: I have wanted to do this for a long time, and in other homes as well, but never got around to it. Our current home has very little in the way of outside

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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 14:03:58 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: While I have been a fan of Solatube, I found that the Velux line that is readily available through the big box home improvement stores is just as good and nowhere near as pricey. Thank you for the