On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Hendrik & Fay <heni...@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > During normal driving in city traffic the throttle linkage failed - broke > completely, when car was being driven by wife. > Duteously I went out and improvised the linkage connection with fencing wire > to get car home. This was successful.
Those plastic throttle linkages on the OM60x engines are crap, to put it nicely, and fencing wire is probably an improvement. I doubt that's the problem. But there are lots of other important goodies in the same area of the engine that the suspect mechanic might have knocked loose or "adjusted" out of ignorance. Alex _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
