From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Tue Oct 4 19:26:36 2005 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Wednesday, October 5 2005 Volume 01 : Number 1976 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: [db] oh the temptation... [db] the saga of the 124 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: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:08:02 -0700 From: Greg Fiorentino Subject: Re: [db] oh the temptation... Jason R Bassett wrote: Call Metric Motors http://www.mercedesengines.net/ or 800-622-6867 and they can probably tell you what it is likely to be AND how hard they are to rebuild AND how much for them to do it....... Great people, by the way....I was going to send them my junked up piston and rod and they were willing to find me a piston (possibly even good used) with new rings for around 100 bucks (or less if they could find me a good used one) and even put the rod on the replacement. Pity that the cylinder wall is cavitated....... Jason On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:44:10 -0700 (PDT) john writes: a dead one. ;) don't know, afraid to ask for the fear of wanting it... ;) john On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Jim Hoffman wrote: -->So, what engine do you suppose is in there? --> -->Jim --> -->> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7542426114 -->> -->> john This reminds me of an APril issue a long time ago of Car & Driver or Road & Track. They did a road test of IIRC a MB 4000GT vehicle with some very strange specs. In the end the photos revealed that GT did NOT stand for Grand Turismo but rather...Garbage Truck! Greg Fiorentino Vancouver USA '86 300 SDL '84 300D Turbo '79 300TD '85 6.9L F350 Crew Cab ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:21:33 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: [db] the saga of the 124 talked to bruce today... still in the twin cities... the benz dealership found a problem with his turbo... needs a vacuum transducer now... has to wait until thursday. :( not a terribly expensive part, but fixing it will make getting over the passes so much more enjoyable. :) In other 124 news I've located USED Euro lights in Europe. Seeing if I can get more than one or two sets that way. :) One of my FSJ buddies over there has found them. I'm somewhat excited, it's the last mod I want to do on my 300D, other than maybe having the windows tinted... ;) john ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://JohnMeister.com **** http://wagoneers.com ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold ** http://freegift.net *** http://greatcom.org/laws/languages.html ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #1976 **********************************