[AT] Chevy Astro

[Larry D. Goss]

You guys are reminding me of why I got rid of my Mercedes Diesel years
ago.  BTDT, on all these items.  When we were no longer Mercedes owners,
it was amazing how much time I had to spend with the family that I used
to have to devote to maintenance on the car.  I owned and worked on
several and finally came to the conclusion that one of the problems with
the company is that they haven't figured out how to make parts out of
rubber.  Any Mercedes in the neighborhood of 12 to 13 years old needs to
have every piece of rubber on it replaced.  The company or their vendors
don't understand the finer points of vulcanizing.

When friends describe their daughters as "high maintenance individuals"
it always brings my days of Mercedes ownership back to mind.

Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Skip
Cleveland
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:57 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Chevy Astro

The oil filter change was indeed a hard job, nothing compaired to
replacing 
the  rubber bushings on top of the transmission on a 1966 240 D while
still 
inb the car. After 300,000 miles, you could be expected to do that
several 
times.  Come to think of it, that was the car that would run on it's own

crankcase oil every 100,000 miles or so. I still have a picture of that
pile 
around here some place.
Skip

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Willer" <gwill at toast.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Chevy Astro


>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com [mailto:at-
>> bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Francis Robinson
>> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:00 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: RE: [AT] Chevy Astro
>>
>> "Trying" to work on later model (after mid 1980's) stuff really
>> makes you
>> appreciate how easy it is to work on our old tractors. Years ago I
drove 
>> a
>> 1969 Mercedes 240-D. Gee, that thing was easy to work on.
>
> Sorry, Farmer, but it sounds like you never changed the 240-D oil
filter. 
> I
> owned sever that I had to rebuild because of that difficulty.  The
filter
> element goes in the can and then the old pre-filter goes in after it. 
> Both
> must be in place for the filter to work.  Then it has to go up through
the
> suspension, around the corner, and be blindly screwed in place.  The
next
> unsuspecting guy reaches up through the suspension to remove the
filter 
> and
> with the black inky oil running up his arm never notices the little
> pre-filter falling in the drain pan.  From that time forward the
engine is
> running with a non-operating filter.  That kills the poor little
diesel. 
> :-(
>
> I still have the special tooling used to adjust the transmissions and 
> other
> tooling.  The dealer used to borrow mine.
>
> George Willer
>
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