From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-krusty-motorsports.com Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #114 Reply-To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net Sender: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Errors-To: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Precedence: bulk diesel-benz-digest Saturday, March 27 1999 Volume 01 : Number 114 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles John Meister Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: Service in the SFC, SAC area climate controls continued rear window defrost knob...??? 300D - Auto to Manual 300D - Auto to Manual Re: 300D - Auto to Manual Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:15:30 -0800 From: Shel Belinkoff Subject: Re: Service in the SFC, SAC area May I suggest Auto Europa on Cleveland Avenue in Albany. The phone number is 510-528-3196. Steve's been working on MBZ for many years. He runs a small shop, and works alone, so if he's out testing a car or running an errand, he can't answer the phone. Leave a message. - -- Shel Belinkoff California North Bay Section 1972 280SE 4.5 mailto:belinkoff-at-earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:39:25 -0800 From: john Subject: climate controls continued The system has never really worked the way one would expect... wide hysteresis loop, turn it hot, it blows cold, then raging hot, you turn it to cold and it still blows hot... arghhhhh... The temperature control in my 1967 Jeep Wagoneer worked better when the thing was 25 years old! Would replacing the "brain" help? john - ----------------------------------------------------- john-at-virtual-cafe.com http://www.wagoneers.com http://www.virtual-cafe.com/~john http://www.wagoneers.com/book-info.html jesus, don't leave life without him, please! Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... - ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 21:47:26 -0800 From: Larry Wight Subject: rear window defrost knob...??? Perhaps a silly question...I am trying to remove the radio from my '76 300D and I'm almost there! Once I get the knob for the rear window defrost off, I'll be home! I pull, twist, explore, plead, ....but I can't get it off. Is it just a pull or is there a hidden allen screw somewhere, or some other trick?? Larry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:35:59 -0800 From: raoul-at-olympus.net (J. Benedict) Subject: 300D - Auto to Manual Hi: I'm responding to an inquiry about using a manual shift with a 300 engine. I have a 300D 115 and when I bought it, I asked around about changing to a manual transmission. The consensus of opinion was that it was possible but not practical. The problem is that the flywheel and crankshaft of the 300D manual shift are balanced as a unit. An automatic 300D can be converted by adding a flywheel, braking down the engine and balancing the two as a unit. If you had reason to break down the engine for other reasons, it would be practical. Otherwise, probably not. As I remember the request, the owner was looking to replace a 240 motor with a 300 motor and the 240 had used a manual transmission. I suppose one way of doing this swap was to have the supplier of the crate engine try to find you a manual transmisson engine or, for that matter, order one up special from their rebuilder. Jeff - --- Jeffrey E. Benedict * raoul-at-olympus.net * - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium. That's what I should have done...." - Jeffrey Dahmer, reflecting - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 12:37:57 -0800 From: raoul-at-olympus.net (J. Benedict) Subject: 300D - Auto to Manual Hi: I'm responding to an inquiry about using a manual shift with a 300 engine. I have a 300D 115 and when I bought it, I asked around about changing to a manual transmission. The consensus of opinion was that it was possible but not practical. The problem is that the flywheel and crankshaft of the 300D manual shift are balanced as a unit. An automatic 300D can be converted by adding a flywheel, braking down the engine and balancing the two as a unit. If you had reason to break down the engine for other reasons, it would be practical. Otherwise, probably not. As I remember the request, the owner was looking to replace a 240 motor with a 300 motor and the 240 had used a manual transmission. I suppose one way of doing this swap was to have the supplier of the crate engine try to find you a manual transmisson engine or, for that matter, order one up special from their rebuilder. Jeff - --- Jeffrey E. Benedict * raoul-at-olympus.net * - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium. That's what I should have done...." - Jeffrey Dahmer, reflecting - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:26:48 -0800 From: raoul-at-olympus.net (J. Benedict) Subject: Re: 300D - Auto to Manual >Jeff, > >I'm always curious about these sorts of posts. If you wanted a 115 300D >with a manny tranny, why not buy one that way in the first place? Well, it's my understanding that manual 300D 115s are available only in Europe and were never imported. 240s are available with both and I was planning on getting a donor 240 car and swapping it all over and then selling the excess. A practical idea considering I like working on cars and think that the 300 would be better with a manual. The >whole car costs far less than your conversion (a perfect 115 is maybe worth >$3000) and I would assume that factory engineering would be better and more >reliable than backyard engineering. It would have *been* factory engineering because I would have used all factory parts. The catch was, as I said, that the motor would have to be rebalanced. My motor is great- freshly professionally overhauled- so it would have been counterproductive to pull it down to balance it again. Jeff - --- Jeffrey E. Benedict * raoul-at-olympus.net * - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium. That's what I should have done...." - Jeffrey Dahmer, reflecting - --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #114 *********************************