Re: [MBZ] OT war birds

[Mountain Man]

Grant wrote:
> Here is a video that gives some idea of where all the flying WW2 warbirds
> came from... so few survived.

Read one of the paragraphs under the video:
"These Machines Of War And The Brave Men Associated With THEM. ARE
Responsible For The America That WE Know Today."
All too true.  This is the "Today" that I see - lazy, gizmo dependent,
entitlement loving, loving big government, more war, more government.
This is a good thing? - Do not forget that the past is the
precursor/progenitor of the future in which we live.  What happened?
The vigor and strength of body and resolve necessary to bring an
objective to reality, etc - that is good stuff, it seems.  However, if
that is necessary to produce the failure we know today? - not so much.
I can do without that.  What went wrong?  Ask not what your country
can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.  Much of those
pictures is waaay too wrong - politically incorrect, disrespectful of
wimen, racist, etc.  What went wrong?
...a rhetorical question... no answer can be spoken...
We are not the same country that produced these warbirds or flew those
missions or painted ladies on the warbirds or counted the strikes by
painting bombs on the fuselage, etc.  What a massive destruction of
production.  The bottom line $$ would not allow this to happen again.
War cannot happen the same way ever again, so, we gotta forget any
romanticism about WWII warbirds - all done, to be forgotten.  No
thanks to "Brave" men.  No thanks for the failure we know today.  No
thanks.
End rant...
mao

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Re: [MBZ] OT:illegal Yellow jacket nest in the roof soffit

[OK Don]

Excellent! We need to collect them and drop them over the ISIS fighters ---


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Greg Fiorentino 
wrote:

> Here's a good use for them:
>
>
> http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nigeria-boko-haram-members-being-killed-by-mystical
> -bees-mysterious-snakes-possessed-by-ghosts-1454407
>
> or, if that link is messed up in transmission:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/lb9vy9x
>
> Greg
>
> -Original Message-
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> Mountain
> Man
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 5:47 PM
> To: Mercedes Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT:illegal Yellow jacket nest in the roof soffit
>
> henifay wrote:
> > End of the day if you're happy to coexist with nasty bite bite
> creatures...
>
> I try not to coexist with bite bite, but... in theory, they have place...
> someplace here on this terrestrial.  Similar to waste, pest
> (perhaps) can be conceived as resource out of place.  The smart might be
> challenged, but... perhaps smarts can figure how to make this
> *pest* a resource.  I ain't that smart, but it seems a plausible objective?
> Others on the planet live with bite bite and the purpose they serve might
> not be that bad - just stay away from bite bite.
> mao
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Re: [MBZ] OT war birds

[Mountain Man]

OK Don wrote:
> About 8 years later, there
> is a CAF airshow in town, and the program mentions that the P-38 they were
> flying was found in that same scrap yard in Yukon, OK.

Shoulda, coulda.
Nice story.
mao

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[MBZ] Asiana B777 Reconstruction

[Scott Ritchey]

In case anyone is still interested:  NTSB animation of the sequence of
events leading up to the Asiana B777 crash at SFO on July6, 2013. 

http://tinyurl.com/o36p5mt




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[MBZ] Fwd: 1986 Mercedes Benz 300 SDL

[Kevin Kraly]

Here's the email response from the seller of that '86 300SDL.  It doesn't sound 
too good.  

