From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Thu Apr 20 10:19:15 2006 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Thursday, April 20 2006 Volume 01 : Number 2139 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: [db] seats [db] biodiesel in credit card form 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, 18 Apr 2006 20:26:51 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: [db] seats excellent tip with the drill, thanx... I wonder if one could add lumbar support to the back. I've got a tempurpedic (sp???) lumbar support under the sheepskin, but it always bunches up... would be nice to be able to put foam into the seat under the cover in order to provide the proper lumbar support... thoughts? john On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Greg Fiorentino wrote: >--> 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 >--> ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** 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: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:11:26 -0700 From: "Charles Redell" Subject: [db] biodiesel in credit card form This is a neat story on a prototype biodiesel-creation method at the U of Oregon. Apparently the device is credit-card size.... Man, if I could carry this in my wallet and fillup by running into McDonalds.... ok, maybe that's a bit silly, but still. http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/04/19/ap2681244.html ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #2139 **********************************