Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-30 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Does a bad alternator create a "no start" condition? - Max Charleston SC On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 12:13 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3412083555485327 > > > Seller's description… > > No TITLE Lean on Ca

Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-30 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/3412083555485327 Seller's description… No TITLE Lean on Car Alternator is bad will need it towed. New O2 sensors and new oil change. Tires are great excellent condition. Shoot me an offer need gone asap --FT On 4/29/20 10:53 PM, Rick Knoble vi

Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-30 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
If you can easily access the solenoid. I've found newer, non American, cars to be difficult. The remote switch also allows you a lot more freedom to fiddle with other things without having to reach into the engine every time you want to trigger the starter. -Curt On Wednesday, April 29, 20

Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-29 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Can’t really get at it --FT Sent from iPhone > On Apr 29, 2020, at 7:51 PM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:36:27 -0400 Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > >> Floyd Thursby via Mercedes writes: >> >>> Tomorrow I will try to put power directly to the solenoid and see i

Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-29 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Thurd Floydsby writes: >I have been fooling around with this ML500 that I >don't have a title for as >it has a lean. Broken ball joint? Flat tire? Oh, you mean lien, as in someone else owns it Surprised the grammar police (you) didn't catch that one. Fix your break petal, don't be a lo

Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-29 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:36:27 -0400 Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: > Floyd Thursby via Mercedes writes: > > > Tomorrow I will try to put power directly to the solenoid and see if > > that energizes it and I can get this thing started. > > Pick up a remote starter switch at FLAPS. Should be u

Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-29 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Floyd Thursby via Mercedes writes: > Tomorrow I will try to put power directly to the solenoid and see if > that energizes it and I can get this thing started. Pick up a remote starter switch at FLAPS. Should be under $20. Mine has come in handy several times over the years to bypass everything

Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-29 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
So I got my daughter to turn the key while I put the voltmeter on the solenoid wire (purple).  Nothing going to it.  H. There is 12V to the starter.  That cable comes off the back of the alternator from a cable that goes from the battery to the alternator and they appear to be bolted toget

Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-29 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
> Turns out there is a 100A ceramic fuse on the positive battery terminal > that looks like the starter connects too, the fuse was good near as I > could tell, looked clean and fairly new. But maybe not, I was thinking > to clamp the cable directly to the terminal to see if that worked but >

Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-29 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
I like that idea. Start your T/S at the starter end. After verifying that the starter motor will engage, try to power the solenoid. - Max Charleston SC On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:42 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Big screwdriver across the starter to

Re: [MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-29 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Big screwdriver across the starter to prove that it works? It'd be annoying to troubleshoot all around it only to find that the starter is bad... -Curt On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, 3:31:43 PM EDT, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote: I have been fooling around with this ML500 that I don

[MBZ] Progress on the vexatious 05ML500 that has a lean but still (mostly) no joy

2020-04-29 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
I have been fooling around with this ML500 that I don't have a title for as it has a lean. Recall that when I first got it it was showing a Start Error and there were various codes for this and that, which I cleared but it would still show a Start Error but no new codes showed up so that did n