From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Sun Nov 19 16:58:49 2006 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Monday, November 20 2006 Volume 01 : Number 2309 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: Low sulfur fuel, Was: [db] Cloudy lenses [db] Test - have not received a single post in over 24 hours - getting withdrawal symptoms 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: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:57:31 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: Re: Low sulfur fuel, Was: [db] Cloudy lenses this gets me thinking... with Diesel hitting $2.99/gal here again... last fillup, less than a week ago, was only $2.83/gal... I'm thinking if I blend veggie oil again I could cut my costs... problem is I really should heat it first... need to find the time to research the parts required and head to Graingers. :) anyone got the time to get the parts needed together? I'll put the info up on my server for the list... start the next class tomorrow... only 9 more to go... :) john On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Jon Filina wrote: > -->Sam hinted: > --> > -->> Not snake oil - vege oil - but same potential profit: > -->> > -->> Now is the time to buy up a few gals of biodiesel, some 5-6 oz bottles, > -->> print a bunch of glossy labels and make a killing on "Super-Diesel-Lube." > -->> Just send me 5% for providing the idea. If you do, I'll send a% on to > -->> Greg and Jon for mentioning it first. > --> > --> > -->Wow, man! A diesel-benz pyramid scheme! > -->[ pssssssttttt! Sam! Since Big John is at the top of this pyramid, do ya > -->think we have to give him a cut of the profits? You know he'll just fritter > -->it away on one of his jeepinstein frankendiesel projects. That's not so > -->bad, but we'd end up spending all our profits on the popcorn we'd need to > -->munch on while watching him postulate to the nth degree the benefits of > -->every possible scenario his fertile brain has concocted.... Maybe we'd be > -->better off not telling him.... Mums the word, OK?] > --> > -->> I remember people desperate to buy Anything to increase lubricity in their > -->> fuel last time sulfur levels were reduced. Heard about a few very > -->> expensive semis self destructing because of the low lubricity in new fuel > -->> but it was always 'friend of a friend' of someone I didn't know well. > -->> Nobody I knew with Pugeot, VW, MB or even one GM diesel had a single fuel > -->> problem. Europe has used low-sulfur fuel for years. MB pumps are > -->> lubricated by engine oil, anyway, so most of us have nothing to worry > -->> about. > --> > --> > -->I think the problems I read about had more to do with seals in the older VW > -->diesels and less to do with the lubricating qualities of the new fuel. > -->Anyway, I haven't driven an older VW since '98, so it's a moot point as far > -->as I'm concerned.... > --> > -->[Remember, Big John is not to know that we'll be making millions off of this > -->little pyramid scheme... Millions of what, I don't know, but the numbers > -->show promise. ] > --> > -->Jon > -->'95 E300D "Ernestine" > -->'84 300SD "Bruno" > --> ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** 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 ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:50:08 -0500 From: Edward Pomeroy Subject: [db] Test - have not received a single post in over 24 hours - getting withdrawal symptoms Put a new tie rod end on the LH steering side of the 300D, tho it was measured with care, apparently not enough.... steering wheel is listing about 10 degrees to port side. Have to shorten the tie rod a bit but local weather is not cooperating, 38 degrees and snow flurries, yuck. Forecast is for 57 by Wednesday, will try again then. John, you sent me a picture of all the o-rings that are needed to re-seal all of the connections on/in the injection pump. Do you by chance have a list of the set, or will Rusty know what to quote me if I ask for the whole set? I think the leak is from the upper side of the pump where the connections and tubes come out of it heading to the injectors. Maybe I only need the seals that go on the top end? Edward ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #2309 **********************************