[MBZ] Bad Ground in Dash?

2006-03-16 Thread Alan Duff
Still working on making my recently acquired '83 300D road worthy. Just need to get the tranny adjusted, it is shifting quick and flaring. Finishing up on the instrument cluster. Took out the odo and did the normal repair as it worked intermittently. Noticed when it was not working the fuel and

Re: [MBZ] Bad Ground in Dash?

2006-03-16 Thread John Berryman
On Mar 15, 2006, at 9:19 PM, Alan Duff wrote: IIRC this was the same symptoms a previous car exhibited and it was fixed by soldering a wire onto the printed circuit board for a new ground. The solder cracks at one of the mounting/grounding screws common to left side instruments and

Re: [MBZ] Bad Ground in Dash?

2006-03-16 Thread Alan Duff
, March 15, 2006 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Bad Ground in Dash? The solder cracks at one of the mounting/grounding screws common to left side instruments and speedo IIRC. I have re-soldered a few, they had no pc board damage. I have replaced a few with bad pc boards for various reasons too. Johnny