[diesel_mercedes] Mileage!
I spent Thursday morning in the big P-a-P yard in Sun Valley looking at Cadillac bits, trying to solve the problem of access to the rearmost sparkplug on the big V-8. (Essentially, Cadillac wants you to remove the passenger side front fender, then part of the frame, then lift the engine out, at which time spark plug access becomes possible, if not easy).
Thank goodness for engines without sparkplugs! Gotta find a wrecked GM pick up with a Duramax / Allison drive train that I can swap into the Caddy.
Leaving the yard, I headed down Glenoaks, instead of getting on the freeway. At the corner of Glenoaks and Penrose, Glen's Truck Stop had diesel for $367.9 / gal. That's VERY good here in L.A.
Glens has 16 pumps, of which 4 have the narrow auto nozzles. The other 12 are the big high volume truck nozzles. To get to one of the auto nozzles, I had to jockey for position among semi-tractors pulling full size trailers (and one double bottom, that was backing and filling into position), Junk carriers and huge dumptrucks. Some of these had fuel tanks that were about the size of the passenger compartment of my 300SD.
Put in 13.669 gal. with 402.7 on the ODO, for 29.46 mpg. Not too slouchy for a 300SD with a fat guy driving and hundreds of pounds of tools in the trunk. I think that most of this was freeway mileage.
After filling up, I headed to Tyermans in Burbank and had the front end aligned. They said the toe-in was way off. Afterwards, it certainly rides better, and so the mileage may even improve.
Today, Nate and I were back in the same yard. Lots of 107s (both hard and soft top) and 126s, but only one 123, and that one was a gasser. When we drove past Glen's Truck Stop, the diesel price had dropped to $365.9 / gal.
Tom
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