Always nice to hear from Barton. Especially when one of my cars needs this same rehab effort. Time for another PAP run I guess so I can tear apart a few junkers.
brian from laverne, ca
Mary (195K) Martha (280K)
1983 w123 300d's
Mary (195K) Martha (280K)
1983 w123 300d's
From: Barton <barton.fiske@gmail.com>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 2:52 PM
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Working Odo/Speedo cluster for '84 300 SD? (or a replacement gear wheel? :^)
Here's a link to a site I think I've seen discussed here before:
http://www.odometergears.com/products/Mercedes-Benz/126+Chassis+79-91+Diesel/53
This looks to be the correct gear size...
-Barton
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Barton" <barton.fiske@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sylvia's ODO/Trip meter finally stopped spinning @ 286,700 about 2 tanks of fuel ago...
>
> For this morning's breakfast activity, I disassembled Sylvia's backup ODO cluster over coffee and, well...just coffee I guess....already knowing it too was busted, I pulled out the 3 pieces of plastic that comprise the original gear wheel and wondered if it was worth trying to repair or ditch and saw that someone appeared to have repaired or at least inventoried the part as a 3 initials were diamond pen etched into the plastic from who knows when?
>
> If anyone knows a source for this gear wheel (VDO.com?) (going to ask my son to fab one on his maker-bot @ school for fun) - or was a working odo/trip meter you'd like to part with, pls get in touch....
>
> barton.fiske@...
>
> thx - I want to see this thing roll over 300,000 :^)
>
> -Barton
>
> p.s. for those of you that know me (virtually) through this forum, I've jumped ship from Oracle and gone to a startup - pls check out http://zspace.com to see what I'm up to nowadays...
>
http://www.odometergears.com/products/Mercedes-Benz/126+Chassis+79-91+Diesel/53
This looks to be the correct gear size...
-Barton
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "Barton" <barton.fiske@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sylvia's ODO/Trip meter finally stopped spinning @ 286,700 about 2 tanks of fuel ago...
>
> For this morning's breakfast activity, I disassembled Sylvia's backup ODO cluster over coffee and, well...just coffee I guess....already knowing it too was busted, I pulled out the 3 pieces of plastic that comprise the original gear wheel and wondered if it was worth trying to repair or ditch and saw that someone appeared to have repaired or at least inventoried the part as a 3 initials were diamond pen etched into the plastic from who knows when?
>
> If anyone knows a source for this gear wheel (VDO.com?) (going to ask my son to fab one on his maker-bot @ school for fun) - or was a working odo/trip meter you'd like to part with, pls get in touch....
>
> barton.fiske@...
>
> thx - I want to see this thing roll over 300,000 :^)
>
> -Barton
>
> p.s. for those of you that know me (virtually) through this forum, I've jumped ship from Oracle and gone to a startup - pls check out http://zspace.com to see what I'm up to nowadays...
>
__._,_.___
| Reply via web post | Reply to sender | Reply to group | Start a New Topic | Messages in this topic (3) |
.
__,_._,___
