Nate:
You are truly the energizer bunny!
Roland Hyatt
Fallon, Nevada
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This is an outstanding contribution to the Mercedes collection, probably composed about thge same time as the first auto hit the road. Sir Reginald's Marvellous Organ - YouTube
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Maybe not 
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I'm running the '81 240D on the low fuel light as I'd hoped to replace it's smaller fuel tank that's fungus infested with the larger one I harvested from a 1984 300CD Sunday last , the plan was : run it (the 240D) fully out of fuel then pour in the two gallons of fuel I'm carrying in the trunk , prime it and beat feet home , swap the tank out when it's near empty and therefore *much* easier / cleaner to remove .
However ~ I got home from dinner with my Son , Grand Daughter and Daughter In Law last night right at sun set so I figured I'd peer in the new (used) tank with a flashlight to see just how clean it is , there's no visible rust but I spotted a pool of old diesel fuel and fungus 
in the bottom , not a huge deal , it's loose out of the car so cleaning it is a simple thing .
The problem is , after peering in the sender hole I went to look down the filler neck and discovered an unleaded gasoline restrictor plate factory welded in the filler neck 
. I took this tank out of a super clean 1984 300CD and it clearly has DIESEL FUEL (plus fungus ! 
) in it so who knows what the deal is .
It's supposed to be 97* ~ 101* F plus at least muggy if not rain to day so I'm wondering if maybe I should just change the clear intake filter and go fill it up with fuel and wait a few days to run it low again as I have other works that need doing too........
Stay tuned , I'll post back what ever I decide , I think I'll go home and remove the firewall in the trunk and eyeball the 240's tank to see if it matches , if so I'll try to get it installed in the next four days , work it in around other jobs I need to get done .
-Nate
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Stop spreading the heat about. Will be 93 Wed. and 99 Thurs. in the Corvallis , Oregon area. Bill
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Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2:22 PM
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Age And Working
Just so Brain ;
I was and am still , beat as most of my days are at least 18 hours , often longer , I'm too old for this but don't know anything else to do .
- Nate
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Brian wrote :
Sounds like a tiring day. I changed my air filter on Mary yesterday and noticed that the canister was broken loose at all three points of the t-bar. I have spare parts from earlier PAP forays but just hate to do anything until it is 68F in the shade. Oh well, maybe Monday morning.
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Stop spreading the heat about. Will be 93 Wed. and 99 Thurs. in the
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Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2:22 PM
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Just so Brain ;
I was and am still , beat as most of my days are at least 18 hours , often longer , I'm too old for this but don't know anything else to do .
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Brian wrote :
Sounds like a tiring day. I changed my air filter on Mary yesterday and noticed that the canister was broken loose at all three points of the t-bar. I have spare parts from earlier PAP forays but just hate to do anything until it is 68F in the shade. Oh well, maybe Monday morning.
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Rob , please ping me off list , does this Friday 7/31 look god for you ? .
What time and where etc. , all in an OFF LIST reply please .
TIA ,
-Nate
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Sounds like a tiring day. I changed my air filter on Mary yesterday and noticed that the canister was broken loose at all three points of the t-bar. I have spare parts from earlier PAP forays but just hate to do anything until it is 68F in the shade. Oh well, maybe Monday morning.
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O.K. ;
I got up early this morning and went to look at the parts car Bill kindly hooked me up with , it turns out to be owned by a young man who's deep into the " !!! FREE FUEL FOREVER !! B.S. , he's going to part out his nasty old 300D he recently ran into the ground .
He works someplace where he gets free unfiltered , unwashed veggie oil , they bottle it from bulk and sell it , he's able to get the spillage .
The filler neck of the car was full of rust and globs of semi solid mustard looking goo ~ at first he told me he ran it straight because it's new , not waste oil but as I looked over the car and spotted the clogged clear intake screen , he claimed he filters it down to .05 Microns although there was no filtering setup anywhere in sight .
Oh well , he's young and hopefully will learn , he's recently bought another , far nicer 300D and will soon be cruising it .
The air cleaner too was dented so I headed off to walk the nearby local Pick-A-Part yards and found a pristine air cleaner on a W126 ,happily paid $35 for it then headed over to another Ecology Self Service yard that was bought up by LKQ , they're closing it down and crushing everything in it , someone needs to get the anti - trust folks to take a look here as they're also buying up auto part chain stores to corner the market .
I spotted a regular Junk yard that had Mercedes parts and stopped in , they had a nice clean 1984 300CD they sold me the fuel tank out of so now I have some good parts for both my Coupe and SWMBO's 240D ,
It's 94° F here to - day and sunny , I decided to let the old 240 run , on the flat with the AC all the way up it ran up to 80 MPH @ 1/2 throttle heated up to 90° F and was still slowly accelerating when I encountered traffic and had to slow back down again .
Whew , I'm bushed , home with SWMBO and out of a nice cold shower .
-Nate
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Which ones Max ? .
-Nate
Max wrote :
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:43 PM, vwnate1@... [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
One step forward , three steps back I guess .
I got off work to - night and headed home to try and do home work on diesel throttle linkages , it was still hot & humid so I sat down , began to read and passed out .
SWMBO called me before sundown , I awoke and grabbed my tools , headed out to the street where my faithful old Mercedes 300CD awaited me in the shade , popped the hood and took off the vertical link between the injection pump and the monkey-motion madness , played with the monkey motion stuff a while and noticed there was some serious slop in it all , I lengthened the vertical rod by 10 MM or so , cleaned the ball joints (the lower one was dry , oops) lubed them and re assembled , still not what I wanted but clearly better .
Then I turned the plastic adjuster on the T.V. cable to the tranny a few times , turned it _in_ to shorten it as I disliked the down shifting @ freeway speeds .
Fed & watered my dogs (they're junkyard pups so when my hands are dirty , they get more & better belly rubs) , cleaned up and drove to see SWMBO ~ it accelerates batter now and doesn't down shift @ 60 MPH unless i give it over 1/2 throttle so I know I'm on the right track here .
It still doesn't accelerate with the WHOOSH ! like it did when I bought it and the engine and turbo were both shot , I want that back again and will pursue this until I learn the secret <magical> adjustments necessary ~ it's always in those devilish details
I follow every little thing I can find and after every one asks how come my old beat up klunkers out run everyone else
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I can and will do this ! .
I had little trouble getting it up to 90 MPH on the I-210 freeway , it just doesn't feel right as the RPM's reach and pass 2,000 ~ that's where the turbo spools fully up and it *should* come alive .
Stay tuned , more to come .
Oh yes : the step back part : SWMBO drove the European Spec. wagon into the garage with the hatch open and bent the crap out of the TD only trim piece....
-Nate
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