Haha, good one! I’ll try that next time.
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> On Nov 4, 2018, at 11:10 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Hey Dimitri, I hate to break it to you, but there is an app for that. It's
> called 123 Radiator Fix It.
>
> On Nov 4, 2018 11:04 PM, "G Mann via Mercedes"
I didn’t have the patience to wait for jb weld to cure enough to prevent the
bolt from just pushing the nut off!
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> On Nov 4, 2018, at 11:04 PM, G Mann via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> A dab of mighty "J B Weld" on the face of the nut, put it in place, run the
> bolt in from the o
I re-used the captive nuts from the old radiator but they would not stay put!
Perhaps the teeth on the old nuts were worn off? How is the oil cooler held in
place without being bolted to the radiator? I didn’t see any options where a
friction fit would work.
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> On Nov 4, 201
Hey Dimitri, I hate to break it to you, but there is an app for that. It's
called 123 Radiator Fix It.
On Nov 4, 2018 11:04 PM, "G Mann via Mercedes"
wrote:
A dab of mighty "J B Weld" on the face of the nut, put it in place, run the
bolt in from the other side to secure the nut while J B Weld is
A dab of mighty "J B Weld" on the face of the nut, put it in place, run the
bolt in from the other side to secure the nut while J B Weld is curing
Nut stays in place while installing cooler from awkward position.
Lightly oil bolt threads so JB Weld does not set on threads.
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018
So, can we sell "Daylight Credits" for millions of dollars?
I'm in... should be a fun enterprise to punk the hell out of academia and
global warming at the same time, while collecting obscene plunder..
We need more money and power to support our Mercedes addiction.
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 8:43 PM
or buy the captive nuts? actually, they are just insurance;
lockbolts. The oil cooler is held in place by friction/gravity.
Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
Bravo!
Next time, super glue the nuts in place? Probably won't be a next time...
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buy one of the big prybars at HF that look like a 2' long screwdriver,
except the business end is bent like a prybar.
Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
Extraction is what I'm worried about, not seating.
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I'm in, but I want to monetize it like albore did.
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Brings to mind the question. Since "global warming" is manufactured
science, what would happen if some "enterprising persons" manufactured,
say, a PhD thesis which fronted the cause of "global warming" as being
caused
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Next time it's necessary to curse or vent.. whip out the cell phone and
talk into it... they will think you are chewing someone a new orifice and
laying down the law. Suddenly, you are no longer crazy...
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 6:38 PM Dw
Sad but not uncommon story. I refuse to go there except once,a year to get
M1 for my Benzes.
Dwight Giles Jr.
1982 300CD
2005 E320 4matic
Wickford RI
On Nov 4, 2018 8:47 PM, "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Our little town here actually used to have a Walmart up
Our little town here actually used to have a Walmart up until the early 90’s.
Then they started building the super centers and decided to close the one down
here when the build the new super center about 20 miles away. My understanding
is all the local businesses closed and have never returned
Dead evil Sam who ruined small town retail.
Dwight Giles Jr.
Wickford RI
On Nov 4, 2018 7:46 PM, "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Walmart
>
>
> On 11/4/2018 6:42 PM, Dimitri via Mercedes wrote:
>
>> Who, what is dead Sam?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Nov 4
Attaboy Dimitri. No substitute for frigonometry on old MB tinkering.
Dwight Giles Jr.
Wickford RI
On Nov 4, 2018 6:52 PM, "Dimitri via Mercedes"
wrote:
> So I finally replaced the leaking radiator on my 240D today. I bought a
> new Behr- Hella from FCP-Euro which cost $195 including shipping.
I have read of people using the blue sticky putty that people use to stick
paper to a wall or fridge. I have some miniature vise grip needle nose that
often work for me for tight spaces.
Greg
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 11:01:15 -0500 Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
wrote:
> Low miles, a bit spendy though
>
> https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/d/93-mercedes-300d-25-turbo/6740436177.html
This has been around for awhile -- I think you posted it about a month
ago -- and the price hasn't changed a
Walmart
On 11/4/2018 6:42 PM, Dimitri via Mercedes wrote:
Who, what is dead Sam?
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 4, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes
wrote:
I've never had a MB wheel bearing go bad in 46 years of pushing MB dissels.
(but I don't let anyone else work on then=m eit
Bravo!
