Re: [MBZ] dipstick shop tool

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
relng...@aol.com wrote: Can you measure your special tool for me? I'll make my own with a chunk of stainless cable... Won't work. I have one (120 589 06 21 00) and it's called Test Dipstick, Oil Level, Engines 103.943 /984 /985 , 104 , 111 , 119 , 120 , 137 , 603.913 /963 /97 , 604 ,

[MBZ] 722.6 ATF

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Confused as to what to put in a 1999 E320 4matic. It appears that the factory fill was 236.10, and now the recommendation is for 236.14, which is the thinner synthetic developed for the 7 speed. But for 210 4matic transfer case, I'm still supposed to use 236.10. So I guess MBZ isn't just

Re: [MBZ] 1985 190E 2.3 question

2012-02-22 Thread Kevin Kraly
Thanks for all of the discussion on this 190E 2.3 intake hose question! I'm leaning toward passing on this repair. She may be better off paying a shop to do the job (1) since they know the car (IE what to disassemble, replace or leave in place), and (2) they have to fix whatever they botch.

Re: [MBZ] Sealed transmissions?

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Mitch Haley wrote: Thomas Savage wrote: If the trans won't survive a 1000 mile drive without changing the fluid, a fluid change won't help - it needs a new transmission. If the trans is healthy now, it should be healthy in 1000 miles. That's about what I figured. Mechanic may have just been

[MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
With disclosed funky shifting. Indy mechanic who looked at the car tells me he strongly recommend fluid, filter, and conductor plate before I try to drive 900 miles home. http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/cto/2863564301.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Dan Penoff
Well, it looks nice. Good luck on the return trip. Dan On Feb 22, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: With disclosed funky shifting. Indy mechanic who looked at the car tells me he strongly recommend fluid, filter, and conductor plate before I try to drive 900 miles home.

[MBZ] TSA and license plates

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Can you carry a license plate in the passenger compartment of a plane, or is it considered an improvised edged weapon? ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Michael Canfield
That looks nice. Good luck. If you need any assistance while you are in NY state let me know. Hope the trip goes smooth and trouble free though. Mike On Feb 22, 2012 9:27 AM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: With disclosed funky shifting. Indy mechanic who looked at the car tells me he

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Michael Canfield wrote: That looks nice. Good luck. If you need any assistance while you are in NY state let me know. Hope the trip goes smooth and trouble free though. I need to establish a phone list for the trip, I think. Looks like I'll try to do it Sunday the 4th to Ohio and home the

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Michael Canfield
I am just south of rte 90 by an hour or so through the middle of NY. 14865 zip. Number is 607-339-9387 if ya end up in a bind. Truck and trailer available in a pinch. Mike On Feb 22, 2012 10:07 AM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: Michael Canfield wrote: That looks nice. Good luck. If

[MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. It's dead, Jim.

2012-02-22 Thread Allan Streib
http://theunderstatement.com/post/18030062041/its-a-brick-tesla-motors-devastating-design ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery

Re: [MBZ] Spam from trainpain2...@yahoo.com

2012-02-22 Thread MG
I have no idea what happened. I just received mail returns from this stuff and I haven't even sent anything or opened anything that was unknown to me. I have been getting a lot of spam since buying some euro style headlights off of Fleabay but just dump them as they show up. I did just dump

Re: [MBZ] Spam from trainpain2...@yahoo.com

2012-02-22 Thread Allan Streib
Likely someone else who has you in THEIR address book got some malware, and is now sending spam with forged the headers. Or it was harvested from an archive or forum you've posted to. Allan On Wed, Feb 22, 2012, at 10:23 AM, MG wrote: I have no idea what happened. I just received mail returns

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: http://boston.craigslist.org/**nos/cto/2863564301.htmlhttp://boston.craigslist.org/nos/cto/2863564301.html Great color combo! If I could find an '01-'02 E430 4Matic sedan in those colors for a decent price I'd snap it up.

Re: [MBZ] Spam from trainpain2...@yahoo.com

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
MG wrote: I have no idea what happened. I just received mail returns from this stuff and I haven't even sent anything or opened anything that was unknown to me. I have been getting a lot of spam since buying some euro style headlights off of Fleabay but just dump them as they show up. I did

Re: [MBZ] Spam from trainpain2...@yahoo.com

2012-02-22 Thread MG
No Glenn, I found out that you can also block a whole web site as in this case putting the avayenoor.com into the block messages window in the yahoo mail setup page. I did that with a bunch of spam sites and it seems to be working. I guess you could also put in yahoo.com there and block all of

Re: [MBZ] Spam from trainpain2...@yahoo.com

2012-02-22 Thread MG
That is the problem with the web based mail stuff. You have to have the java script on in order to do some things. I was just putting some web sites into the spam message block on my account and had to have it on to do that. That may have been when that happened though how it happened I have

Re: [MBZ] TSA and license plates

2012-02-22 Thread Brian Toscano
Probably depends on the TSA agent or airport you're using. On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: Can you carry a license plate in the passenger compartment of a plane, or is it considered an improvised edged weapon? __**_

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. It's dead, Jim.

