On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
The rims currently on our '95 E320 are
210 204 06 02
7-1/2 J x 16 H2 ET 41
When I get to my storage unit in the next few days I'll take a look
inside the wheels and see what's there. I believe all Mercedes
factory wheels,
On Jul 2, 2012 1:23 AM, dave walton walton.d...@gmail.com wrote:
I have an OCZ SSD in my net book, now running Ubuntu. So far no complaints
once they fixed the firmware, after 6 months or so, but it is not a
computer we use a lot. Definitely the best upgrade for that computer as far
as battery
Can't give you the car now that it's fixed but I would have thought
about it when I was getting overwhelmed with problems:)
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Aww Shucks! Missed out on another drool car.
Looks like I am buying another SDL instead. not a drool car. But
my first SDL was a
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You CAN drain the torque converter(s?), but it's a total pain in the neck.
On Jun 28, 2012 10:54 PM, Dave Walton walton.d...@gmail.com wrote:
If the fluid you drain is in really bad shape, consider doing a few
changes with cheap ATF on 1-2k mile intervals before you use M1. That's
only if you
Yes! Congratulations! Ever since I heard the list extol about the engine in
that wagon, I wanted one. Loved mine while I had it. Ended up trading it to
an artist for a Vespa and some cash. Now I need to get the Vespa on the
road!
On Jun 28, 2012 10:02 PM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net
There is only one torque converter. Turn the crankshaft until the recessed hex
plug is visible through the bottom window and have at it. As long as you
remember to remove your socket wrench from the bottom crank bolt before
starting the vehicle you will be fine.
Transmission service sold by
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012, at 09:43 AM, Kevin Slater wrote:
You CAN drain the torque converter(s?), but it's a total pain in the neck.
Not if they have a drain plug, which most of the older ones do. Not sure when
this stopped being the norm, I'd guess when they developed lifetime sealed
It's not that difficult.
You just need to remove the cover plate and bar the engine over until the hex
plug lines up with the opening.
You're only getting about half the fluid out if you don't drain the converter.
Dan
On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
On
On Jun 29, 2012 9:43 AM, Kevin Slater ksla...@mheservices.com wrote:
You CAN drain the torque converter(s?), but it's a total pain in the neck.
On Jun 28, 2012 10:54 PM, Dave Walton walton.d...@gmail.com wrote:
If the fluid you drain is in really bad shape, consider doing a few
changes with
I thought the current generation of SSDs had the wear-leveling built
in,
so that filesystems didn't have to worry about it.
Just like sealed-for-life bearings, and now transmissions,
the life of your SSD is now defined by the quality of the
wear-leveling, etc. Too bad if your filesystem
What a great idea! My problem would be an inability to fight off the
urge to sample the wines at every stop...
On 7/1/12, Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote:
I want one to do wine tours, big money in wine and carting folks around to
indulge around here. A green biodiesel powered limo
The new trunk lid is finally in place. Friend came this morning at 0800 and
helped me R R; very easy 10 min job. I'll make some fine adjustments to
latch and hinge bolts early tomorrow morning (before it gets too hot) for
perfect fit/alignment. Thanks, again, Rich and Max for your help.
BTW, If I had known about the little clips on the hinge arms and matching
slots on the trunk lid to hold it in place for bolt installation, I probably
would have tried the R R by myself, but I wasn't sure enough that it would
work that way. I couldn't take a chance on the lid slipping and
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 12:28:39 -0400 WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
The new trunk lid is finally in place. Friend came this morning at
0800 and helped me R R; very easy 10 min job.
Congratulations!
BTW, If I had known about the little clips on the hinge arms and
matching slots on the
I have about 1k on the recent oil fill in Frosch. Oil is black as night and
nasty. Granted, I used rotella 20-50, but being a vergasser, there should not
be the diesel sooting up of oil.
What is the group consensus on early change of oil? Should I just go ahead and
toss in fresh oil and
Wow. PNW surpassed its average precip number within the first 5 days of June.
Been waterlogged and cold ever since october. Might dry out in a few weeks
when the sun finally comes out from behind clouds.
I am thinking of putting paddle tires on Frosch
clay
On Jun 30, 2012, at 6:31 AM,
At idle near nil?
Does it increase immediately with just a small bit of throttle?
Obstruction in pump pickup in oil pan?
Oil press on my 81 300D was suddenly at 0 at idle one day after a stop for
lunch; increased nicely with a bit of throttle, drop back to 0 at idle; 3
bar at normal, etc.,
Very bearable 88 here right now; better than 100+ of last several days.
