Yes, that is the first thing I would think of also, but for a 'sports car'
style where one expects to see a soft top and maybe a hard top, the mention
of a hard top brings to mind that as an option with the soft top. Does
anyone make a hard top anymore? I had a '73 Caprice 4 door hardtop you
Ok, since we're going OT on dogs, I was thinking I'd been dogless too long
(over 11 years) and wondering if I wanted another GSP or maybe a GLP this time.
Then I realized that I had no idea where in the USA I'd even be able to
find a German Longhair Pointer. Do they exist over here?
Mitch.
I suppose the answer would be to just get some sort of cover for it...
Take a look at a new one at buymbparts.com and you will see the plug cover
they all come with. The whole assembly is surprisingly inexpensive.
RLE
David Brodbeck wrote:
True for Mercedes cars, but keep in mind there are many cars out there
that lack torque converter drain plugs. There is no way to completely
change the fluid in those cars except by flushing it.
According to the Ford FSM, I'm supposed to do my '95 Taurus by draining
Ralph,
I'd like to see photos of it if you could. The hitch is for an
associate, not myself, so the yea or nea comes from him.
Tim
1982 300TD
1991 300TE 4Matic
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 18:44:42 -0500
From: Ralph W [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Trailer Hitch
Tim,
I have a light duty hitch
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Harry Watkins wrote:
Thanks John
Was all of this UPS? It sounds like shipping a drive shaft without boxing
is a go.
Yep. Make sure to pad the ends of the flanges REALLY well. Maybe put them
in wood blocks then pad that... but otherwise it should be OK.
-j.
3rd try to run this out of my barn.
Harry
On 2/5/07, Harry Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to Peter and others, the job was made easy. While its fresh on my
mind, I'll share the steps I took. Keep in mind that this is an 85 300TD and
I've no experience with other models.
I have the
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, dave walton wrote:
Stay away from DHL. when shipping bare parts. If you are in a position
to negotiate a volume discount, DHL will give you the cheapest
contract rates. They will also give you the most grief on a regular
basis, however.
FedEx is usually he next cheapest.
I moved it from the sent mail to the inbox to try again.
Harry
On 2/5/07, Harry Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3rd try to run this out of my barn.
Harry
On 2/5/07, Harry Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to Peter and others, the job was made easy. While its fresh on my
mind,
Hey Harry this is about the fifth time it's come through to the list! Are
you not seeing your posts?
Ralph W.
'83 300CD '82 300TD (2 parts wagons)
'90 300D '01 E320 Wagon
'87 300TD
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From: Harry Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
www.kegkits.com
256-656-1924
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Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 4:08 PM
To: Weekly Highway Diesel Prices
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Hi Ralph
No, yours was the first. Don't know what I am doing wrong. This is the
second time its happened.
Harry
On 2/5/07, Ralph W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Harry this is about the fifth time it's come through to the list! Are
you not seeing your posts?
Ralph W.
'83 300CD '82
Life begins when the last child leaves home and the dog dies.
I never heard about GLP -- had a few very nice GSPs in my youth.
On 2/5/07, Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, since we're going OT on dogs, I was thinking I'd been dogless too long
(over 11 years) and wondering if I wanted
Got the new one, put it in, no more whistling. Examination of the old one
reveals that it was blowing crap out of the atmospheric vent for the
actuator diaphragm. The rough running not in gear also went away, and I
expect the stumbling on the highway will. I am certain that the smoking
will
Bill,
Being an MB fan I'm surprised you would ask this. The CL class is a hardtop
and they also make a convertable version. Nicest 4 person covertable out
there in my opinion.
Hardtops are getting harder to execute these days due to stringent roof
crush requirements by the Feds.
Ralph W.
Harry Watkins wrote:
Hi Ralph
No, yours was the first. Don't know what I am doing wrong. This is the
second time its happened.
Gmail, by default, hides your own posts from you. You'll only see
responses to them.
Thanks David, what time did my original go through?
I sure wasted some band width, sorry.
Harry
On 2/5/07, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Harry Watkins wrote:
Hi Ralph
No, yours was the first. Don't know what I am doing wrong. This is the
second time its happened.
Gmail, by
This is the first one I saw --- bandwidth is cheap these days - don't
worry about it.
On 2/5/07, Harry Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to Peter and others, the job was made easy. While its fresh on my
mind, I'll share the steps I took. Keep in mind that this is an 85 300TD and
I've no
Peter,
This whole thing reminds me of the days when it was accepted fact that Volvo
was the absolute safest car in the world. And Volvo had the data to prove
their statement - they had millions of miles of driving, traffic accident
fatality data to prove they were way ahead of everyone else.
Yes-Hursty's right should be written as one word. But you really yearn for
a coupe de ville?
