Thanks Tom for the added info. Couldn't agree more with your
synopsis.Being paranoid as I am, sounds like the recent Ebay rule
about accepting only Paypal and CC's may have been a deal they made
with the IRS. (Sure hope not!)
On 8/27/08, Tom Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John,
This is not
Move, and say it got lost in the move.
Oh, not that again! It appears that I've LOST my valve adjustment wrenches
in this last move. I'm hoping and praying that they're in the storage shed
(the place where everything goes that didn't quite fit). I sure don't want
to pay another $120 if I
My business is s so small it may not be worth the added hassle this ruling
will cause. What started as something to occupy my time following becoming
disabled is effective at keeping me busy and organized - but this will not
be a cost effective use of my time.
I always report all income and
I paid $2 for mine, and maybe 30 cents worth of propane for the torch to
heat them and bend them.
--R
Kevin Kraly wrote:
Move, and say it got lost in the move.
Oh, not that again! It appears that I've LOST my valve adjustment wrenches
in this last move. I'm hoping and praying that
I wonder how this affects CraigsList and local Trading Post type of
sales?
Not much, I'd say. CL mostly isn't involved in the payment
end at all. Not sure about their commercial side whereby the
infrastructure is paid for.
-- Jim
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I paid $2 for mine, and maybe 30 cents worth of propane for the
torch to heat them and bend them.
You can spend more on acetylene and be done in half the time!
And, if they end up too short as mine did, you can also weld
extension wrenches on the handle ends. So I figure mine were
more like
So you had the opposite failure that I had. On mine the limiting notch in the
rocker broke. I flipped the rocker over, cut a new limiting notch and
reassembled. I installed yesterday and this morning it worked fine.
A really smart engineer would have designed the rockers so they were symetrical
I figured.
Its sold, $10 to a coworker. My office has an Outlook folder For Sale and
Wanted. I've sold several things on there.
Officially the game is on loan to Justin who sits near me
-Curt
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:41:24 -0400
From: Wilton Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
Back in my Boy Scout days I worked at a summer camp that and a mid- '80s
Suburban (old boxy body style) with a 454ci v8, big tires etc. It had been a
fire department brush truck. The thing was AWESOME, so powerful, so
comfortable. That said it was SPENDY to drive, maybe got 8mpg, way less if
I'm Uncle bookworm... Never a family favorite doing that.
Of course now that they're a little bit older I'm Uncle Sure you can drive the
car, don't tell your mother though which makes me the ULTIMATE favorite.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:16:05 -0500
From: harry watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No standing, unless you have a pit in your garage, but you can sit. The max
lift height is 26.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Peter Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
It's the difference between lying on your back unable to reach or see
anything, let alone get decent leverage on a stuck
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Yes, I am. Life is good being as such.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Next thing, you really are naive.
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apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
The following packages will be replaced
Prez
Here it would cost about 142.38 to fill the tank on a sububurban. You can
go about 546 miles on a tank.
Yep, you only have to fill up every 2 weeks and it only costs $150.00 -
$180.00 to fill it up.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
www.kegkits.com
256-656-1924
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From:
Well, its time to pass the Fairtax
My business is s so small it may not be worth the added hassle this ruling
will cause. What started as something to occupy my time following
becoming
disabled is effective at keeping me busy and organized - but this will not
be a cost effective use of my
The 6.2 was up to 91 when the old body style ended. In 94 they started
putting the 6.5 turbo in the new body style.
Back in my Boy Scout days I worked at a summer camp that and a mid- '80s
Suburban (old boxy body style) with a 454ci v8, big tires etc. It had been
a fire department brush
So there were no diesels at all from '92-'93?
According to fueleconomy.gov in '91 the diesel Suburban was rated for 13-20mpg,
the gasser (5.7l) was 11-15. The gasser is probably alot more fun to drive.
Its too bad fueleconomy.gov doesn't list 3/4 ton trucks, I'd love to see what
the camp's big
Reasonable mpg on that hog?? What a joke
Wilton
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From: Fmiser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Had / got to drive the company's Suburban yesterday
It seems
Sell it and tell her you donated it to starving homeless retarded
autistic bind HIV infected orphans in Detroit.
-Dave Walton
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lets say somebody, your mother-in-law maybe, gave you a Nintendo game for
Christmas.
