Diesel RVs: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Why Not Grease car ?

on my w126 I never went under 50% truthfully.Still I had problems with blow by,now diesel for 2 years blow is less than on wvo.But I keep 100 gals of WMO on had to mix at 50% in case dino goes up. 347,000 miles,30 on wvo mix,34 on atf mix.

Tennessee Nate

From: BStromsoe <bstromsoe@yahoo.com>
To: "diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Why Not Grease car ?

I love our dedicated greasers, and I love our guys who run at the pump. May each group have a great 2013. Query - I get 25mpg as average on my dino fuel cars, what do you greasers get in your w123's?

brian from laverne, caMary (195K) Martha (280K)1983 w123 300d's

From: diyernh <diyernh@comcast.net>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Why Not Grease car ?

Nate, Not really trying to debate this, but, using your logic, if we never use grease in a car, it will never end up in the junk yard? You may be looking at a secondary result of the ownership. Most likely frugal (cheap) people use grease, people with more income/willing to spend it don't? I'm definitely in the frugal group, I have run WVO for probably 7-10 years. But the first mercedes that may be scrapped is the one that never ran on WVO. I have a 300D that the temperature sensor wasn't working (5$ item). It was okay for me to drive for years as I check the fluids and know the car. I recently had several issues that removed my other 2 cars off the road. My daughter and wife started driving the 300D. The radiator overheated, melted the cooling hoses, melted the injector return hoses. Finally, they parked it after a week of abuse saying they didn't feel safe driving it with all of the smoke. Yeah, If I win the lottery, I probably would have the mechanic fix things a little quicker. But at least I am now assured that the 300D will never die as I have not converted it to grease. ;^) My grease car has two tanks. Use the proper fuel for the proper use. Carl On 1/4/2013 10:52 AM, Nate wrote:

You answered the question the same as I ~ " you can't use it as a town car " . 90 + % of vehicle usage is In Town Driving and that's why almost _ALL_ grease cars wind up in Pick-A-Part where we scavange the good bits... " free fuel " ISA LIE . It appears I have missed a few messages , sorry . -Nate Lawrence wrote : > > Why not! I've been doing it for 8 years. My first car a 77 240D went over 100k > and ran better when I sold it than when I bought it. It was always a slug. But > could do 65 or 70 on the road. Make it over the grapevine to San Diego from San > Francisco and Make it to Seattle on one trunk of fuel. 72 gallons. That's 10 5 > gallon cubes and tilting the car sideways I could get 22 gallons into the tank. > You can't use the car as a town car anymore. Minimum of 10 miles per trip. > Line heaters or a veg therm in line to heat the fuel is mandatory although I've > seen some just use a vormax or coolant heat. So yes they do smoke but since > these cars only cost a couple of thousand each if I blow one up (which I never > did) who cares. Very cost effective. I do have to say I lost one 300Turbo to a > loud knocking in the motor & I lost a 6.2 Suburban to a connecting rod going > through the case. This is over an 8 year period. The Suburban is still > running. With an engine replacement. A bunch of kids drove it to San Diego from > San Francisco and back and it's just being used by one of them. Lawrence Rhodes >