Re: [MBZ] FW: 1985 mercedes 380 convertible

2014-06-19 Thread G Mann
Only light rust... that will buff right out... On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Fred Moir wrote: > Not mine, etc. > > Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. > > From: ro...@craigslist.org > To: fredh.s...@hotmail.com > Subject: 1985 mercedes 380 convertible > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:26:46 -0700

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Jim Cathey
In theory Google is now indexing this site again. -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Meade Dillon
Works! Max Dillon, Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of

Re: [MBZ] HTML Mail

2014-06-19 Thread Craig
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 06:17:11 -0500 Rick Knoble wrote: > Thanks Craig. Are you moving to Elkart? Yes, I believe so. Exactly when remains to be seen. > ‎Any jobs prospects?  Other than the volunteer position as a missionary with the HCJB Global Technology Center, no. Craig __

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Andrew Strasfogel
There isn't a single w109 radiator currently on ebay, just a W108 advertised as a w109. Idiot. On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Rick Knoble wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:27:14 -0400 > > From: m...@voyager.net > > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > >

Re: [MBZ] shipping for my W124 Radiator (and fuel cost)

2014-06-19 Thread Andrew Strasfogel
Ah, the dream of cheap oil... On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Larry Turner wrote: > sounds pretty accurate to me... > > LarryT > > > On 6/19/2014 6:58 PM, Rick Knoble wrote: > >> ‎Original Message >> From: Larry Turner >> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 4:57 PM >> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com >> Re

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Jim Cathey
http://69.28.35.103/~jimc/genset/genleft.jpg Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~jimc/genset/genleft.jpg on this server. Hmm, some seriously weird permissions turned up on this, in spots. A couple of find/xargs runs took care of that. Thanks! -- Jim ___

Re: [MBZ] shipping for my W124 Radiator (and fuel cost)

2014-06-19 Thread Larry Turner
sounds pretty accurate to me... LarryT On 6/19/2014 6:58 PM, Rick Knoble wrote: ‎Original Message From: Larry Turner Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 4:57 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] shipping for my W124 Radiator (and fuel cost) i paid $51 f

[MBZ] FW: 1985 mercedes 380 convertible

2014-06-19 Thread Fred Moir
Not mine, etc. Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. From: ro...@craigslist.org To: fredh.s...@hotmail.com Subject: 1985 mercedes 380 convertible Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:26:46 -0700 fred.s...@yahoo.com forwarded you this from craigslist: 1985 mercedes 380 convertible http://worcester.craig

Re: [MBZ] shipping for my W124 Radiator (and fuel cost)

2014-06-19 Thread Rick Knoble
‎Original Message   From: Larry Turner Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 4:57 PM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] shipping for my W124 Radiator (and fuel cost) i paid  $51 for Guaranteed 2 Business Day Delivery - which they met.    Shipping has gotten ver

Re: [MBZ] shipping for my W124 Radiator (and fuel cost)

2014-06-19 Thread Peter Frederick
All the oil going through the Keystone pipeline is pre-sold by the Canadian company extracting it to China. Not a single drop would stays in the US, as it is already flowing via a slightly more round- about way. Nice of them to dump all the pollution from refining in Texas. Also blowing

Re: [MBZ] Danish 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Scott Ritchey
Recently, I ignore the drain valve and just disconnect the bottom hose. It's way faster and I think more of the bottom crud comes out that way. Scott > > On 6/19/2014 7:30 AM, Hendrik and Fay wrote: > > The only issue I found with Nissens was they did not have a drain > > valve on the bottom, do

Re: [MBZ] shipping for my W124 Radiator (and fuel cost)

2014-06-19 Thread Randy Bennell
I am afraid to look. Is the situation in Iraq pushing up the price of oil? On 19/06/2014 4:56 PM, Larry Turner wrote: i paid $51 for Guaranteed 2 Business Day Delivery - which they met. Shipping has gotten very expensive lately. Of course, if the Keystone pipeline were released, not only

Re: [MBZ] shipping for my W124 Radiator (and fuel cost)

2014-06-19 Thread Larry Turner
i paid $51 for Guaranteed 2 Business Day Delivery - which they met. Shipping has gotten very expensive lately. Of course, if the Keystone pipeline were released, not only would there be many jobs available but the extra supply of fuel would help drive prices down. Unfortunately everything

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Rick Knoble
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:27:14 -0400 > From: m...@voyager.net > To: mercedes@okiebenz.com > Subject: Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators > > Gary Hurst wrote: >> makes the price far less spectacular with shipping, but still very good > > Was this for an OM602/W124? >

Re: [MBZ] washing under the hood of a 76 115 300D?

