Re: [diesel_mercedes] LKQ Pick-A-Part Junkyard Finds

 

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On Feb 21, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Nate vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


As I paraphrased :

Even a dead pig finds the occasional truffle, right ? .

I've been pulling blower motors out of nice looking W123's for years, I gave up last year but when I noticed a shiny new TORX screw holding the blower motor to the black plastic cover I decided to give it a try .

Even if these calipers don't work properly, they're the correct brand/ typ to exchange for rebuilts .

Plus of course all the little things, I got some extra taillamp bulb sockets and black / red tracer wires, I want to use the unused places on the taillamps to add LED stop light bulbs, too many times I see folks closing too rapdily when they're looking at their cell 'phone .

Can't use LEDs alone in the brake light circuit because the cruise control needs the resistance of the incandescent bulbs to work .

The funny thing is : on the Pelican forum is a guy who lives near the two South Bay LKQ's, he's always whining about no W123's in junkyards but flat refuses to go look there, even when I tell him what he's looking for is there right now .

-Nate
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Re: [diesel_mercedes] MG's, Rag Tops, Life And So On

 

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On Feb 21, 2020, at 1:20 PM, Nate vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:




-Nate
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John wrote :

Nissan 4 cyl. ohc engines, with transmissions, have gone into a lot of classic MGs.  I see it as a fix for a chronic problem.

js

Datsun Motor Co. began business in 193? building Austin products under license, the 'B' series BMC licensed engine was the one used in millions and millions of imports and forklifts into the 1990's ~ all they did was build it to specification, no re design necessary .

Datsun PL cylinder heads bolt directly to MGA's, MGB's and a zillion A50's and derivatives and they don't have the normal cracking & valve seat failures, proving the design was excellent, only the failure to have any reasonable quality control in England, was the problem .


Michael wrote :

John I recall an assistant city editor at the LA Times who was easily 6' and drove a red RHD TC to work every day. (I was a news clerk).  This was mid 60's and he was the original owner. I have enough trouble jamming my 5-10 frame into my Morgan, I have no idea how he did it.

You're right about shoe size, too. I said (often) that I'd never own driving shoes or driving gloves and with the Morgan I need both. My 10EE feet barely fit with narrow driving shoes, which are woefully uncomfortable on arrival wherever we're going. Without he gloves, it's even more difficult to turn the steering wheel, especially on tight turns.

Michael

This depends a lot on how your body is formed ~ before my back troubles I was 6'1" tall and never had any problems fitting into tiny vehicles ~ I'm still 6' even and pretty much fit O.K. in spite of my fat gut .

My size 12 feet, on the other hand mean I must wear smaller shoes than I'd like .

I like to drive with the window open so over the years I've learned to like driving gloves .

However, they're very $pendy so instead I buy cheap cotton work gloves with friction dots on the palms and inner fingers or mesh work gloves with rubber coated touching surfaces, usually $1 and always nice as they breathe well tet keep the cold drafts off my hands .

-Nate

Bill wrote :

Around here they thought it fun to slash canvas tops on cars.

I had the brandy new $1,500 German Haartz top graffittied on one of my old VW's in Berkley by some Mexican gang bangers a few rooms away once...

Then at the body shop they slashed the new top to break into the car in spite of it being unlocked and maps and loose wires hanging out of the radio hole in the dash board...

The body hop did mediocre work and installed a cheapo vinyl top and told me to go pound sand .

 I was in a junkyard close to Jer's house the other day and spotted his doppelganger sitting in a chair.... came face, clothes, hat and whiskers.....

It's Friday morning and the body shop just called me to say my little truck should be ready by 4PM ~ I told them to call back when it's actually ready .

Shirley says she'll give me a ride over there to pick it up .

-Nate

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Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: [dieselMercedes] ATF in the vacuum lines

 

Today I removed my new shift modulator, and the O-ring was stretched out of shape, not sure why. I replaced the O-Ring and re-installed the modulator. That sounds so easy, it's a bit of a pain to push in, under the car. The new style doesn't have a set grove for the O-ring, which might be the issue, so be careful installing. I bought a few O-rings just in case I screwed another one up.

I'll test drive and see how it went. Before, I could smell the ATF, and knew it was leaking.

I've gotten used to just driving my '90 toyota pickup truck around, while the MB has been having issues, hopefully my MB will become my daily driver again. The truck has more miles than my MB, 267k to 234k, so always happy when it passes smog.

Rob
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On 1/5/20 2:48 PM, Aleph93 aleph93@ca.rr.com [diesel_mercedes] wrote:

OK, I replaced the tranny modulator with the new and improved model, cleared the remaining ATF out the lines, and it shifts really smooth, shuts off, locks work, I like it. I'll test it out more this week.

The new and improved tranny modulators have a knob on the outside, that you can adjust the shift, rather than having to pull the cap and turn the pin.

Driving the truck was fine, yet I'm ready to drive my MB now.

