Sounds like hell, but you made it! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300
On March 2, 2017 10:59:58 PM EST, clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >List may be aware that #1 boy screwed up his W140 and SWMBA conned him >into getting a 06 jeep. Kid drove over from ND to visit mid Feb and >when he tried to go home, his cheep threw all manner of codes and CEL. > >The only viable way to get him back to where he needed was to drive. >My w220 is a turd and broken, so that was not an option. Not going to >be able to drive the R107, and the w126 SD was not registered or >insured. That left the SDL. Poiei was viewed by many here as a less >than viable option to do a 1200 mile trip within 22 hours. I thought >she was the only option. > >We had to get his guns and some stuff out of the cherokee and we took >off. I pulled the first shift. We left 2/22 at 1800 hrs out of >Seattle and hit Spokane for a fill up. The Idaho passes were a bear, >as was the first MT pass. Snow and snot in the dark. We did 12 hours >of blasting along in the dark, and got to ND a bit past lunch. I >think we were doing at least 550 per tank. > >I played visiting dad for less than 48 hours before taking the Amtrak >back to SEA. That was a disaster, as the train broke down in Spokane >over night. By the time I got back to SEA, I was hallucinating and it >was 1700 Sunday. Train left ND at 1050 Saturday. The chickens were >pissed at me for abandoning them for five days. > >The Chrysler dealer fixed the jeep Saturday, and I really wanted to get >it out of town and get a drivable car back home. Plan was to leave SEA >with it as early Monday as I could, but the surprise snow slowed me >down. I was able to register the ’82 SD, grab the cluster out of the >s430 from my indy to send to Beckmann to rebuild, and pick up the jeep. >That would have been a noon departure, but a tanker rolled over on I-5 >at I-90 and closed the region down for hours. I was able to get back >roads onto I-90 and picked up my older cousin as co-pilot just short of >Spokane. > >We drove through Hell through Idaho and almost to Butte. Close to >white out conditions and sloppy slush. Once over the Continental >Divide it got better. WE pulled into Williston before 1100 local >time, On the drive out, my shoes went through an entropy zone and the >soles dissolved. It was like walking around with lace up flip flops or >a duck stuck in the mud. I scored some cheep chinee shoo and tossed >our overnight bags from the jeep into Polei. Time enough to piddle and >we struck out on the freeway home. > >Weather reports were calling for snow west of the Rockies. Luck was >with us and we had dry roads and sunshine. > >On the trip out, the SDL had working blinkers, speedo, lights. On the >return trip, the speedo was working, but the blinkers were not, and the >engine began eating oil. I am not sure how we made it out there with >no oil loss, but I was adding quarts every few hundred miles. Granted >speeds were up in the 80-90 mph range and going up hills and passes. >I figured it was the high speed and oil was not getting back to the >pan. A bunch more miles and I thought it might be the 730 cap I put >on instead of the black plastic that creates a near vacuum seal. It >could be cooking out the top. When I pulled in to fuel up, I noticed >black oil drops. That would mean the patch on the pan is failing. I >will need to remove the epoxy glop and put a better patch on. > >The drivers were doing fine until we got to Butte. No fuel, just >piddle stop and driver swap. Nobody had been getting decent naps >either to ND or in the six hours out. I was driving that stretch and >30 miles out of Missoula I was less than spectacular. Cousin noticed >and took over. He got us to the fuel stop, got us giant coffee plasma >to wake us up and I got us to Idaho. Cousin did the rest of the drive >and got us to his place at 0200 Wednesday. The last hour was more >hallucinations. Old guys should not drive extended periods with no >rest. > >I put a few hours asleep and got up at 0930 for some breakfast and >catching up with family. I got back on the road by 1100 and back to >SEA by 1520. I got the chickens fed and watered, crawled into bed and >woke up 3/2 at 1500. > > >clay > >2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored chap >1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green >1986 SDL - Polei > >retired models- >1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery >1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran >1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV >POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________ >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
