Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
In today's instant satisfaction world, the fine art of stealing gas by siphon has become a lost art. The preferred method now is to jam a sharpened #3 phillips screwdriver into the bottom of your tank and shove a bucket under it. when the bucket gets full, they grab the bucket and screwdriver and

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2022-06-05 22:54, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: Anyone seeing or hearing about siphon bandits stealing gas? I thought modern cars had a screen in the filler neck to prevent this but when I did the recent tank replacement on the '04 Frontier there was nothing, and guessing my W116 and W123

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Anyone seeing or hearing about siphon bandits stealing gas? I thought modern cars had a screen in the filler neck to prevent this but when I did the recent tank replacement on the '04 Frontier there was nothing, and guessing my W116 and W123 don't have anything... On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 8:27

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
I’m just recalling the parking lot on SR3 down to the roundabout before the bridge on Friday afternoons. -D On Jun 5, 2022, at 10:25 PM, Dwight Giles mailto:dwight.gi...@gmail.com>> wrote: more traffic on Cape last weekend for memorial Day. On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, 10:04 PM dan

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
more traffic on Cape last weekend for memorial Day. On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, 10:04 PM dan penoff.com via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Is that possible? Little to no traffic on the Cape in the summertime? > > Wow. > > -D > > > On Jun 5, 2022, at 8:01 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < >

[MBZ] 2000 S430 - 174k miles - $2,150

2022-06-05 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
CONTACT ONLY IF PREPARED TO BUY !!! https://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/cto/d/calumet-city-2000-mercedes-benz-s430/7492804687.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go

Re: [MBZ] OT: VW repairs

2022-06-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
If the viton doesn't last the backing plate will just get cut off. A backing plate on my Ford Ranger failed, I ordered new ones but put it back together in the meantime. Ran it several years like that before we traded it off in 2014, I still have the new backing plates in my garage. -Curt On

Re: [MBZ] OT: VW repairs

2022-06-05 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
what an old mechanic I knew used to call "fiberglass & frigenometry" Good work Curt. On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, 5:01 PM dan penoff.com via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Attaboy! > > -D > > > On Jun 5, 2022, at 4:46 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > I

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Apparently the proper "high season" doesn't start for another week. -Curt On Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 08:27:29 PM EDT, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: Is that possible? Little to no traffic on the Cape in the summertime? Wow. -D > On Jun 5, 2022, at 8:01 PM, Curt Raymond via

[MBZ] OT: Camera drones

2022-06-05 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
They're not just for dropping grenades on Russian conscrips any more. Bought a DJI Mini 2 from Costco. Instead of the usual $449, Costco charges $439 with an extra $55 battery, $40 carrying case and memory card thrown in. Been flying it around my yard and out at the lake the last couple of

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2022-06-05 20:01, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: That said I think if prices go any higher people will stop driving and demand will fall. I think the idea of $10 gas is ludicrous. There was a huge surge in road bike sales in 1974. My 1974 Maino probably would have never left Italy if it

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Some expert somewhere is predicting fuel prices will be double their current price within a year.  You would think the demand would already be down since nobody wants to work and they are just sitting at home.  I can't figure out how they are paying their bills though. On 6/5/2022 7:01 PM,

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Is that possible? Little to no traffic on the Cape in the summertime? Wow. -D > On Jun 5, 2022, at 8:01 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > wrote: > > Best gas price here is $4.79 for 87, diesel is hanging at $5.99 most places > although I did spot one at $6.27 last night. > > Our neighbor

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Best gas price here is $4.79 for 87, diesel is hanging at $5.99 most places although I did spot one at $6.27 last night. Our neighbor went camping on the cape yesterday, he said there wasn't a lot of traffic coming home. Until demand goes down substantially prices aren't going to follow. That

Re: [MBZ] 1982 Mercedes 300TD Turbo Diesel Wagon - Manual Conversion - $4, 500 (Athens)

