From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #662 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 Sunday, October 21 2001 Volume 01 : Number 662 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: RE: Engine block heaters RE: Trailer Hitch for 300D RE: Trailer Hitch for 300D Alec: make freinds with an LTL big rig driver RE: Alec: make freinds with an LTL big rig driver Engine Block Heater 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, 19 Oct 2001 23:53:53 -00 From: "Dan Jacobs" Subject: RE: Engine block heaters > [Original Message] > From: JC Jones > I would like to find > one that is both a circulation pump and a heater together, it gets > installed in a heater hose line and circulates and heats the coolant. The standard MBZ part goes in the block in place of a freeze plug, cost was about $30 for the heater and the rest was coolant and labor, about $100 bucks total, well worth the money. I would imagine you wouldn't need a unit that would actually circulate warm coolant unless you were in an extremely cold (North Pole, AK) climate. When I get in the car after sitting at night with the heater plugged in, it is around 100*F (Thats Fahrenheit for our freinds in the great white north or other metrical places ;-) Diesel Dan http://DieselDan.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:56:29 -00 From: "Dan Jacobs" Subject: RE: Trailer Hitch for 300D > [Original Message] > From: Mark Fountain > To: > Date: 10/20/2001 12:39:15 AM > Subject: Trailer Hitch for 300D > > Hello Listers: > I don't think I've seen the issue of trailer hitches addresed on this > list. I have an 82 300D to which I would like to hitch a 4 x 8 utility > trailer for short hauls of less than 500 pound loads. Has anyone out > there ever had a hitch installed on a W123 chassis, or would it even be > possible to do on this particular vehicle ? > I do kind of cringe at putting any extraneous loads on that expensive > auto tranny, but I am losing the use of a pickup truck that was > previously available to me. > Purchasing a pickup truck is out of the question for me now. > Any advise would help! > > Thanks, > Mark Get a horse and buggy, shouldn't cost more than a new tranny and maintenance over the course of the year, and you'll get free fertilizer to boot! Diesel Dan http://DieselDan.net PS: I really don't know the particulars about this, but if I were you, I'd do what I did: Make freinds with someone that owns a pickup and borrow ever ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 11:37:54 -0500 From: "Alec Cordova" Subject: RE: Trailer Hitch for 300D I seem to remember posts about factory trailer hitches for W123 cars, at least in Europe, so they must exist. If the loaded trailer is maybe 7 or 8 hundred pounds, I don't see the problem, other than finding an appropriate hitch. Or make friends with a LTL big rig driver ;-) Alec - -----Original Message----- > > Hello Listers: > I don't think I've seen the issue of trailer hitches addresed on this > list. I have an 82 300D to which I would like to hitch a 4 x 8 utility > trailer for short hauls of less than 500 pound loads. Has anyone out > there ever had a hitch installed on a W123 chassis, or would it even be > possible to do on this particular vehicle ? > I do kind of cringe at putting any extraneous loads on that expensive > auto tranny, but I am losing the use of a pickup truck that was > previously available to me. > Purchasing a pickup truck is out of the question for me now. > Any advise would help! > > Thanks, > Mark Get a horse and buggy, shouldn't cost more than a new tranny and maintenance over the course of the year, and you'll get free fertilizer to boot! Diesel Dan http://DieselDan.net PS: I really don't know the particulars about this, but if I were you, I'd do what I did: Make freinds with someone that owns a pickup and borrow ever ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 13:52:39 -00 From: "Dan Jacobs" Subject: Alec: make freinds with an LTL big rig driver For those who don't know, an LTL trucking company hauls "less than truckload" freight, in other words, what a shipper has to ship won't fill a whole trailer, maybe just a pallet, or 3, or 5. And don't bother sucking up to me, I work for a full truck load company, in other words, the trailer is full. Can't help you. Sorry :-( Diesel Dan http://DieselDan.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 17:19:40 -0500 From: "Alec Cordova" Subject: RE: Alec: make freinds with an LTL big rig driver Hehe I used to do network admin for a trucking company. That's where I learned the term. I figured it was only fitting for the Click and Clack of the list to appear to have a secret code. ;-) And I don't know why, but I figured Dan for a full-trailer-only kind of guy. Alec - -----Original Message----- From: owner-diesel-benz-at-digest.net [mailto:owner-diesel-benz-at-digest.net] On Behalf Of Dan Jacobs Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 8:53 AM To: diesel-benz list Subject: Alec: make freinds with an LTL big rig driver For those who don't know, an LTL trucking company hauls "less than truckload" freight, in other words, what a shipper has to ship won't fill a whole trailer, maybe just a pallet, or 3, or 5. And don't bother sucking up to me, I work for a full truck load company, in other words, the trailer is full. Can't help you. Sorry :-( Diesel Dan http://DieselDan.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:42:17 +0200 From: "Matthew and Kristl Kirk" Subject: Engine Block Heater Thanks for the suggestion. No one out here has ever heard or seen of one before, what is an 'engine block heater'? I'd love to know more. Matt ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #662 *********************************