Sounds like your Indy may be a interesting character, but hes got good trouble shooting skills. This is hard to find.
Jaime On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 12:41 AM, clay monroe <[email protected]> wrote: > I can attest to that. > > Froggy hacked a loogie a few months ago. No start issue that seems to > indicate fuel problems. I swapped out a fuel filter and it ran. Once. > Decided it was getting cold, so park it until spring. Got a bug after new > years, so called the shop. Tow truck drug it a few miles and off they went. > > Hey, I got a nice summer of driving out of her. > > Fuel pump failed. Unobtanium > Use a newer series pump and kludge a damper, filter, pump set up that > requires welding and parts from the Fatherland. I inquire if the pump > could be rebuilt. Indy looks at me like I just pooped in his tool drawer. > Why would I want obsolete tech and have to find the part again when I can > use the newer type? Ok. > > Still runs like crap. Find out there are molecular depth left to the > points and contacts. Shot after 38 years. Put new ones in and adjust. > Still not running like he wants. So he looks at the plugs. Yeah, I > messed up the install and one was barely three rotations in. Fresh plugs. > > That was a fix, but not the one he wanted to solve, so out comes the > stethoscope. Number three is having a strange tick. Messed up exhaust > gasket? Head gasket leaking? Hard to tell. But that does not prove to be > the trouble. Start removing plug wires. Hard to tell but looks like > number six is not firing or something is off. Pokes around and looks like > injector is the problem. Test the lead and it shows power and it is > performing. Must be the injector itself. Points out at least one injector > has been replaced with newer. SO I have been running on 7 pistons. All > spring and summer. Probably been like that for years. FECES! > > Do the standard web search for just what is supposed to be a replacement > part. Then try to source said part. New, these things are up to $230 from > around $150 a few years ago. Curses! Hit fleabay. yeah, they know what > these things are worth. Offer of new are same as retail, and that is > opening bid. Found a guy in Kalifornia who parted an early M117 and put 7 > injectors up. Sold five, wants $75 each. I make an offer and get the last > two for $100 both. Shipped and should arrive in time for installation when > the German parts come in. > > But why does my indy still look at me like I am a complete idiot and I > piss him off that I have an old car? > > > > > clay > > > 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green > 1972 220D - Gump - She is green, simple and ran > 1995 E300D - Cleo - Used by the Queen of Denial > POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers > > > > > > > > On Jan 3, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Jaime Kopchinski wrote: > > > Yeah, all the mid 70s stuff is a low point in automotive history. Giant > > bumpers, lots of smog crap. But a 75 still has more power than a late > 450, > > manual climate control. And D jet gives all sorts of ownership > challenges, > > if you like that sort of thing! > > > > Jaime > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Rick Knoble <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On Jan 3, 2013, at 7:00 PM, "Jaime Kopchinski" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> What do you dislike about the 75s Dan? > >> > >> > >> If the MB of that era are anything like domestic iron of that era, ugh. > >> Emission controlled, breathless, hp choked, EPA restricted turds they > were. > >> IIRC the quickest domestic car in a 1/4 mile acceleration contest > wasn't a > >> car at all, it was a Dodge Lil' Red Wagon pickup truck in 1975, or '76. > >> That is part of "the good old days" I do NOT miss. > >> > >> Rick > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> 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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Jaime Kopchinski > > http://www.jaimekop.com/ > > _______________________________________ > > 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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > 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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- Jaime Kopchinski http://www.jaimekop.com/ _______________________________________ 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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
