Went down and followed the block heater cord, pulled the thingie off and, whoa its shredded. I'm amazed it ever worked, in fact I'm sort of amazed it didn't start a fire! This is beyond shoe-goo and tape, its dead Jim. (like that one?) So its off to Rusty's site to order me up a new one. -Curt flush with diagnostic sucess!
--------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 17 00:51:26 2006 Received: from [70.184.21.183] (helo=[192.168.1.100]) by server5.arterytc5.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1Eyf4I-0005hA-ME for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:51:26 +0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:51:27 -0600 From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Subject: Re: [MBZ] what I also discovered the hard way X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:51:27 -0000 Oh I have a pile of alternators. Will try a new voltage regulator first and see what happens. Trampas wrote: > Jump start, hit alternator with wooded handle from hammer. Will charge for > about 1-2 more days while you get new brushes from Rusty. Or I can sell you > some used brushes. Hahahahhaha > > Trampas > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Kaleb C. Striplin > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 7:08 PM > To: Mercedes mailing list > Subject: [MBZ] what I also discovered the hard way > > Took the enterprise to the parts store to pickup the big socket and the > thing wouldnt start when I was leaving. The alternator is only putting > out 7 volts. Crap. -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 89 560SEL, 87 300SDL, 85 380SE, 85 300D, 84 250 LWB, 83 300TD, 81 300TD, 81 240D, 81 240D, 76 450SEL, 76 240D, 76 300D, 74 240D, 69 250 http://www.striplin.net