[MBZ] Subject: Re: Subject: Lubing Sunroof
Is that the tube that the cable is in? My 300CD has sunroof issues. YES Bob 83 240D ___ 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] Somebody needs this Jeep!
That must be the guy I sold my old Cherokee to. --R On 10/18/13 1:57 AM, M. Mitchell Marmel wrote: Here's the deal, kids: This is a Jeep Cherokee. This is not a luxury SUV, or a maintenance-free disposable import. It has solid front axles, wind noise, and character. It's a Jeep. It rides like a Jeep. It drives like a Jeep. All of these are GOOD things. It is not new, it is not pristine, it is used. This will be apparent in the pictures. If you do not own a toolbox, have never changed your own oil, and are scared of firearms: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you have been posting on facebook all about how excited you are for pumpkin latte season: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you get offended easy and often, whine to your co-workers, and bitch a lot: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you feel you are owed anything in the world have a bullshit job where you fail to produce: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you own a bieber album, white oakleys, affliction t-shirts, or those candy-assed stitched-pocket jeans: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you consider the 2nd Amendment an anachronistic relic and have never owned a firearm: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If, however, you have BALLS OF STEEL and consider adverse weather an excuse to do stupid shit: THIS IS YOUR JEEP. Do you laugh at danger, and tempt fate? Have you ever uttered the words, Hold my beer and watch this ...? While bored at work do you pick targets at random and think, I could hit that from here with the .22 ...? Have any of your friends quit hanging out because you were too much fun? Do you have the number of a friend with cash memorized for bail? When you pass an abandoned flatbed farm truck along a fenceline do you consider taking on another project? Is your ol' lady really sick of the random piles of parts, greasy footprints, and empty beer bottles in the garage? -could you not care less? Do you have Jalopnik saved on your laptop AND smartphone? Do you own a service manual for every vehicle you ever owned? Do you still miss your first ride? Can you carry on a two hour conversation discussing tools, scars, and hi-lift jacks? Remember when tool companies had the balls to put half-naked beauty queens on their calendars? Do you consider the Prius an abominable affront to the Gods of displacement, torque, and All Mighty Internal Combustion? If you answered in the affirmative to the preceding: THIS IS YOUR JEEP. http://enid.craigslist.org/cto/4119280944.html%3C/div%3E ___ 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] Subject: Re: Subject: Lubing Sunroof
Thanks. I am going to look into that. On Oct 18, 2013 8:28 AM, rdeaf...@aol.com wrote: Is that the tube that the cable is in? My 300CD has sunroof issues. YES Bob 83 240D ___ 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] Somebody needs this Jeep!
Great ad, but I'm still gonna hafta let it go. Wilt - Original Message - From: M. Mitchell Marmel marme...@gmail.com To: banned_misf...@yahoogroups.com; Banned List ban...@okiebenz.com; mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 1:57 AM Subject: [MBZ] Somebody needs this Jeep! Here's the deal, kids: This is a Jeep Cherokee. This is not a luxury SUV, or a maintenance-free disposable import. It has solid front axles, wind noise, and character. It's a Jeep. It rides like a Jeep. It drives like a Jeep. All of these are GOOD things. It is not new, it is not pristine, it is used. This will be apparent in the pictures. If you do not own a toolbox, have never changed your own oil, and are scared of firearms: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you have been posting on facebook all about how excited you are for pumpkin latte season: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you get offended easy and often, whine to your co-workers, and bitch a lot: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you feel you are owed anything in the world have a bullshit job where you fail to produce: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you own a bieber album, white oakleys, affliction t-shirts, or those candy-assed stitched-pocket