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2019-04-27 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Not at all. They’re just bolted together at the flanges. Take off the bolts and it pretty much falls apart. Bearing was tight, so that wasn’t causing my noise. However, the donut that holds the bearing in the center support was pretty much shot, so I suspect that was the culprit, allowing the b

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2019-04-26 Thread Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes
Nice job! Was it difficult to separate the driveshaft halves? Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 26, 2019, at 9:14 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes > wrote: > > Looks,like good progress Dan. Amazing how much crud has built up over 50 > years. > > Dwight Giles Jr. > Wickford RI > > On Fri, Apr 26, 20

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2019-04-26 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
Looks,like good progress Dan. Amazing how much crud has built up over 50 years. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 8:32 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > Dropped the driveshaft and replace the center bearing and carrier. A bit > different on these older cars than on say, W114

[MBZ] Today's Finnie Fun

2019-04-26 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Dropped the driveshaft and replace the center bearing and carrier. A bit different on these older cars than on say, W114 and later. http://penoff.com/1965_220SEb_Blog/Entries/2019/4/26_I_Got_the_Shaft.html -D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archi

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2018-12-23 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
Actually, they were ordered through Studebaker dealers.  Your Olds dealer must have been a Stuedebaker dealer also, or had a buddy who was a Studebaker dealer. Many Studebaker dealers kept the MB line, through MBNA, after Studie folded. Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes wrote on 12/23/18 10:09 AM:

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2018-12-23 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
This car was originally sold in Germany for the local market, and was later shipped over here and Federalized. I”ve got a beast of a Blaupunkt tube radio for it that I need to check out to see if it works. And I need a faceplate for it, too…. -D > On Dec 23, 2018, at 11:09 AM, Karl Wittnebel v

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2018-12-23 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Virtually every one of these cars was custom ordered. Some were european delivery. My old 190dc was purchased through an oldsmobile dealer in PA in 1963. Black with red interior. Seatbelts were an option. On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 6:58 PM Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:

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2018-12-22 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
So much better than black. Wonder why it's uncommon? On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 9:54 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > DB332, dark blue. > > -D > > > > On Dec 22, 2018, at 9:51 PM, Andrew Strasfogel > wrote: > > > > Stunning! What's the color code? > > > > On Sat, Dec 2

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2018-12-22 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
DB332, dark blue. -D > On Dec 22, 2018, at 9:51 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: > > Stunning! What's the color code? > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 9:36 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes > mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > It never ends…. > > http://penoff.com/1965_220SEb_Blog/Entries/2018/12/22_

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2018-12-22 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Stunning! What's the color code? On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 9:36 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > It never ends…. > > > http://penoff.com/1965_220SEb_Blog/Entries/2018/12/22_You_never_knowhtml > > -D > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz

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2018-12-22 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
It never ends…. http://penoff.com/1965_220SEb_Blog/Entries/2018/12/22_You_never_knowhtml -D ___ 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/ma

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2018-12-21 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Short day, good results. http://penoff.com/1965_220SEb_Blog/Entries/2018/12/21_Short_day.html -D ___ 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/m