2014-06-19 Thread Larry Turner
I've used a garden hose with simple green and other grease busters on my 91 300D - although it stays mostly clean -- Your diesel will probably be OK, but I would be wary of spraying water under the hood of a gas engined car. Too easy to splash the dizzy in which case you'll spend lots of time

Re: [MBZ] W124 602-962 Radiator - WAS ** 123 radiators **

2014-06-19 Thread Larry Turner
Sorry - I should have changed the Subject line before now... Larry On 6/19/2014 4:13 PM, Larry Turner wrote: It's for my W124 engine # 602-962 I bought it through Rock Auto and Nissens drop shipped it direct. (IIRC) HTH Larry On 6/19/2014 3:27 PM, Mitch Haley wrote: Gary Hurst wrote: makes

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Larry Turner
you might try ebay -- as Gary said -- they are pretty valuable. You'll have a much bigger marker on ebay. All the parts for W108, 109, 111, 113 have gotten expensive but they were my favorite MBs... LarryT On 6/19/2014 3:41 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: I ended up with TWO W109 radiators

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Larry Turner
It's for my W124 engine # 602-962 I bought it through Rock Auto and Nissens drop shipped it direct. (IIRC) HTH Larry On 6/19/2014 3:27 PM, Mitch Haley wrote: Gary Hurst wrote: makes the price far less spectacular with shipping, but still very good Was this for an OM602/W124? W0133-1715521?

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Craig
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 22:23:34 -0700 Jim Cathey wrote: > I believe I lost my free hosting, after 13 years or so, > and I'm trying to host it myself. Anybody care to see > if http://69.28.35.103/~jimc gets you anything that looks > like my junk used to? http://69.28.35.103/~ji

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Gary Hurst
those are fairly valuable On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: > I ended up with TWO W109 radiators -- left over from my 280SE 3.5 > restoration project (car was sold; now resides in Boca Raton, FL). > > Anyone need one? No reasonable offer refused. > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Andrew Strasfogel
I ended up with TWO W109 radiators -- left over from my 280SE 3.5 restoration project (car was sold; now resides in Boca Raton, FL). Anyone need one? No reasonable offer refused. On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Gary Hurst wrote: > i think the subject line is 123 radiators but maybe it's for

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Gary Hurst
i think the subject line is 123 radiators but maybe it's for a 124 On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Mitch Haley wrote: > Gary Hurst wrote: > >> makes the price far less spectacular with shipping, but still very good >> > > Was this for an OM602/W124? > W0133-1715521? > > Amazon wants $167 with

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Mitch Haley
Gary Hurst wrote: makes the price far less spectacular with shipping, but still very good Was this for an OM602/W124? W0133-1715521? Amazon wants $167 with free shipping, but that wouldn't get there in two days. I've had one in my shopping cart for a couple of years, and it's been interesting

Re: [MBZ] Danish 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Larry Turner
I'll check when it gets home this afternoon... Larry On 6/19/2014 7:30 AM, Hendrik and Fay wrote: The only issue I found with Nissens was they did not have a drain valve on the bottom, does yours? Hendrik who has a SA Behr in the TE On 19/06/14 19:52, Larry Turner wrote: Hi Gary, Sorry

Re: [MBZ] washing under the hood of a 76 115 300D?