Dwight
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
1979 240D-250K + miles
1990 300D 2.5t 135K miles
Wickford, RI
-Original Message-
I'm surprised you guys don't know what hardtop means? that is old
guy speak for
Tom Hargrave wrote:
It's also true that today's temperature changes are tracking lock step with
increased sun spot activity.
Any ham will tell you sun spot activity increases and decreases on a
22-year-cycle. Are you saying there's a similar 22-year cycle of
temperature increases and
Nope, I'm only saying that some of the scientific community is correlating
data with no proven relationship. Also, there is a huge community of
scientists who are undecided and simply don't believe the current accepted
theory. But their voices go unheard.
Also, I know that the sun runs a 22 year
OK Don wrote:
Life begins when the last child leaves home and the dog dies.
I never heard about GLP -- had a few very nice GSPs in my youth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_%28German_Longhaired%29
Supposed to be a tad less high strung than a GSP. The GWP
(Drahthaar) is supposed to
Dwight E. Giles, Jr wrote:
Yes-Hursty's right should be written as one word. But you really yearn for
a coupe de ville?
It's bigger than he is, and the street gangs might be more inclined to
respect it than an old Benz.
Mitch.
A lot.
if it's the generally expected rise of 2-6'C it will be globally
devastating.
mak
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From: David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Series on Global
David Brodbeck wrote:
Any ham will tell you sun spot activity increases and decreases on a
22-year-cycle. Are you saying there's a similar 22-year cycle of
temperature increases and decreases?
I can remember the nature magazines telling us that global cooling
was caused by humans, seems
Mitch Haley wrote:
David Brodbeck wrote:
Any ham will tell you sun spot activity increases and decreases on a
22-year-cycle. Are you saying there's a similar 22-year cycle of
temperature increases and decreases?
I can remember the nature magazines telling us that global cooling
was
What is the relation of these three? Is it linear, non-linear?
It's non-linear, IIRC. But I'd have to go look it up to tell
you for sure.
Is there a point (RPMs) over which you don't gain any more charging?
I THINK if it were a generator, then the faster it goes, the more
juice you get,
Whilst driving yesterday I heard a right rear brake scrape when nearly
Beware the gravel brake scrape! Sounds like you're going to die
soon, but is harmless.
-- Jim
the effect is diminishing as more particulate pollution is eliminated.
I guess it's Italian Tune-up time! Vroom vroom vroom! Bring on the soot!
Kevin in Hillsboro, OR
1983 300SD 266K miles, Ursula
190D Werner, hydralic valves, nothing to set...
Scoff though you might when I left work last night it started lousy...
More testing is needed I think as I'd run the block heater yesterday morning.
Tonight when I leave work I'll loosen the cap.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:44:06 -0500
Just thought I'd share some of my cold weather this morning here near
Corning, NY.
It was about 1F outside. Block heater was plugged in for a couple hours
before starting. It wasn't that bad, but it did take a couple tries. (Not
NEARLY as bad as this weekend when it was in the single digits
I just took a ride out to Boychuck's(near Levi's place.)
yesterday to get coal in the M37...You got it right LeviIt's way
cold.
Mike
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From: Levi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List Mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday,
Hi Peter,
You wrote:the carbon dioxide content is more than double what it was in
1900.
Where is this data? Is there a webpage showing times and locations of data
collection?
I don't doubt you - just curious about the details -
Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
www.youroil.net for
Rebut this:
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/historical03.jsp
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A3.lrg.gif
What'd the temp gauge for the engine read? My 190D is toasty warm within half
an hour no matter how cold it is out. My 240D was as good or maybe even
better...
-Curt
Message: 17
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 06:41:46 -0500
From: Levi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [MBZ] Cold weather
To: Mercedes
L. Mark Finch wrote:
Rebut this:
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/historical03.jsp
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A3.lrg.gif
Those temperatures were all recorded by lefties and environmental
wackos. I'm sure of it.
Lee
Temp gauge was resting on the bottom for the first maybe 5+ minutes(that
time is pretty much downhill so idling motor but cruising at around 30mph
with the occasional slight press of the pedal) Then started rising and
within 15 minutes which is about the time I hit the highway it was up to
OK, Curt - I was just quoting the good doctor in the generic causes of hard
starting - and valve adjustment is high on his list. But since the original
message said valve adjustment 10k miles ago, what was done in this
nothing to set engine?
Werner
- Original Message -
From: Curt
I have a 2004 Frontier pickup, king cab. It has one side-facing
jump seat in the rear, behind the passenger (right) seat.
On the driver's (left) side, there is a recess in the sidewall, and
bolt holes in the floor, for another seat. Currently the first aid
kit and tool kit are stored in the
Kaleb
I am using Gmail for the list, how do I change that setting? I have perhaps
looked in the wrong place.
