Well, so much for that. Just checked the manual and it looks like the 5 litre cars after about 1981 don't have the resistors; they have something else instead in the controller.
>Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:00:47 -0700 >To: mercedes@okiebenz.com >From: David Bruckmann <bruckma...@transcontinental.ca> >Subject: Re: [MBZ] 500SEL >Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> > >On the older cars, the starting circuit bypassed the coil resistor pack for >brighter spark during cranking. Maybe the resistor is fried and, when rejoined >into the circuit, causes spark to fail. If it only fires during cranking then >that's a definite culprit... > > >On 7/12/14, Dan Penoff wrote: >> >>Going to go take a look at this car tomorrow if I can sort my schedule out: >> >>http://tampa.craigslist.org/hdo/cto/4509129072.html >> >>Any ideas/suggestions as to what to look for as far as it starting but not >>staying running? >> >>Thanks, >> >>Dan > _______________________________________ http://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 All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