Lets say
My new 1983 300TD turbodiesel consistently clunks when shifting down as I
apply brakes. Last night, I ran a vacuum check on the black plastic line
heading down to the AT modulator valve from the vacuum control valve. Is
this supposed to hold vacuum? The engine was not running when I performed
Reasonable mpg on that hog?? What a joke
Everybody I know with a burbinator doesn't talk much
about the mileage. They don't use them as grocery
getters, unless they're going to Costco! The one guy
with a diesel ended up selling it as they wanted
something newer. That's the only one
Fueleconomy.gov is an interesting site. Today I found a list of diesel vehicles
by year 2009-1985
http://fueleconomy.gov/feg/diesel.shtml
I'd love to have the opportunity to play with some of these cars... Interesting
that my 190D is rated 26/35, my 70,000 mile average is alot closer to 38mpg
I ran a vacuum check on the black plastic line
heading down to the AT modulator valve from the vacuum control valve.
Is
this supposed to hold vacuum?
Yes. Are you sure you were on the right line? There's also a
vent line that goes into the cabin. It's open (on purpose) at
the other end.
This is the BLACK line that heads toward the firewall and down past the back
of the valve cover, disappearing into no man's land...
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ran a vacuum check on the black plastic line
heading down to the AT modulator valve from
Professional quality floor jack and tall jackstands will accomplish the same
thing and be more useful for other things...
-Curt
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:27:16 -0400
From: andrew strasfogel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Lifts
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Message-ID:
Reasonable is in the eye of the beholder. If you had to haul 6 people camping
the Suburban is the way to go. You'd need 2 190D's to do the same job, maybe 3
if you had a lot of gear.
Better mileage would more than be eaten up by wear on 3 vehicles.
-Curt
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:44:26 -0400
I don't know exactly what is on your car, or exactly what you are
referring to (my ignorance), but on the son's 84 SD there are a bunch of
vac hoses going into a little box on top of the valve cover. In trying
to get the vac working, after rebuilding the pump, I traced a problem to
that box.
andrew strasfogel wrote:
No standing, unless you have a pit in your garage, but you can sit. The max
lift height is 26.
Does it lift the chassis or the wheels?
Mitch.
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Curt Raymond wrote:
How godawful slow must the GM cars with the 4.3l have been? Thats like an
80hp motor. 3spd automatic too
Huge variance there. Some were absolute pigs, like my Dad's Ciera that got
30mpg
on a good day and did 0-60 in 28 seconds. Others were surprisingly quick. One
OK Don wrote:
(We JUST got the intake manifold back on - it almost hurts my son to
think about taking it off again.)
If you make the right tool it is a walk in the park. On my 2.5T I
couldn't remove the manifold at all without it. When I replaced the
delivery valves a month or so ago, I
x2 on the lotsa books. Not into the sports thing... Lots of bike riding
though. Some of the stuff I remember most were playing with Lego's, a
few hot-wheels, and K'Nex like stuff you could assemble. And books.
I'm up to a few hundred at the moment, and Dad has at least 2-3x as many
as I do!
My Dad reads like crazy, every time I go to my parent's house I have to take a
couple bags of books. It takes me months to work through them. Then I have to
give them away, he doesn't want them back. Mostly sci-fi and fantasy stuff.
2x on the Legos. I also had Capcella (sp?) that was neat and a
John Robbins wrote:
If you want pics of the tool I made let me know, and I'll post them to
the list.
Tools are good. Let's see what you made.
Seems like for glow plugs Marshall recommended the Snap-On socket with built in
ball joint swivel.
Mitch.
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
andrew strasfogel wrote:
No standing, unless you have a pit in your garage, but you can sit. The max
lift height is 26.
Does it lift the chassis or the wheels?
That's the crucial question, from my POV. Getting the
Some of the wheels only lifts have an option to support the frame
and allow wheels off ramp when raised.
Chuck
On Aug 28, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Alex Chamberlain wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
andrew strasfogel wrote:
No standing, unless you have a
Rolf wrote:
SSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrSSSfYE2dQ
I guess commercials are a bit different elsewhere.
Another example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ch9a4gzr60
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Tuesday when I left for work my wife called to tell me her cell phone was in my
190D. I went back and left the car running while I ran inside. When I got back
on the road the parking brake lever wouldn't go all the way down and the light
was on...
Yesterday while putting the console back
What I have been beholding around here for many years is that they seem to
be used mainly by 120-pound little blond women to haul little Johnny and
little Janie 2 to 5 mi. to school. 'Doesn't seem to be very efficient use
of 7k to 9k pound vehicle. 'Lot of it seems to be, Mine's bigger'n yours.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Wilton Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I have been beholding around here for many years is that they seem to
be used mainly by 120-pound little blond women to haul little Johnny and
little Janie 2 to 5 mi. to school. 'Doesn't seem to be very efficient
Correction: Those girl children would be Dakota, MacKenzie, Taylor, or
Kendall
--R
Wilton Strickland wrote:
What I have been beholding around here for many years is that they seem to
be used mainly by 120-pound little blond women to haul little Johnny and
little Janie 2 to 5 mi. to school.
