[diesel_mercedes] Getting Ready

 


For a road trip to Las Vegas next month ~ the 1982 240D's ball joints have been knocking a bit, I had them replaced some years ago, I wasn't allowed to provide the new ball joints so I imagine I got some Chinese or other crappy ones .


He flat refused to rebuild the entire front suspension like I wanted so now I'm having it all done, using almost everything from M-B Germany thanks to Tom at

the M-B Classic Center in Irvine, Ca. ~ there was only -one- part they couldn't supply so I got a Lemforder center link .


Because the car is out of service I had to ride my tiny little 1970 Honda CT90k2 trail bike down the Pasadena / Harbor freeways this morning, I waited until the full rush hour crush so the speeds wouldn't exceed 45 ~ 50 MPH, often it was slower than that .


I'll have to ride it back home again to - morrow morning, whew .


-Nate

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[diesel_mercedes] Mary's Dead

 

Oh, no ~ time for another good used engine Brian ? .

-Nate


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Well my oil pan issues were complicated. I was coming out of IKEA and the signal was turning yellow, so I hit the pedal and became airborne (big dips going east/west). When I landed I had two punctures, stopped three blocks away to visit someone, came back out 1 hour later, saw the oil but did not check the dip stick. Shut it down a mile later but the damage was done. Was checking the paperwork yesterday and saw that I bought her (Mary) in 1994 for $6000 @ 60,000 miles. She was a bargain and she ran like a top - sorry I messed her up.

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Re: [diesel_mercedes] (now) oil pan

 

Thinking about Brian's story is how you end up buying a skid plate off eBay.
Having Bilstein HDs also help keep the bounce down.

I don't think I've ever been airborne in my MB, yet it did feel pretty loose at the crest of every hill on the 120 near Mono Lake, coming from NV hwy 6, and of course bottomed out in every trough, one after another. It was kinda fun, yet decided I didn't want to rip the pan out there in the middle of nowhere, so I slowed down.

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On 8/9/18 2:46 PM, Mark Bardenwerper citrogsa@charter.net [diesel_mercedes] wrote:
On 8/8/2018 11:03 AM, bstromsoe@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] wrote:
 

Well my oil pan issues were complicated. I was coming out of IKEA and the signal was turning yellow, so I hit the pedal and became airborne (big dips going east/west). When I landed I had two punctures, stopped three blocks away to visit someone, came back out 1 hour later, saw the oil but did not check the dip stick. Shut it down a mile later but the damage was done. Was checking the paperwork yesterday and saw that I bought her (Mary) in 1994 for $6000 @ 60,000 miles. She was a bargain and she ran like a top - sorry I messed her up.

These things don't fly well. Going up is fine, but coming down, well...

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[diesel_mercedes] (now) oil pan

 

On 8/8/2018 11:03 AM, bstromsoe@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] wrote:
 

Well my oil pan issues were complicated. I was coming out of IKEA and the signal was turning yellow, so I hit the pedal and became airborne (big dips going east/west). When I landed I had two punctures, stopped three blocks away to visit someone, came back out 1 hour later, saw the oil but did not check the dip stick. Shut it down a mile later but the damage was done. Was checking the paperwork yesterday and saw that I bought her (Mary) in 1994 for $6000 @ 60,000 miles. She was a bargain and she ran like a top - sorry I messed her up.

These things don't fly well. Going up is fine, but coming down, well...

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