jeans: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you consider the 2nd Amendment an anachronistic relic and have never owned a firearm: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If, however, you have BALLS OF STEEL and consider adverse weather an excuse to do stupid shit: THIS IS YOUR JEEP. Do you laugh at danger, and tempt fate? Have you ever uttered the words, Hold my beer and watch this ...? While bored at work do you pick targets at random and think, I could hit that from here with the .22 ...? Have any of your friends quit hanging out because you were too much fun? Do you have the number of a friend with cash memorized for bail? When you pass an abandoned flatbed farm truck along a fenceline do you consider taking on another project? Is your ol' lady really sick of the random piles of parts, greasy footprints, and empty beer bottles in the garage? -could you not care less? Do you have Jalopnik saved on your laptop AND smartphone? Do you own a service manual for every vehicle you ever owned? Do you still miss your first ride? Can you carry on a two hour conversation discussing tools, scars, and hi-lift jacks? Remember when tool companies had the balls to put half-naked beauty queens on their calendars? Do you consider the Prius an abominable affront to the Gods of displacement, torque, and All Mighty Internal Combustion? If you answered in the affirmative to the preceding: THIS IS YOUR JEEP. http://enid.craigslist.org/cto/4119280944.html%3C/div%3E ___ 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
[MBZ] OT - Sondy Tale - Swimming Pool
Yep, 'nother Sondy Tale already. THE SWIMMING POOL By Wilton Strickland At Sondrestrom Air Base, we were proud to have the only swimming pool (indoors and heated, of course) in Greenland. I don't remember the exact dimensions, but probably about 20 feet by 40 feet by 4 to 5 feet. Not long after I arrived, the Danish maintenance contractor chief engineer came to me on day with bad news about the pool's plastic liner - it was leaking and had been patched so many times that it was beyond repair. We called a manufacturer in the States and ordered one of the right dimensions and had it shipped to McGuire AFB, NJ, for delivery to us via Air Force C-141 cargo aircraft a few weeks later. The Danish workmen immediately set about removing the old liner and installing the new one. Installation of the new liner involved sucking air with a vacuum cleaner from between the outside of the liner and the pool's supporting walls as the liner was filled with water. The support structure corners between the bottom and side walls and at the ends of the pool were square (sharp, 90° angles), and the old liner fitted into them nicely, but as the new liner filled with water, it became obvious that the corners of the new liner would rupture before going into the corners. We had to stop the filling process, empty the liner of water and devise a way to get the liner into the corners or support the liner appropriately in these areas. A call to the manufacturer confirmed that the liner could not have - could not assume - square corners. We finally decided to fill in the square corners in the support structure with wet sand rounded into a contour (a cove) that the new liner could more easily assume. The bottom was already sand; we just extended the sand in a rounded contour up the side for several inches and in the end corners to relieve the excessive tension on the liner in these areas. Because water in the base system was at only 56°F, we also started heating it while filling the liner to help improve the liner's stretchability. We also positioned several more suction hoses around the outside of the liner to reduce air pockets as the liner filled with water. The second filling went very well, and we had no more problems with the pool while I was there. 'Never did use it myself, though. I noticed recently in the current Kangerlussuaq hotel and tourism ads, they enthusiastically promote the heated indoor pool. 'Glad they're still enjoying it. The liner has probably been replaced once or twice or more since we did it in '78, and it's likely that nobody there has any idea about the hassle we had with seemingly such a simple task that could have been catastrophic had we just blindly let the liner fill without proper attention to those corners. Wilton ___ 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] Somebody needs this Jeep!
