you wrote: " I thought I was being good, throwing away old crap for a
change! "
That is the surest way to guaranty you will need some minor part that
would have been good and didn't need to be thrown away. It's like
washing your car and guaranteeing it will rain shortly...
I have 3 old wiring harness for my 66 MGB - it never fails that I'll
need a piece of wire - and this way I am guaranteed to have the right
color and end connectors.
But I know exactly what you mean about giving in and throwing something
away...
LarryT
On 6/11/2015 10:12 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote:
Having finally had enough, I caved and took the car in
for a professional diagnosis. The fuel system tested OK,
and there _are_ vacuum leaks that will have to be dealt
with. The most amusing result was that one of my _new_
Beru spark plug wires was open-circuit. (Though I believe
it was a short gap that would fire anyway, a bit. The plug
was not any different-looking than the rest.)
I speculated, and cut open the plug end. The 1K resistor
was open-circuit. I bridged it with a piece of iron wire,
and taped it back together. What a rickety POS now. Still,
the car was running better yesterday after this operation,
more time will tell. No way it'll hold up very long.
So, where do I get _one_ screw-on (machine screw threads,
not wood screw) Beru spark plug connector? Or, barring
that, _one_ new Beru spark plug wire? Really don't want
to part with the cash to get another entire set.
I have some old Bosch connectors, but they're all wood-screw.
(Hmm, I wonder if the Beru has a machine-screw end that I
can see, but that _that_ bit has a wood screw that screws
into the wire itself? Still, it's working now. I'd hate
to take it apart again and make it worse, just trying to
find out that detail.)
-- Jim
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