Sounds like a nice little drive.
Are you going to pick up a pool noodle to stuff under the seat? they work OK, until you can replace the springs from a nice passenger seat.
We'll be heading up that way (SLO) later in the summer.
Rob
Garden Grove
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On 6/21/16 11:04 PM, vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] wrote:
Greetings from bucolic Atascadero , California =8-) .
SWMBO and I hit the road in the clapped out 1982 240D automatic as we're in the middle of a heat wave and this is the only vehicle I have with working AC at the moment .
I filled it up this afternoon and was pleased to see it got 26.6 MPG in spite of only 200 # compression in # 1 cylinder and needing to go up steeper hills in third gear @ 38 ~ 40 MPH (AC on) .
It's been running consistently @ 90 ~ 100 * C , it cools right off to 80* C or less when I idle it for any amount of time .
The " TRANS-X " snake oil I added last fall is still doing it's <magic> ~ no ATF loss and the shifting is *perfect* .
The driver's seat spring is broken and collapsing , this gave my sciatic nerve a wallop so I had to stop and walk around a few times , took 500 Mg of Ibuprofen mid way through the day .
As usual , this worthless totally worn out old Automobile chugs happily along , I down shift manually and go easy on the revs going up hills ~ I'm sure I could flog it to 50 MPH on the hills but why ? .
My Lady is enjoying the drive , we came up I5 to SR 166 West to SR101 to avoid all the smoke and fires around Sta. Barbara , I think I'll go across SR58 through Bakersfield to - morrow when we head home .
Did I ever mention how much I love this old Junk Yard refugee ?.
-Nate
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