That was lucky! -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On September 9, 2017 4:00:55 PM EDT, "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >As it turned out, the harness connection was not melted at all, it was >just coated with melted plastic from the cover that was above it. I >chipped it off with a screw driver and it's fine. Car is back together >and seems unscathed. > >Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 9, 2017, at 2:07 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> >wrote: >> >> So you all remember by car that the wife was driving that caught >fire. I finally pulled it into the shop to have a real good look and >start taking it apart. Other that the airbox needing to be replaced, >the heat melted the connector for the main engine harness, and also >melted off the outer wire loom but the actual wires themselves seem >fine. It looks like hell and I would like to try and clean it up as >Best I can if anybody has any ideas. Other than that I would have to >replace the engine harness side and splice in part of the harness on >the car side. Got to replace some melted vacuum likes in the area also. >I will probably just leave the wiring as is right now unless something >else presents itself later. The car does start and run fine as if >nothing happened. Here are some photo. I also shot a video I will be >uploading soon that was intended to explain to all the morons who >commented on the news story about how something like this is simply >impossible. >> >> <image1.JPG> >> >> >> <image2.JPG> >> >> >> <image3.JPG> >> >> >> <image4.JPG> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> _______________________________________________ >> Daveslist mailing list >> davesl...@okiebenz.com >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/daveslist_okiebenz.com > > >_______________________________________ >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 _______________________________________ 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