Thanks
Harry
On 2/6/07, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You probably have your settings set to not receive your own posts.
Harry Watkins wrote:
Hi Ralph
No, yours
Allan,
It seems that they do make a right drive Frontier for the UK market...the
newest one I can find is 2001. There's no guarantee it'll fit though.
Can you send me a link to a photo of the truck and I can try to do some
legwork over here for you.
Jeff Zedic
London
I don't have any photos at hand, but I'll set that up and let you
know. Thanks.
Allan
Jeff Zedic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems that they do make a right drive Frontier for the UK
market...the newest one I can find is 2001. There's no guarantee
it'll fit though.
Can you send me a link
within 15 minutes which is about the time I hit the highway it was up
to
around 80-90C and stayed there for the rest of the trip.
c) the veggie tank sucking out a decent portion of heat
Could be. But so long as the engine was up to temperature there was
still excess heat available in the
Oh, let's see... The veggie is T-d in at the back left of the head and then
goes back to the veggie tank and then returns at a T near the alternator.
So... I believe it's completely parallel, independent of the heater
core(which would make sense since the heater seems to work normally.
I'll rebut it even though no point has been made. In the case of the
first graph it must be stated that just because two events occur
together and track in a similar fashion does not establish a cause and
effect relationship. It is an interesting and theory that increase
concentrations of Co2 can
Anybody done a vacuum pump on a 601 lately?
I finally bought one for my '85 190D, Marshall is probably right about the bad
idle being vacuum induced and I'm tired of not having power brakes for the
first 200 yards after a cold start.
It looks very easy and experience tells me that on this car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neghRf8noU4
Dude has this car for sale
http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/car/274112335.html
$650.00
No affiliation
--
Clay
Seattle Bioburner
1972 220D - Gump
1995 E300D - Cleo
1987 300SDL - POS - DOA
The FSM would drive a Diesel Benz
Bob,
You brought up the nuts bolts behind what I've been saying, that there
is no proven correlation between CO2 levels global warming.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
www.kegkits.com
256-656-1924
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Bob DuPuy
Sent:
The only hitch I recall from changing one out on a 602 was to remember to
rotate the engine crankshaft so that the cam that drives the vacuum pump is
at its low point - otherwise, you're compressing the pump spring while
tightening the pump in place. Can be done, just not as easy as doing it
Read 'em again, you said valves set 10k ago not me. You don't set valves in 60x
engines...
In actually I think I've come to yet another possibly bad conclusion but lets
review my tests so far:
Yesterday morning ~0F, easy start no problems. I thought this was due to
loosening the fuel cap
On 2/6/07, Redghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/car/272088136.html -- 2x 220D $600
Clay,
You should go buy both of those and ... umm ... hold them for me.
Yeah, hold them for until thaw when I can get them across the country.
Ed
--
Knowledge is power...
We're finally getting characteristic weather here in MN. 15 below or
so and fortunately not all that windy, but a bit.
I think that the water main is frozen solid in the house I'm staying
at part time. Back to nature for me.
My 240D is hybernating in the garage and I'm using the Honda CRV as
Please deposit $600 into the slot and await paperwork completion
On Feb 6, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Ed Booher wrote:
On 2/6/07, Redghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/car/272088136.html -- 2x 220D $600
Clay,
You should go buy both of those and ... umm ... hold
All those global climate change deniers fail to mention that it's the
melting POLAR ICE CAPS that will be the disaster, and that the amount of
snow in Colorado or how cold it is in Canada or Wyoming right now is
completely irrelevant.
On 2/5/07, M.Afzaal.Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A lot.
if
I publish the newsletter for our local section of MBCA. Just got this ad to
run for a member in our February newsletter. I have a picture that I can scan
and send if anyone wants. Paint looks good, straight body and shiny chrome.
Contact me off line at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here are the
http://www.germanlonghairpointerbreeders.com/
http://www.germanlonghairpointers.com/index.cfm
just googled german long hair pointer
breeds certainly have unique temperments/personalities and qualities, but
temperment also varies widely within each breed. My two Shepherds have
Euan wrote:
Hi there folks
These CDs seem awfully cheap. Are they legit, do you think?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MERCEDES-240D-300D-300TD-300CD-WORKSHOP-MANUAL-INFO_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ34227QQihZ010QQitemZ200074644901QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWD2V
That's ($19.95 US$) what Mercedes USA
On 2/6/07, Redghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please deposit $600 into the slot and await paperwork completion
*grumble, grumble* I was afraid of that. :)
--
Knowledge is power... Power Corrupts. Study hard... Be Evil.
Jim, Werner and Peter,
Thanks! That is exactly what I wanted to know. I love this list!