McMansion reminds me of another question I've been asking while driving
through the countryside for many years, Where are all these 30 and
35-year-old people getting all the money to build all these huge houses?
'Been getting some answers on that recently, haven't we?
BTW, notice how the
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:54 AM, andrew strasfogel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the BLACK line that heads toward the firewall and down past the back
of the valve cover, disappearing into no man's land...
If the modulator will not hold vacuum, it does indeed need to be replaced.
To make
Where are all these 30 and
35-year-old people getting all the money to build all these huge houses?
'Been getting some answers on that recently, haven't we?
With the bailout of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and subprime borrowers, ultimately
the American taxpayer is who will pay. I say let 'em lose
Another example of the value in owning a lift!
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Alex Chamberlain
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:54 AM, andrew strasfogel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the BLACK line that heads toward the firewall and down past the
back
of the valve
Ashleigh, Jessica, Shannon, or Delmarva. (I made up the last one up).
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Rich Thomas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Correction: Those girl children would be Dakota, MacKenzie, Taylor, or
Kendall
--R
Wilton Strickland wrote:
What I have been beholding around
You are so out of touch with the new yupster affectations. You need to
get out in the real world more. Maybe move to the burbs, buy a Burb,
and start living a life of McMansion mirth.
I do kinda like that last one though, I think I sat next to her in
homeroom in high school.
--R
andrew
I like gables. They add interest to a roofline.
But then, I like Suburbans too. I had one for 10 years and would have another
if the fuel prices didnt' deter me.
Randy
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Yeah, Andrew needs to do that too. Then his McMansion garage could have
sufficient height for the full size lift!
Randy
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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:17 PM
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I have 95 diesel suburban and drive it at 60 miles per hour on trips. I get 22
mpg at that speed but it would drop 20% at 65. With the 40 gallon tank, it
will easily go more than 800 miles.
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That is the problem and one of the reasons why SUV's became popular. They are
just the tall stationwagons of old.
They haul like a truck and like a van and can tow a trailer or boat etc. I had
a Suburban for 10 years and it was
great for the 175 mile (each way) to the lake. It was a beast in
For all you former Beetle owners who always lusted for a Westfalia camper:
http://www.verdier.ca/
Dan
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Thats hot but looks pricey.
-Rolf
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:08 PM, R A Bennell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pull the 3rd seat, flip the 2nd and
haul sheets of plywood like a pickup truck.
Hmm, interesting. Never having had a Suburban I didn't know they had
a 4x8 load area with the 2nd row seats folded down. Maybe I should
get one
Randy wrote: That is the problem and one of the reasons why SUV's became
popular. They are just the tall stationwagons of old. They haul like a truck
and like a van and can tow a trailer or boat etc. I had a Suburban for 10 years
and it was great for the 175 mile (each way) to the lake. It was
R A Bennell wrote:
I wish the insurance folks would let me swap plates from one to another.
I always have plates on 2-3 cars, but I rarely, if ever, insure more than one.
When the Achieva breaks a plastic water outlet and spews coolant, I call up the
agent and ask to transfer all coverage
A friend bought herself a Econoline and had a pop-top conversion done this
spring, now she's touring Northern USA and Canada in it. Not as pretty as that
Westy though.
http://s520.photobucket.com/albums/w325/newly2b/Badlands/?action=viewcurrent=ScreenHunter_03Aug201428.gif
For supper today I had 6 eggs. 4 were never refrigerated since I
brought them in from the chickens and fried them. 2 1/2 (1 extra large
double yoke) made a very tasty cheese omelet. If you've never tasted a
fresh egg, you do not know what you are missing!
Luther
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend bought herself a Econoline and had a pop-top conversion done this
spring, now she's touring Northern USA and Canada in it. Not as pretty as that
Westy though.
I'd do a TDI
Sincerely,
Tyler William H Backman
1987 190D Turbo Biodiesel
On Aug 28, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Alex Chamberlain wrote:
If I win the lottery I'm buying one of those Vanagon Westies and then
getting a Subaru engine put in it.
Alex
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On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Tyler Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd do a TDI
I adore the TDI engine, but it's always seemed to me like a kludge to
put an inline engine in an engine bay designed for a boxer, since the
shapes are so different. Don't you have to either modify the
There's a farm stand across the road and they have all kinds of critters
wandering the place, and a little petting zoo kind of thing for the city
folk. Anyway, they have a bunch of chickens and ducks of various sorts
that lay eggs here and there, and when I stopped there the other day the
Curt,
If you ever want to get rid of any scifi or fantasy books, send them to
me. I'll pay the shipping.