2022-06-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Dang, thats really nice. -Curt On Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 05:07:05 PM EDT, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote: Lot of work done, needs some work done, probably not a crazy price for what appears to be a decent 300TD 4spd

Re: [MBZ] 1982 Mercedes 300TD Turbo Diesel Wagon - Manual Conversion - $4, 500 (Athens)

2022-06-05 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Tried it. Tried cleaning the amp socket and the pins. It maybe helps for a short time but basically no difference. On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 7:21 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > That’s the old “cigarette butt fix” for the tach amp. > > -D > >> On Jun 5, 2022, at 7:15 PM, Allan Streib via

Re: [MBZ] 1982 Mercedes 300TD Turbo Diesel Wagon - Manual Conversion - $4, 500 (Athens)

2022-06-05 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
That’s the old “cigarette butt fix” for the tach amp. -D > On Jun 5, 2022, at 7:15 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > >> Tachometer is sporadic > > I think they were from the factory. Neither of mine work, except occasionally > they do for no apparent reason. > > > On Sun, Jun 5,

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
It's as high as $4.99 here, one or two stations are still lagging at $4.79, probably none of the weekend help know how to change the price. Diesel 5.69, up $0.20 from last week. On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 6:14 PM, mitch--- via Mercedes wrote: > On 2022-06-05 10:37, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes wrote:

Re: [MBZ] 1982 Mercedes 300TD Turbo Diesel Wagon - Manual Conversion - $4, 500 (Athens)

2022-06-05 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
> Tachometer is sporadic I think they were from the factory. Neither of mine work, except occasionally they do for no apparent reason. On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 5:06 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote: > Lot of work done, needs some work done, probably not a crazy price for > what appears to

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2022-06-05 10:37, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes wrote: All fuel jumped up $.10 last night. Diesel is now $5.59, reg UL is $5.39 here in AZ. Jumped from 4.79 to 4.99 late last week (87E10). Nearby town was 5.10 this morning, other two towns were still 4.999. Filled the Saturn on the way to mom's

[MBZ] 4matic leather interior. Extremely powerful. 2004 e320 Mercedes Benz - $3, 000 (Charleston)

2022-06-05 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Warp drive has engaged and is bending light https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/d/charleston-2004-e320-mercedes-benz/7492194305.html -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

Re: [MBZ] 1982 Mercedes 300TD Turbo Diesel Wagon - Manual Conversion - $4, 500 (Athens)

2022-06-05 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Looks like a good deal to me. Could even be a good flip, I bet it would bring twice that on C or MB Market. -D > On Jun 5, 2022, at 5:06 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > Lot of work done, needs some work done, probably not a crazy price for what > appears to be a decent 300TD

[MBZ] 1982 Mercedes 300TD Turbo Diesel Wagon - Manual Conversion - $4, 500 (Athens)

2022-06-05 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Lot of work done, needs some work done, probably not a crazy price for what appears to be a decent 300TD 4spd https://athensga.craigslist.org/cto/d/athens-1982-mercedes-300td-turbo-diesel/7492628781.html -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list

Re: [MBZ] OT: VW repairs

2022-06-05 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Attaboy! -D > On Jun 5, 2022, at 4:46 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > wrote: > > I also got to do some mechanicing this weekend. Somewhere during our trip to > PA a couple weeks ago my 2015 Jetta TDI developed a metallic rattle. > Listening to it the other day I decided the brake backing

Re: [MBZ] Tire tubes

2022-06-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
It was with you in mind yesterday that I finally remembered to pick up a tube for the front tire on my garden tractor loader. I've already put one in one of the rears but this front has been going flat for a couple years. I haven't installed it yet, don't want to be thrown out of the

[MBZ] OT: VW repairs

2022-06-05 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I also got to do some mechanicing this weekend. Somewhere during our trip to PA a couple weeks ago my 2015 Jetta TDI developed a metallic rattle. Listening to it the other day I decided the brake backing plate on the passenger rear wheel must have gotten loose. Turns out I was right. It's a