It has an AUTOMATIC tranny, AND plastic fenders? WTF? What kind of kick-ass car can it be with those??? On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:39 AM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote: Here's the deal, kids: This is a Jeep Cherokee. This is not a luxury SUV, or a maintenance-free disposable import. It has solid front axles, wind noise, and character. It's a Jeep. It rides like a Jeep. It drives like a Jeep. All of these are GOOD things. It is not new, it is not pristine, it is used. This will be apparent in the pictures. If you do not own a toolbox, have never changed your own oil, and are scared of firearms: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you have been posting on facebook all about how excited you are for pumpkin latte season: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you get offended easy and often, whine to your co-workers, and bitch a lot: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you feel you are owed anything in the world have a bullshit job where you fail to produce: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you own a bieber album, white oakleys, affliction t-shirts, or those candy-assed stitched-pocket jeans: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you consider the 2nd Amendment an anachronistic relic and have never owned a firearm: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If, however, you have BALLS OF STEEL and consider adverse weather an excuse to do stupid shit: THIS IS YOUR JEEP. Do you laugh at danger, and tempt fate? Have you ever uttered the words, Hold my beer and watch this ...? While bored at work do you pick targets at random and think, I could hit that from here with the .22 ...? Have any of your friends quit hanging out because you were too much fun? Do you have the number of a friend with cash memorized for bail? When you pass an abandoned flatbed farm truck along a fenceline do you consider taking on another project? Is your ol' lady really sick of the random piles of parts, greasy footprints, and empty beer bottles in the garage? -could you not care less? Do you have Jalopnik saved on your laptop AND smartphone? Do you own a service manual for every vehicle you ever owned? Do you still miss your first ride? Can you carry on a two hour conversation discussing tools, scars, and hi-lift jacks? Remember when tool companies had the balls to put half-naked beauty queens on their calendars? Do you consider the Prius an abominable affront to the Gods of displacement, torque, and All Mighty Internal Combustion? If you answered in the affirmative to the preceding: THIS IS YOUR JEEP. -- OK Don They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775 in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin 1789 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! ___ 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] Somebody needs this Jeep!
'Still gonna hafta let it go; 'don't know anybody I hafta impress one way the other. ;) Wilton - Original Message - From: OK Don okd...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this Jeep! It has an AUTOMATIC tranny, AND plastic fenders? WTF? What kind of kick-ass car can it be with those??? On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:39 AM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote: Here's the deal, kids: This is a Jeep Cherokee. This is not a luxury SUV, or a maintenance-free disposable import. It has solid front axles, wind noise, and character. It's a Jeep. It rides like a Jeep. It drives like a Jeep. All of these are GOOD things. It is not new, it is not pristine, it is used. This will be apparent in the pictures. If you do not own a toolbox, have never changed your own oil, and are scared of firearms: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you have been posting on facebook all about how excited you are for pumpkin latte season: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you get offended easy and often, whine to your co-workers, and bitch a lot: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you feel you are owed anything in the world have a bullshit job where you fail to produce: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you own a bieber album, white oakleys, affliction t-shirts, or those candy-assed stitched-pocket jeans: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you consider the 2nd Amendment an anachronistic relic and have never owned a firearm: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If, however, you have BALLS OF STEEL and consider adverse weather an excuse to do stupid shit: THIS IS YOUR JEEP. Do you laugh at danger, and tempt fate? Have you ever uttered the words, Hold my beer and watch this ...? While bored at work do you pick targets at random and think, I could hit that from here with the .22 ...? Have any of your friends quit hanging out because you were too much fun? Do you have the number of a friend with cash memorized for bail? When you pass an abandoned flatbed farm truck along a fenceline do you consider taking on another project? Is your ol' lady really sick of the random piles of parts, greasy footprints, and empty beer bottles in the garage? -could you not care less? Do you have Jalopnik saved on your laptop AND smartphone? Do you own a service manual for every vehicle you ever owned? Do you still miss your first ride? Can you carry on a two hour conversation discussing tools, scars, and hi-lift jacks? Remember when tool companies had the balls to put half-naked beauty queens on their calendars? Do you consider the Prius an abominable affront to the Gods of displacement, torque, and All Mighty Internal Combustion? If you answered in the affirmative to the preceding: THIS IS YOUR JEEP. -- OK Don They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775 in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin 1789 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! ___ 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] OT - Sondy Tale - Swimming Pool
