From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #957 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 Tuesday, April 8 2003 Volume 01 : Number 957 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: Need some direction Re: Need some direction Wheels A/C Stuff 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: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 23:18:58 -0800 From: "DerickAA" Subject: Need some direction Hello all, Planning on doing a rebuild on my 5 speed tranny. I appreciate rebuild tips any of you might have aquired rebuilding a standard. This will be my first one. If you could recommend any books, sources for parts or any pointers. I would be much obliged. However..... I am going in... If I am not back in two weeks send in the medics.... ;) Or that St. bernard dog with the flask of brandy... Heck, just send the Brandy. :) Derick ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 12:26:47 -0700 From: "Paul Schwartz" Subject: Re: Need some direction If you could find an old 4-speed and take it apart you'll find that helpful. I've done a few tranny's and I've always found reinstalling the countershaft bearings to be the hard part. I've also never done an MBZ transmission, most of the one's I've done were Japanese, in fact most were Mazda's, with some American 3-speeds in there somewhere. In the 70's the rear counter shaft bearing on Mazda's were a single row ball bearings and they failed frequently. The last one I did I noticed the replacement bearing was a dual row ball bearing--good idea and probably is why it was the last one I ever did. If you have a digital camera with good close-up capabilities I'd take lots of pictures during the disassembly. I guarantee when you put it back together you'll have some little part that you can't remember where it went, transmissions have lots of little parts. Nothing is worse than getting your tranny back together and finding some little part on your bench and wondering where it came from, I know that from experience. Make sure you have a good exploded diagram of the transmission and refer to it frequently as you DISASSEMBLE the transmission. That will help you put it back together correctly. Another trick is to layout the parts on your bench, or garage floor in a "exploded diagram" sort of way as you take it apart and that will make putting it back together a lot easier. And, putting it back together is way more difficult than taking it apart. %^) Judging from the pictures in the Haynes manual, the MBZ 123 transmission doesn't look that hard compared to the %#&$%& pressfit countershaft bearings in most Japanese transmissions. Paul - ----- Original Message ----- From: "DerickAA" To: Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 12:18 AM Subject: Need some direction > Hello all, > > Planning on doing a rebuild on my 5 speed tranny. > I appreciate rebuild tips any of you might have aquired rebuilding a > standard. > This will be my first one. > If you could recommend any books, sources for parts or any pointers. I would > be much obliged. > > However..... > > I am going in... > > If I am not back in two weeks send in the medics.... ;) > Or that St. bernard dog with the flask of brandy... > Heck, just send the Brandy. :) > > Derick ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 21:29:48 -0400 From: Michael Frank Subject: Wheels Does anyone know if VDub or Audi wheels would fit a 190D? Mike Frank ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 02:53:49 -0400 From: Robert Chase Subject: A/C Stuff Hey, Got a few questions on the w-126 A/C systems. Im considering a change over to the R-134 refrigerant because its cheaper. I read an article on mbz.org indicating that r-12 could be swapped with r-134 but r-22 had a different pressure relationship and needed a new compressor. Im wondering what the w-126 used for refrigerant in 1982. I know the r-12 needs to be "removed" from the system before the r-134 can be added. Im wondering what "legal" and non ozone layer killing way it can be safely removed. Im sure that an A/C shop would charge me a bundle even though they would sell my old R-12 for a profit. This of course is assuming that im running r-12. If Im running r-22 im going to leave well enough alone until the system goes "kerplunk" and stops working. And at that it would probably be due to a leak and I would not have to worry about evacuating the system anyway :) Anybody converted theirs yet? Any words of wisdom to share? R. ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #957 *********************************