[MBZ] Tire tubes

2022-06-05 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
I was successful in installing a tube in the leaking 24” rear tire on the lawn mower. It took a little bit of messing with it as when I aired it up at first it was leaking from the valve stem. It was in the hole at a slight angle I guess this caused it to leak. After a little bit of messing

Re: [MBZ] 2006 S430 - 60K miles - $9,500

2022-06-05 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
I guess someone thought the price was OK. On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: > Post has been deleted. > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 9:25 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: >> Looks pretty nice, low miles, but priced a bit on the high side? >> >>

[MBZ] Mechanics Special R350 4 Matic - 230k miles - $3,500

2022-06-05 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Leaking head gasket. Looks pretty nice otherwise. https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/d/collinsville-mechanics-special-mercedes/7492586259.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

Re: [MBZ] 2006 S430 - 60K miles - $9,500

2022-06-05 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Post has been deleted. On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 9:25 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Looks pretty nice, low miles, but priced a bit on the high side? > > > https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/d/saint-louis-2006-mercedes/7492370728.html >

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Not that I’m aware of. I’ve never seen anything but the regular fuels, but it’s possible that it’s offered at places I haven’t visited. We are at 7,000’, so there is a hit you take for mildly reduced performance. I think most modern cars deal with it without an issue. -D > On Jun 5, 2022, at

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Do they sell the 85/86 octane "high altitude" fuel there? On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, at 11:15 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > Not in Flagstaff. You need to come up to get a better deal. > > Sam’s is $4.59/$4.99 for gasoline. Diesel is $5.39. > > Must be the altitude. > > -D > >> On Jun 5,

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Sams was 4.79 for diesel here last week. Looks like it’s still the same for the moment. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 5, 2022, at 10:16 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > wrote: > > Not in Flagstaff. You need to come up to get a better deal. > > Sam’s is $4.59/$4.99 for gasoline. Diesel is

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
Not in Flagstaff. You need to come up to get a better deal. Sam’s is $4.59/$4.99 for gasoline. Diesel is $5.39. Must be the altitude. -D > On Jun 5, 2022, at 10:37 AM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes > wrote: > > All fuel jumped up $.10 last night. Diesel is now $5.59, reg UL is $5.39 here > in

Re: [MBZ] 61x starter replacement

2022-06-05 Thread Frederick Moir via Mercedes
Kaleb. FWIW. On my 85 300TD, I took the starter out the bottom. The exhaust plumbing etc made it very difficult from the top. Disconnected the wiring. A couple of long half inch extensions and an allen socket took out the bolts. Turning the steering just so allowed the starter to (fall) be

Re: [MBZ] 61x starter replacement

2022-06-05 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
On the 616 it appears the be wide open from the top. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 5, 2022, at 12:36 AM, fmiser via Mercedes > wrote: > >  >> >> Kaleb wrote: > >> At some point I am going to need to replace the starter on a >> 240D. It looks like there is enough room to do it from above.

Re: [MBZ] Diesel Travel

2022-06-05 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
All fuel jumped up $.10 last night. Diesel is now $5.59, reg UL is $5.39 here in AZ. AZBob Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 4, 2022, at 6:33 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > $5.49 here in Indiana today. 87UL is $4.89. I have always found fuel to be a > bit cheaper in the south, for

Re: [MBZ] 78 450SL - $3,000

2022-06-05 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
AMG 4spd? Looks like a shifter knob. Maybe some sort of retrofit? Extra 0 in price Does it run? —FT Sent from my iPad > On Jun 4, 2022, at 9:28 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > Holy crack > > "It was running when parked about 4 years ago" > >

Re: [MBZ] 61x starter replacement

2022-06-05 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
On 2022-06-05 01:35, fmiser via Mercedes wrote: Same with 617 turbo. The steering linkage gets in the way of getting the starter out from below. Air cleaner has to come off. I don't remember if the battery tray has to be removed. With a 616, it's pretty easy. I think the top starter bolt