2012-02-22 Thread Michael Canfield
Wow! What a disappointment. This shit of these companies putting out garbage at the expense of US Taxpayers and not backing it up needs to stop. Mike On Feb 22, 2012 10:15 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:

Re: [MBZ] TSA and license plates

2012-02-22 Thread G Mann
They will likely refuse you access with it if there is a TSA agent with brains enough to consider that option, which might be an oxymoron. I have some training in the combat arts and setting on an airplane shortly after 9/11 and since then I've collected a number of items mentally in the airplane

Re: [MBZ] TSA and license plates

2012-02-22 Thread Rich Thomas
Brain bleach please! --R On 2/22/12 11:05 AM, G Mann wrote: All this would be solved if everyone just flew naked, right? Grant... ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. It's dead, Jim.

2012-02-22 Thread Jim Cathey
Wow! What a disappointment. This shit of these companies putting out garbage at the expense of US Taxpayers and not backing it up needs to stop. It's a battery, what do you expect? They suck, I hate them. The smaller the better, IMHO. I'm so rich I don't have to take care of my crap.

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. It's dead, Jim.

2012-02-22 Thread Rich Thomas
I thought those things had a few hundred small lithium batteries all wired up in some fashion, scattered throughout the car -- not like one giant single battery (though those have a bunch of cells in them)? I might be wrong, thought I remember reading something about them when they were

Re: [MBZ] TSA and license plates

2012-02-22 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
The Tsa is just smoke and mirrors to make people think they are safe Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2012, at 10:05 AM, G Mann g2ma...@gmail.com wrote: They will likely refuse you access with it if there is a TSA agent with brains enough to consider that option, which might be an oxymoron.

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. It's dead, Jim.

2012-02-22 Thread G Mann
Maybe the Chevy Volt isn't so bad after all. At least is has a self destruct sequence built in that will burn your house down then you can collect replacement costs from your homeowners insurance. eh? A but it's all GREEN !! I feel so much better . TYVM.,,, I'll keep

Re: [MBZ] TSA and license plates

2012-02-22 Thread Dan Penoff
Now that I think about it, I had a license plate in a carry on bag when I flew up to Philly a few weeks ago. Didn't even raise an eyebrow. Dan On Feb 22, 2012, at 11:29 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote: The Tsa is just smoke and mirrors to make people think they are safe

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Curt Raymond
When? Drive it the 50 miles here and do it in the driveway? Or the North Shore is Fred-land. He's probably (almost certainly) a better resource knowledgewise than I am. -Curt Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:26:46 -0500 From: Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net To: Mercedes Discussion List

Re: [MBZ] Spam from trainpain2...@yahoo.com

2012-02-22 Thread Allan Streib
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012, at 08:24 PM, Rolf wrote: Headers show it came from yahoo servers with DKIM. Hacked account. Interestingly enough my nieces yahoo was compromised as well within the last week. Makes me wonder if they have bigger issues with authentication. There have been several recent

Re: [MBZ] Dang this looks nice

2012-02-22 Thread Randy Bennell
If it truly has only 45K miles on it, then it should bring a good price and the heater blower should work. It does in my 76 300D. It looks as though they have swapped out the AC compressor for the newer type. Randy On 21/02/2012 8:29 PM, OK Don wrote: A - I doubt that he gets that much for

Re: [MBZ] 722.6 ATF

2012-02-22 Thread Fmiser
Mitch Haley wrote: This is for a 4matic wagon which will serve as my new truck and do considerable towing up to 2100kg. I've read that .14 is thin, and becomes too thin under high heat. Perhaps use .14 with a transmission cooler? http://bevo.mercedes-benz.com/d/d/en/Spec_231_1.pdf I'd

Re: [MBZ] Spam from trainpain2...@yahoo.com

2012-02-22 Thread Rick Knoble
I had the same thing happen to me a couple years ago. I clicked on a bad link while in webmail and everyone in my contacts, this list included, got spam from me. I now run Firefox with the NoScript ad on and it seems to be working well. Of course, I changed my password and I don't click on

Re: [MBZ] TSA and license plates

2012-02-22 Thread Scott Ritchey
Kaleb said: The Tsa is just smoke and mirrors to make people think they are safe It's actually more than that. It's also an effective way to kill airlines and suppress air travel. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. It's dead, Jim.

2012-02-22 Thread Curt Raymond
The Volt thing is just a media scare tactic. One or two Volts WEEKS after having been in an accident caught on fire in the junkyard after NOBODY THOUGHT to pull the battery. Whats the first thing the junkyard does with a gas car? Pull the gas tank... -Curt Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:31:27

Re: [MBZ] TSA and license plates

2012-02-22 Thread Rich Thomas
The fundamental transformation of America! We are the people we have been waiting for! W WO! The plate should be OK -- just don't bring your electronic ciggy on the plane and shout allahu akbar while trying to smoke it!

