Nice work! Today was overcast, humid, but cold (around 55 degrees) here in Chucktown.
Last week I replace the drag link on The White Whale, I should have also ordered a new steering damper. Tonight I'll finish the Rock Auto order and try to get over the free shipping threshold. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 6:23 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Went in to the office at the regular hour (6:15 am) and did the final > configuration for a new SecurityOnion server that was being installed at > our DR (disaster recovery) site. Got the NIC configured for the new IP > address, gateway and DNS, grabbed some cables and loaded it up in the wagon. > > Got out to the DR site, got the server racked and stacked in short order > and sat down for a little bit in one of the cubes to check the > configuration. Working fine, so… > > Good friend and former coworker was retiring fro the school district today > after 30 some odd years. Their data center is not far from our DR site, so > I swung by there and caught him for lunch. Lot of reminiscing and good > times. Looked at my phone on the way back to his office and saw I missed > three calls and some texts from the youngest son (2002 E320). Hmm. > > Got out of retiree’s office and called the son. Car died on him in > Starbuck’s drive through. He got a ride home from a buddy and was waiting > for me when I arrived home. Immediately hit my notes and was thinking fuel > pump relay, K40 relay and… crankshaft position sensor! I had a CPS and > fuel pump relay, so we piled in the E320 wagon with the SnapOn diagnostic > box and headed to Starbucks. > > Pop open the hood, plug in the SnapOn box, configure it for his car and - > nothing. Go back through the configuration and realize I had set it for > 1998 W210, NOT 2002. Ah-ha! Now we get some talking going on with the > ECU, which immediately dumps a CPS error. CEL was on, too, which he said > had not been happening prior to this. > > He cranked it up and it ran. Drove the car home (quickly) and put it in > the garage with the garage AC on (it’s in the high 80s here today and humid > as heck.) > > Went back out in 30 minutes or so, replaced the CPS (I always keep a spare > around for good reason) and off he went after I cleared the CEL. > > Back into the house to catch up with 3-4 hours of work I had to get done > before tomorrow, as some updates have to be pushed at 6:00 am tomorrow > before production starts for the day. > > Ordered another CPS to replace the stock part I took off the shelf today. > It sure pays off to keep some of the common stuff sitting around…. > > -D > > > _______________________________________ > 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
