[diesel_mercedes] Routine Service

 

O.K., I got up early and was at the local show & shine before 6AM, grabbed an out of the way parking spot so not to bother the rich guys & Hot Rodders with my battered old Mercedes Diesel Sports Coupe....

An hour or so later a few guys came up and babbled how nice my car was and I should bring it to their new Mercedes Club's gathering this afternoon

I went home and did the hot oil and filter change, managed to loosen the engine drain plug with my left hand (ow) and didn't spill any oil anywhere  ~ not the fresh oil going in nor the old oil transferring from the _very_ full drain pan .

I did of course, dribble some droplets as I removed the oil oil filter cartridge......

Oddly, my TWO one gallon jugs of Rotella Diesel oil didn't bring the level up to the dipstick's full mark .

I wonder if maybe one gallon was a little bit short ? .

Anyways, after that I was sore and my back ached so I took a hydrocodone and went to Tom's Man Cave in Monrovia , stopped by my Son's house and fed his dogs, by the time I reached the Man Cave my back was fine again so I hunted up a hose and washed my Coupe's engine in case anyone wanted to look under the hood , then I washed the accumulated oil drips and Diesel smoot off the cove on Tom's 1987 300SDL and just for kicks, washed the filthy wheels too (I don't want to be embarrassed at any car club meet) , washed the glass on my Coupe as it has streaks etc. then we went to the meet and met some nice guys, mostly under 30 YO and all were more interested in polish and fancy wheels than actually _driving_ their Mercedes but whatever .

I headed home about 6:30PM, at 380 miles the low fuel lamp began to flicker so I slowed down to 60MPH , if I'm awake in the morning around sunup I'll drive it to the ProPel filling station @ Harbor Fwy. and PCH, I hope it'll run out of fuel on the freeway so I can get more of the fine black silt out of the bottom of the tank ~ I have a fresh gallon of Diesel fuel in the trunk and new micronic paper element in line filters in the glove box.....

It's running pretty well now, the lopey idle is getting better bit by bit, who  knows ? maybe I'll finally have a clean fuel system . not like I'm going to yank the fuel tank for cleaning with this broken body .

I also adjusted the hood latch's striker so the safety release almost pops out when I pull he inside release handle .

I guess one of these days I'll have to pull the header back out ~  it's in close to 1/2" from all the times the neighbor's druggie / stoner / drunkard friends have backed into it .

Depending on how good I feel after filling it up and fooling with the filter *maybe* I'll head West on PCH and hit up one or both of the Pick A Part junkyard in Long Beach.... I think my knees could use some walking .

All in all a good day .

-Nate

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Re: [diesel_mercedes] Motocycle Brake Lights

 

I think the 305 Hondas were all pretty good bikes ~ I had quite a few CA77's, the 'Dream' version and one CL77, the 305 'Scrambler' although it weighed close to a million pounds and wasn't even much good on sandy fire roads, forget about sand .

I had hoped to be astride my 1970 Honda CT90k0 but the reality is I'll be lucky to ride in 2018 at all .

You'll just have to ride for me and remember me when you're stopped somewhere with PIE and COFFEE

FWIW, the LAPD used Moto Guzzi Eldorado 850's and fine Motos they were too IMO . I nearly bought one at auction for $350 in 1975 or so but that was a _lot_ of money for a young married man with a family.....

-Nate
       Mark  wrote :

And about five-years after you got your endorsement, I got mine, some 3-weeks after I got my driver's license.  By that time I had been riding for 2-years, mostly on the street.  Colorado, and especially Jefferson County, where I grew up, was a much smaller and freer place back then.  The Jeffco Sheriff deputies generally looked the other way at underage motorcycle riding, as long as you didn't do anything stupid....


(BTW, the Jeffco Sheriff's office used Moto Guzzis in the '70s, most with well over 100,000 miles on them!)


I've never been hit on a motorcycle.  In fact, I've only had one real accident on a bike, back when I was still in high school.  I was eastbound on Colfax one afternoon, when a Dodge Dart turned left in front of me.  I managed to just miss him/her, but lost control of the bike, and we went down.  I was mostly unharmed, but my '67 Honda Super Hawk (CB77) didn't fare so well.  It took a few weeks before I could scrounge all the parts needed to get her back on the road. The Dart never stopped.


I know I've been very fortunate over the past 40-years, and no amount of alert and careful riding will keep one from encounters with the worst and inattentive of drivers out there.  Hopefully, God willing, I will have many more years of riding before I get too old to kick over the old Beeser....


Please continue to get better, Nate.


Mark in Centennial, CO

On November 24, 2017 at 8:47 AM "vwnate1@... [diesel_mercedes]" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Mark ;

I got my M1 endorsement in 1972.....

Lotta miles since then .

-Nate

 
 

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[diesel_mercedes] Blinking Brake Light

 




                      As do I Bill ;

I've been asked many times what's wrong with my brakes because I like o tap them to flash the brake lights a couple times when I'm in dense traffic like to - night and idiots are closing up on me way too fast .

-Nate
     Bill   wrote :

I pump my brakes several times before applying full on.  Bill in Oregon

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Re: [diesel_mercedes] Motor Oil

 

For the last 2 years ,North 40(Big R) had Mobil 1 synthetic  0w-40, or something close to that, anyway the good turbo diesel oil for sale at half price ($12) a gallon after rebate. Good deal, I got it for my generator thinking it would start easier in winter. Max

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 7:33 AM, vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


As there's a wallymart near my Son's house I often do too, this time I was closer to pep Boys .

In general I try to avoid wallymart because they're bad for local economies and tend to beat up on their employees too .

-Nate
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I get my Rotella at Walmart as long as I am there anyway.



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Re: [diesel_mercedes] Motocycle Brake Lights

 

I wonder if Oregon ever updated their rear light laws. When I lived there  starting in 1971 you only had to have one dim tail light. max

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 10:50 PM, MARK BRAUER beeser@comcast.net [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


And about five-years after you got your endorsement, I got mine, some 3-weeks after I got my driver's license.  By that time I had been riding for 2-years, mostly on the street.  Colorado, and especially Jefferson County, where I grew up, was a much smaller and freer place back then.  The Jeffco Sheriff deputies generally looked the other way at underage motorcycle riding, as long as you didn't do anything stupid....


(BTW, the Jeffco Sheriff's office used Moto Guzzis in the '70s, most with well over 100,000 miles on them!)


I've never been hit on a motorcycle.  In fact, I've only had one real accident on a bike, back when I was still in high school.  I was eastbound on Colfax one afternoon, when a Dodge Dart turned left in front of me.  I managed to just miss him/her, but lost control of the bike, and we went down.  I was mostly unharmed, but my '67 Honda Super Hawk (CB77) didn't fare so well.  It took a few weeks before I could scrounge all the parts needed to get her back on the road. The Dart never stopped.


I know I've been very fortunate over the past 40-years, and no amount of alert and careful riding will keep one from encounters with the worst and inattentive of drivers out there.  Hopefully, God willing, I will have many more years of riding before I get too old to kick over the old Beeser....


Please continue to get better, Nate.


Mark in Centennial, CO

On November 24, 2017 at 8:47 AM "vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes]" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Mark ;

I got my M1 endorsement in 1972.....

Lotta miles since then .

-Nate

 
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