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Jan 22, 2014 12:04:19 GMT
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Long time no update here. 'cause there's nothing that needs spannering or mending. So I cleared out the door pockets where I keep the fuel bills. And took ou the calculator. And - the figures I got are just astonishing! So far the "Rocher" has burned 975.75l of dinosaur juice. Which took it 13.387km. Which means - it's averaging 7,28 liters per 100km. Or 38.8MPG. I'm VERY happy with this milage!!!  This means - I'm bored like hell. So I made a deal. About another car. But that's all for now  |
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Jan 22, 2014 17:30:25 GMT
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Long time no update here. 'cause there's nothing that needs spannering or mending. Those were the days, when Mercedes were built by engineeers and not accountants  |
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Mark
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That's pretty impressive fuel economy for a 25 year old luxury car! Is most of your driving motorway?
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That's certainly a contributing factor - I'm spending a lot of time on the autobahn. But even with a lot of city traffic and driving through the mountains the lowest I got was 31MPG. And that's all with a pre-historic slush box Speaking of which, I think this needs an oil change soon. Yay! Work ahead! Cheers, Jan |
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rr69h
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Jan 23, 2014 11:21:36 GMT
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This means - I'm bored like hell. Ta. Convert it into a shooting break and do a 4matic conversion. Problem solved. You're welcome! |
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Jan 23, 2014 17:29:28 GMT
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Ta. Convert it into a shooting break and do a 4matic conversion. Problem solved. You're welcome! - it's not like I have not thought bout all these things In other news: snapped 4x 205/55 R16 tyres for 50, 4.5y old and 60% thread left. Win? And I'm very undecided if I should put them on the 8x16 SL wheels or 7x16 E-Class wheels. At the moment I'm leaning towards the SL wheels. With the W140 hubcaps. |
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Today was the day - when I finaly inaugurated the farmer hook I sold the spare turbo short block I bought many pages back. Got me some good profit. And I'm thinking; if the engine ever brakes it's a) probably the head and b) I'd rather get an engine I can test-drive. With a whole car wrapped around it I can sell on in bits. You get the idea...  ^and I also put in BOSCH indicators which are much more orange than the Hellas that came with the car!  And towing a trailer for some distance is - rather boring... |
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Jan 28, 2014 20:56:54 GMT
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAR! 26 years old... 4 to got 'till historic plates! |
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And this was it's birthday present:  Which made the fire extinquisher look a lot more subtle:  And that's about all there is to report... Apart from the odometer being beyond 550.000 now. Which means - I've done over 15.000km in slightly less than half a year And it's never missed a beat |
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Feb 11, 2014 12:54:31 GMT
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Following up from the '88 W124 Ex- Berlin Taxi - too far gone...? Sigh. thread; I again have a carport full of brown interior and some random Taxi stuff  Note: the rear seat bench does JUST fit in a Coupés boot, the back rest doesn't. At all. These and the door cards are still at E's, I'll collect them during the week. My main interesst of course was the Taxi center console. Which will allow easy fitting a a) aux heater controll panel and oil temp. & boost gauge. And maybe som more stuff... I'll have to lightly restore it. And it needs to be a lot more browner I've odered some vinyl paint & cleaner - I'll see how the stuff works. I just love this center conmsole for it's purposefull look.  Apart from that - nothing to report. Cheers, Jan |
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Feb 11, 2014 16:44:19 GMT
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I finally found the charger for my cräpp camcorder - here's the long promised driving video. Albeit it's - just like the camcorder - a bit cräp Anyway, I htink you get an impression |
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Feb 11, 2014 17:27:00 GMT
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vettels gonna be worried |
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Feb 11, 2014 19:18:14 GMT
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Vettel's got only 1.6l engine - HAR! Pathetic... |
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Feb 11, 2014 21:05:04 GMT
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it is with some shame that i'll admit it (given that i have a D24TIC in my volvo), but those merc straight six diesels are definitely the best that you could have at the time. silky smooth and seems to go pretty well too. do i get the impression from that video that it almost wants to pull better around 2-3000 RPM than at higher revs? anyway, lovely car and a proper credit, always keep a very close eye on this one and if it wasn't for their tendency to rot a little, i'd deffo be pushing for one of these (in estate form) in our family. looking forward to more updates Richard |
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Last Edit: Feb 11, 2014 21:07:17 GMT by rich745
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Feb 11, 2014 21:24:40 GMT
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it is with some shame that i'll admit it (given that i have a D24TIC in my volvo), but those merc straight six diesels are definitely the best that you could have at the time. silky smooth and seems to go pretty well too. do i get the impression from that video that it almost wants to pull better around 2-3000 RPM than at higher revs? Hi Richard! Your impression is not wrong; the turbo is rather smal and there's not a lot more to come after about 3500RPM. Torque peaks at around 2400RPM - the torque converter keeps the engine in that range for a long time - I very rarely need to rev the engine past 3000RPM which makes for a very relaxed driving. If you note the relation between speedo & tacho you can see that, depending on throttle and RPM/speed, at times this things almost works like a Variomatic Half throttle keeps the revs at 2000RPM right from 50 (30mph) to almost 100km/h (60MPH)! It's realy, realy well working together with that auto trans, you can feel that a lot of tweaking and brain has gone into this engine/gearbox combination And all that without fancy electronics and stuff. If I'm not misstaken, it was the largest and most powerfull Turbodiesel one could buy in a car when the engine was introduced in '86 [edit] D24TIC - I didn't realise untill now that Volvo also used inline-six Turbodiesels in theyr RWD cars! I need to get me one of those, maybe for winter dutys? Need more input! Cheers, Jan |