Rob

'85 300D

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On 11/16/19 1:49 PM, Rob wrote:

Has anyone had ATF in their vacuum lines?

I'm assuming I just need a new tranny modulator, yet just checking in with others to see if it could be more.

The ATF gets sucked up into the vacuum system and rots out the rubber bits. For the short term, I added a small engine fuel filter to the vacuum line, to the tranny today, which should catch the ATF before it heads further in. Hopefully things aren't wrecked in there already.

I also swapped out my climate control module today with another one in the garage, and can enjoy the blower again, with heat and vent. The blower was only coming on, with the Defrost and the left AC buttons.

Rob

'85 300D

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[diesel_mercedes] MG's, Rag Tops, Life And So On

 



-Nate
LIVE in the world as it is, WORK to make the world as it should be

John wrote :

Nissan 4 cyl. ohc engines, with transmissions, have gone into a lot of classic MGs.  I see it as a fix for a chronic problem.

js

Datsun Motor Co. began business in 193? building Austin products under license, the 'B' series BMC licensed engine was the one used in millions and millions of imports and forklifts into the 1990's ~ all they did was build it to specification, no re design necessary .

Datsun PL cylinder heads bolt directly to MGA's, MGB's and a zillion A50's and derivatives and they don't have the normal cracking & valve seat failures, proving the design was excellent, only the failure to have any reasonable quality control in England, was the problem .


Michael wrote :

John I recall an assistant city editor at the LA Times who was easily 6' and drove a red RHD TC to work every day. (I was a news clerk).  This was mid 60's and he was the original owner. I have enough trouble jamming my 5-10 frame into my Morgan, I have no idea how he did it.

You're right about shoe size, too. I said (often) that I'd never own driving shoes or driving gloves and with the Morgan I need both. My 10EE feet barely fit with narrow driving shoes, which are woefully uncomfortable on arrival wherever we're going. Without he gloves, it's even more difficult to turn the steering wheel, especially on tight turns.

Michael

This depends a lot on how your body is formed ~ before my back troubles I was 6'1" tall and never had any problems fitting into tiny vehicles ~ I'm still 6' even and pretty much fit O.K. in spite of my fat gut .

My size 12 feet, on the other hand mean I must wear smaller shoes than I'd like .

I like to drive with the window open so over the years I've learned to like driving gloves .

However, they're very $pendy so instead I buy cheap cotton work gloves with friction dots on the palms and inner fingers or mesh work gloves with rubber coated touching surfaces, usually $1 and always nice as they breathe well tet keep the cold drafts off my hands .

-Nate

Bill wrote :

Around here they thought it fun to slash canvas tops on cars.

I had the brandy new $1,500 German Haartz top graffittied on one of my old VW's in Berkley by some Mexican gang bangers a few rooms away once...

Then at the body shop they slashed the new top to break into the car in spite of it being unlocked and maps and loose wires hanging out of the radio hole in the dash board...

The body hop did mediocre work and installed a cheapo vinyl top and told me to go pound sand .

 I was in a junkyard close to Jer's house the other day and spotted his doppelganger sitting in a chair.... came face, clothes, hat and whiskers....

It's Friday morning and the body shop just called me to say my little truck should be ready by 4PM ~ I told them to call back when it's actually ready .

Shirley says she'll give me a ride over there to pick it up .

-Nate

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[diesel_mercedes] LKQ Pick-A-Part Junkyard Finds

 

As I paraphrased :

Even a dead pig finds the occasional truffle, right ? .

I've been pulling blower motors out of nice looking W123's for years, I gave up last year but when I noticed a shiny new TORX screw holding the blower motor to the black plastic cover I decided to give it a try .

Even if these calipers don't work properly, they're the correct brand/ typ to exchange for rebuilts .

Plus of course all the little things, I got some extra taillamp bulb sockets and black / red tracer wires, I want to use the unused places on the taillamps to add LED stop light bulbs, too many times I see folks closing too rapdily when they're looking at their cell 'phone .

Can't use LEDs alone in the brake light circuit because the cruise control needs the resistance of the incandescent bulbs to work .

The funny thing is : on the Pelican forum is a guy who lives near the two South Bay LKQ's, he's always whining about no W123's in junkyards but flat refuses to go look there, even when I tell him what he's looking for is there right now .

-Nate
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Re: [diesel_mercedes] Once In A While (junkyard finds)

 

Some great finds Nate.

Rob

On 2/20/20 11:25 AM, Nate vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] wrote:
...Even a blind & deaf squirrel finds a truffle or something like that .

I've been meaning to go check out a 1985 240D in the closest Pick-A-Part  to me for over a month and I finally did it yesterday and boy am I glad I did ~ they were beginning to empty that row as I walked in  .

The car in question was pretty rough, leaking quite a bit of oil (the front brake pads were soaked) and it had apparently died on a freeway and  been impounded .