Chris
Peter Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You won't get much power at less
that 1000 rpm, in fact it won't
usually charge much at less than 1500 rpm (engine, the alternator is
going faster).
Curt Raymond wrote:
What'd the temp gauge for the engine read? My 190D is toasty warm within half
an hour no matter how cold it is out. My 240D was as good or maybe even
better...
When the temp exceeds 20 below (F) in any of my 201s, it's hard to keep
the cabin OR even the engine temp in
Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's ($19.95 US$) what Mercedes USA was charging for the two disc
123 and 126 sets until they ran out (and won't issue them again)
late last year.
But I suppose they would object to anyone copying them and selling the
copies -- even though MBUSA
Those are definitely MB genuine service manuals
- Original Message -
From: Marshall Booth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Are these legit workshop manual CDs?
Euan wrote:
Hi there folks
Bill, Being an MB fan I'm surprised you would ask this. The CL Class is a
hardtopand they also make a convertible version. Nicest 4 person converrible
out there in my opinion.
Ralph, Being an MB fan I'm surprised you would say this. There has never been
a factory built production CL
Then a company did an independent study found a Volvo to be no safer than
any other car the same size. When they uncovered this fact, they searched
further discovered that the typical Volvo owner was a more conservative
driver than a typical owner of the other brands! This led to the
realization
makes me yearn for a 70s sedan de ville.
I admire the '60 Coupe DeVille in white with red leather. Drive that baby
right through the front windows of a 7-11 pushing the cash machine through the
back wall without a scratch. Load 'er up in that big trunk and take off.
RLE
Well, not exactly true, as Volvo and Benz used to have much better crash
testing data than other brands.
Funny, I never see Benz or Volvo cars in crash tests anymore, wonder what
that's all about, eh?
Japanese cars DO require less work than American ones -- I've had way too many
friends who
Well, I don't think I'd call it a myth. The fact that the car will go
300-400K miles with almost no maintenance before smoking to a halt is much
preferable to an american car going 100K before smoking to a halt...
I haven't dealt with enough european stuff to compare, though I know my
Mercedes
Good tip on the spring I didn't know that.
On the shroud I think I'll be okay, the 601 seems to have lots of space. I was
able to get the power steering pump replaced with no problems.
Thanks
-Curt
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:14:50 -0500
From: Werner Fehlauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
Levi Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Agreed. Or compared to an old Mercedes. My 83' 300D doesn't seem
to use THAT much oil, (it's been on M1 15-50 for a while now) but it
is VERY serious about marking it's territory anywhere that it parks.
In multiple spots. I definitely don't need to
I haven't noticed any change since I got the car and that had generic not
even diesel approved oil in it, then I used the Delco, then a Synthetic
blend and now M1 over the course of maybe 30K miles. It only seems to be a
few drops at a time, but it sure seems to add up faster than ANYTHING else
Couldn't agree with you more. My wife complained so bitterly about a 97 Sable
that caused some minor problems that
we traded it for a 98 Toyota Avalon. Very nice car in the sense of bells and
whistles but no more reliable than the
Sable so far as I can tell. It has just over 100K Kilos so about
R A Bennell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We also have 95 4Runner that was built in Japan. It has had its
share of issues. The mileage is higher on it (close to 200K Kilos)
and the engine is fine but we have had issues with the manual
transmission and clutch as well as the the worst part is the
Peter Frederick wrote:
Japanese cars DO require less work than American ones -- I've had way too
many friends who have driven them hundreds of thousands of miles with nothing
but tires, oil changes, and brakes -- and sometimes not even brakes.
They can be a pain to work on when they *do*
IF I remember correctly; (hope this is correct) here is how i removed my
drive shafts;all 3 cars
1-place car up on stands, front rear; take off emergency brake;(so
shaft will turn to get to all bolts nuts)
2- remove 3 nuts bolts on front flex disk; drive shaft side ones
3- remove 2 bolts from
Mars? ALL of the planets in our solar system are heating up. Maybe
all that CO from my Suburban has gone straight to Jupiter. Our sun is
supposed to be at a solar minimum and yet it is popping off some of
the biggest solar flares ever witnessed by mankind. If warming of the
earth is occurring,
I have changed all oil pan gaskets on all 3 of my diesels; this latest
one, i felt a crack as i torqued down, now has small leak??
here is what i did; knocked bent in bolt holes on pan back to flat
again, used silicone, very thin layer on pan upper alum. part of
engine(upper oil pan???) as
Michael Baker wrote:
Those guys cannot accurately predict next week's or
next year's weather much less weather trends over the next 100 years.
You're confusing weather with climate.
So all this talk about Asian cars going 100K miles without maintanence can
not be true. Right off the bat, you have to change out the timing belt every
60K or so miles.
On 2/6/07, David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Frederick wrote:
Japanese cars DO require less work than American
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