Kevin in Hillsboro, Oregon

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: "craigslist 4547087641" 
> Date: July 1, 2014 at 4:34:58 PM PDT
> To: c72e7aac3cd83e439c0fbded20e66...@reply.craigslist.org
> Subject: Re: 1986 Mercedes Benz 300 SDL
> 
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> The car won't upshift. When it's cold it seems to do better.  Lately it 
> doesn't want to go above third gear.  Normally on the way to the store (2 
> miles) it runs pretty well but on the way back it doesn't shift above 2nd or 
> 3rd. It down shifts ok.  It has always had a bit a clunk going into gear, but 
> the mechanic said that was pretty common for the Mercedes to have a 
> "positive" shift. I am not much of a mechanic so I can't say more than that. 
> I think that it probably needs a new transmission, unless you can take it 
> apart yourself.
> 
> Tad
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 1, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Kevin Kraly Kevin 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> What is the transmission doing?  Is it slipping, clunking into gears, not 
>> shifting reliably up or down, all of the above? It sounds like a  great 
>> project car for me.
>> 
>> Kevin
>> 
>> http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/cto/4547087641.html
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> 
>> Original craigslist post:
>> http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/cto/4547087641.html
>> About craigslist mail:
>> http://craigslist.org/about/help/email-relay
>> Please flag unwanted messages (spam, scam, other):
>> http://craigslist.org/mf/a763c29e6496a3f4971e438fab993f71268fd90a.1
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Original craigslist post:
> http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/cto/4547087641.html
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Re: [MBZ] OT:illegal Yellow jacket nest in the roof soffit

[Mountain Man]

Greg wrote:
> Here's a good use for them:

Great!!! - thanks.
Just what I need for my boko haram neighbors who are more pesky than
yellowjackets.
...I don't got no neighbors...
Everyone drives by too fast to infest them with yellowjackets.
mao

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Re: [MBZ] 1986 Mercedes Benz 300 SDL

[Craig]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 10:53:55 -0700 "Greg Fiorentino"
 wrote:

> Is that a trap oxidizer I see under the hood?

Yes.


Craig

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Re: [MBZ] OT war birds

[arche...@embarqmail.com]

WW-2 fighter pilot friend bought a P-51 and flew it out of Miami.  He 
headed for Jacksonville one day, didn't take on enough fuel (50+ gph), 
and had to land on a highway about 30 miles short of destination.  Soon 
after he sold it and bought an Aero Commander twin.  He would take 
friends up and do acrobatics.  Unfortunately I never had an opportunity 
to go up with him before he retired and sold the plane.

Gerry

On 6/30/2014 11:39 PM, G Mann wrote:

At the close of WW2 there were acres of warbirds, and new spare parts, some
of the airplanes only had ferry time on them from the factory to the
storage facility. They were sold for scrap.

One of the fellows I flew charter with was of that era, upon discharge he
bought a P 51 to fly in the Bendix air race for $1,500 dollars. Being a
hotshot WW2 fighter pilot he ran the whole race at military power until the
engine blew, made an emergency landing somewhere in the wilds of Kansas and
sold it for scrap.  He crashed, raced, ruined, and wore out several other
fighters of the era.. all because they were scrap anyway and cheap. Had he
kept them all they would be worth millions now.

Standard military procedure at that time was to always fuel up an airplane
upon landing, so the airplanes setting in depot were full of fuel. One
scrap dealer bought up all the "scrap" he could get, drained the tanks and
started "Whiting Gas Stations" which were an Icon along Route 66 for a long
time. He then crushed and sold all the airplanes for scrap aluminum. They
had onsite smelters at Kingman AZ for example. You can google "Kingman ww2
airplanes" and should find pictures of acres of fighters and bombers flown
there and "stored".. to be sold. Goodyear AZ also had a huge depot, as well
as Davis Monthan in Tucson AZ [still active storage site].


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Meade Dillon  wrote:


The Carolina Wing is not too far from you Wilton, Southern Pines NC.

Often in the summer I see a few fly over the beach here in Charleston.  No
acrobatics, just a nice slow pass, a few thousand feet up.

Max Dillon,
Charleston SC
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Re: [MBZ] 1986 Mercedes Benz 300 SDL

[Greg Fiorentino]

Is that a trap oxidizer I see under the hood?

