Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-25 Thread M.Afzaal.Khan
EHA Electro- Hydraulic Actuator ; controls the mixture on the later KE series CIS systems. mak EHA? I'm not familiar with that acronym. Recently I replaced the lambda sensor. and got the Bosch generic version for the 126. but you loose out on the two white wire heater

Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-25 Thread M.Afzaal.Khan
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working M.Afzaal.Khan wrote: EHA Electro- Hydraulic Actuator ; controls the mixture on the later KE series CIS systems. Ah, okay. I have CIS-Lambda, which uses a frequency valve for that. The EHA must have come in with the CIS-E system

Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-24 Thread David Brodbeck
M.Afzaal.Khan wrote: Quite Informative ,. On my 300se with the KE variation I would have assumed the EHA had gone bad and not the O2 sensor. EHA? I'm not familiar with that acronym. Recently I replaced the lambda sensor. and got the Bosch generic version for the 126. but you

Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-23 Thread M.Afzaal.Khan
Quite Informative ,. On my 300se with the KE variation I would have assumed the EHA had gone bad and not the O2 sensor. Recently I replaced the lambda sensor. and got the Bosch generic version for the 126. but you loose out on the two white wire heater connections. Originally the

Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-21 Thread David Brodbeck
M.Afzaal.Khan wrote: Interesting; what were the symptoms of the intermittent lambda shorting ? mak It intermittently ran extremely rich. The idle would start surging like crazy, and it'd blow gray smoke. The spark plugs were sooty black. This is the old CIS-Lambda system. The Lambda

Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-20 Thread Curt Raymond
So the first thing I attacked was the mirror switch by the shifter. I hooked up my test light just as suggested and it lit. So not the mirror switch, also not the heated washer nozzles. About this time my wife got home. To show her the excitement I put a brand new just out of the package fuse

Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-20 Thread Mitch Haley
Curt Raymond wrote: SO my conclusion is that I must have had an aged fuse Your wiring may vary, but my 116 kills all gauges when I activate the shorted out kickdown circuit. If I'd done a better prepurchase inspection, I would have noticed a 25amp fuse where an 8amp belonged. The kickdown

Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-20 Thread Jim Cathey
The kickdown can blow a 25amp, as I discovered before I got the A good one won't. -- Jim

Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-20 Thread Mitch Haley
Jim Cathey wrote: The kickdown can blow a 25amp, as I discovered before I got the A good one won't. A good one won't blow the 8A that the factory specified, but a shorted wire can blow any fuse, while being quite intermittent. (only when the bare spot on the wire hits ground, and only

Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-20 Thread Curt Raymond
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Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-20 Thread David Brodbeck
Curt Raymond wrote: You knew this was coming... Jumped in the car this morning, gauges all worked fine. Didn't pay any attention for about 5 miles and no gauges... Dang. When I left the car last night there was no sign of that fuse burning, cool to the touch and all. You have an

Re: [MBZ] Gauges not working

2006-09-19 Thread David Brodbeck
Curt Raymond wrote: So at lunch I took a look at the gauges and indeed #10 is busted. Looks like it might actually have been a stress break. I had a spare but that blew instantly. When I say it blew I mean it, the fuse peeled way back off the ceramic. Now, the spare was truely