From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Thu Jun 17 21:13:42 2004 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Friday, June 18 2004 Volume 01 : Number 1489 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: [db] Tucson used cars? Re: [db] other Diesels, street legal Re: [db] Tucson used cars? [db] Distance: 914.7 miles Approximate Travel Time: 14 hours 4 mins ??? [db] verizon cell users? [db] misc pictures [db] the J10 trailer project [db] Ignition Assembly 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: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:16:51 -0700 From: Kevin Pekarek Subject: Re: [db] Tucson used cars? On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:22:07PM -0400, Jim Hoffman wrote: > > oh absolutely street legal... we drove them in Germany... you > > can buy them surplus... there's a place just west of Boise on > > I-90... :) > > Last time I checked Wisconsin was not in Germany... I'll check my > map again ;) > > I doubt that I could get a license for that vehicle here. They're street legal in CALIFORNIA. I doubt you'd have a problem in Wisconsin. The trick in CA is to get an old enough one that you can register it as a historical vehicle. That done, it is no longer a truck, but a car, and you can just tell the local cops to eff off while showing them the registration proving it's not a truck. They seriously get about 12 miles per gallon, catch is they top out at 53 mph. You're never in a hurry to go anywhere, but you really can go anywhere. K - -- Kevin Pekarek Redwood City, CA (near San Francisco) and Los Osos, CA (near San Luis Obispo) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:24:06 -0700 From: Kevin Pekarek Subject: Re: [db] other Diesels, street legal On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:06:43PM -0700, derick amburgey wrote: > For one time in my life I am glad I do not have room! > > Too much temptation, especially that "Thing" I actually almost bought one. Decided it was a bit too much for where I lived at the time. It would have been fun, but there wasn't anywhere close by to play with. The current four-bys can easily do 70, and those can't. Maybe sometime after I get out of the concrete jungle. K - -- Kevin Pekarek Redwood City, CA (near San Francisco) and Los Osos, CA (near San Luis Obispo) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:34:01 -0700 From: john meister Subject: Re: [db] Tucson used cars? you'd have fiddled with the governor to get one up to 53mph... they were set at a max of 50mph... even the big busses I drove wouldn't go faster... ;) we had a speedlimit for military trucks on the autobahn, 80km. :) john Kevin Pekarek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:22:07PM -0400, Jim Hoffman wrote: > >>>oh absolutely street legal... we drove them in Germany... you >>>can buy them surplus... there's a place just west of Boise on >>>I-90... :) >> >>Last time I checked Wisconsin was not in Germany... I'll check my >>map again ;) >> >>I doubt that I could get a license for that vehicle here. > > > They're street legal in CALIFORNIA. I doubt you'd have a problem in > Wisconsin. > > The trick in CA is to get an old enough one that you can register it > as a historical vehicle. That done, it is no longer a truck, but a > car, and you can just tell the local cops to eff off while showing them > the registration proving it's not a truck. > > They seriously get about 12 miles per gallon, catch is they top out at > 53 mph. You're never in a hurry to go anywhere, but you really can go > anywhere. > > K ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:15:33 -0700 From: john meister Subject: [db] Distance: 914.7 miles Approximate Travel Time: 14 hours 4 mins ??? the questions: 1) accuracy of the "estimates" from the web 2) cheapest Diesel on I-5 from Redding, CA north... Leaving for home in the morning... contract changed around, will have to come back in a few weeks or sometime in July... ...on the road again... :) Distance: 914.7 miles Approximate Travel Time: 14 hours 4 mins so, just how accurate is the yahoo map/mappoint predictions anyway? IF my math is correct, this looks to be an average speed of 65.4 mph... interesting since all of Oregon is max of 65mph... and CA is a max of 70. I guess they don't drink coffee, eat or tank up the cars they use for these calculations. :) So, what's the best guess on time... observing the speed limit, with one stop for fuel, unknown stops for coffee and the following activity, ;) (Will try to stop in Redding for the last "In-n-out" meal... ;) At 35mpg, that's 26 gallons, tank is 18.5 so one tank and 8 gallons... about right, I stopped for fuel going down in Medford, had a half a tank. Anyone know where Diesel is the cheapest on I-5 from Shasta north? If my economy is higher I could make Portland on one tank... most like Salem for sure... don't want to push the thing into a station. ;) FWIW, the Shell in Salinas a block away from the In-n-out off of 101 is $2.09!!! The cheapest I've seen just about anywhere... another adventure begins... guess I'll head over for a double-double for dinner, top off the tank, and turn in early so I can drive this in one day in daylight. :) oh, btw, took some sunset fotos over by monterey last night: http://www.wagoneers.com/fotos/2004/CA-trip-June/ john ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 20:15:43 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: [db] verizon cell users? hey, anyone on the list verizon cell user? I'm going to be on I-5 for about 14 hours tomorrow... perhaps we can setup a realtime connection, I'll recount the detailed plans of the bent benz, he'll share it with the list for the amusement of alec and jon and we'll all have a good chuckle... the latest plan is my son will be coming home instead of going straight to AZ... that means I'll be recruited for another road trip in the bent benz... :) I-5 to I-10... then fly home... oh boy... I'm so excited... three days in an aged benz with 275,000 miles on it an no cruise control or (yet to be) functioning a/c... I need to rethink some of this a bit... ;) contact me off list... heading out early in the morning, need to finish grading some finals and then call it a night. :) john ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:13:38 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: [db] misc pictures just put some small pictures up, http://www.wagoneers.com/fotos/2004/Misc-June-04/ pictures of the J10 hydraulic dump trailer project... picture of my '91 300d sitting outside an In-n-Out... http://www.wagoneers.com/fotos/2004/Misc-June-04/Salinas-CA-Jun15-2004.jpg and so on... named the pictures to make it easier to figure out what they are. ;) (these are the monterey sunset pix, will reduce the number when I get some time: http://www.wagoneers.com/fotos/2004/CA-trip-June/ ) heading back up I-5 in a few hours... later, john ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:51:26 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: [db] the J10 trailer project we're almost there... curtis has been grinding, welding, hammering for days... we have lift off... or is it tilt up? ;) http://www.wagoneers.com/FSJ/J10-trailer/J10-trailer-pix.html I'm heading north, looks like traffic in the bay area is light, should roll through w/o trouble... eta in snohomish before midnight... might stop in centralia to see curtis, superdawg, rambo, rocky and the trailer... eta there around 8-9pm... we'll see... figure I'll stop for Diesel around Medford... always late. ;) later, john ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:24:06 -0700 From: "Justin H" Subject: [db] Ignition Assembly Well I've succesfully Removed my Ignition/Steering lock mechanism from the 190, after removing the steering column (Thanks for the advice Derick, and John) So now I am ready to reassemble and Get away to the coast! All I need is the new assembly, Anyone have any good advice on obtaining one inexpensively? Derick, You reccomended buying one off E-bay, as per your auction pictures. However I didnt seem to find one for my 190. Am I looking in the wrong places maybe? What would happen if I used one from say a 300D? They look almost identical. Anyways thanks for all your help everyone, talk to ya soon. -Justin H _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar ^V get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #1489 **********************************