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Heat wave
Wow. PNW surpassed its
get one of the cheap prestone flush kits and run standard water until you have
no more gunk in the block. Move the heater/defog valve thingy around to help
flush the exchanger too.
Worked well on Gump. Frosch was just removing the lower hoses and draining.
Fill through the overflow tank and
orielly online will order it to the store for pick up. I got three gallons
that way. Took less than 8 hours
clay
1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green
1972 220D - Gump - She is green, simple and ran
1995 E300D - Cleo - Used by the Queen of Denial
POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers
Ouch. Flex disk and new trans shaft
On Jul 1, 2012, at 11:50 AM, drcscru...@aol.com wrote:
My step son has an old 1969 220d. It seems that he was jump starting the car
by rolling it down a hill to start. Any way the part (don't know the terms)
that connects the trans to the driveshaft
Never thought of that will see how much it is
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On Jul 2, 2012, at 1:48 PM, clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net wrote:
orielly online will order it to the store for pick up. I got three gallons
that way. Took less than 8 hours
clay
1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone
I have found ubuntu to be far and away the easiest to install on multiple
strange hardware. No idea why. Win7 is garbage unless you have piles of oem
cd with drivers. Same with vista.Bound to be open source support for SSD.
clay
1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green
1972 220D - Gump
Jaime Kopchinski wrote:
The method in the manual really works... when you remove the
thermostat, you get lots of flow and lots of stuff clears up.
Just for reference, since there are a lot of OM616 and OM617
motors on the list, removing the thermostat is NOT a good plan.
I don't remember the
Near nil. Hot idle.
Any throttle will change pressure up. I was thinking of dropping the oil pan
and cleaning it up at next oil change. I did the last change by siphon and
fill.
clay
On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:13 AM, WILTON wrote:
At idle near nil?
Does it increase immediately with just a
On Jul 2, 2012 11:59 AM, clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net wrote:
Bound to be open source
support for SSD.
After reading a lot of reviews on Newegg, I'm leaning towards shelling out
the extra $50 for Intel over OCZ, not only because it sounds like you get
what you pay for in reliability, but
While its true that you should never run one of these engines without a
thermostat under normal use, its part of the standard procedure when
cleaning the cooling system for both early M116/M117 and OM617 engines.
See Job 20-015 of the OM617 manual for example:
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Same color scheme, anyway. I can't prove it's (not) his either way
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will check out any you want
clay
1974 450sl
While R R trunk lid this morning, we touched nothing but the 4 bolts (2
ea. side) holding the hinge arms to the underside of lid - we merely removed
bolts holding old one, lifted old one off, set new one in place and
reinstalled the bolts. Immediately, though, (and still) I noticed lotsa
Maybe you replaces a steel lid with an aluminum one?
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On Jul 2, 2012, at 4:05 PM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
While R R trunk lid this morning, we touched nothing but the 4 bolts (2 ea.
side) holding the hinge arms to the underside of lid - we merely removed
bolts
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:42:01 -0400 Jaime Kopchinski jaime...@gmail.com
wrote:
While its true that you should never run one of these engines without a
thermostat under normal use, its part of the standard procedure when
cleaning the cooling system for both early M116/M117 and OM617 engines.
I have to say that Windows 7 has installed flawlessly whenever I've
tried it, which has only been a few times. It's the dozens of
update/reboot cycles post-install that are the pain.
Ubuntu is a commercially-sponsored distribution has as a primary goal
the creation of an easy-to-use Linux
Yes, the M117 is double throw, just like the OM617, etc.
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote:
Jaime Kopchinski wrote:
The method in the manual really works... when you remove the
thermostat, you get lots of flow and lots of stuff clears up.
Just for reference,
It's not an aluminum trunk lid versus the old one being steel, is it?
I can't imagine anything else making a difference.
Dan
On Jul 2, 2012, at 5:05 PM, WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
While R R trunk lid this morning, we touched nothing but the 4 bolts (2 ea.
side) holding the hinge arms
Cool! I think he spent more time taking photos than working on the engine!
It's an older 3 main bearing BMC in a Triumph Spitfire.
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.netwrote:
That's what I'm thinking.
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fw: 126 trunk lid
Maybe you replaces a steel lid with an aluminum one?
Sent
Me, either; going out right now to check with magnet. 'Pretty sure new
one is AL; 'suspect old one is steel.