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Feb 11, 2014 21:55:29 GMT
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aah, thats interesting, i suspect maybe the turbo sizing might have something to do with the similar behaviour on mine, that and the governor that cuts fuelling massively past about 3000RPM too (soon to be changed). i'm not personally a massive auto box fan, but i can imagine it works great in something like your car and suits the character of the car to the ground i can imagine that they are a really well thought out and engineered car i'm sure, love the trick rear axle too with that ASD and independent suspension too! what power does an OM606 make standard then? yep, we did get I6 TD - IDI and originally from a VW LT van but actually a good engine even if they don't have the best reputation sometimes! think one might make a good winter hack, they don't rust the way W124's do at least, but good luck finding one with a locking axle as from experience i can tell you that without it they can be entertaining in snow! Rich |
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Feb 11, 2014 22:23:25 GMT
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Turbo sizing is quite a vital part of Turbo engine design I've read a book, didn't understand much. And now I'm assuming it's just black magic that makes Turbo engines work I must say I didn't like automatic gearbox. When it was still a gasser, I sort of had arragend myself with the slush 'box - but now I love it! It's the perfect gearbox for a turbo-diesel and completely eats any turbo-lag. On a straight six gasser I'd rather have a manual - no question! Mine is a OM603 - it is rated with 147HP at 4600RPM and 276 metric torques at 2400RPM. The 606 is it's multivalve-successor and rated at 177HP at 4400 and 330 torques from 1600-3600. But has all electronically controlled injection pump and stuff. And loves to shear off glow plugs. Volvo with l6 diesel is now on my "possible winter rides" list But I probably just end up driving this through winter 'cause I don't want to not drive it - if that makes sense Cheers, Jan |
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Feb 14, 2014 17:24:57 GMT
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Uh - oh - a proper update! With real work done! Lately I noted that after a prolonged autobahn drive the oil pressure was dropping to ~1.5 bar at idle. Which is perfectely fine, but indicates high oil temperature. Well actually I noticed this ever since I drove it, but now I though it's time to sort out. So apart came the front end. Since I have a large oil cooler now - it's easyer to remove the headlight to gain access to the bolts holding the bumper.  But - I had a cunning plan, so removed both headlights. The lenses are probably still the first ones. And well sandblasted, if you look close:  So I re-painted some old frames, glued on brand new lenses and put them back on. New to the left, old to the right.  and the reason I removed the bumper was this. When I build the car, I wanted it done soon. Which was when I discovered that the Turbodiesel bumper has more cutouts. So I quickly drilled some holes. Which I now transformed into real cutouts, for more and better airflow to the oil cooler. Of course I had placed the drillings incredibly stupid, so it's not looking very beautifull - but form follows function. And it's hardly visible anyway...    And ready to roll again. Headlight on the driver's side needs some better adjusting, but it was too freezing by then so I left it how it was. Needs to come out anyway some time soon, as one tab holding the lense broke off. Sigh. But I had only Bosch headlights or a broken Hella. *D'oh!* However, the dark frmaes look much fresher than the faded old ones  And that's it for now. Cheers, Jan [edit] Oh no, wait; I also bought another set of W140 hub caps, in much better condition  |
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boyd
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Feb 15, 2014 12:11:34 GMT
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I had a similar Oil pressure Drop on mine but it turned out to be the Oil pressure sender in the Block They are known to do this when Old the pressure drops when warm and you think hmmm the engine is on its way out but mercedes do a good job on the engines its the ancillaries that tend to wear .I tested the resistance both ways and also dummy loaded the Dash guage ( using resistors ) all indicated the sender new sender installed ( pig to acccess ) and Full Oil Presuure Restored even after an italian tune up Run :-)
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Feb 15, 2014 22:08:50 GMT
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it is with some shame that i'll admit it (given that i have a D24TIC in my volvo), but those merc straight six diesels are definitely the best that you could have at the time. silky smooth and seems to go pretty well too. do i get the impression from that video that it almost wants to pull better around 2-3000 RPM than at higher revs? Hi Richard! Your impression is not wrong; the turbo is rather smal and there's not a lot more to come after about 3500RPM. Torque peaks at around 2400RPM - the torque converter keeps the engine in that range for a long time - I very rarely need to rev the engine past 3000RPM which makes for a very relaxed driving. If you note the relation between speedo & tacho you can see that, depending on throttle and RPM/speed, at times this things almost works like a Variomatic Half throttle keeps the revs at 2000RPM right from 50 (30mph) to almost 100km/h (60MPH)! It's realy, realy well working together with that auto trans, you can feel that a lot of tweaking and brain has gone into this engine/gearbox combination And all that without fancy electronics and stuff. If I'm not misstaken, it was the largest and most powerfull Turbodiesel one could buy in a car when the engine was introduced in '86 [edit] D24TIC - I didn't realise untill now that Volvo also used inline-six Turbodiesels in theyr RWD cars! I need to get me one of those, maybe for winter dutys? Need more input! Cheers, Jan I drove a customers one after a service and i have to say it's one of the few auto/TD setups that work well, no shunting about of the gears from the box, just nice smooth acceleration and gear changes, i was well inpressed at how well the thing got down the rooad for it's size  Over the last 2 weeks i've driven 2 W123 diesel autos (4 and 5 cyl) and thier change is terrable in comparison, obv they are NA but i allways find a TD confuses an autobox worse, not with these though, a really well engeneered power train  |
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