From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Tue Apr 18 18:06:29 2006 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Wednesday, April 19 2006 Volume 01 : Number 2138 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: RE: [db] What's a good algaecide? Re: [db] What's a good algicide? Re: xj: Re: [db] $2.90/gallon!?!?! [db] 300SD Steering Box Re: [db] 300SD Steering Box 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, 17 Apr 2006 16:06:48 -0400 From: "Cool" Subject: RE: [db] What's a good algaecide? Hi Paul - Seems like this is going around! I just had a similar problem in my '91. Clogged the filters solid about 100 miles from home. I was able to limp home (slooowly)... I have had great results with the Power Service products. The BioClean will kill all the stuff in there, just keep a fresh set of filters in the car in case you end up like I did. (I usually keep a spare set along with gloves, rags, and tools for an on the fly filter change, but it figures the one time I needed them they were sitting on the shelf in the garage!) They have a new product that I haven't tried yet called Slime-X. Sounds good from the description - if you try it out let me know how it works, I'd be interested. Here is their web site: http://www.powerservice.com/ Good luck - Fred - -----Original Message----- Hello fellow Diesel Benzers, I have had issues with my 240D losing power, and even shutting off while driving, like it was puking on something it didn't much care for. I assumed it was water, changed fueling habits, and the filters. I saw some black stuff that I assume was algae in the spin on filter. I was wondering if anyone had a sure fire method of killing that stuff off. I have read the back of a couple of diesel additives, and they seem to mainly claim to cure the conditions for algae, but do not say they kill it off. I was thinking a spoon full of bleach, or something might do it. Any thoughts? Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:07:25 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: Re: [db] What's a good algicide? biocide... (sp?) picked up some at walmart... went through this with my 300SD a few years back... john On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Paul Masterson wrote: >-->Hello fellow Diesel Benzers, >--> I have had issues with my 240D losing power, and even shutting off while >-->driving, like it was puking on something it didn't much care for. I assumed it >-->was water, changed fueling habits, and the filters. I saw some black stuff >-->that I assume was algae in the spin on filter. I was wondering if anyone had a >-->sure fire method of killing that stuff off. I have read the back of a couple >-->of diesel additives, and they seem to mainly claim to cure the conditions for >-->algae, but do not say they kill it off. I was thinking a spoon full of bleach, >-->or something might do it. >--> Any thoughts? >--> >-->Paul >--> ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** 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 ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- to fry some phish: http://castlecops.com/pirt - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:54:49 +0100 From: "Stephen Rigley" Subject: Re: xj: Re: [db] $2.90/gallon!?!?! On 4/13/06, john wrote: > Ed et al, > > Another very serious problem with China's industrialization is their lack > of concern for environmental or safety standards. My kid was over > there for a year teaching English and some of the pictures of vehicles > and building sites scared the daylights out of me. They use bamboo shafts > tied together for scaffolding on multi-story buildings! Yup, they use traditional methods still for scaffolding, their health and safety bills need a bit of updating ;-) http://www.alamy.com/stock_photography/2/1/CapitalCity+Images/A53RC6.html Altho this is not always the case : http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/4219 Its fun getting into a taxi (especially the remakes of the 1990 Daihatsu Charade)with an internal rollcage and asking for somewhere which requires some back street driving ;-) Their vehicles > are often in poor condition and are obviously gross polluters... at least > from the looks of the exhaust output in pictures in traffic. > This is soon to be addressed with new legislation coming through the lines (national car inspection). > Air quality in places like bejing(sp?) are terrible. There would be days > when the sky was brown and it hurt to breathe! Yup, I've been there a few times, the air does get v.mucky, no doubt a sizeable percentage is from fumes but most of it is dust from the northern deserts (we had to wear face masks for a month while we were living in Korea too due to the same dust clouds) > > Just read in the news the other day where local farmers attacked a paper mill > and a sewage plant for polluting their water and air! newly built government > sewage plant even! it was on netscape news. > > So this is another good reason for us to move toward BioDiesel and Ethanol. > > btw, saw Diesel at 2.96/gallon, reg unleaded seems to be in the low 2.90's > > john ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:55:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jerry Kaidor" Subject: [db] 300SD Steering Box Hi guys, Got my seat together on the 300SD - new spring pan and horsehair pad. The secret to replacing the spring pan is that you can run the seat motors back & forth on the bench with a power drill and a small Robertson ( square ) bit, so as to get the slide exactly to where you can unscrew the pan. The car still handles a bit squirrely. Part of this is that there is over an inch of play in the steering wheel. Inspection showed that most of the play is in the steering box itself. As I remember it, there is an adjuster screw for the pitman arm. Web research leads me to believe that you tighten the arm by screwing the screw OUT. And you have to leave some play, or else it will bind. Anybody got words of sage advice about this? - Jerry Kaidor ( jerry-at-tr2.com ) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:58:57 -0700 From: Greg Fiorentino Subject: Re: [db] 300SD Steering Box Jerry Kaidor wrote: Hi guys, Got my seat together on the 300SD - new spring pan and horsehair pad. The secret to replacing the spring pan is that you can run the seat motors back & forth on the bench with a power drill and a small Robertson ( square ) bit, so as to get the slide exactly to where you can unscrew the pan. The car still handles a bit squirrely. Part of this is that there is over an inch of play in the steering wheel. Inspection showed that most of the play is in the steering box itself. As I remember it, there is an adjuster screw for the pitman arm. Web research leads me to believe that you tighten the arm by screwing the screw OUT. And you have to leave some play, or else it will bind. Anybody got words of sage advice about this? - Jerry Kaidor ( jerry-at-tr2.com ) Jerry: My recollection matches yours on the direction to tighten the box. Any binding will be at the straight-ahead position. I also recall reading to go 1/8 turn at a time. I would jack up both front wheels for better feel. I think about 1" of play is considered nominal. Greg Fiorentino Vancouver USA '85 300SD Turbo (picking up soon) '84 300D Turbo '79 300TD '85 6.9L F350 Crew Cab (going) '97 7.3L F250 HD 4WD Crew Cab No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.2/314 - Release Date: 4/16/2006 ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #2138 **********************************