Greg

-Original Message-
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Kraly Kevin
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2014 10:23 AM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: [MBZ] 1986 Mercedes Benz 300 SDL

Here is the ad for the 1986 300SDL to which I was referring in my earlier
post.
Kevin in Hillsboro Oregon
http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/cto/4547087641.html


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Re: [MBZ] 1986 Mercedes Benz 300 SDL

[Mitch Haley]

Kevin Kraly Kevin wrote:

Here is the ad for the 1986 300SDL to which I was referring in my earlier post.
Kevin in Hillsboro Oregon
http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/cto/4547087641.html


I guess we'd need to know what the symptoms are.
From just the ad, for all we know a vacuum line fell off and it's slamming into 
every gear without modulation.


Mitch

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Re: [MBZ] OT:illegal Yellow jacket nest in the roof soffit

[Greg Fiorentino]

Here's a good use for them:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nigeria-boko-haram-members-being-killed-by-mystical
-bees-mysterious-snakes-possessed-by-ghosts-1454407

or, if that link is messed up in transmission:

http://tinyurl.com/lb9vy9x

Greg

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Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT:illegal Yellow jacket nest in the roof soffit

henifay wrote:
> End of the day if you're happy to coexist with nasty bite bite
creatures...

I try not to coexist with bite bite, but... in theory, they have place...
someplace here on this terrestrial.  Similar to waste, pest
(perhaps) can be conceived as resource out of place.  The smart might be
challenged, but... perhaps smarts can figure how to make this
*pest* a resource.  I ain't that smart, but it seems a plausible objective?
Others on the planet live with bite bite and the purpose they serve might
not be that bad - just stay away from bite bite.
mao

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[MBZ] 1986 Mercedes Benz 300 SDL

[Kevin Kraly Kevin]

Here is the ad for the 1986 300SDL to which I was referring in my earlier post.
Kevin in Hillsboro Oregon
http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/cto/4547087641.html


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Re: [MBZ] OT war birds

[WILTON]

Good example if this in a scene of the 1946 movie, "The Best Years of Our 
Lives," when Dana Andrews character sits in nose of B-17 awaiting scrapper 
and has flashbacks to is time over Germany, then gets job helping to scrap 
'em.


Wilton

- Original Message - 
From: "G Mann" 

To: "Mercedes Discussion List" 
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2014 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT war birds


At the close of WW2 there were acres of warbirds, and new spare parts, 
some

of the airplanes only had ferry time on them from the factory to the
storage facility. They were sold for scrap.

One of the fellows I flew charter with was of that era, upon discharge he
bought a P 51 to fly in the Bendix air race for $1,500 dollars. Being a
hotshot WW2 fighter pilot he ran the whole race at military power until 
the
engine blew, made an emergency landing somewhere in the wilds of Kansas 
and

sold it for scrap.  He crashed, raced, ruined, and wore out several other
fighters of the era.. all because they were scrap anyway and cheap. Had he
kept them all they would be worth millions now.

Standard military procedure at that time was to always fuel up an airplane
upon landing, so the airplanes setting in depot were full of fuel. One
scrap dealer bought up all the "scrap" he could get, drained the tanks and
started "Whiting Gas Stations" which were an Icon along Route 66 for a 
long

time. He then crushed and sold all the airplanes for scrap aluminum. They
had onsite smelters at Kingman AZ for example. You can google "Kingman ww2
airplanes" and should find pictures of acres of fighters and bombers flown
there and "stored".. to be sold. Goodyear AZ also had a huge depot, as 
well

as Davis Monthan in Tucson AZ [still active storage site].


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Meade Dillon  
wrote:



The Carolina Wing is not too far from you Wilton, Southern Pines NC.

Often in the summer I see a few fly over the beach here in Charleston. 
No

acrobatics, just a nice slow pass, a few thousand feet up.

