From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Mon May 31 09:30:42 2004 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Monday, May 31 2004 Volume 01 : Number 1476 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: RE: RE: [db] 190D Oil Change RE: [db] 1992 300D Blower motor [db] fierce headwinds and upgrades... Re: RE: RE: [db] 190D Oil Change 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, 29 May 2004 10:36:33 -0500 From: "Alec Cordova" Subject: RE: RE: [db] 190D Oil Change Switches to cut out the A/C compressor at full throttle? Alec > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-diesel-benz-at-digest.net > [mailto:owner-diesel-benz-at-digest.net]On Behalf Of john > Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 10:10 AM > To: Mike Frank > Cc: '[db]' > Subject: RE: RE: [db] 190D Oil Change > > > that was on the 190d that scott has... '85. maybe > he can look and see... > > john > > On Sat, 29 May 2004, Mike Frank wrote: > > >-->That photo triggers a question for me. That yellowed plastic > thing that's > >-->part of your accelerator linkage....on my car, it triggers a pair of > >-->switches when the throttle is full open. Does anyone know what these > >-->switches do? I can't find them on the wiring diagram (not surprised). > >--> > >-->Mike Frank > >--> > >--> > >-->At 11:03 PM 5/28/2004, john wrote: > >--> > >-->>does it look like this: > >-->> > >-->>http://www.wagoneers.com/DieselBenz/Johns-Diesels/190D/geyser-4.jpg > >-->>it was a split in the metal line... I replaced it... > >--> > > ---- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** > Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:53:31 -0400 From: "Cool" Subject: RE: [db] 1992 300D Blower motor I like your solution, Junot. Two speeds - High and Off.... I have pretty much determined that the regulator is fried. Probably fried when while the motor was seized up. By the way, the reason that the motor seized up was because the drain for the AC condenser was plugged and the condensate submerged the blower motor. Best price is about $230 for the regulator - Ouch. It's just a variable resistor! Oh well. Have a good day - Fred - -----Original Message----- greetings fred ... i think i'd find a nice place for an on-off switch ... junot > > On Fri, 28 May 2004, Cool wrote: > > >-->I'm a bit stumped by this one. The Blower motor in my w124 was seized and > >-->needed brush replacement. I pulled it out today, took it apart, cleaned the > >-->shaft, lubed the bearings, replaced the brushes - it bench tested ok. I > >-->dropped it back in the car, hooked the wires up, and decided to test before > >-->buttoning everything up - fan doesn't work. > >--> > >-->I put a tester on the controller (located just below the blower motor) and > >-->get a 12v feed and a 9v out. All seems well. But still no fan. When you > >-->hook the fan up and test the leads there is a voltage drop to zero. So > >-->under load, it cuts out. Fuse strip is OK. > >--> > >-->So, the question is this: Is it the motor controller or the dash climate > >-->control that is fried? Both are expensive and I would quite frankly rather > >-->not replace either, but what do you think? > >--> > >--> > >--> > >-->Thanks in advance - > >-->Fred ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 00:07:29 -0700 From: john meister Subject: [db] fierce headwinds and upgrades... got back from eastern Washington... fought some fierce headwinds for over 200 miles... gas mileage down a bit from the previous 39mpg... to about 28mpg... (91 300d) the 124 did ok in the wind... wasn't effortless but didn't seem as affected as some of the cars and trucks... at the Columbia gorge you could almost lean into the wind and it'd blow you back... gusts well over 50mph near the edge. :) coming down I-90 onto the bridge one gust moved us over 1/2 a lane... kind of fun... (wife didn't think so... ;) got some great pictures along the way... will edit and post later... upgraded this system from suse 9.0 server to 9.1... had a few anomalies... got most of them fixed and finding 9.1 worth the upgrade... I think. ;) (How's that for a rousing referral? ;) It finds my wireless nic, but couldn't get it on line... lost my real nic, but managed to get it back... graphics changed a bit too, as I had Lviewpro running in wine fine, and now it blows up with large images... downloaded crossover from codeweaver... loaded office 97, it seems to be working... testing it out... tried to install eudora, it blows up... tried a few other apps (unsupported), mixed results... if I can get my palm to sync with crossover and office 97 works faithfully and I can get a few other things to behave then I'll probably buy it and make the move away from windows... still not quite there. :( will have some time week after next... teaching a linux class down in CA for three weeks... will have LOTS of spare time. ;) Also, when I was teaching the Linux course I figured since I was in the midst of a microsoft training center (everyone had to come in to "see" the Linux instructor, felt like I was from another planet or something), anyway, I figured I'd try to get XP pro loaded... one of the m$ guys in my class suggested not upgrading, but just installing next to W2K... I did and it seems to work... no lsass.exe error.... so I guess I get to setup all my apps again in XP if I keep windows... Still need to get the wireless nic working in the Iwill box running RedHat 9.0. Went to Fry's on the way home and found the Netgear ME101... priced at $99, not $69/79 as I've seen elsewhere... didn't buy it... did pick up a 10/100 5 port with a $25 rebate.... net about $14. :) later, john ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 08:41:36 +0100 From: Stephen Rigley Subject: Re: RE: RE: [db] 190D Oil Change Thats exactly how it looks, we drove out into the Burren and Connemara over the weekend, we we got back I turned off the car... got a strong smell of diesel... it seems my braze didn't hold together as long as I thought it would, so I've now got the geyser effect again. Does anyone know the part number for this pipe by any chance (or the technical name for it so I can ring the dealers about it?) Thanks in advance! Steve - ----- Original Message ----- From: john Date: Saturday, May 29, 2004 4:03 am Subject: RE: RE: [db] 190D Oil Change > does it look like this: > > http://www.wagoneers.com/DieselBenz/Johns-Diesels/190D/geyser-4.jpg > it was a split in the metal line... I replaced it... > > john > > On Fri, 28 May 2004, Mike Frank wrote: > > >-->Ahhh...I misunderstood...I thought the hose had broken. I've > never had one > >-->of the feed pipes break. But the rubber goes, thanks to lots > of heat and > >-->pressure. > >--> > >-->Mike Frank > >--> > >-->At 08:59 PM 5/28/2004, derick wrote: > >-->>< Derick, I brazed the > >-->>end of the fuel feed pipe as it had cracked (not the injector > itself) where > >-->>the olive end on the pipe entered the injector. Any idea how > much the pipe > >-->>costs? Or injectors for that matter? > >--> > > ---- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ > ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** > Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------ ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #1476 **********************************