Manfred
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:20:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My Dad reads like crazy, every time I go to my parent's house I have to
take a couple bags of
Younger son had 'bout an '02 Westfalia with V-6; 'drove it 'bout 130 kmi;
'sold it a year ago for nearly 75% of what he paid for it new; 'bought an MB
R320CDI ('O7, I think).
Wilton
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Will have one or the other of my 190D's going this weekend, so I will be
ready to put the cheap yet good 300E everywhere to get it sold. Anybody
want it cheap now better let me know.
--
Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK
92 300SD, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 91 300E, 89 560SEL,
87 300SDL x2, 86
You have no idea how wrong you are. Once you have had a lift, you will
never go back. Too bad I have never had one.
Curt Raymond wrote:
Professional quality floor jack and tall jackstands will accomplish the same
thing and be more useful for other things...
-Curt
Date: Thu, 28 Aug
speaking of lifts, wondered about installing one on a concrete pad
outside? I end up working outside most of the time anyway, will the
weather ruin one? I have seen them installed outside at all kinds of
shops around here.
Mitch Haley wrote:
andrew strasfogel wrote:
No standing, unless you
yea, post them
John Robbins wrote:
OK Don wrote:
(We JUST got the intake manifold back on - it almost hurts my son to
think about taking it off again.)
If you make the right tool it is a walk in the park. On my 2.5T I
couldn't remove the manifold at all without it. When I replaced the
all i want cheap is your chubby okie body
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Will have one or the other of my 190D's going this weekend, so I will be
ready to put the cheap yet good 300E everywhere to get it sold. Anybody
want it cheap now better let
http://www.latimes.com/la-me-hill29-2008aug29,0,2922168.story
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(http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv000547)
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I have always wanted one of those but never had one. Had several 6.2's
though. My 95 1 ton was a 6.5, but just something about the diesel burbs
Allen Sawyer wrote:
I have 95 diesel suburban and drive it at 60 miles per hour on trips. I get
22 mpg at that speed but it would drop 20% at 65.
oh geez
Gary Hurst wrote:
all i want cheap is your chubby okie body
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Will have one or the other of my 190D's going this weekend, so I will be
ready to put the cheap yet good 300E everywhere to get it sold. Anybody
It's more the principle of the matter - that the enginelooks complete
now, after being apart all summer.
If you're referring to the lower manifold to head bolts, I solved that
one years ago on the SDL - use a 1/4 socket set, cut a 6mm Allen
wrench to get a piece to make a bit that fits in the 6mm
Yeahbut they're banned by the HOA.
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:59:55 -0500
From: R A Bennell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Had / got to drive the company's Suburban yesterday
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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A 26 wheel lift? Waste of time. You realize thats 2 feet 2 inches?
A real 4 post lift? Priceless...
-Curt
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:59:24 -0500
From: Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Lifts
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds like the use it or loose it syndrome. Use the parking brake
every time you park the car ---
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tuesday when I left for work my wife called to tell me her cell phone was in
my 190D. I went back and left the car running
Don't have those around here thank goodness.
Randy
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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 7:48 PM
To: Diesel List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Had / got to drive the company's Suburban yesterday
Yeahbut they're
Coming home tonight I got off the highway onto a fast secondary road. Crested a
hill at ~50mph when all to once several things happened:
The steering felt all squirrelly
and
I felt like I was losing power
I thought maybe I'd blown a tire but when I got out it was immediately apparent
I'd blown
No mate *shakes head* especially not the foot ones, the wife forgets
Of course I bet she won't on the 240D, she'll call me and tell me the car is
broken
-Curt
--- On Thu, 8/28/08, OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] *$%#*! parking brake
Our Plymouth Grand Voyager gets 22 to 24 mpg, will haul a 4x8 sheet of
plywood with the seats out, haul the boat to the lake just fine, seats
7, etc. Hauled the 117 iron engine from MN in it. It's comfortable on
trips, but without soul.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Donald Snook [EMAIL
Not where you live anyway, Canada is full of them. Friends in New Brunswick say
its a plauge...
I'll never live with one of them somebitches. I got precious few freedoms as it
is without some stuck up idiot telling me I'm bringing down property values...
--- On Thu, 8/28/08, R A Bennell [EMAIL
WOW - I've never heard of that happening before!