Oddly it wasn't heavily stripped so I tested the brakes and they were fine, I took the front ATE brand calipers, $ 57 out the door, core charge included . they wanted $18 more for the oily brake pads (!) so I removed them and left them there .

I've been wanting to get away from the original BENDIX calipers for a while now, since I needed to buy new calipers this seemed to make sense ($) to me .

As I was doing that I noticed it's a NON EGR model so I harvested the complete non ERG intake and exhaust manifolds plus the air cleaner can as the one on my car is developing cracks . $24 for the air cleaner, $ 90 for the manifolds, they included the support bracket .

As I was poking around the interior I noticed new hardware holding the HVAC blower in place and remove it ~ bingo ! a brandy new BOSCH one, paid $26 for it, it will go into my gray market '84 300TD .

I also crawled up underneath the oily & dripping thing and took the '81 /82 240D only center engine support apart to see how it works, it's adjustable and I hope I can figure out how to adjust it so the incredible engine vibrations stop telegraphing to the body .

It looks to me that I can support the car off the ground, lock the rear wheels and let it run in gear whilst I adjust the bracket, gotta work safely you know ~ the vibration is horrible .

They were out of shopping carts so I used a provided wheelbarrow and tossed all the hardware bits, engine support brackets and so on in the bottom of it, they gave me all that along with an undamaged fuse box cover, the one on my '84 300CD shattered recently (?!?) .

Then I cleaned up and headed to the truck section where I found and purchased a Ford factory 6 disc CD player for my new old Ranger for $34, no core, no warranty , including the bid dash bezel that included a factory fog lamp switch, I took the plugs and harness' too .

I'd been looking for the factory single disc CD player , this was too good to pass up . I hope it works, there's a BIG YELLOW STICKER in it saying : careful when installing, scrap if dropped .

Not too bad for a half day's work .

-Nate
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[diesel_mercedes] About That Topic Drift

 


Well ;

You could be posting on topic things...

-Nate
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  Mark wrote :

 

 

What happens when you drink 10 oz of Magnesium Citrate?
I'm glad you asked...


So glad I tuned in this morning...

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[diesel_mercedes] Once In A While (junkyard finds)

 

...Even a blind & deaf squirrel finds a truffle or something like that .

I've been meaning to go check out a 1985 240D in the closest Pick-A-Part  to me for over a month and I finally did it yesterday and boy am I glad I did ~ they were beginning to empty that row as I walked in  .

The car in question was pretty rough, leaking quite a bit of oil (the front brake pads were soaked) and it had apparently died on a freeway and  been impounded .

Oddly it wasn't heavily stripped so I tested the brakes and they were fine, I took the front ATE brand calipers, $ 57 out the door, core charge included . they wanted $18 more for the oily brake pads (!) so I removed them and left them there .

I've been wanting to get away from the original BENDIX calipers for a while now, since I needed to buy new calipers this seemed to make sense ($) to me .

As I was doing that I noticed it's a NON EGR model so I harvested the complete non ERG intake and exhaust manifolds plus the air cleaner can as the one on my car is developing cracks . $24 for the air cleaner, $ 90 for the manifolds, they included the support bracket .

As I was poking around the interior I noticed new hardware holding the HVAC blower in place and remove it ~ bingo ! a brandy new BOSCH one, paid $26 for it, it will go into my gray market '84 300TD .

I also crawled up underneath the oily & dripping thing and took the '81 /82 240D only center engine support apart to see how it works, it's adjustable and I hope I can figure out how to adjust it so the incredible engine vibrations stop telegraphing to the body .

It looks to me that I can support the car off the ground, lock the rear wheels and let it run in gear whilst I adjust the bracket, gotta work safely you know ~ the vibration is horrible .

They were out of shopping carts so I used a provided wheelbarrow and tossed all the hardware bits, engine support brackets and so on in the bottom of it, they gave me all that along with an undamaged fuse box cover, the one on my '84 300CD shattered recently (?!?) .

Then I cleaned up and headed to the truck section where I found and purchased a Ford factory 6 disc CD player for my new old Ranger for $34, no core, no warranty , including the bid dash bezel that included a factory fog lamp switch, I took the plugs and harness' too .

I'd been looking for the factory single disc CD player , this was too good to pass up . I hope it works, there's a BIG YELLOW STICKER in it saying : careful when installing, scrap if dropped .

Not too bad for a half day's work .

-Nate
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Re: [diesel_mercedes] About That Upcoming Colonoscopy ~

 

On 2/19/2020 10:43 AM, Nate vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] wrote:
 


This guy had it easy ~ Kaiser had me drink and entire GALLON of nasty tasting cleaner stuff so my experience was far, far worse .

-Nate
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What happens when you drink 10 oz of Magnesium Citrate?
I'm glad you asked...


So glad I tuned in this morning...

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[diesel_mercedes] About That Upcoming Colonoscopy ~

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