Next time, super glue the nuts in place? Probably won't be a next time...
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Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
On November 4, 2018 6:51:44 PM EST, Dimitri via Mercedes
wrote:
>So I finally replaced the leaking radiator on my 240D today. I bought a
>new Behr- Hella from FCP-Eu
Who, what is dead Sam?
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> On Nov 4, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> I've never had a MB wheel bearing go bad in 46 years of pushing MB dissels.
> (but I don't let anyone else work on then=m either)
>
> I've had LOTS of tar failures. ALMOST eve
Good one!!
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> On Nov 4, 2018, at 9:11 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> If the sound was wop wop wop it might be your new Pirelli tires
>
> --FT
> Sent from iPhone
>
>> On Nov 4, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Michael Esh via Mercedes
>> wrote:
>>
>> I’ve got a noticea
"Noticeable change" tells me you've got either a bad tire or a bad rim, maybe
both, maybe more than one of each.
A bad wheel/tire can sometimes be diagnosed by removing it from the car and
rolling it on the street; if it wobbles or falls over, that's your bad one. A
slipped belt is easy to spo
Extraction is what I'm worried about, not seating.
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Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
On November 4, 2018 11:58:32 AM EST, Curley McLain via Mercedes
wrote:
>Save your money. Just jack up the subframe one side at a time. That
>seats them enough to get the bolts in, then driving w
So I finally replaced the leaking radiator on my 240D today. I bought a new
Behr- Hella from FCP-Euro which cost $195 including shipping.
The job would have been really quick but re-attaching the engine oil cooler to
the radiator proved to be a real nightmare. The problem stems from the fact
th
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 08:12:55 -0500 Meade Dillon via Mercedes
wrote:
> Regardless it is nice to be getting better than 22 mpg again.
Congratulations!
> The afternoon was then spent building up the red tsunami.
Huh?
Craig
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Brings to mind the question. Since "global warming" is manufactured
science, what would happen if some "enterprising persons" manufactured,
say, a PhD thesis which fronted the cause of "global warming" as being
caused by "daylight savings"?
With presentation by "pier review" if it were written wit
-D wrote:
> He’s a former aide to a state senator. Need I say more?
Okay... That might be sensitive data for you to say. Corruption. And
corruption is the new norm.
tin
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The key to front wheel bearing longevity is 2 things:
1. Never let the kid at the corner (garage, big box store, tar store,
stealer, brake shop, etc ) EVER touch your wheel bearings.
2. Don't cook the grease out.
I guess I could add a third: Use Molykote grease.I never bothered
to get t
Isn't that more or less what I just said? ;>)
Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
He’s a former aide to a state senator. Need I say more?
-D
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I have had several cars with bad wheel bearings. I have also had several cars
that sounded like bad wheel bearings but ended up being the tires
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> On Nov 4, 2018, at 12:43 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> I've never had a MB wheel bearing go bad in 46 years of p
He’s a former aide to a state senator. Need I say more?
-D
> On Nov 4, 2018, at 3:03 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> and they are generally impervious to getting fired. nothing is ever his
> fault, no matter how many disasters he has created. His left hand points
> right, a
and they are generally impervious to getting fired. nothing is ever
his fault, no matter how many disasters he has created. His left hand
points right, and his right hand points left. Don't be standing next
to him, ever!
Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Mr. Buzzword has no idea that any
I had that on a 190D, the womp would come and go intermittently, then one day a
particularly unpleasant "bang! scree!" as the bearing failed...
Curt
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On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via
Mercedes wrote: More likely a bad wheel bearing
Se
I had a set of pirelli on my 98 e300 and they were like roller skates when it
rained. I swapped them off that car for the nearly New Michelin’s I had on the
97 that the wife wrecked.
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> On Nov 4, 2018, at 12:37 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> It still might be
Mr. Buzzword has no idea that anything will ever break. For some reason he
believes ever bit of marketing. They're all the same the Buzzword Bros.
Curt
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On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Jim Cathey via
Mercedes wrote: >
> When the commissioners call the dire
Dunno. I never heard of it until the 60s.
The RAILROADS gave us standardized time. NIST perfected it. Local
goobermnt goobers goobered up the standard time with DST. Then the
state Goobers tried to make sense of the chaos. THen the fed goobers
got into the act.
now it is a goobered up
Bingo! DING! DING! DING! WE HAVE A WINNERNow, how do we
turn that into an albore-like cash cow? Best answers get to be
partners in the scam!
