It was the knurled nut connection on the front most glow plug had become loose. I am going to change it out for an appropriate sized nut. Crazy thing was I was questioned by a bulbous mall cop buzzing around in a golf cart. "Wha cha doin'? Is this yer car?" he asked as I had the hood full up and was doing the last snugging on the loose connection. "Nope," sez I, "I'm just going around randomly fixing broken down cars" He Just looked at me and drove off about 100 yards and parked and glared at me for the rest of the time I was there.
Bob R -----Original Message----- From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Rich Thomas Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 9:34 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] First Time Stranded...Ever Did you jiggle the connector to the relay? My TD has fits occasionally, I jiggle the connector or squeeze it, it starts right up. I thought at first it was the relay, and after fooling around with it a bit, the car then started, so no relay problem (if you touch it you can actually feel it click). OH, and did you CHECK THE FUSE? --R --R Robert Rentfro wrote: > Drove the '77 300D to the mall last night. Got in it to come home, no glow > plugs. You may recall I just got done fighting them (new relay, 2 new glow > plugs, cleaning up of grounding strap). All of my 2000 hrs at night dim > flashlight parking lot mechanic work was to no avail. Very annoying. > Coupling this with the '87 Acura that doesn't like to start when it's the > least bit damp outdoors is giving me the old car blues. > > Guess I'll be heading up to the mall soon. > > > > Bob R. > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20081228/10 6e4eae/attachment.html> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