Max Dillon,
Charleston SC
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Re: [MBZ] '87 300SDL Transmission

[Kevin Kraly]

Is the 87 300sdl tranny susceptible to the bead two piston failure like the 
earlier ones?  There is one out here on craigslist with a suspected bad 
transmission.
Kevin in Hillsboro Oregon

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> On Jul 1, 2014, at 3:08 AM, Ralph Robertson  wrote:
> 
> Noticed a possible problem with my '87 SDL transmission yesterday.  Slowed
> down for a yield sign and slowed to about 15-20mph and then proceeded to
> drive away, but the car acted like it was in neutral.  Several seconds it
> did nothing but rev up without engaging.  Shifted down to drive 3 and it
> went into gear, then I put the lever back to drive and it was back to
> normal.  Only did it once.  Checked fluid, all okay!  Any idea what this
> may be?
> 
> Ralph '84 300CD
>  '87 300SDL
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[MBZ] OT Soviet Fantasy Vehicles

[Rich Thomas]

Those wacky rooshans

http://io9.com/these-soviet-concept-vehicles-are-clearly-from-an-alter-1597889367/+pgeorge

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Re: [MBZ] '87 300SDL Transmission

[Meade Dillon]

When I bought my '87 300TD, it shifted very poorly, usually late.

About 10k miles after changing fluid/filter and using M1, the transmission
shifted much much better.  The shift points were far more consistent.  I
then adjusted the Bowden cable, and it was nearly perfect.

Max Dillon,
Charleston SC

On Jul 1, 2014 10:57 AM, "Dwight Giles"  wrote:
>
> Yes. Fred recommended that for my 300CD  & I did that & after a couple
> thousand miles the flaring has subsided & up shifts are smoother. I was
not
> being facetious in my earlier post about M1 ATF.
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[MBZ] OT: What a trip!

[Curt Raymond]

Just got back (well last night but it was 10pm by the time we unpacked) from 
Charlotte, MI and the 2014 Coleman Collectors convention.
Got to see our own Mitch and ride in his E320(Is that right? I'm sure he'll 
correct me.) (MB content).

Looks like we traveled just over 1400 miles using around 40 gallons of diesel 
fuel, I haven't checked the mpg yet but spot checks on the last 2 tanks suggest 
around 47mpg which isn't bad, we were loaded heavy and running fast. In MI 
especially I held it to 80mph just to keep up and occasionally made runs up to 
90mph. The Jetta is a champ, no breakdowns, not even any hiccups other than the 
cruise control won't engage which I think is just a dirty switch.

The convention was a blast although the camp ground was very close to the 
highway which was very loud at night. Fortunately we had earplugs.

-Curt
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Re: [MBZ] '87 300SDL Transmission

[Dwight Giles]

Yes. Fred recommended that for my 300CD  & I did that & after a couple
thousand miles the flaring has subsided & up shifts are smoother. I was not
being facetious in my earlier post about M1 ATF.
On Jul 1, 2014 10:38 AM, "Meade Dillon"  wrote:

> I'd try a fluid and filter change first, using M1 ATF.
>
> Max Dillon,
> Charleston SC
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Re: [MBZ] Adenauers with transplants

[Ed Booher]

I may be missing a part of the conversation, but if the subject is the
reference to go by here, why would you put anything but another Mercedes
engine under the hood of an Adenauer? If you are worried about "modern
traffic merging" and need some grunt, outfitting it like a late 90's E
class is sure to provide what you need, yes?


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Randy Bennell  wrote:

> Not sure how much space is available but I should think that a new Chevy
> LS motor or a Ford Coyote would make for a very nice vehicle if attached to
> the right transmission etc.
> My F150 has the truck version of the Coyote engine. 360 HP, torque numbers
> are similar. Nice and smooth and quiet.  I don't recall exact numbers but
> fairly high compression but runs fine on regular pump gas due, I guess to
> the computer control. 6 Speed auto transmission along with the variable
> valve timing etc makes for a fairly efficient beast if you keep your foot
> out of the go pedal. The Mustang version is over 400 HP and I am told that
> it does not take a whole lot of money to make it really howl.
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Re: [MBZ] '87 300SDL Transmission

[Meade Dillon]

I'd try a fluid and filter change first, using M1 ATF.

