Good job, glad it was simple and cheap. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300 '87 300TD
Jim Cathey <j...@windwireless.net> wrote: >Yesterday Jill called me in the night and the car was acting up. >Lights on the dash, no power, died at stops, etc. Badness. She was >able to limp home, but didn't even make it into the garage, it stalled >in the driveway. Jill had bought this car so as to have a 'newer, >trouble-free' experience, and this was chipping away at her >confidence. She was most upset. > >I went out this morning and had a look, with her permission, and the >first thing I did was check the battery voltage and put it on charge. >It was needing some, probably due to all the starting, but it was not >apparently an electrical problem. I started it and it started fine, >but as the initial high idle came off it would falter and die. Dang. >I had the hood up and the door open, and it seemed excessively >'whistley'. While it was still running I could stick my head in and >hear a wind leak. I had a look at the intake manifold hosing, where >the noise seemed to be from, and I found a tear in a corrugated rubber >elbow coming off the main air intake. Manipulating it affected the >whistle, and its ability to run. What's more, when I went to show my >discovery to Jill I noticed that the big air pipe had popped >completely off the MAP sensor and was leaking profusely. I don't know >how it could even have been running, but obviously it had been mating >just well enough to get some fuel in there. More than enough was >wrong to cause all the trouble. > >Well, _that_ kind of thing I can fix. I started pulling it >apart, to gain access to the torn elbow. That wasn't too hard. I >could see then, though, how dirty the engine had _originally_ >been, pre-sale. They'd cleaned it well, no doubt of that. I used >brake cleaner to clean off the elbow, and some of the grunge on the >occluded bits of the piping, and rigged a socket into the elbow to >force the tear mostly closed. I then smeared the good black 3M >weatherstrip cement on the edges to hold it together. I then got a >piece of bicycle inner tube and cleaned it, then glued it as a splint >around the tear and used zip ties to hold it in place. Once that had >fully set up I put the car back together. > >It worked perfectly again. This repair should hold for some time, >plenty long enough to schedule a proper replacement of that rubber >hose. The car worked well for us on errands today. > >-- Jim > > > >_______________________________________ >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://mail.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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
