From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #485 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 Thursday, February 1 2001 Volume 01 : Number 485 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles John Meister Digest Coordinator Contents: RE: 300 D engine rebuild Re[2]: 300 D engine rebuild Re: Re[2]: 300 D engine rebuild quick ideas this bounced... administrivia: notes on using this list s/w question - kinda off topic... 300SD projects 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: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:18:54 -0700 From: John Bathory Subject: RE: 300 D engine rebuild I just happened to notice a rebuilt engine on ebay starting at 500 sure sounds good to me. I've included the link; http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=552191569& r=0&t=0 good luck and keep us posted please. - -----Original Message----- From: Dan Jacobs [mailto:kc7nol-at-operamail.com] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 6:27 PM To: Ryan_C_Shields Cc: diesel-benz Subject: RE: 300 D engine rebuild You could call Sig -at- MBI, he's got a line on a place in Portland that he claims does really good rebuilds for MBZ diesels. (503) 231-0446 Diesel Dan, your "I'll bet that made a lot of noise when that happened, didn't it?" man in Vancouver, WA >===== Original Message From john ===== >At 12:50 PM 1/29/01 -0800, Ryan_C_Shields-at-armstrong.com wrote: > > >>John, >> I have a 1978 300D with a thrown rod. It appears that it did not damage >>the block, but I havn't started to work on it yet. If you could help me by >>pointing me in the right direction for information I would appreciate it. At >>this point I am weighing my options as far as buying a used engine, rebuilding >>the one that I have, or buying a "crate" engine. (snip) >Of course you have to consider the costs... a crate motor may or may not >be cost effective in the Benz world... finding a good engine rebuilder >is a challenge, and finding one that can do a Diesel Benz is probably even >more difficult, pointing again to the crate motor solution... > >ttyl, >john > > >------------------------------------------------------ > http://www.WAGONEERS.com/ > Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... > jesus, don't leave life without him, please! >------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:11 -0600 From: "Joe Oliver" Subject: Re[2]: 300 D engine rebuild Hello Diesel List: I am new to the list today. Up until 2pm last saturday I was the proud owner of a 1982 300D turbo diesel until I drove it into the rear of a stopped car and totaled it. By the end of the day I had located a beautiful 1985 300CD coupe turbo diesel of the same color to replace it for $6000. The new car seems better in most respects but it is slower on acceleration and cranks over a little more when starting. Does anyone have suggestions on what would make the difference in speed? I have my old car that I could use for a parts car and was wondering if I should swap the diesel pump or something to improve performance. Also, since I have a pristine maroon with black interior parts car with everything from the first 8 inches back available for sale cheap perhaps I could help somebody out with your part requests. My old car had 199,840 miles when it smashed, the new one has 214,000 miles. Would I be foolish to got to the effort to swap the engines? Joe Oliver ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:26:44 -0500 From: "S.D.Byers" Subject: Re: Re[2]: 300 D engine rebuild Your new one might just benefit from a tune up etc etc. New injectors, adjust valves, set start of injection time etc etc. You can do it all yourself with a few tools. When thinking about swapping and rebuilds you will need compression tests on both engines I would think. You might want to rebuild the old engine and keep it to put in the new car in 50k miles or so. Or you could sell the oild engine as a rebuild core. I know somebody who might take it. SDB On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Joe Oliver wrote: |Hello Diesel List: I am new to the list today. Up until 2pm last saturday I |was the proud owner of a 1982 300D turbo diesel until I drove it into the rear |of a stopped car and totaled it. By the end of the day I had located a |beautiful 1985 300CD coupe turbo diesel of the same color to replace it for |$6000. The new car seems better in most respects but it is slower on |acceleration and cranks over a little more when starting. | Does anyone have suggestions on what would make the difference in speed? |I have my old car that I could use for a parts car and was wondering if I should |swap the diesel pump or something to improve performance. | Also, since I have a pristine maroon with black interior parts car with |everything from the first 8 inches back available for sale cheap perhaps I could |help somebody out with your part requests. | My old car had 199,840 miles when it smashed, the new one has 214,000 |miles. Would I be foolish to got to the effort to swap the engines? | |Joe Oliver | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:52:05 -0500 From: "John Heflin" Subject: quick ideas hey benzers, I've come across a situation. I recently learned that my mother's car has been acting up and she is considering getting a 'new' one. I have been trying to warm her up to the idea of a turbo diesel, but after driving my 240 in the past, she's not too keen on a car that can't get out of its own path :) If anyone could reply back to me with some quick ideas off the top of your head to help me talk her into getting a diesel benz, i'd appreciate it. In the meantime i'll be trying to find a good 300D/SD for her to test drive to prove it can move :) thanks john _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:12:03 -0800 From: john Subject: this bounced... not sure why this bounced, but here it is... (and btw john I have a nice 300SD for sale, it's working great again... ;) all new glow plugs and injectors even. ;) john - ---------------- From: "John Heflin" To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net Subject: quick ideas Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:52:05 -0500 hey benzers, I've come across a situation. I recently learned that my mother's car has been acting up and she is considering getting a 'new' one. I have been trying to warm her up to the idea of a turbo diesel, but after driving my 240 in the past, she's not too keen on a car that can't get out of its own path :) If anyone could reply back to me with some quick ideas off the top of your head to help me talk her into getting a diesel benz, i'd appreciate it. In the meantime i'll be trying to find a good 300D/SD for her to test drive to prove it can move :) thanks john - ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.WAGONEERS.com/ Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... jesus, don't leave life without him, please! - ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 01:45:02 -0500 From: Richard Welty Subject: administrivia: notes on using this list Digest.Net mailing list "Meta FAQ" These general notes on using Digest.Net mailing lists are posted on the 1st and 15th of each month. 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For more information, see the web site for Krusty. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:35:17 -0800 From: john Subject: s/w question - kinda off topic... I'm looking at some s/w to use to assemble the book I've been working on for awhile... I'm thinking that Adobe Frame Maker might be the solution. I've found some copies on ebay for version 5.5, some for PC's and some for UNIX. My preference is for the UNIX version so I don't have to put up with annoying memory leaks and reboots. I've got an Ultra 10 (440Mhz Risc) and an HP 715/100, both or either with plenty of disk space and memory to deal with it... but I don't know the s/w. Someone mentioned using it but I haven't heard all the details yet. No, microsoft word or publisher will NOT work, the file in word becomes ridiculously large and corrupted quite quickly... and the printers I've talked to said not to use anything microsoft. THey suggested pagemaker. I think Frame-Maker is in that same class, right? thanx for the input, please cc me since I'm in digest mode, and since this isn't too related to the lists, you may not want to send your reply to the list... If you have an interest in any answers I get then let me know off list and I'll share what I find... sorry for the off-topic post but there's a lot of resources among us. :) thanx, john - ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.WAGONEERS.com/ Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... jesus, don't leave life without him, please! - ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 14:11:52 -0800 From: john Subject: 300SD projects I contacted Benz Friends in Seattle about a few items that I might do on my '83 300SD. - - convert the climate control to manual, supposedly possible - - European headlights, they might have some... (or I've got some contacts in Europe) - - replace tach in dash I'm thinking that I may add my Racor filter setup too... I'm going to pull SuperDawg (my '83 J10 stepside) off of insurance and drive the Benz, at least until it sells... anyone converted their climate control to a manual system before? john - ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.WAGONEERS.com/ Snohomish, WA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold... jesus, don't leave life without him, please! - ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #485 *********************************