I thought maybe I'd blown a tire but when I got out it was immediately
apparent I'd blown the driver's side front wheel bearing. There was smoke
pouring out and the center cap of the wheel was missing and nowhere to be
found. Looking inside
Tom Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A recent IRS ruling will require all CC processors (merchant
accounts) to report revenue to the IRS. And if your CC merchant
account is setup with a SS# instead of a FEIN#, your processor will
be required to withhold income tax against the revenue.
LarryT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wonder how this affects CraigsList and local Trading Post type
of sales? Then's there's flea markets and yard sales - all ways to
move money around. IMHO the IRS should be content with employer
related withholding and leave small time entreprenours alone..
Alex Chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I adore the TDI engine, but it's always seemed to me like a kludge
to put an inline engine in an engine bay designed for a boxer, since
the shapes are so different. Don't you have to either modify the
engine lid, ruining the nice long flat cargo
One with a bit of MB content --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiL79oxxfIEfeature=related
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rolf wrote:
SSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrSSSfYE2dQ
I guess commercials are a bit different elsewhere.
Another
All these McMansions are built on shaky credit. Lots of them out in
PNW are for M$ Minions who bought with stock options before the bubble
burst. I am expecting a bunch of the older ones will do ok, but newer
ones will default, since they are too leveraged.
clay
On 28 Aug 2008, at
Imprinting is not really that immediate. All my girls imprinted on me
because I was the one there all the time giving attention. The chicks
were a few days old when I got them. The more you hang with them, the
more the imprint. They do imprint on only one person/critter though.
Could
I had a rear wheel bearing go out kinda like that in Canada -- I was
having some squeaky/clanky noises on the right rear, and assumed I
had corroded brake shoes and needed to pull the drum and grease them
where they contact the backing plate (they rub on a Dodge Aries).
This is fairly
Is this common? I'd just thought the other day that I should get the
bearings checked and repacked, its been awhile...
I lost a wheel bearing like that on the Falcon once.
No real warning, went from no problem to no function
in a surprisingly short time.
-- Jim
Definite eBay candidate. Could be worth some money.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Peter Frederick [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Still have the old stub somewhere downstairs with the inner race
welded on.
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apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
The following
If you're referring to the lower manifold to head bolts, I solved that
one years ago on the SDL - use a 1/4 socket set
That was the secret to getting the carbs out of my Merc 850.
That little socket and skinny shaft just slipped right in there.
I outfitted the boat toolkit with 1/4 sockets in
Only as scrap iron. There is a defective wheel bearing race spin
welded onto the axle.
Peter
On Aug 28, 2008, at 10:46 PM, Wonko the Sane wrote:
Definite eBay candidate. Could be worth some money.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Peter Frederick
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Still have
I never did get the race off the stub axle, I had to buy a new one.
The old farmer's race removal trick is to run a nice fat
hot bead down the inside of the race with the arc welder.
When it cools it shrinks, pulling the race away from the
hub. It might take more than one bead to break it
Only as scrap iron. There is a defective wheel bearing race spin
welded onto the axle.
Those are harder to get off!
-- Jim
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Remember -- folks on eBay buy grilled cheese sandwiches with the Virgin Mary
showing on the bread.
Market it as an extremely rare Benz failure, one in a million (miles) --
someone will definitely buy it. Don't forget to do the markup shipping
charges!
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Peter
It's not in the hub, it's on the axle shaft. It woudn't budge when
heated red hot with a propane torch. The rear axles on a K-car are
welded to a flat plate, just long enough to mount the wheel on. They
bolt to the sheet metal and torsion bar axle under the car. A weld
bead might
Im talking about a real lift.
Curt Raymond wrote:
A 26 wheel lift? Waste of time. You realize thats 2 feet 2 inches?
A real 4 post lift? Priceless...
-Curt
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:59:24 -0500
From: Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Lifts
To: Mercedes Discussion
this doesn't make any sense. what sort of margins does a big supermarket
chain operate one?
let's say 5 percent, although i understand the total is lower. so they will
be losing 23 percent on every card sale (which is a lot), which they can
recover in a year or so?
this would put nearly
Those are the standard houses in the DC suburbs located in northern
Virginia. Used to own one myself (Lake Ridge, VA). They are popular in areas
where there are two income families making obscene (to me) wages. The poor
(which I was) had a combined income, in the early '80s, of just the low six
I'd just thought the other day that I should get the bearings checked and
repacked, its been a while...
The ones on my 300sD were done while it was up for the new ball joint. One
of my 300CD's had a wheel bearing groan -- I guess it's not good to put it
off too long.
Kevin in Hillsboro, OR
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