I can always tell spring is coming as I am ordering miscellaneous parts from various places so I can do fix ups once the sun comes out. It is like butterflies bursting forth from cocoons, or birds laying eggs,
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Just a generally good video on chasing down rust issues (which we in LA normally don't have).
Mercedes W116 300SD Rescue Part 3: Inspecting it for Rust
brian from Laverne
twin 83 turbo 300d's
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M-B has a very specific extreme cold starting drill , if you follow it , it works .
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Lawrence,
Your note reminds me of when "Stretch", a active member years back, skipped out with his VW TDI.
I agree, some form of electric car is the future, though I don't think we're there yet. A few more years of technology updates, and the end of the oil glut, might move that a little closer.
While waiting to get some time to get a few repairs done on my MB, I've been driving other cars in my fleet for the last few weeks. Feels a little weird, as I've been driving my 300D for almost 16yrs.
Rob
'85 300D
Garden Grove, CA
I am enjoying my Leaf. I just drove from Lodi to San Francisco via Berkeley to do business. My tank holds about 24kw or just under 3/4 of a gallon of equivalent fuel. 33kw equals a gallon of gas. Diesel is a bit more. So I went close to 100 miles on less than a gallon of gas. This is why electric will eventually win. It's why a lot of machines run on electric. BMW claims it will be 100% electric by 2025. We run on liquid fuel for convenience and to keep the decedents of Rockefeller rich. . How much longer must we choke ourselves for convenience? Look at China. What a mess. I bought my Leaf(2013) with 2,600 miles on it...yes that is no typo twenty six hundred miles. The price was 14k. I got 0 down and 0% financing. That is 258 dollars for 5 years. It's like legalized theft. I could have gotten a 2013 with more miles for 10k but the 2,600 mile car was pristine. As was the 22,000 mile car. We have had another Leaf for 3 years and it's lease is up soon. Don't buy a 2012 or 2011 Leaf. By 2013 they had the bugs worked out. The first cars are great but not as good as the later cars. Guess what car we will get next. Not hard. Enough of greasy visits under a hulking car. No oil changes, transmission fluid changes, no rotting exhaust system, no smog,...but we didn't do that anyway. No tuneups. Don't get me wrong. For the time I had it it was great but times are changing and I'm getting old. Enough of knuckle busting. I love the fact I will not be maintaining my vehicle because there will be plenty of young studs willing to stick their wand into my OBD III socket. Well I shouldn't lie. I bought mine for 22 dollars on eBay. I will probably dabble using Leaf Spy. Lawrence Rhodes
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You did it wrong ~
M-B has a very specific extreme cold starting drill , if you follow it , it works .
The heater under the engine is wise , a simple 20 watt light bulb under the hood helps tremendously as does using a cheapo hair dryer in the fresh air intake....
-Nate
mj0a0a wrote :My first year in MD after long time in Cali, and I had some recent trouble starting in the cold, even after cycling glow plugs 3 times. Cranked about 15 secs, then about 5secs a second time, and she fired, but one cylinder was kicking in late. Glow plugs are about 3 years old, but never needed them in Cali, she always fired. So I ordered new ones, but still had to face the recent storm without them. I wanted to be pro-active a bit, and knew she would be out in the cold at least 3 days. Battery is about a year old, synthetic oil (Rotella T6) about 2 weeks old, recent valve job, clear fuel with antigel, starter about one year. The block heater gave up a while ago ( it was great my last spell in MD), and never made up my mind on alternatives (oil patches, dipstick heaters etc), and heard everywhere that replacing the block heater was risky.
Sooo, to prepare for the storm and cold, I a) took out the battery to keep warm inside, 2) drained about 2 quarts of engine oil from the oil pan at the bottom. Then after the storm, and cold, I a) put one of those portable electric range cooking elements, which is a coil on which you can cook on, underneath the oil pan, about a inch away, for about an hour, to heat up the oil in the reservoir, b) heated up the 2 quart oil which I had previously drained, and poured into the top of the crank-case, where you usually put in oil, c) replaced battery. And she started on first try.
The draining of oil is a pain and prolly not something to do every time. But putting the electric heating coil underneath the oil pan makes sense and doable every time, in lieu of a better alternative. Even with glowplugs I will still do it. Hey this works, and is not too complicated.
1984 300sd, 250k+ miles, prolly 400k, odo has been out for many years
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Great news Lawrence!!! As soon as they get the range over 250 miles,
I'll be with you. The new lower priced Tesla sounds promising.
Didn't know you lived in Lodi. My Aunt lived there for over 50 years.
Are you still gigging??
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Nate, I did do a search for how to do this, and all involve pre-heating of some sort (heat air, oil, coolant etc),and I just improvised on what I thought would be helpful with what I had. I really liked the idea on draining about 2 quarts oil from the oil pan, heating it and putting it back - not something one wants to do everytime though.
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