From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Sat Sep 20 11:08:24 2008 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Saturday, September 20 2008 Volume 01 : Number 2868 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: [db] old motorbikes [db] snohomish monster carport remodel... [db] Jeeps in NL, fuel prices 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, 18 Sep 2008 21:36:45 -0400 From: Wiard Pless Subject: [db] old motorbikes Must admit don't anything about motorbikes and never had one. However, still remember this: In Europe after the WWII younger guys bought a motorbikes when they had completed their apprenticeship and started to earn some money. Many had serious accidents and quite a few were caused by seized up pistons - Kolbenfresser. Not sure, whether this is still a problem but for sure, would stay away from an old bike. Cheers Wiard ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:26:20 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: [db] snohomish monster carport remodel... ...we beat the rain! :) my son and I got the plywood up and at least tar paper on it before the rain hit... light rain this morning, but we made it.. heading back up this afternoon to put the final roofing up... more rain later this weekend and we're getting back into our normal rainy season... basically it runs from the day before Labor Day until the 5th of July... kind of surprised that we actually had rain in August this year. the new roof is a bit higher than the old one... can easily fit my '67 J100 panel in the carport... it's on 35's and about 8" of lift... my fear of heights had me struggling to get up the ladder to work on the roof, so my son moved the Panel down and we climbed up on top of it and onto the roof... :) got some night shots of it out in front: http://wagoneers.com/fotos/2008/09-Sep-18-carport-roof-Panel-as-ladder/ALL.html will be working on the carport this weekend, who knows, maybe next weekend I'll be ready to bring SuperDawg back home!!!! :) john ----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold SAVE fuel: use synthetics: http://www.AMSOIL.com/redirect.cgi?zo=283461 SAVE power: use LINUX: http://johnmeister.com/tmcp.pdf http://wagoneers.com http://wagoneers.com/johns-vehicles.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:07:43 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: [db] Jeeps in NL, fuel prices On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, stef wrote: # Hi John, # My new daily driver Volvo V70 2.5, this has to do with the fact that gasprice # still constantly high are. # Best Regards, # Stef # http://wagoneers.com/XJ/rigs/Stef-NL-93/ Stef, I moved all of your pictures to your directory... http://wagoneers.com/XJ/rigs/Stef-NL-93/ nice shot of the FSJ sticker on the Volvo... is it a Diesel? your xj sure is a beauty, love those leather seats. nice interior. My mercedes is a 2.5L as well.. "only" getting 28-30mpg in town though. ;) http://wagoneers.com/DieselBenz/ltrs-mpg.txt FUEL PRICES in Nederland, September 10, 2008: http://wagoneers.com/XJ/rigs/Stef-NL-93/NL-Texaco10-09-2008.jpg let's see, that's about 5.05 Euros per gallon for Diesel, right? if so, 5.05 EUR = 7.27980 USD yikes. 1 EUR = 1.44155 USD 1 USD = 0.693700 EUR gas is 1.55/liter or 5.87 euros or 5.87 EUR = 8.46187 USD !!! (rounded liberally, wasn't precise. ;) Diesel here ranges from $3.99/gallon to about $4.35... down from nearly $5.00/gallon. Up in BC Diesel was about $5.30/gallon. my daily driver right now is mainly a 6.5L Turbo Diesel... http://wagoneers.com/DIESELS/johns-94-Blazer-6.5/ running on biodiesel made from collected wvo... considering setting up a swvo heated tank... mainly to save moving barrels up to my buddy's place... it's costing us about $1.30/gallon to make biodiesel... on the trip up to BC got about 21 mpg... or about 11.5 liters/100km. http://wagoneers.com/fotos/2008/09-Sep-08-KamploopsBC-to-Leavenworth/ http://wagoneers.com/fotos/2008/09-Sep-09-Leavenworth/ we've pretty much parked our '99 WJ with the 4.7L V8, it's a beautiful Jeep and the prices are so depressed there is no point in selling it... I'd rather drive my Mercedes to work, but my wife uses it to run her errands, and since one of her errands involves many more miles than my daily commute, I drive the Blazer... (10 mile commute to work). Running the Mercedes on biodiesel as well. Maybe one of these days I'll get her to drive the Blazer and I'll get my benz back. :) john '94 Blazer, 6.5L Turbo Diesel '91 Mercedes 300D, 2.5L Turbo Diesel '99 Grand Cherokee, WJ, 4.7L V8 '75 J10 hydraulic dump trailer - picked up a barrel lift for it! '83 J10 Stepside (superdawg) - no engine right now... coming home soon! :) not sure what engine to install yet... the Blazer does what I'd want the J10 to do... doing another Diesel conversion might be fun, but it most likely won't turn out as nicely as the blazer... the original engine from superdawg went to another jeep somewhere in the last seven years... should still have the T5/np208... thinking Mercedes Diesel... :) my son's college graduation present: '67 J100 Panel, SJ, 232 cu in - makes a great "step stool" to work on carport: http://wagoneers.com/fotos/2008/09-Sep-18-carport-roof-Panel-as-ladder/ALL.html ----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold SAVE fuel: use synthetics: http://www.AMSOIL.com/redirect.cgi?zo=283461 SAVE power: use LINUX: http://johnmeister.com/tmcp.pdf http://wagoneers.com http://wagoneers.com/johns-vehicles.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #2868 **********************************