Rich Thomas wrote:
Ideas? Oh, I almost forgot -- how many gears does this tranny have?
3, or 13, or something like that.
If the car has been sitting, the injectors are probably spitting instead
of atomizing. The cheapest possible cure I can think of is a bottle of
Chevron Tecron and an Italian
That is exactly what I told him to do first, fill with some good
premium, pour in a bottle of Techron, and drive it hard and fast. He
bought me lunch for that advice! I did not detect the 6-7 shift though,
maybe I did not go fast enough.
--R
Mitch Haley wrote:
Rich Thomas wrote:
All German cars are like that, my old Audi Fox did it too.
Man, I miss that car! Rusted away, still ran great but there were
holes everywhere...
Peter
That's the first thing to try. My '78 started to run rough at idle,
then progressed to rough all the time, then it quit starting all
together.Turned out to be a combination of lots of loose and/or dried
out parts. The rubber seals around the injectors were rock hard,
shrunken, and had to be
RPMs, but that 1-2 shift chirped the tires when I stomped it!
No way ours will do that. But it's a '76 smog-boxer.
Ideas? Oh, I almost forgot -- how many gears does this tranny have?
Ought to be three. But I'm no expert. Count the orange pips on
the speedometer, should only be two of
Oh yes, that was one of the first things I noticed about the Mercedes
vehicles. They were like a slot car at speed. They felt so stable and
secure as opposed to Detroit iron, which took two hands and white
knuckles to drive over 65 mph.
Tom Potter
...
I think owning this MB was when I first
Here is some update about my buddy's '79 450SL that had a bad tranny.
(BTW you are all my friends but you are all jerks too, right wrong and
everything in-between at all times!) (guns, Bush, what oil to use?)
(there, that ought to start about 500 flame threads and debates on
various topics!)
