When you are bent over working on this, just keep thinking about the
hourly rate the shop would be charging you, probably including to
repair this, even if they, like you, had inadvertently created the problem.
Randy
On 11/02/2024 3:57 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote:
I found a wiring diagram, and I've been able to work out how to disassemble the
connector plug. The individual connectors were crimped on to the wires. The
crimp that was on the insulated part of the wire I can reopen, but the crimp
that actually made the connection is too flattened. I'm thinking I can either
try to solder the wires directly back on to the connectors, or solder on some
pigtails, and then solder those to the original harness with heat-shrink tubing
to seal the connections. Then reassemble the plug.
This is not going to be fun, as I'll have to work bent over and reaching about
halfway down in the space between the engine and radiator. Will need some way
to hold things together while I solder -- alligator clips I suppose.
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024, at 15:23, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote:
Well I found the problem and it's the ham-fisted mechanic who was
working on the car (that's me).
The intake manifold runs down between the engine and the radiator and
converges at the throttle body which is near the bottom of the
radiator. Hard to see around it and hard to reach it from above or
below. I overlooked a connector on the bottom of the throtle body
housing and when I pulled the assembly up and out it just ripped the
wires out.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AT5c-txDnCydPNf94TJS4qT39LRtkrYW/view?usp=sharing
Now I have to find a wiring diagram somewhere and figure out how to
reconnect the plug.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gMet72dITNAl66OVuceYOshLc3DMXobN/view?usp=sharing
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