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Unless there’s something I’m not familiar with on this model, the car has no auxiliary fan in front of the condenser. I found a double fan setup in the EPC, but for the life of me I couldn’t find abandoned wires or connectors. If anyone out there with an ML can give me an idea of where the electricals are for the fans if they exist (Mitch?) I would appreciate it. There’s nothing based on appearance or things in this area that would suggest auxiliary fans existed. Paint or dirt patterns, nothing that I could see. I will say that the condenser is huge! The AC, when the blower is working, is ICE COLD. -D > On May 22, 2019, at 7:52 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > It appears to be missing the aux fan. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 21, 2019, at 9:32 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> Don’t know what it is about this vehicle… it seems to want to test me every >> time I touch it, and while everything seems to end well for the most part, >> it’s really frustrating. >> >> Got my Cardone caliper this afternoon, so I figured I would cool off the >> garage and put it on along with the new coolant reservoir. >> >> Go to drain the cooling system and can’t find the darned drain on the >> radiator. Weird. Get on the computer to find that there is a plastic petcock >> on the front left side of the radiator. OK, I can do that. >> >> Not. >> >> I find the petcock, but I can’t turn it. It’s a plastic tab that you turn to >> unscrew the valve out to open it, and it’s in a really tight space in the >> front behind the bumper. I finally get a crescent wrench on it and carefully >> turn, fully expecting it to snap off. It doesn’t. Relief! But there’s barely >> a trickle of coolant coming out of the drain. I turn some more, and more >> coolant comes out, but it’s hardly anything of significance. And yes, I had >> taken the cap off of the reservoir prior to opening the drain. >> >> I turn it a few more times alternating between a monkey wrench and a >> crescent wrench to turn it. Coolant is coming out now, but not a big gush. >> Hmm. >> >> So I work on replacing the coolant reservoir. Not bad, a few hoses were >> reluctant to come off, but I got them off without damage eventually. >> Installed the new reservoir, not a big deal. >> >> I move to the right rear to do the caliper. I break the hose fitting first, >> and it comes loose without issue (thank you, Kroil!!!) Get the caliper bolts >> out no problem. Disconnect the wear indicator connector. Remove the caliper >> and unscrew it from the hose. Screw the hose into the new caliper and mount >> the caliper back on the backing plate. Tighten hose. It’s got a bit of >> tension on it, so I soaked the hard line fitting where it meets the hose in >> anticipation for breaking this union and rotating the hose to relieve some >> of the tension on it. >> >> Nope, not going to tempt Fate tonight. >> >> Get the rear caliper all tightened down and hook up my power bleeder. I >> really wanted to bleed the whol _______________________________________ 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