G Mann via Mercedes wrote:
Arizona does not have daylight savings, because we have all the daylight we
need, no need to "save" it.
I do
Slipped belts. What kind of tars? Have the tar store spin em. If
they have more than 1/8" sideways wobble, (or up and down) you have your
culprit
Michael Esh via Mercedes wrote:
I have moved the tires from side to side and front to back with a noticeable
change in the womp.
Michael E. E
I've never had a MB wheel bearing go bad in 46 years of pushing MB
dissels. (but I don't let anyone else work on then=m either)
I've had LOTS of tar failures. ALMOST every tar has died of slipped
belts, especially when I bought em from dead sam.
Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote:
More
Idiots on the radidio today were claiming DST was for farmers.That
is absolutely false. It was done so docs and bankers (and ins agents)
had more time on Wed afternoon to play golf.
Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
I think Curly and PBS both agree on this?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/na
Didn't the idea come from a tongue-in-cheek comment from Ben Franklin about
who Paris could save candles by sifting the clock? Never was meant to be
taken seriously.
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 12:32 PM Peter Frederick via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Lol, the "savings" part was running
It still might beMy experience was that 3 of 4 pirellis on the
burgundy SDL all slipped belts within 100 miles. TZHe 70 miles home
was a clown car ride going slowly as the tires went up and down and
sideways out of synch. They were on the car when I bought it, but
buying 4 new tars was
Lol, the "savings" part was running second shift an hour longer in Britain in
the summer without having to use the electric lighting in the factory -- which
was running three shifts.
Imaginary then, imaginary now.
Peter
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Arizona does not have daylight savings, because we have all the daylight we
need, no need to "save" it.
I do wonder, though, where do they store all the daylight that was "saved"
over the past 100 years? Could it be the true cause of "global warming"?
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 9:25 AM Floyd Thursby
Bad tire then
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> On Nov 4, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Michael Esh via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> I have moved the tires from side to side and front to back with a noticeable
> change in the womp.
>
> Michael E. Esh
>
>
>> On Nov 4, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes
>> w
Ouch!I had a conversation Friday about corporate stupidity. It
seems that corporate minions have to check the brain at the door. It is
the same in every large organization. Ever hear of "military
Intelligence?"
Bean counting bozos for sure.
Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote:
The company
Save your money. Just jack up the subframe one side at a time. That
seats them enough to get the bolts in, then driving will seat em the
rest of the way.
Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote:
It seems pretty straightforward Max. You can drop the whole thing down and
chisel them out. I think the
no, I only save some posts from others.Whatcha wanna know? I do
one side at a time. Use a HF bent screwdriver type prybar on the old
ones. 50/50 Dawn/water as lube seat each as much as I can by jacking
up the subframe, put the bolts in. When both sides are done, go cut
donuts in a bou
Will do. Thanks.
Michael E. Esh
> On Nov 4, 2018, at 10:33 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Check the drive-train rubber (carrier bearing mount on the driveshaft, flex
> discs). Another thought would be a bad u-joint in the driveshaft.
> -
> Max
> Charleston SC
>
>
>
With wheel in the air I have rotated it as well as pushed and pulled from side
to side, up and down, in and out and I do not feel any looseness, tunk or bad
sounds.
Are there other ways to check for a bad wheel bearing that I am not doing? I
do not have a gauge to measure end play.
Michael
I have moved the tires from side to side and front to back with a noticeable
change in the womp.
Michael E. Esh
> On Nov 4, 2018, at 10:26 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Your front rims are straight?
>
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I meant to ax Katie Arrington's campaign boy the other evening if she
was in favor or against this madness, but I think he was too upset with
me for calling her a whiner about her opponent raising campaign money
while she was in the hospital
--FT
On 11/4/18 10:31 AM, Meade Dillon via Merced
and someone wants to sell this
https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/d/1992-mercedes-500-sl/6738808723.html
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Yeah, since he’s a director I think that would have some effect on my longevity
there. Sort of a “The king’s not wearing any clothes” situation.