2014-06-19 Thread clay
I have used both a hand held and a hose and wand home unit on the engine. They were fairly impotent compared to the professional's toy. They were really good for pinpoint issues, but would have taken days to accomplish what was done in 15 minutes. clay 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Gary Hurst
makes the price far less spectacular with shipping, but still very good On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Larry Turner wrote: > Hi Gary, > Sorry - I went back and found my receipt - it was actually ~$138 plus > shipping. > > I installed it Wednesday. - it fits perfectly, exactly like th

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Dan Penoff
I know that "Fragile" translates to "throw underhanded" in Canadian Poste. I sent a flat with a set of Apple "Think Different" posters worth about $400 to Vancouver, B.C. It had heavy corrugated cardboard layered to keep the posters flat and unbent. It wasn't bent during shipment, but on the wa

[MBZ] Oil tests [was: Re: W124 300D Overheated]

2014-06-19 Thread Craig
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:00:44 -0400 Larry Turner wrote: > I tested the Amsoil 15W40 Diesel Synthetic after 6000 miles of use > and the Phosphorus was at 1077 and the Zinc was 1257ppm showing a good > level of ZDDP. >From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_dithiophosphate: Zinc dia

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Tim Crone
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Larry Turner wrote: > and, > STRONG PACKAGING > To ensure perfect functionality after shipping, Nissens utilizes extra > strong packaging. The radiator is fixed in the packaging in order to ensure > that it reaches its destination unharmed, and should transport da

Re: [MBZ] washing under the hood of a 76 115 300D?

2014-06-19 Thread Randy Bennell
We had a steam cleaner thread going on here some time ago. Cannot recall who, but someone had acquired a steam cleaner at a used goods store. I wondered at the time about making one as the basic store bought things seem to be too much plastic. I had sort of forgotten all that. Will have to loo

Re: [MBZ] washing under the hood of a 76 115 300D?

2014-06-19 Thread Randy Bennell
Maybe the 240D had an oil bath cleaner but the 300D has a big pleated paper filter. On 18/06/2014 6:52 PM, OK Don wrote: It's an oil bath air cleaner - IIRC, there is an air "horn" under the bottom that has a gight angle and points toward the bumper - but it's been MANY years since my last W1

[MBZ] W124 300D Overheated

2014-06-19 Thread Larry Turner
Hi All - After getting the 300 back on the road yesterday I got more good news today with a Normal oil analysis report. Also, had zero glycol in the oil which hopefully puts an end to the warped head question. At least no coolant is getting into the oil and I haven't seen any indication o

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Tim Crone
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Jim Cathey wrote: > >> Dealing with this is the next stage of the process. I have > friends with sites already, I'm looking into linking to my > site from one of them, and using a CGI script to update the > link as necessary. I don't know if Google et al. will b

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Jim Cathey
How static is that IP address? Or is this just for testing purposes? It's DHCP-assigned by our ISP. No guarantee of stability at all, but I imagine that it will change infrequently, if ever. Our radio link is on 24x7, there's little reason for it to change. If it does, it'd only be the last

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Jim Cathey
Looks familiar to me: This site was started as a way to combat entropy. While I used to rely entirely ... Excellent! Several more steps forward, I guess. That host machine is a cast-off 400 MHz G4 that we were given for free. I managed to coerce OSX 10.5 onto it, which has made that part of t

Re: [MBZ] OT: My website

2014-06-19 Thread Fmiser
> Jim wrote: > > I believe I lost my free hosting, after 13 years or so, > and I'm trying to host it myself. Anybody care to see > if http://69.28.35.103/~jimc gets you anything that looks > like my junk used to? How static is that IP address? Or is this just for testing purposes? For years I

Re: [MBZ] Danish 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Hendrik and Fay
The only issue I found with Nissens was they did not have a drain valve on the bottom, does yours? Hendrik who has a SA Behr in the TE On 19/06/14 19:52, Larry Turner wrote: Hi Gary, Sorry - I went back and found my receipt - it was actually ~$138 plus shipping. I installed it Wedne

Re: [MBZ] 123 radiators

2014-06-19 Thread Larry Turner
Hi Gary, Sorry - I went back and found my receipt - it was actually ~$138 plus shipping. I installed it Wednesday. - it fits perfectly, exactly like the Behr with the AT cooling line connections in the right place and the fittings that hold the rad in place were also all in the right