A good question might be why they did not send you the right liner?? I have some experience with that sort of thing as I worked building swimming pools for 3 summers while I was in university. By then we had pretty much moved away from using sand and instead used what we called pool pad. It was a mixture of vermiculite and cement. Initially we used a lot of cement so it looked like concrete but that ultimately moved to a drier mixture. We would pack it in in the right shape and then drop the liner in quickly and fill with water to hold things in place. Quite a process as these pools had deep ends and some were kidney shaped and at least 40 feet long. If the liner dislodged material when we were shifting it into place, someone would have to go in under it and do a quick patch. Sometimes we would have underground water that would not stop seeping and would have to get the liner in very quickly to prevent a lot of water under the liner. Randy On 18/10/2013 11:03 AM, WILTON wrote: Yep, 'nother Sondy Tale already. THE SWIMMING POOL By Wilton Strickland At Sondrestrom Air Base, we were proud to have the only swimming pool (indoors and heated, of course) in Greenland. I don't remember the exact dimensions, but probably about 20 feet by 40 feet by 4 to 5 feet. Not long after I arrived, the Danish maintenance contractor chief engineer came to me on day with bad news about the pool's plastic liner - it was leaking and had been patched so many times that it was beyond repair. We called a manufacturer in the States and ordered one of the right dimensions and had it shipped to McGuire AFB, NJ, for delivery to us via Air Force C-141 cargo aircraft a few weeks later. The Danish workmen immediately set about removing the old liner and installing the new one. Installation of the new liner involved sucking air with a vacuum cleaner from between the outside of the liner and the pool's supporting walls as the liner was filled with water. The support structure corners between the bottom and side walls and at the ends of the pool were square (sharp, 90° angles), and the old liner fitted into them nicely, but as the new liner filled with water, it became obvious that the corners of the new liner would rupture before going into the corners. We had to stop the filling process, empty the liner of water and devise a way to get the liner into the corners or support the liner appropriately in these areas. A call to the manufacturer confirmed that the liner could not have - could not assume - square corners. We finally decided to fill in the square corners in the support structure with wet sand rounded into a contour (a cove) that the new liner could more easily assume. The bottom was already sand; we just extended the sand in a rounded contour up the side for several inches and in the end corners to relieve the excessive tension on the liner in these areas. Because water in the base system was at only 56°F, we also started heating it while filling the liner to help improve the liner's stretchability. We also positioned several more suction hoses around the outside of the liner to reduce air pockets as the liner filled with water. The second filling went very well, and we had no more problems with the pool while I was there. 'Never did use it myself, though. I noticed recently in the current Kangerlussuaq hotel and tourism ads, they enthusiastically promote the heated indoor pool. 'Glad they're still enjoying it. The liner has probably been replaced once or twice or more since we did it in '78, and it's likely that nobody there has any idea about the hassle we had with seemingly such a simple task that could have been catastrophic had we just blindly let the liner fill without proper attention to those corners. Wilton ___ 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] Somebody needs this Jeep!
Those were good little vehicles but there was no room in the back seat for a normal adult. Randy On 18/10/2013 11:24 AM, WILTON wrote: 'Still gonna hafta let it go; 'don't know anybody I hafta impress one way the other. ;) Wilton - Original Message - From: OK Don okd...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this Jeep! It has an AUTOMATIC tranny, AND plastic fenders? WTF? What kind of kick-ass car can it be with those??? On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:39 AM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote: Here's the deal, kids: This is a Jeep Cherokee. This is not a luxury SUV, or a maintenance-free disposable import. It has solid front axles, wind noise, and character. It's a Jeep. It rides like a Jeep. It drives like a Jeep. All of these are GOOD things. It is not new, it is not pristine, it is used. This will be apparent in the pictures. If you do not own a toolbox, have never changed your own oil, and are scared of firearms: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you have been posting on facebook all about how excited you are for pumpkin latte season: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you get offended easy and often, whine to your co-workers, and bitch a lot: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you feel you are owed anything in the world have a bullshit job where you fail to produce: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you own a bieber album, white oakleys, affliction t-shirts, or those candy-assed stitched-pocket