It won’t affect me, as they’re not considering outsourcing security as it would
cost about 3x our current budget. Sort of tough to justify that. It
Low miles, a bit spendy though
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Winston Churchill:
“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or
petty,
never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Never
Check the drive-train rubber (carrier bearing mount on the driveshaft, flex
discs). Another thought would be a bad u-joint in the driveshaft.
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Max
Charleston SC
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 10:30 AM Peter Frederick via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Check for a thrown or brok
More likely a bad wheel bearing
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> On Nov 4, 2018, at 8:07 AM, Michael Esh via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> I’ve got a noticeable womp, womp, womp sound coming from the front end on my
> 85 300D. I put new tires on last week and that seemed to help but it is
> still there. Th
I think Curly and PBS both agree on this?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/100-years-later-the-madness-of-daylight-saving-time-endures
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Charleston SC
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Check for a thrown or broken wheel weight too -- they don't always get crimped
on perfectly and the lead can break off.
And, has anyone curbed that wheel recently? A bent rim will give a rotational
speed thump. I know, I have two or three on the Golf. Need to bite the bullet
and buy stock st
Your front rims are straight?
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> When the commissioners call the directors stuff happens very, very fast.
> That won’t be the case for an outsourced system.
So ask Mr. Buzzword what he will do when _he_ gets the phone call from the
boss: "Bob, you will fix this today or you will be looking for work
tomorrow." Outsourcing d
Stock Mercedes rotors. The OE rotors are typically as inexpensive as
aftermarket, especially if you’re buying them locally.
-D
> On Nov 4, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Michael Esh via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> I’ve got a noticeable womp, womp, womp sound coming from the front end on my
> 85 300D. I put
If the sound was wop wop wop it might be your new Pirelli tires
--FT
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> On Nov 4, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Michael Esh via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> I’ve got a noticeable womp, womp, womp sound coming from the front end on my
> 85 300D. I put new tires on last week and that seemed to h
Absolutely. However, the director that’s pushing this is all about buzzwords
and what his buddies are doing, he has no concept of the reality of
outsourcing. Things like “our web site is down” or “people can’t pay their
water bills” requires a phone call to someone who understands little about
I’ve got a noticeable womp, womp, womp sound coming from the front end on my 85
300D. I put new tires on last week and that seemed to help but it is still
there. The sound is there with and without braking and is more noticeable at
lower speeds. The bearings seem to be in good shape when test
>
> outsourcing IT infrastructure stuff
And on the day when you flip the switch and the light _doesn't_ come on,
what will you do? How much leverage will you have against your provider?
What is your backup plan to continue operation?
Lots of questions that don't seem to be getting asked, or ans
Our local government was looking at outsourcing IT infrastructure stuff, as one
of the directors has it in his mind that we’ll save big bucks by doing so.
They got numbers for this from a vendor, which, of course, came in well below
what our budgets are. However, when we started looking closely
Wow, I hope the new job goes well for you. Lots of hiring here in
Chucktown, if you've got the stomach for a big move.
I suspect you're right about the difficulties ahead for your former
employer. Perhaps you should form a new company to compete with them and
be ready to take all their business
> On November 4, 2018 at 12:49 AM fmiser via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
>
> > Curt wrote:
>
> > Chinese manufacturers will produce whatever quality level
> > they're required to, its just that the companies using Chinese
> > manufacturing see "low production costs = maximize profits" and
> > tell
The company I used to work for has decided that Engineering in the USA is
too expensive, and is apparently busily out-sourcing to India, where they
can get the same thing for 1/3 the cost. (Last I heard 400+ job reqs were
open in India.) Well, it's the same so long as your only metric is head
cou
I made a trip to our local landfill Saturday a.m. and got rid of a
wagon-load. About 30 minutes each way, and about 15 minutes of figuring
out the county's sorting system for what goes in which bin and then
depositing the trash. They've got the start of a good idea, they built up
an earthen berm
I will probably follow the McGyver route and rig up some pullers. IIRC one
set of mounts stays in the car body and the other set stays in the
subframe. The set in the body can be approached with a wooden bridge over
the cup, hole drilled in center, and the threaded rod puller then has room
beneat
I woke up dead Friday morning with some kind of virus assault on my system
functions so stayed in bed. It was gray and overcast so that was a good choice.
Yesterday I felt a bit better, it was sunny and cool, had an event to go to at
Hobcaw Barony (interesting place, look it up) about 80mi up t
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