I think its a little of column a, a little of column b and even a bit of column
c.
I've been using 15w50 oil which is probably a bit thick for this weather but
it leaks less.
I forgot about putting the multimeter on to check resistance, I'll check that
tonight. The battery charger dropped to 2a within about 15 min indicating to me
that the cold and the inverter had just taken the surface charge off the
battery and the block heater had done nothing. I've never been able to hear the
block heater make any sound but invariably when I'm listening theres a million
cars driving by.
When the starter was dying I was using 3rd to start with, todays shot with
4th was an experiment which I'm thinking didn't work out so well. I'd thought
4th would help get rpms up but apparently its difficult to overcome the
resistance of the engine in that gear. Maybe tonight I'll experiment with a
couple starts in each gear.
Finally this car has had this battery for the 3 years I've had it and I've
run it pretty flat a couple times which can't have helped it. Supposedly the
battery was brand new when I got the car but who knows what that really means.
I should pick up a new one. However I'm replacing the car soon with Dory (which
has a 1000cca battery vs Hammie's 900cca) so I'm somewhat loathe to spend any
money on Hammie. Of course that means the next owner will have to, since Hammie
is already sold (pretty much anyway) I should probably just do it, I don't
think my Indy would charge me a tremendous amount to put a new heater in...
-Curt
'83 240D "Hammie" 251kmi
'85 190D "Dory"(Good catch Jim) 233kmi
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 06:10:21 -0800
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> I'm not 100% sure the block heater works and my confidence is
lowering
> each cold spell we have.
On a battery it should be very easy to tell. The heater draws 400W
more or less and should have removed roughly 33 AH from your battery,
which would be in the 85-100 AH rating. A serious drain in other
words.
Your battery charger could tell you after the fact. At a 10A recharge
rate (high) it should take something like four hours or more to
replenish the battery. Much less than that and it's apparent that
your block heater is not up to snuff.
Also, the block heater should measure only in the tens of ohms range
via multimeter, and when operating often makes a sizzling sound.
> We live on a pretty good hill so we hauled him up to the top and I
> rolled him down in 4th gear. Didn't do much good, I was surprised
that
> in 4th the car would stop in about 50 feet even on our hill.
Having roll-started more than my share (of gassers) in my 'yewt',
I'd say fourth gear was much too high a gear. We always did it
in second or third. Gotta get those revs up.
If you don't have a multimeter it's time to get one.
Other 'portable' ideas include a propane torch on the intake
manifold or a hair drier pointed into the intake air horn
while starting, assuming your battery/inverter is up to
the 1kW+ load of the typical hair drier. I use a heat gun
(garage hair drier/cigarette lighter) on my Unimog (which
has no glow plugs). It works.
-- Jim
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Aaron,
Yup, that's approximately how it looks. That page shows a 1994/95
model with the factory dust filters. I don't recall seeing that
plastic 'waffle' grid blocking access to the evaporator core on my
E500, though. Maybe I didn't pull the fan motor when I had it apart to
change the filters. That would make cleaning more complicated on later
models. Then again, models with the dust filters probably would never
*need* an evaporator cleaning! I sure wish MB had thought of the
filter trick from the start of 124 production. If my evaporator ever
goes belly-up, I'd be tempted to buy the whole late-style heater box
and swap that in (but the cost would be hard to swallow.)
Wray, there have been a number of posts throughout the day, every day,
AFAICT. Might just be a hiccup on your new subscription? If you don't
start getting regular posts, contact our benevolent (or malevolent?)
listmom, Kaleb.
:-)
-Dave M.
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> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:20:21 -0800
> From: Aaron Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Evaporator cleaning - update
>
>
> Cool beans Dave. I should probably try this sometime, because AFAIK my
> car has the original evap. I'm guessing your procedure looked similar
> to this?
>
> http://www.geocities.jp/mbw124note/air/coolingfan.htm
>
> -Aaron