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Re: [MBZ] '87 300SDL Transmission

[Dan Penoff]

And did you CHECK THE FUSES?

Dan

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> On Jul 1, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Dwight Giles  wrote:
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> But are you using M1 ATF?
>> On Jul 1, 2014 9:39 AM, "Gary Hurst"  wrote:
>> 
>> usually i'd say fluid, but being that is ok, i'd guess the tranny is dying
>> 
>> i can send you new one via USPS first class mail if you like
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Ralph Robertson  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Noticed a possible problem with my '87 SDL transmission yesterday.
>> Slowed
>>> down for a yield sign and slowed to about 15-20mph and then proceeded to
>>> drive away, but the car acted like it was in neutral.  Several seconds it
>>> did nothing but rev up without engaging.  Shifted down to drive 3 and it
>>> went into gear, then I put the lever back to drive and it was back to
>>> normal.  Only did it once.  Checked fluid, all okay!  Any idea what this
>>> may be?
>>> 
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Re: [MBZ] '87 300SDL Transmission

[Dwight Giles]

But are you using M1 ATF?
On Jul 1, 2014 9:39 AM, "Gary Hurst"  wrote:

> usually i'd say fluid, but being that is ok, i'd guess the tranny is dying
>
> i can send you new one via USPS first class mail if you like
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Ralph Robertson  wrote:
>
> > Noticed a possible problem with my '87 SDL transmission yesterday.
>  Slowed
> > down for a yield sign and slowed to about 15-20mph and then proceeded to
> > drive away, but the car acted like it was in neutral.  Several seconds it
> > did nothing but rev up without engaging.  Shifted down to drive 3 and it
> > went into gear, then I put the lever back to drive and it was back to
> > normal.  Only did it once.  Checked fluid, all okay!  Any idea what this
> > may be?
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Re: [MBZ] '87 300SDL Transmission

[Gary Hurst]

usually i'd say fluid, but being that is ok, i'd guess the tranny is dying

i can send you new one via USPS first class mail if you like


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Ralph Robertson  wrote:

> Noticed a possible problem with my '87 SDL transmission yesterday.  Slowed
> down for a yield sign and slowed to about 15-20mph and then proceeded to
> drive away, but the car acted like it was in neutral.  Several seconds it
> did nothing but rev up without engaging.  Shifted down to drive 3 and it
> went into gear, then I put the lever back to drive and it was back to
> normal.  Only did it once.  Checked fluid, all okay!  Any idea what this
> may be?
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Re: [MBZ] W123 donuts

[Dan Penoff]

The rubber ones break down over time and get cracked. They're cheap to replace 
but be sure you get OE ones or you'll be doing it again in a couple of years.

The chain reinforced ones were used on SL models for some strange reason and 
are considerably more expensive than the plain rubber ones.

Dan

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> I got tired of replacing those donuts, and replaced them with coat hanger
> wire first, but that rattled - very un-Mercedes like. I then started using
> Dacron cord, ~ 1/8th inch, IIRC. It doesn't rattle, doesn't melt, and
> doesn't stretch. It is sold to the ham community for guying antenna masts.
> 
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Jim Cathey  wrote:
>> 
>> There's the chain-filled ones that look like "8", and
>> the regular ones that look like "O".
>> 
>> -- Jim
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Re: [MBZ] W123 donuts

[Meade Dillon]

Weird, I've never had a problem with exhaust hangers.

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[MBZ] '87 300SDL Transmission

[Ralph Robertson]

Noticed a possible problem with my '87 SDL transmission yesterday.  Slowed
down for a yield sign and slowed to about 15-20mph and then proceeded to
drive away, but the car acted like it was in neutral.  Several seconds it
did nothing but rev up without engaging.  Shifted down to drive 3 and it
went into gear, then I put the lever back to drive and it was back to
normal.  Only did it once.  Checked fluid, all okay!  Any idea what this
may be?

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  '87 300SDL
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