'Just glanced at springs - coil on each side in compression.
Wilton
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From: Dan Penoff lwb...@yahoo.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
..Not if they have a drain plug, which most of the older ones do. Not sure
when this stopped being the norm, I'd guess when they developed lifetime
sealed transmissions...
The lifetime fluid idea went away about 2005 after trans warranty claims
escalated. My '01 C320's 5-speed had no TC drain
Yep; old one is steel; new one is AL. Gonna hafta add some weight to
underside of new one - a pity to haul the extra weight, but I can't have
it opening so violently with SWMBO or anybody else.
I think I have some strips of steel plate around here somewhere; maybe I can
secure appropriate
almost too far.
If I am not able to get winblows to install, I have no issue with ubuntu on
that machine. These are failed hackintosh boxes from white box systems or
corporate toss away. AMD or intel, ubuntu does not care what the audio or
video card is, what sort of usb or firewire, wifi
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:31:51 -0400 WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Yep; old one is steel; new one is AL. Gonna hafta add some weight to
underside of new one - a pity to haul the extra weight, but I can't
have it opening so violently with SWMBO or anybody else.
It would be a shame to have to
I take it the springs can't just be moved to a different position on the arms
to change the tension (like the hood springs on 115/123?)
Wilton wrote:
Yep; old one is steel; new one is AL. Gonna hafta add some weight to
underside of new one - a pity to haul the extra weight, but I can't have
One of the trunk lid springs on the 450SLC was not working (one end was not
in it's slot), and it would almost, but not quite, hold the lid open.
Perhaps you coud disconnect one side, and see what happens?
The ither option is to find springs from the same type car that the
aluminum lid came from
I believe the springs are different. Might want to check with the Q to see how
cheap they are.
Dan
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On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:31:51 -0400 WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Yep; old one is steel; new one is AL.
You guys are on the right track... its been a while since I've looked at a
W126 trunk lid in detail, but on W123s and other cars the springs had a few
postions they could be placed. Euro cars with the heavy warning triangle
had their springs in a different position than US cars, for example.
they are on the way to you.
On 7/1/2012 6:01 PM, Bob Rentfro wrote:
10-4
On Jul 1, 2012 3:58 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
I don't have any but I will try to take some tonight, keeping in mind I
have not cleaned it up yet
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On Jul 1, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Bob
That has got to be what it is, and it can make quite a difference
On 7/2/2012 5:10 PM, WILTON wrote:
That's what I'm thinking.
Wilton
- Original Message - From: Kaleb C. Striplin
ka...@striplin.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 5:08 PM
Not sure, yet, if they're adjustable or not.
Wilton
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From: Craig diese...@pisquared.net
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fw: 126 trunk lid
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 18:31:51 -0400 WILTON wilt...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Yep; old
The rear ends of the springs appear to be butted up against forward ends
of lid lever arms. Gonna try to find some lit. on 'em.
Wilton
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From: David Bruckmann bruckma...@transcontinental.ca
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 6:42 PM
Subject: Re:
Or go bad to the yard and get the correct hinges and springs.
Rick
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On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Dan Penoff lwb...@yahoo.com wrote:
I believe the springs are different. Might want to check with the Q to see
how cheap they are.
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On Jul 2, 2012, at 4:10 PM, andrew strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote:
I found the block drain plug. It came out easy enough so no need for the
prestone thingy for now.
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On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:46 PM, clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net wrote:
get one of the cheap prestone flush kits and run standard water until you have
no more gunk in the block.
I have about 1k on the recent oil fill in Frosch. Oil is black as
night and nasty. Granted, I used rotella 20-50, but being a
vergasser, there should not be the diesel sooting up of oil.
May just be sludge coming out into solution. I'd probably suck
out hot oil and refill, leave filter
'Not that simple.
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Rick Knoble rickkno...@hotmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fw: 126 trunk lid
Or go bad to the yard and get the correct hinges and springs.
Rick
Jaime Kopchinski wrote:
The method in the manual really works... when you remove
the thermostat, you get lots of flow and lots of stuff
clears up.
Philip wrote:
Just for reference, since there are a lot of OM616 and OM617
motors on the list, removing the thermostat is NOT a
You can easily make one out of heavy duty wire, a vice and hammer.
Makes life easier if it is longer.
Hendrik
who has made that special tool
On 02/07/12 08:21, Craig wrote:
You're welcome. I figured the picture of how the fan pulley is locked
would be of help to someone. A 5 mm Allen wrench
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