Re: [MBZ] I don't know why but this looks like it might be a clean car and could be a good deal

2012-08-08 Thread Randy Bennell
On 07/08/2012 10:02 PM, Dieselhead wrote: Bugs The slime gunks up the fuel gauge works. It is also the leading cause of IP failures. It does not kill the IP suddenly, but it is a slow death. No real idea why but the orange low fuel light did not come on that time. It normally did prior

Re: [MBZ] I don't know why but this looks like it might be a clean car and could be a good deal

2012-08-07 Thread Dieselhead
Bugs The slime gunks up the fuel gauge works. It is also the leading cause of IP failures. It does not kill the IP suddenly, but it is a slow death. No real idea why but the orange low fuel light did not come on that time. It normally did prior to that and it has since but that time it

Re: [MBZ] I don't know why but this looks like it might be a clean car and could be a good deal

2012-08-07 Thread Fmiser
> Randy Bennell wrote: > Finally poured 5 gallon can of diesel into it and with a bit > of cranking it fired up. Maybe the screen was mostly blocked and pouring more fuel in stirred it up enough to let fuel through. Maybe. *smiles* -- Philip ___ http://ww

Re: [MBZ] I don't know why but this looks like it might be a clean car and could be a good deal

2012-08-07 Thread Randy Bennell
Or they ran it out of fuel. I did that. I drove into my garage and stopped the engine. A couple of days later, I went to use it and it would not go. Cranked and cranked. Changed the glow plugs etc but it still would not go. Finally poured 5 gallon can of diesel into it and with a bit of crank

Re: [MBZ] I don't know why but this looks like it might be a clean car and could be a good deal

2012-08-07 Thread Dieselhead
bugs? Dallas is a hot environment where the nasty bugs like to grow. I'd not be afraid of it. Could just be the battery went bad. They don't say it cranks. Yeah looks tidy, no major cracks in the dash, steering wheel looks consistent with the claimed mileage but why won't it start? Glow

Re: [MBZ] I don't know why but this looks like it might be a clean car and could be a good deal

2012-08-06 Thread Allan Streib
Trunk lid looks a little askew, but hard to tell. Otherwise fairly clean, but interior looks like it might be a little mildewed. Allan Rich Thomas writes: > That is a nice looking car. Probably some minor problem. > > --R > > On 8/6/12 7:26 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: >> http://dallas.craigs

Re: [MBZ] I don't know why but this looks like it might be a clean car and could be a good deal

2012-08-06 Thread Rich Thomas
That is a nice looking car. Probably some minor problem. --R On 8/6/12 7:26 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: http://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/cto/3187467299.html -- Sent from Craigslist Pro for iPhone and iPod Sent from my iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com F

Re: [MBZ] I don't know why but this looks like it might be a clean car and could be a good deal

2012-08-06 Thread Hendrik & Fay
Yeah looks tidy, no major cracks in the dash, steering wheel looks consistent with the claimed mileage but why won't it start? Glowplugs? Sticky shut off valve? Maybe needs a squirt of WD40 down it's throat? Spose if it turns over the timing chain should be OK? Hendrik who turns over now and the

[MBZ] I don't know why but this looks like it might be a clean car and could be a good deal

2012-08-06 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
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