JiveTurkey's Garage

[meltedpanda]

Missed you Jive, but for a good reason I see, 'Stars in your Crown" as they say in the good book.
I LOVE that finny, oh my oh my , when you get her sorted out bring her on up to "Caintuk" and lets talk MB's Best of luck

[JiveTurkey]

Originally Posted by meltedpanda

Missed you Jive, but for a good reason I see, 'Stars in your Crown" as they say in the good book.
I LOVE that finny, oh my oh my , when you get her sorted out bring her on up to "Caintuk" and lets talk MB's Best of luck

I wouldn't miss Corn-tucky for anything! Although for a drive like that I might take the massively powerful (at least by comparison with the finny) 280. Hell, if things at the farm ever settle down I'd love to have a spring get together out here. We have tons of room and there's a drag strip nearby where you get three back to back to back passes for fifteen bucks.

[Fulcrum525]

You're a great grandson and a great person for doing what you're doing. It's nice to see that society hasn't completely disintegrated.

Kinda jealous of that garage though! Really do wish I had even half that space .

[JiveTurkey]

Well, if youve read through the misery above, you'll be pleased to know I had my first good day in many months. I had a wonderful curry for lunch (thai green curry with bamboo shoots, carrot, water cheastnut, peas, and mushrooms with steamed rice.) Ironically I paid for my lunch with the bartar system. I bring the owners Xien and Ying a dozen or two fresh eggs from my hens. In return they never let me pay for lunch. Its a quaint arrangement.
Later, after doing some things around the farm and taking grandmas sole remaining dog (she had three, two died this year.) for a walk which she enjoyed greatly. Then I sat down and smoked a La Flor Dominicana Maduro Air Bender on the patio and watched a monster storm blow in. ****er actually blew over my patio table. Thankfully my thirty pound soviet crystal cigar ashtray (Really) was unscathed entirely.
In preparation for work on my 300SD tomorrow I light up a doobie, put a cheech and chong record on, and studied my OM617 manual with fascination. Lest you think any harm come to poor old grandma during the night after I've toked up, fear not. My mom had nary a puff. I basically have nights off around here. Being a 24 hour caregiver / farmhand in the mountains of Tennessee beats the **** out of every other part of my life. I just wish granny was in better health so she could enjoy more of it. But quite thankful that shes around and mobile every day. Shes literally my hero.

Photos...
A lesson in how to study for timing an injection pump on an OM617. This is the actual secret of how to ensure success with the drip timing method. No really. It is.

Puff mightily on one of these until your eyes are cracked open like a slit trench on the western front...

Then listen to this LP while reading about it (for the millionth time) in your shop manual. For those hifi nuts out there on the table is a Jolida 801A vacuum tube amp with a matched quad of KT88s. I think the preamp tubes are 12AX7A's. Seventy watts per channel through a pair of Goldenear Triton II's (which themselves require a wall socket for their internal 1200 watt drivers. The turntable is an AudioTechnica, and I've deactivated its internal preamp to make use of the one on the Jolida amp.

[Tomguy]

Nice car collection! Sorry to hear about the issues. Life seems to go in streaks - a period of good, a period of bad. Sometimes the streaks are long, or at the extreme ends of the spectrum. I hope the good starts sooner for you - although you do have a lot to be fortunate for, given the situation at least! I always tried to look at the good when I was on a bad streak. Now I look at the negatives on the other streak.

[mercmad6.3]

Your life sounds like an episode of Judge Judy. Dont let grandpa come home though, let him stew down in Florida when his GF gives hims some nasty social disease.
As for the drinker in the family,dont waste time on people who drink. Too much heart ache there and they are only interested in the next drink.

I love the AMP!!.


But Tell me,since when does a 23 year old know how to Appreciate Cheech and chong??????

I am nearing 60 and I saw them both live in Auckland,New Zealand in the early 70's . my fave has always been the Drive in.....
Hey Man, he dont' have tire iron but he has a bar.....

[JiveTurkey]

"Heyyy man, am I driving ok?"

"I thick were fukkin' parked, man."

I love cheech and change. One of my favorite things will always be Stacy Keech as Sgt. stidenko on Up in Smoke.

On another tack entirely, if Larry (grampa pecker head) tries to set foot on this property he's going to get a chest full of .45 wad cutters.

I'm really glad you thus are enjoying this little slice of my life. It sure does feel good to finally share it with some friends.

[JiveTurkey]

Another fun aside, that LP copy of Big Bambu still has the giant rolling paper inside. I can't believe it survived all these years.

