From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #625 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, September 6 2001 Volume 01 : Number 625 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: 83 300D routine maintenance 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, 05 Sep 2001 23:47:45 -0400 From: Al Potter Subject: Re: 83 300D routine maintenance D00d: You own one of the finest automobiles ever engineered.... Change the oel ever 3-5k miles. Synthetic blends GOOD.... Otherwise Valvoline 15W40 been berry berry good to me... I see increased oel comsumption as miles on the oil-change increases, so be aware. Oil consumption on a diesel can be unpredictable, so CHECK at EVERY FILLUP. Service the tranny as you would any `merican car. Spring for the factory filter unless CERTAIN of the quality of the substitute. Same for the oil filter BTW. Throwing a diesel additive in the tank when fueling can save your ass. Find one that advertises anti-bacterial and/or anti-fungal properties. Believe-it-or-not, there are microbial critters what THRIVE in your tank on diesel fuel.... they seem to like to colonize and settle in filters and strainers.....8-), which WILL leave you PISSED on the side of the road. Kill em or get stranded (been there, done that, got the t-shirt, the merit-badge, and the DAMN-I-know-better award). OBTW, buy fuel where there is lots of fuel trade. These folks know how to maintain their tanks and fuel supplies. Helps a lot with the water-in-fuel and critters-in-fuel problem. If you ever run low and can't find a diesel pump, look for a farm. Farmers live and die on diesel. If desperate, home heating oil (at least where I am) is "dyed diesel", ie not for on road use fuel. Illegal, but will get you to a fuel station. Kerosene is NOT the same..... Set the valves every 15K miles. Absolute. You will see serious cold off-the-line performance degredation otherwise (it will accelerate like a bb dropped in jello). Otherwise, per my mechanic, drive the PISS out it.... best maintenance possible.... AL 82 300CD 250K miles 83 300CD 85K (original whoo-hoo!) miles 83 300D 545K miles ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #625 *********************************