jeans: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If you consider the 2nd Amendment an anachronistic relic and have never owned a firearm: THIS VEHICLE IS NOT FOR YOU. If, however, you have BALLS OF STEEL and consider adverse weather an excuse to do stupid shit: THIS IS YOUR JEEP. Do you laugh at danger, and tempt fate? Have you ever uttered the words, Hold my beer and watch this ...? While bored at work do you pick targets at random and think, I could hit that from here with the .22 ...? Have any of your friends quit hanging out because you were too much fun? Do you have the number of a friend with cash memorized for bail? When you pass an abandoned flatbed farm truck along a fenceline do you consider taking on another project? Is your ol' lady really sick of the random piles of parts, greasy footprints, and empty beer bottles in the garage? -could you not care less? Do you have Jalopnik saved on your laptop AND smartphone? Do you own a service manual for every vehicle you ever owned? Do you still miss your first ride? Can you carry on a two hour conversation discussing tools, scars, and hi-lift jacks? Remember when tool companies had the balls to put half-naked beauty queens on their calendars? Do you consider the Prius an abominable affront to the Gods of displacement, torque, and All Mighty Internal Combustion? If you answered in the affirmative to the preceding: THIS IS YOUR JEEP. -- OK Don They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775 in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin 1789 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! ___ 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] OT - Sondy Tale - Swimming Pool
Yep, we discussed that, and they danced around it - we finally agreed that we'd cove the corners. Wilton - Original Message - From: Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Sondy Tale - Swimming Pool A good question might be why they did not send you the right liner?? I have some experience with that sort of thing as I worked building swimming pools for 3 summers while I was in university. By then we had pretty much moved away from using sand and instead used what we called pool pad. It was a mixture of vermiculite and cement. Initially we used a lot of cement so it looked like concrete but that ultimately moved to a drier mixture. We would pack it in in the right shape and then drop the liner in quickly and fill with water to hold things in place. Quite a process as these pools had deep ends and some were kidney shaped and at least 40 feet long. If the liner dislodged material when we were shifting it into place, someone would have to go in under it and do a quick patch. Sometimes we would have underground water that would not stop seeping and would have to get the liner in very quickly to prevent a lot of water under the liner. Randy On 18/10/2013 11:03 AM, WILTON wrote: Yep, 'nother Sondy Tale already. THE SWIMMING POOL By Wilton Strickland At Sondrestrom Air Base, we were proud to have the only swimming pool (indoors and heated, of course) in Greenland. I don't remember the exact dimensions, but probably about 20 feet by 40 feet by 4 to 5 feet. Not long after I arrived, the Danish maintenance contractor chief engineer came to me on day with bad news about the pool's plastic liner - it was leaking and had been patched so many times that it was beyond repair. We called a manufacturer in the States and ordered one of the right dimensions and had it shipped to McGuire AFB, NJ, for delivery to us via Air Force C-141 cargo aircraft a few weeks later. The Danish workmen immediately set about removing the old liner and installing the new one. Installation of the new liner involved sucking air with a vacuum cleaner from between the outside of the liner and the pool's supporting walls as the liner was filled with water. The support structure corners between the bottom and side walls and at the ends of the pool were square (sharp, 90° angles), and the old liner fitted into them nicely, but as the new liner filled with water, it became obvious that the corners of the new liner would rupture before going into the corners. We had to stop the filling process, empty the liner of water and devise a way to get the liner into the corners or support the liner appropriately in these areas. A call to the manufacturer confirmed that the liner could not have - could not assume - square corners. We finally decided to fill in the square corners in the support structure with wet sand rounded into a contour (a cove) that the new liner could more easily assume. The bottom was already sand; we just extended the sand in a rounded contour up the side for several inches and in the end corners to relieve the excessive tension on the liner in these areas. Because water in the base system was at only 56°F, we also started heating it while filling the liner to help improve the liner's stretchability. We also positioned several more suction hoses around the outside of the liner to reduce air pockets as the liner filled with water. The second filling went very well, and we had no more problems with the pool while I was there. 'Never did use it myself, though. I noticed recently in the current Kangerlussuaq hotel and tourism ads, they enthusiastically promote the heated indoor pool. 'Glad they're still enjoying it. The liner has probably been replaced once or twice or more since we did it in '78, and it's likely that nobody there has any idea about the hassle we had with seemingly such a simple task that could have been catastrophic had we just blindly let the liner fill without proper attention to those corners. Wilton ___ 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] Somebody needs this Jeep!
