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1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
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Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831799-post13.html
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831807-post14.html

I HATE!!! spiders! Burn them all!

Good thing none of those live around me. Actualy I can't really think of any posiness insects that live in my area.


I'd rather deal with a snake then a spider! I hate spiders give me a nice deadly snake to avoid.

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Well from what I read, they are not on the west coast. Most people in Oregon call the hobo spiders brown recluses and believe that's what they are.

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248,650 miles and counting...

"Brown Recluse

This spider has a light brown body and legs. The cephalothorax (head united with thorax) has a darker brown violin-shaped mark on the upper side. The female constructs an irregular web outdoors and indoors in undisturbed dry locations such as basements, garages, closets, and farm outbuildings. The web is not usually used to trap insect prey. Instead, the brown recluse is a hunter, emerging from its hiding place at night in search of small insects for food. Favorite hiding places are in seldom-used clothing hanging in dark closets, in boxes of magazines, papers and other stored items, on the underside of furniture, in cracks and spaces around baseboards, around window and door facings, and in dark cellars and garages.

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Most victims are bitten after they put on clothes stored in a secluded closet or that have been laying on the floor, when cleaning closets or storage areas, or when they roll on a spider while in bed. Initially, there may be little or no pain from a brown recluse bite, but, over the course of several hours, an intense localized pain develops, followed by inflammation of the area. Within a few days, a large ulcerous sore forms around the bite. This sore heals very slowly and leaves a large disfiguring scar. There is no specific anti-venom available for brown recluse toxin, but various other treatments are used to promote healing. Early diagnosis and treatment are essential to alleviate pain and speed healing of ulcerated tissue. It can be important to know what spider caused the spider bite to assist with an early diagnosis and treatment. Without a specimen, there is really no way to determine what spider caused a spider bite, but medical personnel assume that if the bite becomes ulcerous, it is the bite from a brown recluse spider... "

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.critterridders.com/brown_recluse1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.critterridders.com/spiders.htm&h=400&w=450&sz=195&tbnid=83-8z3Oe2m8J:&tbnh=110&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbrown%2Brecluse%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D&start=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=1

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1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831799-post13.html
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831807-post14.html

Found one of these one day outside in a box....anybody know what kind that is?

btw...this is giving me the willies too.

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If there's a shortage, I might be able to help you out...

Just looked at a U of Kentucky website on the brown recluse. The DO live in parts of the SW, including southern CA.

I will not be passing myself off as an expert on spiders anytime soon!

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1985 300D Turbo, CA model
248,650 miles and counting...

I encountered one in 1991 in some boxwoods outside of an extremely busy downtown nightlife strip in Chas., SC. I got lucky and was at the hospital w/in one hour of being bitten and got really lucky.

It is a colloquial tag in many places. In Sud America there is a mosquito like creature that is referred to as "daddy long legs" that is fairly dangerous.

Are you sure that they were claiming that the range of the brown recluse extended that far? Or were they also discussing related species?

Recluse Spider Populations
The darkly shaded area of the map shows the distribution of the brown recluse spider (modified from the distribution map of Gertsch and Ennik, 1983). Additional limited populations may be found around the margins of the shaded area. The other 10 species of native recluse spiders are found in the striped area in the southwestern U.S.

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Busted on Mythbusters.

Very entertaining episode.

Oh, and here's a gruesome Brown Recluse bite site. I question some of the 'reports' but it is entertaining nonetheless (in a morbid sort of fashion).

http://www.highway60.com/mark/brs/default.asp?Picture=Yes

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From the map it looks like you're making them in your basement and exporting!

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-Marty

1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831799-post13.html
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831807-post14.html

We have wonderful natural conditions for the little darlings and they adapt easily to urban life. We also have a fine supply of Black Widders. This summer the 9th Ward should be an arachnologist's happy hunting ground.

I hate spiders.....

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