[MBZ] On my son the mechanic

2014-07-29 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
I was quite proud of him this past weekend. A family member of his new wife has a 97 GMC pickup with a diesel. It has been causing trouble and the owner has had work done on it in a couple of shops without much success. He asked my son to have a look at it. My son said it was throwing a number

Re: [MBZ] On my son the mechanic

2014-07-29 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
] On my son the mechanic I was quite proud of him this past weekend. A family member of his new wife has a 97 GMC pickup with a diesel. It has been causing trouble and the owner has had work done on it in a couple of shops without much success. He asked my son to have a look at it. My son said

Re: [MBZ] On my son the mechanic

2014-07-29 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
I had the same problem with two Quantum lawn mower engines. Seems as they age the safety brake cable that also runs the cut-off stretches a bit (and is non-adjustable, for obvious reasons) and the cut-off won't open to let it run. Nearly drove me nuts finding it, as it was intermittant