[diesel_mercedes] Re: Back In The Saddle Again

 

Nate, how far up the I 110 can you get in 15 minutes?????
But really my radio has quit, the antenna is at half mast and stuck, I do have a new pap antenna, what are the odds that it is the antenna at fault. & how does the trunk liner come out do I use brute force and ignorance, or can I finness it?

Tony

--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Nate" <vwnate1@...> wrote:
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> I've been driving my Metropolitan Nash FHC & my old '76 GMC truck of late but to - day I fired up the ol' Diesel Sports Coupe and ran it up the I-110 freeway to work , I must say it's a really pleasant mile eater , fairly fast , *very* comfy and smooth as silk , even when blasting those freeway sweepers @ 75 MPH & dodging the early morning buses .
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> I rather like the original Becker radio too , last time out to P-A-P Tom spotted a nifty late production (91 IIRC) Becker in a W-126 , I grabbed it (! $14 !) and so will soon begin playing musical radios again until I decide which one I like best for a while .
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> -Nate
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[diesel_mercedes] Back In The Saddle Again

 


I've been driving my Metropolitan Nash FHC & my old '76 GMC truck of late but to - day I fired up the ol' Diesel Sports Coupe and ran it up the I-110 freeway to work , I must say it's a really pleasant mile eater , fairly fast , *very* comfy and smooth as silk , even when blasting those freeway sweepers @ 75 MPH & dodging the early morning buses .

I rather like the original Becker radio too , last time out to P-A-P Tom spotted a nifty late production (91 IIRC) Becker in a W-126 , I grabbed it (! $14 !) and so will soon begin playing musical radios again until I decide which one I like best for a while .

-Nate

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RE: [diesel_mercedes] engine swap off topic tranny swap

 

From what I've seen, any MB manny tranny from the '50 on to the mid-'80's (when the first official "E-class", W124) came out.  will bolt up to a W123.  Of course, if the car and engine was originally equipped with an automatic, you'll need just about everything from the engine block on back, plus the shifter and pedals.

5-speeds were available from their introduction in the late '60s, even in the US and on S-class cars, though most them were found in the W113 "Pagoda-roof" 280SL.  Not many came so equipped, and to find one of these transmissions today will be next to impossible, and cost dearly.

If you're not bound to use a Mercedes transmission, there's this:

http://www.4x4labs.com/2011/03/om617-to-toyota-w56-5-speed-adapter-kit/

Mark in Lakewood, CO

To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
From: duckn8r@me.com
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 17:16:00 -0400
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] engine swap off topic tranny swap

 

Is there any other tranny that can be used on my 300D I'm looking for a standard is there any one that makes adaptors or any other makes fit this bolt patterns? 

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RE: [diesel_mercedes] Re : MPH & Fuel Economy

 

Yeah, it's an irontop.  XLS "Speedster".  '83, first year after The Motor Company bought themselves back from AMF.

It's leaky, noisy, greasy, the seat is torn and you have to beat it with a stick to get it around a corner.  But, you know what happens when you push the "Start" button?  It starts, runs and gets 45 mpg on fuel (gas) that costs $3.55 a gallon.

Wouldn't mind a panhead or even pre-Evo shovelhead.

Mark in Lakewood, CO
(Where diesel fuel just topped $4 a gallon this past week)

To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
From: vwnate1@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 03:07:49 +0000
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re : MPH & Fuel Economy

 

Sportster ? like an old IronHead ? .

Cool .

-Nate
(who ran PanHeads & KnuckleHeads long ago)

Mark wrote:
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> Mark in Lakewood, CO
> (Soon to mothball the SD in favor of the POS Sportster)

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