On Oct 17, 2013 10:57 PM, M. Mitchell Marmel marme...@gmail.com wrote: Here's the deal, kids: This is a Jeep Cherokee. This is not a luxury SUV, This whole ad is kind of odd to me. I remember contemporary reviews that bemoaned the fact that the XJ, despite having solid axles front and rear, was a unit-body design and therefore not a real Jeep. I've always thought it paved the way for the Explorer and the whole soccer-mom SUV culture of the '90s. Of course there are also those who say that there haven't been any real Jeeps since the CJ-5, and the big, plush Grand Wagoneer was the beginning of the end. Alex ___ 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] Somebody needs this Jeep!
Actually in the offroad community an automatic trans is not always considered a bad thing... -Curt Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:14:56 -0500 From: OK Don okd...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] Somebody needs this Jeep! Message-ID: CANZcij9p=k=ioyhrxkq7bfdj0vgtkzdzf-3isqgqenc3b-9...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 It has an AUTOMATIC tranny, AND plastic fenders? WTF? What kind of kick-ass car can it be with those??? ___ 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
[MBZ] ADDED: 1990 MB 300E Transmission Problem etc.
I still haven't been able find the issue but the car still drives so I am trying to solve it on the fly. Here is another issue that developed that may lead someone out there to show me the fix: When I first start the car cold it idles fine. After it gets hot and I attempt to start it up again the idle pulsates very high to very low rpms (1200 to 400) before it settles within a minute to the normal 600 rpms. Hopefully someone recognizes that symptom!!! Thanks Bob -Original Message- From: Robert Koziak rkmerce...@aol.com To: mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sun, Oct 13, 2013 7:42 pm Subject: Re: [MBZ] 1990 MB 300E Transmission Problem etc. Feedback seems to lean toward a transmission vacuum module or vacuum leak being a possible cause. Can you guys point me toward a part number, price and instructions to change. It might make sense to start there if it's not too expensive or difficult. Bob -Original Message- From: Gary Hurst jabbahur...@gmail.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Sun, Oct 13, 2013 10:22 am Subject: Re: [MBZ] 1990 MB 300E Transmission Problem etc. if the high reving is between gears, it's very likely vacuum related. transmission shops will generally just try to sell you a transmission and probably ought to be avoided. did you make captain yet? On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Robert Koziak rkmerce...@aol.com wrote: Hi all, I recently started using my 1990 Mercedes Benz 300E w/89K. I purchased it 7 years ago because it was in mint shape and was a good deal. The car had basically been in storage for the last 7 years. I used it for an average 100 miles per year bring it in and out of the garage a only few times a year. I changed the oil yearly anyway. It was in mint shape when I bought it.the previous owner was very meticulous. The car ran great for about 2 thousand miles but last week I noticed the transmission is occasionally revving before shifting in the upper gears. I changed the transmission filter and fluid but the issue still exists. Any suggestions, I was going to take it to my local transmission shop for an evaluation so I wanted any thoughts on the problem. Are there any simple adjustments on this transmission? The car did have the head gasket changed by Mercedes along with a conversion to R134 air conditioning. Other than that it had regular maintenance. Any other thoughts on what to look out for this model and year would be greatly appreciated. If it turns out that the automatic transmission needs replacing, what is the price range I should be looking to pay, I live in the suburbs of New York City where the cost of living is pretty high. Bob ___ 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 -- *reliable vendor of superior parts for mercedes and other european cars * *www.BuyEUROparts.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 ___ 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] Somebody needs this Jeep!
On Oct 18, 2013 3:50 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote: Actually in the offroad community an automatic trans is not always considered a bad thing... Sure, rock crawling is a lot easier if you don't have to slip the clutch the whole way. Alex ___ 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
