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Forum: Diesel Discussion 03-29-2007, 11:10 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,933
Posted By Steve Gold
Cheap Relay

When I went to manual glowplugs on the 300SD I used a $10 lawnmower starter relay this handles the current of five plugs and has been in service for some 5 years, I never did get around to hooking up...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 08-02-2006, 01:51 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,052
Posted By Steve Gold
keep trying

If this is anything like the 300SD with flex joints at the trans and diff, the three legged drive flanges (tripods) must be in line when looking down the length of the shaft. This means there are...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 07-09-2006, 06:36 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 981
Posted By Steve Gold
Glow Time

I noted that a NEW glowplug connected to the battery takes about seven seconds to reach peak temperture (Bright orange / white hot)

That is why I glow for seven seconds then start, see sig


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Forum: Diesel Discussion 06-22-2006, 09:59 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,434
Posted By Steve Gold
driving on the right

Interesting to hear about american drivers driving in England,for me the challange was my first visit to the USA in 2001 and having to drive on the right from atlanta to Montgomery AL in the dark in...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 06-11-2006, 12:31 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,999
Posted By Steve Gold
Manual Glow Plugs Rule

I have always done the manual glowplug thing on my diesels and especially on diesel conversions, on the OM617 engine seven seconds is the time i observed for a gp to reach peak temperture. The relay...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 06-03-2006, 01:10 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,236
Posted By Steve Gold
Look Up

Look up at the hood pad of there is an aircleaner shaped ding it the engine mounts are shot.



Steve
Forum: Diesel Discussion 05-17-2006, 09:09 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,653
Posted By Steve Gold
Damper

I also removed mind when it came loose during a driveshaft overhaul last year, as I could not tell which of the three posible ways it could be postioned i removed it with no ill effect.


Steve
Forum: Diesel Discussion 05-13-2006, 08:29 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 4,612
Posted By Steve Gold
Perkins prema

Another engine for the british cars to consider is the perkins 2.0 litre (Prima) from the sherpa trucks and vans. I still have a prima and 5 speed in my 1975 pre production sherpa ( I did the...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 02-22-2006, 08:25 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 803
Posted By Steve Gold
to stop engine

Lift accelerator pedal with toe to stop.

Check glowplugs, valve clearance, fuel lines for air leaks, fuel filters.


Where in the world are you, I worked on one of these fine trucks back in the...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 02-05-2006, 09:05 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 5,474
Posted By Steve Gold
orange

That colour is quite common on the UK cars or that era, it is one shade better than the pee pee yellow 300D that i used as a south london minicab (taxi) back in the mid 80s



Steve
Forum: Diesel Discussion 02-04-2006, 11:57 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 972
Posted By Steve Gold
Head Banging

Back in 1986 when I did the top end and chain job on a 300d, I must have bashed my head about 200 times, only after I had finished did my kid brother tell me about this lesser known feature.

Steve
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-30-2006, 09:25 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 2,076
Posted By Steve Gold
radiator

Wwhen i got down to my last radiator I was plesantly supprised to find that the last one in the 81SD spares car was of copper/brass construction, I dont know where to get these but I trust this type...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-24-2006, 08:48 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,161
Posted By Steve Gold
1/2 a system is better than a full one

After doing the drive shaft on the SD I cut off the center mufflers (gonads) and used a pipe and some clamps to make up the length. I will be making up a center support this weekend.

Result no...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-24-2006, 08:38 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 3,951
Posted By Steve Gold
Never hear of it

I had never heard od EGR until I came to the USA in 2001, However I had heard (dreamed) of a car called a 300SD it took a few months and the bosses boss sold me which had a working EGR, once i...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-23-2006, 08:44 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,835
Posted By Steve Gold
Seven Seconds

Seven seconds is the time it took a new plug to get up to nearly white hot when tested on the battery,So this is what i give it (see sig) The heater part of the plug is not in contact with the head...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-23-2006, 08:30 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,890
Posted By Steve Gold
Two Hammers

I did the SD last summer, pulleys and weights strung up in the carport roof (the pulleys are still there), when it came to getting those sideplates on I ground a notch in a pair of vise grips and...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-23-2006, 06:49 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,178
Posted By Steve Gold
keep trying

I did the same thing pulling a shaft to re-use from a parts car. The first thing to do is to get the two tripods inline with each other that means there are only three ways it can go back in, I got...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-21-2006, 06:49 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 2,198
Posted By Steve Gold
A Nice Pair

Have a pair of 300SD's behind the barn, always scanning the countryside for a lucky find and cannot pass an old Mercedes without looking back at the trunk lid to see what it is.

Paid $1400 for the...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-13-2006, 03:38 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 4,401
Posted By Steve Gold
Daze

If any of your other halfs are into watching SOAP there is a a very sad story line, on Daze of their lives, relating to the lack of attention to driving due to cell phone distraction. Not that I...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-12-2006, 05:41 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 4,401
Posted By Steve Gold
Cell Phones

Just ordered the brake light flasher from the earlyer post, I will fit this to the tracker in sig with the led light that is to go in the new hard top back window to replace the light on a stick...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-12-2006, 05:28 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 3,947
Posted By Steve Gold
.5 mm Oversize

When I rebuilt the top of the engine in my 76 300D (W123) back in england back in 1986 I noticed the pistons were marked +.5mm, AE was the brand name.


Steve
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-07-2006, 06:50 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,474
Posted By Steve Gold
Go For It

Mercedes vans in the uk that i drove had a wide "tang" at the top of the accelerator pedal, to stop the engine hook toe under and lift it took me a while to find that clever feature.

Keep it...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-05-2006, 05:22 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,035
Posted By Steve Gold
Insurance

I heard you can go for a real high deductable to get a lower insurance rate, just keep the money where you can get to it just in case.

I didnt need to do this I pay $143.XX a month total on the 3...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 01-05-2006, 05:12 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 3,514
Posted By Steve Gold
Short Glow And And Away I Go

I Glow the SD for about 8 seconds when we had some frost on the cars, she fired right up first piston over compresstion and its running on all 5.


Steve
Forum: Diesel Discussion 12-29-2005, 08:46 AM
Replies: 36
Views: 4,456
Posted By Steve Gold
Bama Rocks

London UK 26 years, expensive police dont let you do much work on cars in the street.

Bristol UK 16 years, engine swap ok in street as long as you are quick and dont make a mess.

Undisclosed...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 12-16-2005, 04:17 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 3,534
Posted By Steve Gold
Block heater voltage

One of my spares cars has a block heater which i may fit just for the warmth on a cold morning and to be better for the engine. I did wonder if the USA v Europe version have different voltage...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 12-15-2005, 08:29 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 6,089
Posted By Steve Gold
Whoever put the starter on that side should be shot!

"Whoever put the starter on that side should be shot!"

Even more of a problem back in the UK where starter was very close to the steering box, that made changing the starter motor a royal pain in...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 12-10-2005, 10:55 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 3,155
Posted By Steve Gold
Sounds like me

I have to agree with this concept, here in the deep south we have a branch of the comunity often refered to as "Rednecks" where inginuity often overcomes wealth.

Coming here from England in 2001 I...
Forum: Diesel Discussion 12-09-2005, 11:53 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,116
Posted By Steve Gold
Congrats

Nice name, at least you didnt call her Diesel (Dee for short)
Forum: Diesel Discussion 12-01-2005, 04:11 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 18,347
Posted By Steve Gold
Breaking in a curve

Originally Posted by boneheaddoctor
wear pattern......new is smooth the other is not....casues on wheel to grab before the other...not a good thing in curve in the rain.


If you have to break...
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