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Originally Posted by bgkast
116 and 126 SD injectors have the same part #.

This guy is a moron. I would not let somebody who can not write a complete sentence touch injectors for my car.



Since, your speaking in the first person, present, active, indictive, it should be
(I would not let someone)

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"A liberal is someone who feels they owe a great debt to their fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."

I may not be an English major, but at least I understand punctuation.

I also know how to use the quote button!

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1982 300SD - 232K miles - Wife's Daily Driver

1986 560SL - Wife's red speed machine

yeah

Hmmmmm yes, like Yoda, you speak.

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G'mornin' All,

Honestly, I don't give a hoot about the grammar......but I would like an answer to the above question.......that is something that would make a difference on how a diesel engine runs......

As I live in West Virginia, I can attest to the fact that there really are talented mechanics who do not have the literacy levels of our esteemed Califunya (and other urban) residents!

SB

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Diesels:
'85 300D, "Max, Blue Benz", 155K, 27.0 MPG
'84 190D 2.2, "Eva, Brown Benz", 142K, 40.2 MPG
'77 240D (parts car)
'67 Eicher ES 202 Tractor "Otto" (2cyl, Air Cooled, 30HP)
Gassers:
'94 Ford F-150, "Henry", 170K (300 Six) 17.5 MPG
'85 190E 2.3, 148K....Parts Car
'58 Dodge W300M Powerwagon (Flat Fenders) Less than 10 MPG

Is this thread becoming a riot or what? ...I think the proceedings have taken on a humous turn unmatched for many years.....

As long as invective and satire has not become vindictive, this thread is a revelation on the wit and character of those who have posted so far....just my observations, you understand.

In our defense to our maligned eBayer, mattdave, I say, please don't take everything as a personal attack. ....the ability to post, in what amounts to anonymity is, in effect a form of 'Dutch' courage.

Nil desperandum.



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"A liberal is someone who feels they owe a great debt to their fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."

(you're) anyho i like the grammatical structure and speely check

It were getting very, very dramatical.

But, alas (since we're grading grammar here, is it comma AFTER alas?)
I love to stir the pot and I sure did

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I know I'm going overboard... but what the He**!
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From Wikipedia... "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Common_grammatical_errors"

Common grammatical errors

Listed here are common grammatical errors in English that are usually picked up over the Internet. Note: You may find though that evolution of a language may somehow negate this.


Common sentence structure mistakes
Punctuation should go either inside or outside quotation marks depending on whether or not the punctuation is part of the quotation. See Wikipedia: Quotation marks.
Use square brackets within parentheses when you must use parentheses again. (i.e. She spoke ironically [meaning jokingly].)
Punctuation goes outside parentheses that are a part of the sentence (as in the above example or this example). They go inside the parentheses if it's actually a sentence. (e.g. She spoke ironically. [This meant she was joking.])
Use a semicolon in the place of a period when joining two sentences that share a central idea. For example: "Many people think that semicolons are used the same way as commas. They are not." → "Many people think that semicolons are used the same way as commas; however, they are not."
Use an em dash (—) instead of "-" or "--".
Apostrophes should be used only for contractions ("It's OK to use one here") or possessive form ("Bob's use of apostrophes is correct"). It is common and incorrect to use an apostrophe to indicate a plural ("Error's like this are annoying") except for plurals of single letters (mind your P's and Q's).

Common misspellings
Error → Correction.

(Ordered by commonness.)

"alot" → "a lot".
"it's" 1 → "its".
"who's" 1 → "whose".
"lets" (3rd person present simple active form of the verb "to let" as in: "Bill lets his son use his credit card") → "let's" (contraction for "let us" as in: "Let's go to the store.").
"todo" → "to do".
"upto" → "up to".
"ofcourse" → "of course".
"allright" or "alright"2 → "all right".
"allways" or "all ways"3 → "always".
"their" → "they're".
"theirselves" → "themselves".
"affect" versus "effect".
"buisness" → "business".
"pronounciation" → "pronunciation".
"arguement" → "argument".
"definately", "definetely", … → "definitely".
"ressource" → "resource"
See Wikipedia:List_of_common_misspellings for countless others.

1 "It" and "who" are pronouns, not nouns. Therefore when they are used as possessives, they are not written like contractions "it's" ("it is") and "who's" ("who is").

