Absolutely. Stupid simple to work on, maintain or repair.
Dan
> On Jun 14, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> wrote:
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> Is that one of the reasons why Poos normally recommends the 1996-1999 cars
> with coils on plugs?
>
> Mitch.
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Is that one of the reasons why Poos normally recommends the 1996-1999 cars with
coils on plugs?
Mitch.
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- Original Message -
From: "Dan Penoff via Mercedes"
To: "Mercedes List"
Cc: "Dan Penoff"
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 6:01 AM
Subject: [MBZ] S500 Mystery Solved
So the issues finally come to an end, and I"m a little put off by my
Actually, it is normal in this climate. I found on several occasions where the
car was parked for 3-4 days (or more) that condensation would sometimes collect
in the distributor caps, but a good hard drive would burn it out. This was
especially common when my son had the car at school, as the
Not solved. Where did all this moisture come from? That's
not normal. Is the crankcase ventilation plugged up such that
a little bit of the blowby was coming 'round the shaft? Did
you hose down the engine a little too vigorously? Ford any
streams? Buy the car in Florida, 'cheap'?
-- Jim
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So the issues finally come to an end, and I"m a little put off by my
stupidity...
Took the car to my trusted indie shop. After two hours of troubleshooting, they
came back and said the MAF was sketchy and all of the hoses on the top of the
engine were questionable. Fine. I drive it home and it'
My favorite indie uses a water hose to find
vacuum leaks. Simple. You spray water around
until the engine runs faster. sealing the leak
with water makes the mixture richer, so the
engine runs faster.
I could not believe it. I did not want to hose
water around the coil , distributor etc,
I thought starter fluid was used to find leaks in gasoline car vacuum systems?
Spray a little in a spot, see if idle speed picks up, spray another spot...
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
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Titanium tetrachloride makes smoke as it evaporates. We used it in the
wind tunnels to visualize flow. We'd dip a swab into some and stick it
in the airflow and as it evaporated it made white smoke, easily seen.
It lasted a while. Not sure where you get it now, I guess the webs
would be you
Dan writes:
>see if I can find the plan for a DIY >smoke tester - this is something >that
>is a big help and could use >occasionally.
>
You are working on a Mercedes, correct?
I thought the smoke detector was used exclusively on Lucas electrical parts.
Although, it is usually quite obvious
Got the car back from the trusted indie shop. They spent two hours of
diagnostic time on it and found that the MAF is probably bad and there are a
number of vacuum leaks in all of the lines that run across the top of the
engine and probably the boot at the bottom of the MAF.
This is good news,
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