From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Wed May 6 11:00:00 2009 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Wednesday, May 6 2009 Volume 01 : Number 3059 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: [db] portland oregon oil run [db] fuel economy and bioDiesel [db] Weird issues 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: Sat, 2 May 2009 21:25:26 -0700 (PDT) From: diesel john Subject: [db] portland oregon oil run I'm heading down to the amsoil warehouse in portland on tuesday, any one local interested I can pick some up for you to save shipping... have decided to submit to the prevailing wisdom of using 15W40 on my '86 cj-10a... I've been using the 100% marine grade version in my diesels for years and it is superb... I'm eager to see what kind of mileage improvements I'll get once I switch the tug over... have run about enough tanks now to get a decent idea. if anyone in the seattle area has a rear step bumper they want to part with I may be interested, thinking of reworking the box/bed setup on mine... anyone have any plans for a simple flat bed setup? what I've got is working, but I wonder how much more weight I can remove by getting rid of some of that 1/4" plate steel. :) john ----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://AMSOIL.com/redirect.cgi?zo=283461 http://creationwiki.org http://johnmeister.com http://wagoneers.com http://fotomeister.us - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 22:35:54 -0700 (PDT) From: diesel john Subject: [db] fuel economy and bioDiesel just topped off my two Diesels with the homebrewed biodiesel... the benz is still pulling almost 28 mpg on the last batch... running fine... perhaps the quality of the oil is improving... warmer temps are helping too... (need to top off the r134 again... was in the upper 60's today and the a/c did not work... :( the cj-10a is increasing in economy the more I drive it... this last tank was 19.88 mpg, previous tank 16.99. Overall average over the last four full tanks is 17.92 mpg, almost entirely on biodiesel. I need to average my readings over several tanks because of the way the tank fills... can't get a consistent fill. Anyway, that 19.88 includes the run up to Arlington, WA from Kirkland with a full 55 gallon drum of WVO and several buckets of whatever that was supposed to be WVO, and two 5 gal buckets of good WVO... had to put overload springs on to make the run... then from Arlington up to the Skagit Valley with 40 gallons of BioDiesel and two empty 55 gallon drums in the back... cruising at 65-70 mph on I-5 for about 30 or 40 miles... then driving to work all week long... with a couple runs down to Seattle to test drive another Diesel... Tomorrow I'll head to NAPA and buy an oil filter and convert the tug to Amsoil 15W40 Marine Grade Synthetic... next week I'll have the NP208 and will take the tug over to Dave's Transmission in Lynnwood to have the swap the 198 out and switch the 727 over to Amsoil synthetic ATF and possibly add a shift kit... then I'll look for opportunities to drive around gleefully waiting to see the improvement in fuel economy... :) also hoping that a shift kit will assist the performance a bit... hoping they can adjust the kickdown as well... figured out that I can down shift manually to 2nd gear and run up to about 45 to 50 coming up hills... Wondering how much more performance and economy I'd get out of this thing if I put in a T18 (or T19)... that SD33T with a T19 is still waiting for me... not eager to swap engines or convert to manual trans... sure am enjoying how fast my '91 300D is in comparison to the tug! wow. ;) john ----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://AMSOIL.com/redirect.cgi?zo=283461 http://creationwiki.org http://johnmeister.com http://wagoneers.com http://fotomeister.us - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 17:42:08 GMT From: "jasonbassett-at-juno.com" Subject: [db] Weird issues My '77 300D has developed an odd issue that I'd like to understand more. It seemed like a sticking thermostat which was causing it to run about 1 notch hotter than normal, parked on the third notch instead of the second, but then it started peeing oil all over the place, and I'm wondering if my head gasket could be failing. It seems like there's a lot of pressure in the crankcase, although the cooling system seems fine. I'm also curious if the engine is likely to be harmed by being driven under the circumstances, although it could really use a total rebuild anyway.... Whatcha think? Head gasket? Danger for the engine? BTW, I can't look at the thing right now to get more info for you, as the car is 900 miles away from me right now. J ____________________________________________________________ Make money while staying at home. 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