From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #470 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 Monday, January 8 2001 Volume 01 : Number 470 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles John Meister Digest Coordinator Contents: FW: FW: FW: [no subject] Re: intros intros Intro's rust starting- how to fight Intros 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: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:48:27 -0500 From: "Chris Straut" Subject: FW: FW: FW: [no subject] Hey everyone.. Eric uploaded some more photos of his TD! - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Starr [mailto:estarr-at-starmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 3:10 PM To: strautc-at-citynet.net Subject: Re:FW: FW: [no subject] hey the recent attention i got about my car motivated me to take some new photos of it. so today i took about 12 and uploaded them to my website. check them out if you want http://www.mindspring.com/~ekstarr/peyton/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:56:50 -1100 From: Jon Filina Subject: Re: intros Unlike Alec, I'm Jon and I'm a dieselholic... My '81 240D just happens to be the favorite of the 3 diesels I have owned this last 20 years. The first one was an '81 Rabbit LS named "Lil Toot" - the little engine that could! I drive her 250,000 miles before giving it to my son as his first car. He put another 30k on her. Initially, he wasn't wild about the idea as all his friends were driving either muscle cars or pickups. The bi-amped stereo made up for the lack of horsepower, so he got used to it. He really started to like it when his buddies couldn't afford to fill the tanks of their gas guzzlin' beasts for some Saturday night cruising. They'd pass the hat, put a few gallons of diesel in Lil Toot, and drive around most of the night listening to the stereo. She's since gone to VW parts heaven... Lil Toot was replaced by "Junior", a '90 Jetta diesel. A pickup truck decided to rearrange Junior's back end, to the tune of $1500. He was replaced a few months later, after 227,000 miles. "Mathilde" had 193,685 mi. on her when I brought her home. The only parts that had been replaced during those miles were a starter, caliper and motor mounts. She now has 266,+++ miles and sports a new clutch, clutch hydraulics, oil cooler and lines, shocks, 3 calipers, heater blower motor, driver's window regulator and a new Hirschmann antenna. I still have to replace the A/C compressor... I love this MB. It rides great, though a bit noisy. Junior was a bit quicker off the line, but Mathilde is better on the highway. Lil Toot couldn't spell "power" much less emulate it... I prefer the variable speed power steering of the Jetta but have gotten used to the MB. I detest Mathilde's seat belts! The VW's shoulder harness plugged into the door frame and were always on. They worked and felt comfortable. The MB's belts keep tightening up and get very uncomfortable. The A/C is the only other sore point. Why MB put a Delco R4 compressor (also used in Chevy P/U's...) in these cars is beyond me. The MB engineers should have sucked in their pride, driven down the road to Wolfsburg and asked the "little people" at VW how to do A/C. VW would have sent them to Texas - that's where their A/C units come from... I have driven diesels for almost 20 years now. I don't want a gas car...my diesels have been too dependable. Besides, the "klatta klatta klatta" of a diesel at idle is music to my ears. Jon "dieselholic" Filina Joshua, Texas '81 240D ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 23:28:34 EST From: Swbkrs-at-aol.com Subject: intros Have been on the list for a couple of months and reall enjoy. My 1st benz was a 59 190D that I picked up in 1965 for $100.00. It smoked terribly and I sold it for $300.00. The person who bought it put a new diaphram in the vacuum pump and had a perfect car! 2nd MB was a 67 200 D put 300k miles on it. Next was a new 74 240 D. Put 150K miles with NO problems and sold. Next was a 80 240 D which I have put 300k miles on and it is now a basket case. Currently have a 83 300D as a daily driver. Just put a rebuilt tranny and torque convertor in it. $1300+ installed. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:52:54 -0700 From: John Bathory Subject: Intro's My turn now, I work with computers and instrumentation for the petro chemical industry SCADA and HMI to be specific. I've owned a 240D, a jetta TD and also a 300TDT over the past 25 years. I've been a member for 1 1/2 years and enjoy what all of you have to say and can also say that I learn some different stuff here, some of it even useful. I'm north of the 49th in the cold part of western Canada where air conditioning is a nice luxury not a necessity. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:30:50 -0600 From: "Italiano, Joseph J" Subject: rust starting- how to fight I own a 1980 240D with about 220kmiles. It's running very good, knock on my head/wood, and I expect to get maybe 5 to 10 years of service out of her. She does have some minor rust starting behind the wheelwells, front and back. I have "touched" it up with a paint I found that matched the MB ivory color pretty well. However, the rust comes through about every year. I rather not be driving a car with holes in her in a couple of years, so I'm wondering what the best procedure is to stop this rust short of some major cash outlay (that would kind of defeat the purpose of keeping her). Does anyone have an tips on what to do with minimal expense that should stop the dreaded metal termites? My thoughts were to sand it down to bare metal, bondo where needed, prime, and repaint. Perhaps some type of rust inhibitor?? Maybe that will give me another 3 or 5 years. Thanks Joe PS. Salt is heavily used here is St. Louis....and I just noticed diesel fuel prices are now 1 cent below no lead at $1.389.YAHOOOOO ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:56:40 -0800 From: Mark Fountain Subject: Intros I guess I'll chime in here. I'm a TV chief engineer for KNMT TV-24 in Portland OR (a Trinity Broadcasting affiliate). I live in Vancouver WA with my wife of 15 months (still adjusting to marriage). My introduction to diesel was during the 1979 gas crunch when my brother bought a Diesel Rabbit. The thing got 50 mpg and he didn't have to wait in gas lines - only went to the local truck stop every 6 weeks (where I had to wait in line with my Ford Falcon). His commute to work was only 4 miles, but this was bad because algae was constantly plugging up his fuel system and took its toll on causing the premature failure of the injector pump. Diesels like to, and should be driven a lot. He finally sold it about the same time I purchased my brand new Dodge/Mitsubishi Turbo Diesel pickup in 1983 This could get long . . . to be continued! ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #470 *********************************