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Just did a 500 mile round trip from Mazatlan to San Blas - no more clunka clunka - the car was not heavily laden, but pretty sure the new 1/2 shafts cured the problem.
wahoo, am on the road again.
Tony
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Dino - 26 to 29, WVO conversion about 27,
Rambeling explanation:
Before I conveted to WVO, I would get between 26 and 29 regularly, with and occasional low of 24 and high of 31, guessing from the differences in the pumps. I was being conservative with the throttle and brakes. This was over a period of about 7K miles.
After the conversion (dual tank), it was a little harder to tell as I was measuring the WVO buy the markings on a race gas can and a couple old acid jugs that I marked via weighing the jugs, subtracing the weight of the jug of course, and calculating the gallons. About a year ago, I stopped keeping track of the veggie in the tank, however, over the first 20K, I was doing 27 Mpg combined, not as conservative onthe throttle when on grease as it was pretty much free at the time.
I stopped measuring the total MPG in favor of just calculating MPGD (Diesel) as that was where the cost was. Lows have been in the mid 50s, cold fall season that caught me off guard with unthinned diesel and the tank warmer not plugged in before headding to work, to a high of 200+ in a hot August couple High 80s- 90s weeks with night lows in the mid to high 70s.
Steve
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> I get 25 on my 82 123 using pump and 22 when I am running wvo.
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> To: "diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com"
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> Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Why Not Grease car ?
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> I love our dedicated greasers, and I love our guys who run at the pump. May each group have a great 2013. Query - I get 25mpg as average on my dino fuel cars, what do you greasers get in your w123's?
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> brian from laverne, caMary (195K)Â Martha (280K)1983 w123 300d's
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> Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Why Not Grease car ?
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> Nate, Not really trying to debate this, but, using your logic, if we never use grease in a car, it will never end up in the junk yard? You may be looking at a secondary result of the ownership. Most likely frugal (cheap) people use grease, people with more income/willing to spend it don't? I'm definitely in the frugal group, I have run WVO for probably 7-10 years. But the first mercedes that may be scrapped is the one that never ran on WVO. I have a 300D that the temperature sensor wasn't working (5$ item). It was okay for me to drive for years as I check the fluids and know the car. I recently had several issues that removed my other 2 cars off the road. My daughter and wife started driving the 300D. The radiator overheated, melted the cooling hoses, melted the injector return hoses. Finally, they parked it after a week of abuse saying they didn't feel safe driving it with all of the smoke. Yeah, If I win the lottery, I probably
> would have the mechanic fix things a little quicker. But at least I am now assured that the 300D will never die as I have not converted it to grease. ;^) My grease car has two tanks. Use the proper fuel for the proper use. Carl On 1/4/2013 10:52 AM, Nate wrote:
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> > You answered the question the same as I ~ " you can't use it as a town car " . 90 + % of vehicle usage is In Town Driving and that's why almost _ALL_ grease cars wind up in Pick-A-Part where we scavange the good bits... " free fuel " ISA LIE . It appears I have missed a few messages , sorry . -Nate Lawrence wrote : > > Why not! I've been doing it for 8 years. My first car a 77 240D went over 100k > and ran better when I sold it than when I bought it. It was always a slug. But > could do 65 or 70 on the road. Make it over the grapevine to San Diego from San > Francisco and Make it to Seattle on one trunk of fuel. 72 gallons. That's 10 5 > gallon cubes and tilting the car sideways I could get 22 gallons into the tank. > You can't use the car as a town car anymore. Minimum of 10 miles per trip. > Line heaters or a veg therm in line to heat the fuel is mandatory although I've > seen some just use a vormax or coolant heat. So yes they do smoke
> but since > these cars only cost a couple of thousand each if I blow one up (which I never > did) who cares. Very cost effective. I do have to say I lost one 300Turbo to a > loud knocking in the motor & I lost a 6.2 Suburban to a connecting rod going > through the case. This is over an 8 year period. The Suburban is still > running. With an engine replacement. A bunch of kids drove it to San Diego from > San Francisco and back and it's just being used by one of them. Lawrence Rhodes >
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Do people really accurately measure gallons of wvo?
Jim
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