2 "Alright" is a nonstandard spelling that has become heavily used due to its analogy with similar contractions such as "always" and "almighty". Wikipedia prefers standard writing.

3 "All ways" is only written "always" if you are not referring to "all possibilities". (i.e. "She is better than him in all ways," versus, "She is always better than him.")



From: http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/bio65/Common_Grammatical_Errors.htm


10 Common Grammatical Errors

1. Noun-verb mismatch, e.g. "A herd of horses are better than a flock of sheep" (?herd? is singular). ?The City feels that this is a bad idea?. (A city can?t feel)

2. Adjective used as adverb, e.g. and especially "I did good in this course"

3. Split infinitive, e.g. "I urge you to not support this Bill".

4. Misplaced modifier, e.g. "We need to stop dumping waste into the environment which kills the fish".?? TO avoid this mistake, put the modifier as close as possible to the noun it is modifying.? Repaired: "We need to stop dumping waste, which kills the fish, into the environment". ?

5. Dangling (or misplaced) participle A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical SUBJECT of the sentence.? Wrong: "As the largest reptiles ever to have lived, small mammals could not compete with the dinosaurs".?? This suggests that small mammals were the largest reptiles ever to have lived.? Repaired: "Being small and defenseless, small mammals could not compete with the dinosaurs". More examples).

6. Ending a sentence with a preposition, e.g. "This is something we need to work on".

7. Starting a paragraph with a conjunction that should refer to the previous sentence, e.g. "Furthermore,...", "However,..."

8. Run-on sentences (two complete sentences joined by a comma rather than a period or semicolon) ?The lab is a dangerous place, you should wear a lab coat?. (could be repaired by the addition of ?so?.

9. Incomplete sentences, including those with no verb, e.g. "These animals could be harmed by various things.? Pollution, for example."

10. Mixing up the "notorious confusables" (confusibles?)(e.g. their vs. there)

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Well, I'm no mechanic (like everyone on this forum considering real mechanics have no time to hang out on forums, don't need to, have better things to do, don't care about other peoples cartalk, are confident about what they do with benzes etc etc) and no linguist either but I do fix my own car and always have. what I found is that if you describe a problem thoroughly to a mechanic, they usually know what it is because most problems are common to a mechanic who's experienced. this said, does anyone know why my '80 sd 'misfires'?
I ran 85% WVO and 15% rug all summer. then when the first cold struck I drove it and it started to start badly and smoke. I drained the tank, put diesel in it and since then it has a misfiring cylinder. as if it burns at the wrong moment, or not at all, every now and then. very random, more when cold.sometimes every other second. the car shakes when it does that. and it shakes differently when engaged in gear. smokes too, when misfiring a lot.
I changed all the injectors to good ones (4 from 123's, one from 116, pop tested) and the problem is still there. one of those injectors had different psi numbers on it. filters are new, strainer is good, diesel is good. I'm guessing the oil messed the pump up, the part where the springs and little balls sit or something.
input pls, no grammatical correction

I was going to say, this should be on the 'Tech' forum...but maybe not....I was also going to answer it, and, being as I am here, I can't be a real mechanic, so, I'm not going to answer your question.



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"A liberal is someone who feels they owe a great debt to their fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."

Think whatever you want.

you boys are certified then? no offence dudes, I should have said 'most people on this forum'. don't worry about me, don't panic, I'll find out by myself. it's not that hard these 5 cylinders. it's actually the easiest car I ever worked on, after the Citroen 2cv and renault 4 that is. and the civic up to '95. obviously the manual versions of those.

ok, I know you mechanics out there are all very excited to find out what the problem with my wonderful '80 300 sd was. well, it was quite simple.
running on wvo with a broken thermostat (engine didn't get hot enough to burn every drop) and broken glowplug caused build up of black stuff in the precombustion chamber of cylinder #5, and hence bad combustion.
Incredibly good as I am I took out the #5 injector and heat shield, sprayed the chamber with carburetor cleaner and let it sit for a while. then I poked around in it some with a small screwdriver. then I started the car, without the last injector in it of course, and blew all the black crud out of it. I put it all back together and voila, problem solved. and yes I used a new heat shield. and no, I'm not worried about black crud particles in my 500k+ mile engine.

so please, don't be shy now, feel free to congratulate me with these accomplishments. and if anyone does decide to panic for any reason, remember to always panic with confidence!

please do not reply, it might make me think that people still watch this threat.