I might have bought a $300 Mercedes

This won't happen but it's fun nonetheless!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HhxsN7HGo2Y

belteshazzar wrote: whats the purpose of a 1st gear the car doesnt use?

I think Confucius said that...

Those older diesels will run on 50/50 diesel and WVO with no modifications at all. I know a guy that runs a construction company and all his older trucks run on 50/50 in the summer and 75/25 in the winter. I would imagine in Florida you could pretty much run 50/50 all year round.

belteshazzar wrote: whats the purpose of a 1st gear the car doesnt use?

Efficiency, though oddly enough, the MB 4 speeds of the era were non overdrive.

subrew wrote: Seems like a waste of $300. Should we expect more terrible project car articles?

That's pretty much the plan. We're going to do a print version of Sharknado.

David S. Wallens wrote:

subrew wrote: Seems like a waste of $300. Should we expect more terrible project car articles?

That's pretty much the plan. We're going to do a print version of Sharknado.

Good plan. It will sell better than ever as hipsters buy it "ironically" just so they can be seen carrying a copy around with them.

I have no photoshop skills or I would put some sharks in this:

then you can write a review on it.

Oh boy... just got a call from the Mercedes shop. It probably needs a transmission rebuild, to the tune of $1500!

Decisions, decisions....

David S. Wallens wrote:

subrew wrote: Seems like a waste of $300. Should we expect more terrible project car articles?

That's pretty much the plan. We're going to do a print version of Sharknado.

Am I still writing it, or did Garry Marshall accept the proposal?

LS1?

Tom Suddard wrote: Oh boy... just got a call from the Mercedes shop. It probably needs a transmission rebuild, to the tune of $1500! Decisions, decisions....

I TOLD you that was a lot more than just "flare"!

So, I'm voting for the "leave it in Alabama" option...

Margie

Solution:

Article fodder for snake oils!
What do our good friends at CRC have for this application?

rebuild it yourself!

Yeah... I already added a bottle of transmission honey and it didn't help.

I told the shop (Autoclinic in Ormond Beach, Fl.) to go ahead and do it. So now I have an $1800 Mercedes.

Tom Suddard wrote: Yeah... I already added a bottle of transmission honey and it didn't help. I told the shop (Autoclinic in Ormond Beach, Fl.) to go ahead and do it. So now I have an $1800 Mercedes.

Seriously? You know car-part has them listed in the $300-$500 range in your area. I could understand spending an extra $500 on the car, but $1800 just doesn't seem worth it. At least not to me, but I guess it's not my car.

My plan, though, is to drive this thing 300 miles a week. I don't have the time to put a transmission in it right now, as I'm in the middle of 4 other projects. Plus, if I put in a used one, I might have to just do it again in a few months.

For what it's worth, I assumed when I bought it that it would need $2k of something. Unfortunately, I was right.

Are you going to put little flags on the front quarter panels?

Yes. GRM Flags!

Tom Suddard wrote: Yes. GRM Flags!

Nice!

I was going to suggest you fix it up and flip - you have college to get to young man.

Exactly, and hopefully this will take me there in comfort and style.

$1800+ registration/tittls costs and extra insurance and everything else you will likely need would buy a lot of gas for something. I mean don't you regularly claim 15mpg out of the trooper. Isn't 1800 ~ 2 years of gas at 15mpg vs 30mpg at 300 miles a week.

DOT-3 brake fluid in an old transmission will make it grab like a fresh rebuild, for about a week. then the friction discs disintegrate and you're kinda where you are right now, only a week later.

In reply to nocones:

How dare you bring logic into this discussion!

Any more outbursts of logic or math and there will be consequences!