Re: [MBZ] Dearth of 600s

2012-02-22 Thread Larry T
the talking heads convinced people that GM going bankrupt would shutdown GM and all those production lines. IMO, the reality would be someone/group would buy the parts of GM that could be turned into profitable businesses - then they'd de-unionize them and make lots of money. Our main

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. It's dead, Jim.

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Jim Cathey wrote: Wow! What a disappointment. This shit of these companies putting out garbage at the expense of US Taxpayers and not backing it up needs to stop. It's a battery, what do you expect? They suck, I hate them. The smaller the better, IMHO. That's a standard feature of lipo

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Alex Chamberlain wrote: Great color combo! If I could find an '01-'02 E430 4Matic sedan in those colors for a decent price I'd snap it up. All the ones I see are white or smoke silver. It's my 2nd choice. What I really want is green/saddle. And I'd rather have the 2000-2003 updated version

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Mitch Haley wrote: Anyway, here's my take on it: If the tranny can't make it home with fresh fluid (I mean, we're talking 100-200 total shifts if the trip goes well), it's not a tranny I want to perform $500 worth of maintenance on. Argh. WITHOUT fresh fluid, it should have said.

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Curt Raymond wrote: Or the North Shore is Fred-land. Sure looks that way.As soon as you mentioned it, I was thinking, 'isn't Fred in Lynn?' Gmaps says it is 6.1 miles from the seller to 8 mace place. Sir Fredrick, Killer of Moors, wherefore art thou? Mitch.

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Mitch Haley wrote: Sir Fredrick, Killer of Moors, wherefore art thou? I called Fred. He'll probably take a look at the car in a couple of days. Then maybe we'll know just what it is that I bought sight unseen. Secret message to Fred: Drew says to give him a call when you want to look at it.

Re: [MBZ] Nother 107

2012-02-22 Thread Mountain Man
clay wrote: Who wants to drive one out to Seattle? I'm game. Count me in as driver - my brother lives at hansville in kitsap county. I can pester him after I drive your car home. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Thomas Savage
On 2/22/2012 5:10 PM, Mitch Haley wrote: I'm tempted to flush it out with Dexron III, (maybe with Curt or Fred's help) and see if it gets better on the drive home. Any reason not to run DIII in a 722.6 transmission for 15 hours of mostly freeway travel? I'd stick with a synthetic like ATF+4

Re: [MBZ] Nother 107

2012-02-22 Thread clay monroe
OK, then I will have to see about these Georgia cars. clay On Feb 22, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Mountain Man wrote: clay wrote: Who wants to drive one out to Seattle? I'm game. Count me in as driver - my brother lives at hansville in kitsap county. I can pester him after I drive your car home.

Re: [MBZ] Nother 107

2012-02-22 Thread Mitch Haley
Mountain Man wrote: clay wrote: Who wants to drive one out to Seattle? I'm game. Count me in as driver - my brother lives at hansville in kitsap county. I can pester him after I drive your car home. Ya know something funny? The $229 ticket to Boston I could have bought this morning is now a

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Fred Moir
Mitch, et al. An Englishman shopping for a Ford Focus? OH1 The Horror! Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred On 2/22/2012 8:02 PM, Mitch Haley wrote: Mitch Haley wrote: Sir Fredrick, Killer of Moors, wherefore art thou? I called Fred. He'll probably take a look at the car in a couple of

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. It's dead, Jim.

2012-02-22 Thread Kevin Kraly
I was thinking about possibly purchasing the Toyota/Tesla RAV4 soon to be available, but am reconsidering after reading this. The same situation is possible with the Lithium Polymer (LiPo) batteries that I use in my radio-controlled truck, and that was a shock to me at nearly $70.00 for a new

Re: [MBZ] just bought my beater 4matic

2012-02-22 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Fred Moir fred.s...@verizon.net wrote: Mitch, et al. An Englishman shopping for a Ford Focus? OH1 The Horror! I think the Focus is very likely the most popular Ford ever in Britain in terms of units sold, and that's saying a lot considering what a mainstay

Re: [MBZ] Nother 107

2012-02-22 Thread Rick Knoble
Have you booked a flight yet? Rick Sent from my iPhone. On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:40 PM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote: Mountain Man wrote: clay wrote: Who wants to drive one out to Seattle? I'm game. Count me in as driver - my brother lives at hansville in kitsap county. I can pester

Re: [MBZ] Nother 107

2012-02-22 Thread Dieselhead
Try it with a different network card or router; whichever is exposed to your ISP. I am convinced the airlines track the ip of inquiries, and if you don't buy it right away, they tag the IP for a higher price. Use a libary computer if you have to. (misspelling intentional) Been hanging out

Re: [MBZ] Don't let your Tesla battery discharge. It's dead, Jim.

2012-02-22 Thread John Freer
6 volt batteries in a golf cart act the same way. Once they are dead, you need to find the two primary Batteries and hook up a regular 12 volt charger to wake them up. From what I read in that article, the Nissan leaf shuts down everything automatically just before the batteries go dead. MB