[mercmad6.3]

Their LP covers were as crazy as the guys themselves, the wedding LP for example. The pregnant bride with the sack on her head......

A crazy thing,when i first came to Australia decades ago,knowone here had heard of them.( unless you understood what Los chocinos was,or michoacon...) it wasn't until they made movies that they became famous in OZ.

[JiveTurkey]

Originally Posted by mercmad6.3

Their LP covers were as crazy as the guys themselves, the wedding LP for example. The pregnant bride with the sack on her head......

A crazy thing,when i first came to Australia decades ago,knowone here had heard of them.( unless you understood what Los chocinos was,or michoacon...) it wasn't until they made movies that they became famous in OZ.

Yeah, I frequently feel like a stranger in my own time. I'll take a pic of my LP collection tomorrow. It's gotten pretty big of late. Further, every one of my LPs was acquired the old fashioned way, flipping through stacks in the few remaining record stores out there. I find that with the right components and vacuum tubes, and a good turntable vinyl is still a sonic superior to solid state amps and CDs. It's something you have to hear to believe. Some of the other highlights in my vinyl? I have a ****load of Pink Floyd (including an Aussie print of Relics.) my Floyd catalogue goes far past their standard releases, including a bootlegged love show in '70 (live version of Echoes is AMAZING!) and a bootlegged copy of Animals, also live. I've got probably thirty Beatles records including some of their original UK releases. (for those of you who don't know, the first six beatles records weren't released correctly in the US because Capitol wanted to make money.) Capitol mixed and matched songs from these first six LPs to make the American releases. We started getting them in their entirety with Revolver, I think.

It's strange to live a life with modern niceties like high speed Internet and affordable wire speed welders, all while living and in fact keeping alive the best parts of a vanished past I didn't get to experience the first time around. I thi, in a way, that's the reason we all work on these old Mercedes. To keep one of the best aspects of the past alive and healthy, and to share the experience and joy that comes with it with the rest of the world.

[mercmad6.3]

I had a pile of LP's too, amongst my Beatles LP's was a copy of "All this and WW2" . A really strange collection of beetles tunes played by the london Symphony orchestra as a sound track to a movie of the same name. In my bucket list of things to buy is a Quad SysytemL Classic Signature Quad with magnepan planar speakers MMG - Magnepan, Inc. a Eames lounge chair and ottoman.

[JiveTurkey]

I am monumentally tired in every way but my 300SD ran for the first time since april today. I put in the new IP and drip timed it to the best of my ability. Putting the damn fan back on the pulley sucked. There were setbacks and all, but it was fun, and a Herculean task. Right now I'm getting whitish smoke all the time below 1200 rpm, and there's a gentle bit of rock at idle that I'm sure is air getting into the fuel somehow. It makes 15 psi of boost rather quickly though, and runs like a raped ape. Whoever Phil had build that IP sure knew how to tune one for plenty of fuel flow. It was really fun to drive my w126 again. Granny beamed, because she had an identical 300sd (even the colour) in the eighties that she loved named Louie. My hands hurt too much to type anything further right now. I'll report in again when I have finger dexterity once more.

[mercmad6.3]

Check your trans modulator . Whiteish smoke is often trans fluid getting sucked into the intake on gas cars but there is nothing to stop a vacuum pump doing the same thing. Give it a few days to settle down and check for smoke once you have a few miles on it.

[pj67coll]

Like your garage there Jive, and that 280 looks NICE

- Peter.

[JiveTurkey]

Finally got the SDs injection pump timed to my satisfaction. Took three full days. Also, I spotted a clean '77 300D for sale just over the border in north Carolina. I think I might go check it out after thanksgiving if the guy calls me back. In other news the fintail should be arriving on or around December 2nd which is monumentally exciting. Granny is still pretty depressed. I feel so bad for her. But she's had a couple good days thrown in, so it doesn't look totally bleak. Does anyone know where Wilma's fuel pump relay is located? (1970 250CE, djet car.) I know her relay ha to be blown because I have a verified working pump installed, but it won't work on the car. Must be the relay right? (I checked the pump, it has power, but I can't trace the wiring to wherever the pump relay is.) I'm guessing it's somewhere under the bonnet but I feel like a blithering idiot for not being able to locate it.

The only shop literature I have for Wilma is the body-chassis manual for all 114's, and a couple of period Haynes and Chiltons manuals that lump all the fuel injection cars together, which leads to little information on the fuelie 114s and loads on injected w108s etc.