I’ve had many troubles with those crimp type splice connectors and wire taps. I cut, solder, and heat-shrink wrap all my splices now.
On Sat, Mar 18, 2023, at 21:49, Kevin Kraly via Mercedes wrote: > Attaboy! > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 18, 2023, at 6:14 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Replaced the #1 injector. Despite cleaning the seat and bore really good, >> or so I thought, it appears to be leaking. Car does appear to run smoother >> now. Next up was installing the EGR emulator. This effectively disables the >> EGR which has been flaky on this thing, causing reduced boost, surging >> sometimes, and the occasional limp mode. It basically gets hooked to the >> wire for pin 5 from the MAF, pin 1 from EGR, then positive and negative. >> After install the thing appeared not to work. After spending way too much >> time I discovered that one of the splice connectors or whatever you call it >> was not making good contact. It was the crappy connectors they sent with it. >> For the positive and negative I ended up using some better ones I had on >> hand as well as for the wire to the MAF. I ended up cutting the wire to the >> egr and using a butt connector and now it works great. You have to trace and >> identify the wires in the fuse/computer box and all of it gets connected >> there. Warp power has been restored. >> >> <image0.jpeg> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone_______________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________ 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
