funny that…, I have the same problem. my patience disappears at just about the same time as my stash disappears…
coincidence? I don t think so.
its just not NORML…
You are a naughty girl. NORML is a setting on a dryer. Or not. Don’t distract me from the topic at hand. You’ll have fun, fun, fun til your daddy takes your T-Bird away.
no news yet. i’m dying. DYING, I TELL YA. If i wasn’t positive you know who was waiting for me, i’d be a total disaster.
“To restore or to throw up, tis the question”
I haven’t seen much restoration going on, so you’ll have to excuse me… I feel like I’m going to throw up…
CSA
@CSA I agree; this post has long outlived its purpose.
fish or cut bait
Well ladies and gentlemen, or should I say, My dearest CSA aka Eliphaz the Temanite, Docnick aka Bildad the Shuhite and who else but db4690 aka Zophar the Naamathite, do pardon me for extending this post beyond its rightful term of existence as you measure time. Some of us are cast upon the waves and vicissitudes of life for reasons left unexplained for now.
In other words, the mechanics diagnosing my precious old ride, haven’t finished examining her, but have promised to notify me immediately once they determine her ultimate fate. IOW, patience boys. Patience.
A word of advice. Make sure you continue to read all my comments. Tis the first commandment and federal law, you know; gun to your head, right boys? Right. Especially make sure to read them if you find them useless, outlived, or, if they inspire prolonged bouts of blissful regurgitation.
db4690 “we have read ALL of your comments”
Well, you better. BTW, don’t speak for anyone but yourself. You know what the penalty is if you don’t peruse every single one of my masterpieces, I hope!? Make sure you don’t skip any or I’m telling. This is very serious business and a felony violation for you to ignore even one, especially if they get on your nerves. In fact, tell you what I’m going to do. I demand from now on, you personally must read all my posts 5 times! Or else! We’re talking severe consequences if you fail to abide by my orders. I hope you can grasp the full impact of this new requirement. It certainly doesn’t appear you grasped how incapable of fixing cars I said I was from the start. Let that be a lesson.
I agree; this post has long outlived its purpose.DoctorNick
Good, good, cause I’m just getting warmed up. I haven’t even fixed anything on the Beast yet! Outlived its purpose? Just wait. You ain’t seen nothing.
In conclusion I expect 10 page reports from you summarizing everything I post from now on. No exceptions. You will continue to be repulsed by them, no matter what. If you are caught avoiding them or enjoying them, even slightly, well, you don’t want to know the depths of misery and the suffering that awaits you for non-compliance.
cwatkin Duct Tape Specialist
November 2015
"I really don’t think this will be a hard car to restore but DEFINITELY CHECK FOR RUST OR OTHER MAJOR DEAL BREAKERS FIRST! I think this will actually be quite simple for you to work on but look for serious rust before even going out and purchasing a new battery. You might also try to see if the engine will turn with a breaker bar. I have never done this with a diesel so that may be easier said than done but gas engines are relatively easy to turn over by hand. Even if you can’t spin it all the way over, see if it budges at all and then returns to where you started. If the engine is locked, I would call a junkyard and hope they tow it away for free and not charge you.
I knew someone with one of these. Once started, they will run without an alternator or battery as the fuel pump is mechanical and driven off the engine. It drove several hundred miles this way once before reaching its destination where a new alternator was installed.
They can also be converted to run on waste cooking oil pretty easily."
thanks for the encouragement. i think it is truly awesome that these babies can run off of used vegetable oil. how cool is that? with convenient access locally, it could be a pretty sweet deal.
Why does Mercedes have such a distinguished rep? Is it their attention to detail? Over-manufactured? The ride? That the engines are so well designed and constructed? A myth? Before I bought my bomb, I did research to try to find which cars held their value best and which ones had the greatest longevity. Mercedes’ Diesels was the overwhelming response I got over many months and from a wide variety of sources.
Last month I installed the fuel tank with a new level unit and hoses in my 1973 Plymouth. I removed the fuel tank a year earlier as this vehicle was not used for about five years, the price of fuel discouraged me from driving it.
I also replaced the battery, the old one (12 years) wouldn’t accept a charge. I ran a buffer over the paint, five years under a car cover in the desert sun and wind toke it’s toll on the paint.
The next step is to replace the weather cracked tires.
This is the type of update you should post next, not the loony bin updates you have been posting. Testing and replacing a starter is a minor task compared to restoring a car.
Thank you for reading my “loony bin” posts, Nevada. You have just officially joined the, “The I Hate Loony Bin Comments” reading club for free. Unfortunately, the elected positions for President, V.P. Treasurer and Secretary have been filled by your co-hating enthusiasts. Maybe in 4 years you can run for a slot. At the current rate of new club membership applications, let me encourage you to submit your name soon for the next round of primaries. The field is filling up fast.
Congratulations on your decision to cast your lot with the multitudes. You will receive your club badge, pencil, and Dues’ Booklet within 3 business days. We here at LB recognize you have made a serious commitment. It won’t be easy to continue along this path of masochism, to torture yourself voluntarily, reading each and every one of my LB posts, but, you have a proven record. Please be aware: your profession of devotion to this unworthy cause necessarily binds you to read all of them 10 times apiece. We monitor your reading preferences. Failure to continue to read them at this level will lead to your immediate expulsion.
Again, thank you so much for joining. I personally guarantee that my next round of comments will be more loony than ever.
Nice looking Duster, @Nevada_545 - I had a '72 from '73 to '81, very reliable, but slooooow with its 198 cid slant 6/3sp mt. Drove cross country several times.
“My weariness amazes me, I’m branded on my feet…” robert zimmerman
the golden rule is a killer sometimes. wish i could have taken the old girl to the tappet boys once upon a time. imagine taking your number 1, your main squeeze, your favorite beat up but still precious old-bomb to MIT grads, experts in car repairs, honest and decent above all other concerns, to ask them, “what’s wrong with this old jalopy?” expecting and receiving an honest, intelligent, thorough answer? that would be a slice of heaven to me.
where have all the good guys gone?
Watching paint dry is more entertaining than waiting for word from the doctors on the fate of my old girl. If patience is a virtue, I am virtue-less minus 10 million. Hope to bring good news sooner rather than later. Hope I am still kickin when news arrives. Too much to try to diagnose and treat all her diseases with my dilapidated, rusted-out frontal lobe. Turned her over to specialists. I can barely withstand the anxiety of not knowing her fate, and she’s just a car! Don’t tell Armageddon!
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:naughty:
ok bud. I guess I m gonna have to come to you.
you obviously have a hard time working with ancient equipment so I don t know why I should bother…
…but you intrigue me…
let me know when She Whos Name Shall Not Be Spoken is going to her convention in Transylvania and I ll pop over for a…
…consultation.
I ll take a look at what you are working with…
no promises mind you, but you might just get the old girl going yet…
Why are you encouring the guy 
Perhaps the car in question . . . and this discussion, for that matter . . . should be allowed to REMAIN dead
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oh come on.
this guy is the spirit of car talk
humour at its harmless best.
the poet/mechanic is a dying breed uncle harry…
everyone is a specialist…
when the zombie apocalypse comes people will be begging for poet/mechanics…
then there will be a new renaissance!
the poet mechanic will rise again!!!