At the MBCA tech gathering yesterday, it was suggested that there probably is a
bad trace or ground on the cluster circuit board. There was a broken ground
that we resoldered last time the cluster was out, the fuse hasn't blown since
then, but it has been flaky. I'm gonna pull the cluster
You are correct. It has blown 3 fuses, and I thought the most recent
outage was
also a fuse. Then it came back on without me changing the fuse. That
is where
my confusion lies.
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Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark
'87 300SDL (272,xxx mi) head case
'85 Ford F250 6.9 diesel (x58,xxx mi)
The fuse is currently not blown but does have some evidence of being hot on one
end. See the pictures (+1MB each) of each end of the fuse.
Luther
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:35:34 -0600, Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are correct. It has blown 3 fuses, and I thought the most recent
outage
I forgot the link. http://www.gulseth.net/fuse_ends/
Luther
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:06:02 -0600, Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The fuse is currently not blown but does have some evidence of being hot on
one end. See the pictures (+1MB each) of each end of the fuse.
Luther
On Sat,
The fuse is currently not blown but does have some evidence of being
hot on one end. See the pictures (+1MB each) of each end of the fuse.
Those are shot. You seriously need to burnish the contacts
INSIDE the fuse box, they're inducing heating. If it was heat
due to normal current the fuse
So, the dash lights, RF corner markerlight, and right tail light all
decided to
work about 2 minutes into my drive to work tonight. G. How does a flaky
rheostat cause the right marker/tail lights to not work?
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Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark
'87 300SDL (272,xxx mi) head case
'85 Ford F250
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:28:54 -0600 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, the dash lights, RF corner markerlight, and right tail light all
decided to
work about 2 minutes into my drive to work tonight. G. How does a
flaky rheostat cause the right marker/tail lights to not work?
Maybe a
Since you cleaned the fuse holders, perhaps the connection from the
wiring harness to the fuse holder is corroded / loose?
On Jan 11, 2008 11:00 PM, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:28:54 -0600 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, the dash lights, RF corner
I've wiggled the headlight switch while driving for miles. No change.
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Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark
'87 300SDL (272,xxx mi) head case
'85 Ford F250 6.9 diesel (x58,xxx mi) BioBeast
'82 300CD (176 kmi)
'82 300D (74 kmi) getting donor engine-sold
'85 300D (280,176) parts car sans engine
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:21:15 -0600 Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've wiggled the headlight switch while driving for miles. No change.
Did you wiggle the wiring harness that connects to the headlight switch?
Craig
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I'll do that next time the car is stationaryI'm not into leaning
low enough
to grasp the headlight switch wiring harness while I'm driving. :)
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Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark
'87 300SDL (272,xxx mi) head case
'85 Ford F250 6.9 diesel (x58,xxx mi) BioBeast
'82 300CD (176 kmi)
'82 300D
So, the dash lights, RF corner markerlight, and right tail light all
decided to
work about 2 minutes into my drive to work tonight. G. How does
a flaky
rheostat cause the right marker/tail lights to not work?
Doesn't. I thought you said a fuse blew and all those
things didn't work
Your reostat is flaky
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Kaleb C. Striplin
Cox Auto Trader
730-Tulsa FSBO Supervisor
- Original Message -
From: Luther - laptop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 123 coupe electrical confusion
Had that trouble with all my Mercedes. Best solution I'v found is to put a
jumper across the rheostat. As dim as MB dash lights are in a 123, why
would anyone want to turn them down?
Gerry
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From: Luther - laptop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So,
archer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Had that trouble with all my Mercedes. Best solution I'v found is
to put a jumper across the rheostat. As dim as MB dash lights are
in a 123, why would anyone want to turn them down?
I like my dash lights as dim as possible while still allowing me to
see the
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:17:48 -0500 Glenn Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
... Jim C. suggested off-list that this could be caused by dirty
contacts in the 4way flasher switch. Well, success, success, I removed
the 4way flasher switch, opened it up and the contacts were rather ugly
looking, so I
It was once reported that my right markerlight flashed randomly. A
complete cleaning with dremel/deoxit was then completed. Ugh, I LOVE
looking for needles in a hay stack. No wonder dispatchers hate me when I
tell them that a wiring diagnosis could be a 30 minute fix or a 30 hour
So, tonight I fire up my car, and no dash lights etc. BLEH!!! Part the
way through my drive they started working. Change from last night? It
was more than 70 degrees last night, now it's barely 40 Could this be
temp related?? ARGH!!
Luther, with quotes from Charlie Brown and
So, tonight I fire up my car, and no dash lights etc. BLEH!!! Part
the
way through my drive they started working. Change from last night? It
was more than 70 degrees last night, now it's barely 40 Could this
be
temp related?? ARGH!!
Sounds like your basic flakey dashboard dimmer
The fuse for the right front markerlight, right tail light, dash
lights,
and headlight warning buzzer (key buzzer works fine) has blown 4 times
in
the last 6 months.
I've seen a dimmer rheostat that came apart and managed to short
out against something. It obviously felt like a mess,
Had that apart several weeks back and cleaned it with dexoit. It was
still in one piece and now dims across the full spectrum. Other ideas?
Luther
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:51:43 -0600, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The fuse for the right front markerlight, right tail light, dash
Had that apart several weeks back and cleaned it with dexoit. It was
still in one piece and now dims across the full spectrum. Other ideas?
Those can be a real stinker to trace. It's certainly worth pulling
the right-side light fixtures out and examining their connectors
and internal
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